<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[I think we do know the sweet Roman hand. -Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55760]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we do know the sweet Roman hand. -Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Force rules the world, and not opinion; but opinion is that which makes use of force. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16446]]></link><description><![CDATA[Force rules the world, and not opinion; but opinion is that which makes use of force.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole of what we know is a system of compensations. Each suffering is rewarded; each sacrifice is made up; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11488]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole of what we know is a system of compensations. Each suffering is rewarded; each sacrifice is made up; every debt is paid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The proximity of the Bay Area's 7 million residents places our local parks under intense pressure from residential development on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39576]]></link><description><![CDATA[The proximity of the Bay Area's 7 million residents places our local parks under intense pressure from residential development on their boundaries. Such development disrupts the natural rhythm of the forest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, & his sister Macrina, Teachers, c.394 & c.379   Love is careful of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7283]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, & his sister Macrina, Teachers, c.394 & c.379   Love is careful of little things, of circumstances and measures, and of little accidents; not allowing to itself any infirmity which it strives not to master, aiming at what it cannot yet reach, desiring to be of an angelic purity, and of a perfect innocence, and a seraphical fervor, and fears every image of offense; is as much afflicted at an idle word as some at an act of adultery, and will not allow to itself so much anger as will disturb a child, nor endure the impurity of a dream. And this is the curiosity and niceness of divine love: this is the fear of God, and is the daughter and production of love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dollar Diplomacy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dollar Diplomacy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46338]]></link><description><![CDATA[The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46611]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friends are like television. Some are like PBS and always asking for money. Others are like the news, with sad ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5919]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friends are like television. Some are like PBS and always asking for money. Others are like the news, with sad tales to tell everyday, some are like that one station with the foreign language; you don't understand a word of it but you listen and watch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take the first advice of a woman and not the second. [Lat., Primo dede mulieris consilio, secundo noli.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/786]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take the first advice of a woman and not the second. [Lat., Primo dede mulieris consilio, secundo noli.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must become the change we want to see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5488]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must become the change we want to see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all smells, bread: of all tasts, salt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all smells, bread: of all tasts, salt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh! happy are the apples when the south winds blow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2943]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh! happy are the apples when the south winds blow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a bachelor of philosophy from the Antilles refuses to apply for certification as a teacher on the grounds of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27231]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a bachelor of philosophy from the Antilles refuses to apply for certification as a teacher on the grounds of his color I say that philosophy has never saved anyone. When someone else strives and strains to prove to me that black men are as intelligent as white men I say that intelligence has never saved anyone: and that is true, for, if philosophy and intelligence are invoked to proclaim the equality of men, they have also been employed to justify the extermination of men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never compare what other do best but do compare what you do best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9266]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never compare what other do best but do compare what you do best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed. -Edna O'Brien. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27170]]></link><description><![CDATA[The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed. -Edna O'Brien.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dew-drops are the gems of morning, But the tears of mournful eve! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12193]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dew-drops are the gems of morning, But the tears of mournful eve!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need to stop Sharon. His lethal policies are drawing blood on both sides. That's why we need a serious ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36241]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need to stop Sharon. His lethal policies are drawing blood on both sides. That's why we need a serious intervention -- international troops. And we need to end the occupation if there is to be security for both people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to take anything away from Martins Ferry because they did a real good job. We just didn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35470]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to take anything away from Martins Ferry because they did a real good job. We just didn't slam the door shut when we had some chances, but a coach once told me that a win's a win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15939]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65638]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13374]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first kiss I had was the most disgusting thing in my life. The girl injected about a pound of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23876]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first kiss I had was the most disgusting thing in my life. The girl injected about a pound of saliva, into my mouth, and when I walked away I had to spit it all out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that's ungrateful has no guilt but one; All other crimes may pass for virtues in him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20905]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that's ungrateful has no guilt but one; All other crimes may pass for virtues in him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We might have gotten the win, but we ran out of tires near the end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30213]]></link><description><![CDATA[We might have gotten the win, but we ran out of tires near the end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My ultimate goal is to make this the destination of choice for elite athletes that are able to get into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39696]]></link><description><![CDATA[My ultimate goal is to make this the destination of choice for elite athletes that are able to get into Ivy League schools. That's a pretty lofty goal and it's going to take a lot of time and work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We noticed that. But we've got to take care of this game (George Mason) first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42258]]></link><description><![CDATA[We noticed that. But we've got to take care of this game (George Mason) first.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never dare to write As funny as I can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20061]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never dare to write As funny as I can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43152]]></link><description><![CDATA[For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22196]]></link><description><![CDATA[And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life must be understood backwards. But it must be lived forward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life must be understood backwards. But it must be lived forward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The girls have worked hard and earned the right to play at home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41929]]></link><description><![CDATA[The girls have worked hard and earned the right to play at home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But there are certain very practical things American Negro writers can do. And must do. There's a song that says, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1694]]></link><description><![CDATA[But there are certain very practical things American Negro writers can do. And must do. There's a song that says, "the time ain't long." That song is right. Something has got to change in America—and change soon. We must help that change to come.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never again will I make the simple into the complex. Something of true value does not become more valuable because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56350]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never again will I make the simple into the complex. Something of true value does not become more valuable because it becomes complicated. Experience and conditions come and go; complications arise and fall away, but the simple action of God is eternal in the universe. thanks to Mary Larson -Donald Curtis.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9102]]></link><description><![CDATA[As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people do not receive nearly enough appreciation. How can this be when appreciation is free, easy, and readily available? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45496]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people do not receive nearly enough appreciation. How can this be when appreciation is free, easy, and readily available? All you have to do is speak. Go give some away now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66046]]></link><description><![CDATA[We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Respect is what we owe; love, what we give. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Respect is what we owe; love, what we give.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48057]]></link><description><![CDATA[And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don Chaucer. well of English undefyled On Fame's eternall beadroll worthie to be fyled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24019]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don Chaucer. well of English undefyled On Fame's eternall beadroll worthie to be fyled.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience means restraining one's inclinations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63813]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience means restraining one's inclinations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["There's a time in your life where everyone's got to tell someone to f**k off. So you might as well ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18307]]></link><description><![CDATA["There's a time in your life where everyone's got to tell someone to f**k off. So you might as well show someone how to do it."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diaulus, lately a doctor, is now an undertaker' what he does as an undertaker, he used to do also as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diaulus, lately a doctor, is now an undertaker' what he does as an undertaker, he used to do also as a doctor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54684]]></link><description><![CDATA[What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If your're not practicing, somebody else is, somewhere, and he'll be ready to take your job. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48125]]></link><description><![CDATA[If your're not practicing, somebody else is, somewhere, and he'll be ready to take your job.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worry is interest paid on trouble before it is due. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62287]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worry is interest paid on trouble before it is due.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And every eye Gaz'd as before some brother of the sky. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56252]]></link><description><![CDATA[And every eye Gaz'd as before some brother of the sky.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody expects it to take real long, but it takes a while to build a program anywhere. In addition, we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody expects it to take real long, but it takes a while to build a program anywhere. In addition, we expanded this league. The good news is we're getting better. The bad news is, so is everybody else in this league. We've lost an awful lot of close games, but we're very, very close.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And I said to myself, 'That's an omen, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37789]]></link><description><![CDATA[And I said to myself, 'That's an omen,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37789</guid></item></channel></rss>