<?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[Her parthenogenetic birth from Adam's body makes Eve his daughter so that the Judeo-Christian tradition rests on a primal father-daughter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23462]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her parthenogenetic birth from Adam's body makes Eve his daughter so that the Judeo-Christian tradition rests on a primal father-daughter incest motif]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63629]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But he got away. He's a hero. He should be back here with us, too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29415]]></link><description><![CDATA[But he got away. He's a hero. He should be back here with us, too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's best friends are his ten fingers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23960]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's best friends are his ten fingers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence  Wielded at will that fierce democratie,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45240]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence  Wielded at will that fierce democratie,   Shook the Arsenal, and fulmined over Greece,    To Macedon, and Artaxerxes' throne.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain. -Martin Mull. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45519]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain. -Martin Mull.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coming events cast their shadows before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48797]]></link><description><![CDATA[Coming events cast their shadows before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11298]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their familiescame and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said, So. What did you think?.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52842]]></link><description><![CDATA[A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forget about likes and dislikes. They are of no consequence. Just do what must be done. This may not be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forget about likes and dislikes. They are of no consequence. Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness but it is greatness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you. [Sp., Haceos miel, y paparos han moscas.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16222]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you. [Sp., Haceos miel, y paparos han moscas.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confusion is an often too subtle sign of paranoia. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9750]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confusion is an often too subtle sign of paranoia.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through the dancing poppies stole A breeze most softly lulling to my soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47686]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through the dancing poppies stole A breeze most softly lulling to my soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all the spirits, I believe the spirit of judging is the worst, and it has had the rule of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6894]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all the spirits, I believe the spirit of judging is the worst, and it has had the rule of me, I cannot tell you how dreadfully and how long... This, I find has more hindered my progress in love and gentleness than all things else. I never knew what the words, "Judge not that ye be not judged," meant before; now they seem to me some of the most awful, necessary, and beautiful in the whole Word of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I guess when you have that one monster season, it's good because you're recognized. If it weren't for that season, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30472]]></link><description><![CDATA[I guess when you have that one monster season, it's good because you're recognized. If it weren't for that season, not as many people would know about my career. But it also kind of diminishes what I did in other years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are like the eels of Melun; you cry out before you are skinned. [Fr., Vous semblez les anguilles de ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10494]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are like the eels of Melun; you cry out before you are skinned. [Fr., Vous semblez les anguilles de Melun; vous criez devant qu'on vous esorche.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23355]]></link><description><![CDATA[I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24873]]></link><description><![CDATA[The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8015]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The manufacturing surveys from September confirm that there has been no broad-based deterioration in activity due to the energy price ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36350]]></link><description><![CDATA[The manufacturing surveys from September confirm that there has been no broad-based deterioration in activity due to the energy price spike in the aftermath of Katrina. This is quite promising for the growth outlook.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A truly great man never puts away the simplicity of a child. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56338]]></link><description><![CDATA[A truly great man never puts away the simplicity of a child.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The table robbes more then a thiefe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49918]]></link><description><![CDATA[The table robbes more then a thiefe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The war on terrorism is still his strong suit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28645]]></link><description><![CDATA[The war on terrorism is still his strong suit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17828]]></link><description><![CDATA[True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is but a truism that labor is most productive where its wages are largest. Poorly paid labor is inefficient ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61060]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is but a truism that labor is most productive where its wages are largest. Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The book of life begins with a man and a woman in a garden, and ends with Revelations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25022]]></link><description><![CDATA[The book of life begins with a man and a woman in a garden, and ends with Revelations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Part of being sane, is being a little bit crazy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26187]]></link><description><![CDATA[Part of being sane, is being a little bit crazy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's like Christmas. Everything is real, but not as it seems. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40626]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's like Christmas. Everything is real, but not as it seems.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are some rougher realities about being a writer in Montana, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40107]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are some rougher realities about being a writer in Montana,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Crime requires further crime to conceal it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51137]]></link><description><![CDATA[Crime requires further crime to conceal it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever man commits a crime heaven finds a witness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10698]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever man commits a crime heaven finds a witness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To Sorrow I bade good-morrow,  And though to leave her far away behind;   But cheerly, cheerly,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57256]]></link><description><![CDATA[To Sorrow I bade good-morrow,  And though to leave her far away behind;   But cheerly, cheerly,    She loves me dearly:     She is so constant to me, and so kind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Day's lustrous eyes grow heavy in sweet death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Day's lustrous eyes grow heavy in sweet death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We call first truths those we discover after all the others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65330]]></link><description><![CDATA[We call first truths those we discover after all the others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trainer trains the docile horse to turn, with his sensitive neck, whichever way the rider indicates. [Lat., Fingit equum ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58750]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trainer trains the docile horse to turn, with his sensitive neck, whichever way the rider indicates. [Lat., Fingit equum tenera docilem cervice magister  Ire viam qua monstret eques.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16792]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate; Laying up in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61372]]></link><description><![CDATA[That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate; Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Darwinian theory is in principle capable of explaining life. No other theory that has ever been suggested is in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56964]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Darwinian theory is in principle capable of explaining life. No other theory that has ever been suggested is in principle capable of explaining life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I knew that I was in my [adopted] hometown but it would be a tough fight. I'm just guided by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36388]]></link><description><![CDATA[I knew that I was in my [adopted] hometown but it would be a tough fight. I'm just guided by faith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His form had yet not lost All his original brightness, not appear'd  Less than arch-angel ruined, and th' excess ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12155]]></link><description><![CDATA[His form had yet not lost All his original brightness, not appear'd  Less than arch-angel ruined, and th' excess   Of glory obscured.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is hard to say whether the doctors of law or divinity have made the greater advances in the lucrative ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43589]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is hard to say whether the doctors of law or divinity have made the greater advances in the lucrative business of mystery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43589</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[He who believes in freedom of the will has never loved and never hated.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63894]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who believes in freedom of the will has never loved and never hated.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is thought and feeling which guides the universe, not deeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64544]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is thought and feeling which guides the universe, not deeds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Osmund, Bishop of Salisbury, 1099  It is a poor thing to strike our colours to God when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8524]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Osmund, Bishop of Salisbury, 1099  It is a poor thing to strike our colours to God when the ship is going down under us; a poor thing to come to Him as a last resort, to offer up "our own" when it is no longer worth keeping. If God were proud, He would hardly have us on such terms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're our biggest corporate donor and so of course we look forward to that funding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40106]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're our biggest corporate donor and so of course we look forward to that funding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Furious activity is no substitute for understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60061]]></link><description><![CDATA[Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18364]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys. -Alphonse de Lamartine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18364</guid></item></channel></rss>