<?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[Senator Helms might very well do that. I would point out to him that we in the art world are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Senator Helms might very well do that. I would point out to him that we in the art world are not necessarily in the business of making controversial art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When poverty comes in at doors, love leaps out at windows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25742]]></link><description><![CDATA[When poverty comes in at doors, love leaps out at windows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, pensive scholar, what is fame? A fitful tongue of leaping flame;  A giddy whirlwind's fickle gust,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58021]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, pensive scholar, what is fame? A fitful tongue of leaping flame;  A giddy whirlwind's fickle gust,   That lifts a pinch of mortal dust;    A few swift years, and who can show     Which dust was Bill, and which was Joe?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What it triggers is the clock ticking. It just becomes a little more of a pressure cooker.... It's all stressful, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40517]]></link><description><![CDATA[What it triggers is the clock ticking. It just becomes a little more of a pressure cooker.... It's all stressful, uncertain times.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All man's miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a roomalone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21686]]></link><description><![CDATA[All man's miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a roomalone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money dishonestly acquired is never worth its cost, while a good conscience never costs as much as it is worth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money dishonestly acquired is never worth its cost, while a good conscience never costs as much as it is worth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This monument is dedicated to a man who loved his people. He became leader at the most difficult time for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28997]]></link><description><![CDATA[This monument is dedicated to a man who loved his people. He became leader at the most difficult time for his country, and we should raise the next generation by his example.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63241]]></link><description><![CDATA[The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dumber people think you are, the more surprised they're going to be when you kill them ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46032]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dumber people think you are, the more surprised they're going to be when you kill them]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Agriculture and Commerce ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43270]]></link><description><![CDATA[Agriculture and Commerce]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cry a lot. My emotions are very close to my surface. I don't want to hold anything in so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11930]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cry a lot. My emotions are very close to my surface. I don't want to hold anything in so it festers and turns into pus - a pustule of emotion that explodes into a festering cesspool of depression.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you drink don't drive. Don't even putt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57582]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you drink don't drive. Don't even putt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18826]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cricket is a game that owes much of its unique appeal to the fact that it should be played not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cricket is a game that owes much of its unique appeal to the fact that it should be played not only within its Laws but also within the Spirit of the Game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult. - Letter to his son, October 9, 1746. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27959]]></link><description><![CDATA[An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult. - Letter to his son, October 9, 1746.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let every man practise the trade which he best understands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48848]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let every man practise the trade which he best understands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Adam, the first great benefactor of the human race: he brought death ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11223]]></link><description><![CDATA[We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Adam, the first great benefactor of the human race: he brought death into the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But men often mistake killing and revenge for justice. They seldom have the stomach for justice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65787]]></link><description><![CDATA[But men often mistake killing and revenge for justice. They seldom have the stomach for justice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Samuel & Henrietta Barnett, Social Reformers, 1913 & 1936  Religion is the possibility of the removal of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8566]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Samuel & Henrietta Barnett, Social Reformers, 1913 & 1936  Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The vague and tenuous hope that God is too kind to punish the ungodly has become a deadly opiate for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19146]]></link><description><![CDATA[The vague and tenuous hope that God is too kind to punish the ungodly has become a deadly opiate for the consciences of millions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64767]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1627]]></link><description><![CDATA[Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The perfect church service,would be one we were almost unaware of.Our attention would have been on God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8655]]></link><description><![CDATA[The perfect church service,would be one we were almost unaware of.Our attention would have been on God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fly the pleasure that bites to morrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fly the pleasure that bites to morrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a juvenile notion that a society needs a lofty purpose and a shining vision to achieve much. Both ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52260]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a juvenile notion that a society needs a lofty purpose and a shining vision to achieve much. Both in the marketplace and on the battlefield men who set their hearts on toys have often displayed unequal initiative and drive. And one must be ignorant of the creative process to look for a close correspondence between motive and achievement in the world of thought and imagination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How much easier is it to be generous than just. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17267]]></link><description><![CDATA[How much easier is it to be generous than just.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thin, airy shoals of visionary ghosts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thin, airy shoals of visionary ghosts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46900]]></link><description><![CDATA[A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mystics always hope that science will some day overtake them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43593]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mystics always hope that science will some day overtake them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And he goes through life, his mouth open, and his mind closed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25171]]></link><description><![CDATA[And he goes through life, his mouth open, and his mind closed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I canknow only what the truth is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21769]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I canknow only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon toserve, and I serve it in all lucidity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's one more terrifying fact about old people: I'm going to be one soon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63387]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's one more terrifying fact about old people: I'm going to be one soon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus repuls'd, our final hope Is flat despair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12010]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus repuls'd, our final hope Is flat despair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53213]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't win the presidency if you don't carry Florida. That gives us a leg up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28629]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't win the presidency if you don't carry Florida. That gives us a leg up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good is god, but better carries it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49285]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good is god, but better carries it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61436]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Irony is the hygiene of the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20208]]></link><description><![CDATA[Irony is the hygiene of the mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boston State-house is the hub of the solar system. You couldn't pry that out of a Boston man if you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4782]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boston State-house is the hub of the solar system. You couldn't pry that out of a Boston man if you had the tire of all creation straightened out for a crow-bar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The line with its rod is a long instrument whose lesser end holds a small reptile, while the other is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16117]]></link><description><![CDATA[The line with its rod is a long instrument whose lesser end holds a small reptile, while the other is held by a great fool. [Fr., La ligne avec sa canne est un long instrument,  Dont le plus mince bout tient un petit reptile,   Et dont Pautre est tenu pau un grand imbecile.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, the little more, and how much it is! And the little less, and what worlds away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47876]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, the little more, and how much it is! And the little less, and what worlds away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to plant new ones for the next centuries. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36626]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to plant new ones for the next centuries.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a perplexing and unpleasant truth that when men already have "something worth fighting for," they do not feel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56842]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a perplexing and unpleasant truth that when men already have "something worth fighting for," they do not feel like fighting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Josephine Butler, Social Reformer, 1906 Commemoration of Apolo Kivebulaya, Priest, Evangelist, 1933  How often we look upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8083]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Josephine Butler, Social Reformer, 1906 Commemoration of Apolo Kivebulaya, Priest, Evangelist, 1933  How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Respect us, human, and relieve us, poor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19953]]></link><description><![CDATA[Respect us, human, and relieve us, poor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Young in limbs, in judgment old. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51410]]></link><description><![CDATA[Young in limbs, in judgment old.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12776]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Papua New Guinea, 1942  It has been well said that no man ever sank under ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8256]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Papua New Guinea, 1942  It has been well said that no man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear. Never load yourselves so, my friends. If you find yourselves so loaded, at least remember this: it is your own doing, not God's. He begs you to leave the future to Him and mind the present.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8256</guid></item></channel></rss>