<?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[The art of governing consists in not letting men grow old in their jobs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18063]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art of governing consists in not letting men grow old in their jobs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first principle of success is desire -- knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11971]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first principle of success is desire -- knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where the lion's skin falls short it must be eked out with the fox's. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where the lion's skin falls short it must be eked out with the fox's.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63521]]></link><description><![CDATA[I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hold our greyhound in our hand, Our falcon on our glove;  But where shall we find leash, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51113]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hold our greyhound in our hand, Our falcon on our glove;  But where shall we find leash, or band,   For dame that loves to rove?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51113</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[Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first requisite to happiness is that a man be born in a famous city. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8766]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first requisite to happiness is that a man be born in a famous city.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Crispin & Crispinian, Martyrs at Rome, c.285  Jesus, thou joy of loving hearts,  Thou fount of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7589]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Crispin & Crispinian, Martyrs at Rome, c.285  Jesus, thou joy of loving hearts,  Thou fount of life, thou Light of men,  From the best bliss that earth imparts  We turn unfilled to Thee again.  We taste Thee, O Thou living Bread,  And long to feast upon Thee still:  We drink of Thee, the Fountainhead,  And thirst our souls from Thee to fill.   O Jesus, ever with us stay,  Make all our moments calm and bright;  Chase the dark night of sin away,  Shed o'er the world Thy holy light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust is like a vase.. once it's broken, though you can fix it the vase will never be same again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust is like a vase.. once it's broken, though you can fix it the vase will never be same again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5725]]></link><description><![CDATA[Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47569]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is always a touch of sadness around the most beautiful things in life !. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1411]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is always a touch of sadness around the most beautiful things in life !.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/977]]></link><description><![CDATA[To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5367]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound. [Fr., La patrie est aux lieux ou l'ame est ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25970]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound. [Fr., La patrie est aux lieux ou l'ame est enchainee.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Envy eats nothing but its own heart ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Envy eats nothing but its own heart]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Parent of sweetest sounds, yet mute forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Parent of sweetest sounds, yet mute forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Written laws are like spider's webs; they will catch, it is true, the weak and the poor, but would be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29162]]></link><description><![CDATA[Written laws are like spider's webs; they will catch, it is true, the weak and the poor, but would be torn in pieces by the rich and powerful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bodily disease, which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18960]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bodily disease, which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual past -Nathaniel Hawthorne.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are able because they think they are able. [Lat., Possunt quia posse videntur.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are able because they think they are able. [Lat., Possunt quia posse videntur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is inexplicable, it should not be explained if one doesn't want to kill it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63827]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is inexplicable, it should not be explained if one doesn't want to kill it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many of the products which create a modern standard of living are only the physical incorporations of ideas- not only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many of the products which create a modern standard of living are only the physical incorporations of ideas- not only the ideas of an Edison or a Ford but the ideas of innumerable anonymous people who figure out the design of supermarkets, the location of gasoline stations, and the million mundane things on which our material well-being depends. Societies which have more people carrying out physical acts and fewer people supplying ideas do not have higher standards of living. Quite the contrary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is not found in the market. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49611]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is not found in the market.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're not trying to scare anybody. We're not trying to fool anybody. That's just the way this show is done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32192]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're not trying to scare anybody. We're not trying to fool anybody. That's just the way this show is done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Society is like a lawn where every roughness is smoothed, every bramble eradicated, and where the eye is delighted by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57002]]></link><description><![CDATA[Society is like a lawn where every roughness is smoothed, every bramble eradicated, and where the eye is delighted by the smiling verdure of a velvet surface.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose. [Fr., Je ne suis pas la rose, mais ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54438]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose. [Fr., Je ne suis pas la rose, mais j'ai vecu pres d'elle.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I ask not a life for the dear ones, All radiant, as others have done,  But that life may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48058]]></link><description><![CDATA[I ask not a life for the dear ones, All radiant, as others have done,  But that life may have just enough shadow   To temper the glare of the sun;    I would pray God to guard them from evil,     But my prayer would bound back to myself:      Ah! a seraph may pray for a sinner,       But a sinner must pray for himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19985]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weapons should be only the hands of the government. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Weapons should be only the hands of the government.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63184]]></link><description><![CDATA[Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63001]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most..]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[one of the great journalists who never hesitated or was afraid to say the truth and defend Lebanon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42611]]></link><description><![CDATA[one of the great journalists who never hesitated or was afraid to say the truth and defend Lebanon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5806]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one cannot attain the Science of Life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have seen that Man moves over with each new generation into a bigger body, more awful, more reverent and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48369]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have seen that Man moves over with each new generation into a bigger body, more awful, more reverent and more free than he has had before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Calvin, renewer of the Church, 1564  In that obedience which we have shown to be due ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Calvin, renewer of the Church, 1564  In that obedience which we have shown to be due the authority of rulers, we are always to make this exception, indeed, to observe it as primary, that such obedience is never to lead us away from obedience to him, to whose decrees all their commands ought to yield, to whose majesty their scepters ought to be submitted. And how absurd would it be that in satisfying men you should incur the displeasure of him for whose sake you obey men themselves! The Lord, therefore, is the King of Kings, who, when he has opened his sacred mouth, must alone be heard, before all and above all men; next to him we are subject to those men who are in authority over us, but only in him. If they command anything against him, let it go unesteemed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He treats us like men. He lets us wear earrings.(on his coach, John Jenkins, 1991) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57569]]></link><description><![CDATA[He treats us like men. He lets us wear earrings.(on his coach, John Jenkins, 1991)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even as voters, we try to keep up with the guys as much as possible, mainly through television or ESPN. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41470]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even as voters, we try to keep up with the guys as much as possible, mainly through television or ESPN.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A position of dignity is more easily improved upon than acquired. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51576]]></link><description><![CDATA[A position of dignity is more easily improved upon than acquired.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When they scored first, as a coach I was rethinking what we were doing. We got a couple nice [goals] ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31293]]></link><description><![CDATA[When they scored first, as a coach I was rethinking what we were doing. We got a couple nice [goals] after that and found our offensive legs a bit more. I think the key was trying to play more forward, play a little more direct offensively.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Charles Simeon, Pastor, Teacher, 1836  Do not desire crosses, unless you have borne well those laid on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7208]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Charles Simeon, Pastor, Teacher, 1836  Do not desire crosses, unless you have borne well those laid on you; it is an abuse to long after martyrdom while unable to bear an insult patiently.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fie, fie upon her! There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip;  Nay, her foot speaks. Her wanton ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24012]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fie, fie upon her! There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip;  Nay, her foot speaks. Her wanton spirits look out   At every joint and motive of her body.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a pond koi can reach lengths of eighteen inches. Amazingly, when placed in a lake, koi can grow to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43925]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a pond koi can reach lengths of eighteen inches. Amazingly, when placed in a lake, koi can grow to three feet long. The metaphor is obvious. You are limited by how you see the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A library implies an act of faith ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24756]]></link><description><![CDATA[A library implies an act of faith]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know if there is some sibling competition there or not, but it is good to have them both ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37631]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know if there is some sibling competition there or not, but it is good to have them both scoring goals. They can be a pretty powerful one-two punch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The soul that is within me no man can degrade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2290]]></link><description><![CDATA[The soul that is within me no man can degrade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vision is not enough, it must be combined with venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps, we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22801]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vision is not enough, it must be combined with venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs. Thanks to Catherine Doucette -Vaclav Havel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ideal museum show would be a mating of Brideshead Revisited with House & Garden. provoking intense and pleasurable nostalgia ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43414]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ideal museum show would be a mating of Brideshead Revisited with House & Garden. provoking intense and pleasurable nostalgia for a past that none of its audience has had.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43414</guid></item></channel></rss>