<?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 am not a Virginian but an American. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45783]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not a Virginian but an American.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4716]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let's call him Sugar, he's very sweet and he's the coach. ... Sugar is brilliant, I've even told your dad. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let's call him Sugar, he's very sweet and he's the coach. ... Sugar is brilliant, I've even told your dad. I want to be happy and very, very rich and successful and I will be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twas thus by the glare of false science betray'd, That leads to bewilder, and dazzles to blind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54804]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twas thus by the glare of false science betray'd, That leads to bewilder, and dazzles to blind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I ever get real rich, I hope I'm not real mean to poor people, like I am now ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54201]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I ever get real rich, I hope I'm not real mean to poor people, like I am now]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Haste, holy Friar, Haste, ere the sinner shall expire!  Of all his guilt let him be shriven,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18475]]></link><description><![CDATA[Haste, holy Friar, Haste, ere the sinner shall expire!  Of all his guilt let him be shriven,   And smooth his path from earth to heaven!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Social Security is truly a test of our values as Americans. Social Security is a fundamental promise that lifts half ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Social Security is truly a test of our values as Americans. Social Security is a fundamental promise that lifts half of our seniors out of poverty and helps millions of disabled Americans, widows and orphans. We owe Americans a better debate than we're having today. It's about time we do everything we can to keep the promise of Social Security.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children of men! the unseen Power, whose eye Forever doth accompany mankind,  Hath look'd on no religion scornfully  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53455]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children of men! the unseen Power, whose eye Forever doth accompany mankind,  Hath look'd on no religion scornfully   That men did ever find.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst of me is known, and I can say that I am better than the reputation I bear. [Ger., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53890]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst of me is known, and I can say that I am better than the reputation I bear. [Ger., Das Aergste weiss die Welt von mir, und ich  Kann sagen, ich bin besser als mein Ruf.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We believe this has been a scare tactic to create attention, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28265]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe this has been a scare tactic to create attention,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63376]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maturity is knowing when to be immature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maturity is knowing when to be immature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hark, the Herald Tribune sings, Advertising wondrous things! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hark, the Herald Tribune sings, Advertising wondrous things!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Rome] Widow of a King-people, but still queen of the world. [Fr., Veuve d'un peuple-roi, mais reine encore du monde.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54405]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Rome] Widow of a King-people, but still queen of the world. [Fr., Veuve d'un peuple-roi, mais reine encore du monde.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the scourge Inexorable, and the torturing hour  Calls us to penance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53822]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the scourge Inexorable, and the torturing hour  Calls us to penance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53632]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it wasn't for faith, there would be no living in this world; we couldn't even eat hash with any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14985]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it wasn't for faith, there would be no living in this world; we couldn't even eat hash with any safety.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only one who can beat me is me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45022]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only one who can beat me is me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy, in Nature's wide dominion, Mightiest cause of all is found;  And 'tis joy that moves the pinion  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23434]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy, in Nature's wide dominion, Mightiest cause of all is found;  And 'tis joy that moves the pinion   When the wheel of time goes round.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30116]]></link><description><![CDATA[Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53724]]></link><description><![CDATA[Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is more wonderful than the art of being free, but nothing is harder to learn how to use than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is more wonderful than the art of being free, but nothing is harder to learn how to use than freedom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend in need is a friend indeed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51064]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend in need is a friend indeed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It fits us therefore ripely Our chariots and our horsemen be in readiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25409]]></link><description><![CDATA[It fits us therefore ripely Our chariots and our horsemen be in readiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who don't believe in magic will never find it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66067]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stronger than thunder's winged force All-powerful gold can speed its course;  Through watchful guards its passage make,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17775]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stronger than thunder's winged force All-powerful gold can speed its course;  Through watchful guards its passage make,   And loves through solid walls to break.    [Lat., Aurum per medios ire satellites     Et perrumpere amat saxa potentius      Ictu fulmineo.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Sundaies of man's life, Thredded together on time's string,  Make bracelets to adorn the wife   Of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54589]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Sundaies of man's life, Thredded together on time's string,  Make bracelets to adorn the wife   Of the eternal, glorious King.    On Sunday heaven's gates stand ope;     Blessings are plentiful and rife.      More plentiful than hope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dear to us are those who love us. . . but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53254]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dear to us are those who love us. . . but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add another life; they build a heaven before us whereof we had not dreamed, and thereby supply to us new powers out of the recesses of the spirit . . .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15078]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don't do any thing. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The smoke ascends In a rosy-and-golden haze. The spires  Shine and are changed. In the valley   Shadows ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44526]]></link><description><![CDATA[The smoke ascends In a rosy-and-golden haze. The spires  Shine and are changed. In the valley   Shadows rise. The lark sings on. The sun    Closing his benediction,     Sinks, and the darkening air      Thrills with the sense of the triumphing night,--       Night with train of stars        And her great gift of sleep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Protecting ourselves optimally against terrorist acts will require that both national and state governments, as well as the public, be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30738]]></link><description><![CDATA[Protecting ourselves optimally against terrorist acts will require that both national and state governments, as well as the public, be cognizant of the real dangers,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11071]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The habit does not make the monk. [Lat., Cucullus (or Cuculla) non facit monachum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2819]]></link><description><![CDATA[The habit does not make the monk. [Lat., Cucullus (or Cuculla) non facit monachum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is seldom that any liberty is lost all at once. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47108]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is seldom that any liberty is lost all at once.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're bored with life -- you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things -- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17637]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're bored with life -- you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things -- you don't have enough goals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every era has a currency that buys souls. In some the currency is pride, in others it is hope, in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15811]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every era has a currency that buys souls. In some the currency is pride, in others it is hope, in still others it is a holy cause. There are of course times when hard cash will buy souls, and the remarkable thing is that such times are marked by civility, tolerance, and the smooth working of everyday life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The violets prattle and titter, And gaze on the stars high above. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60708]]></link><description><![CDATA[The violets prattle and titter, And gaze on the stars high above.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vain, froward child of empire, say, Are all thy playthings snatched away? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vain, froward child of empire, say, Are all thy playthings snatched away?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A line runs from the meditations of the heart to the words of the mouth. The meditations are not clear ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52183]]></link><description><![CDATA[A line runs from the meditations of the heart to the words of the mouth. The meditations are not clear to us until the mouth utters its words. If what the mouth utters is unclear or foolish or mendacious, it must be that the meditations are the same. But the line runs both ways. The words of the mouth will become the meditations of the heart, and the habit of loose talk loosens the fastenings of our understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody is grappling with this. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33441]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody is grappling with this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65084]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was very pretty irritated. It was kind of scary, having someone call you up like that and ask you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34644]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was very pretty irritated. It was kind of scary, having someone call you up like that and ask you to recant your statement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Years ago I used to think it was possible for a novelist to alter the inner life of the culture. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58968]]></link><description><![CDATA[Years ago I used to think it was possible for a novelist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunman have taken that territory. They make raids on human consciousness. What writers used to do before we were all incorporated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ironically, rural America has become viewed by a growing number of Americans as having a higher quality of life not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52650]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ironically, rural America has become viewed by a growing number of Americans as having a higher quality of life not because of what it has, but rather because of what it does not have!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Solitude is independence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20720]]></link><description><![CDATA[Solitude is independence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can always tell when a man is well informed. His views are pretty much like your own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1935]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can always tell when a man is well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The need is now and now is the time to meet future needs ... My greatest anxiety is getting everything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33096]]></link><description><![CDATA[The need is now and now is the time to meet future needs ... My greatest anxiety is getting everything ready at home so I can go tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4583]]></link><description><![CDATA[A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4583</guid></item></channel></rss>