<?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[If you will help run our government in the American way, then there will never be danger of our government ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8798]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you will help run our government in the American way, then there will never be danger of our government running America in the wrong way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People's lives change. To keep all your old friends is like keeping all your old clothes -- pretty soon your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16909]]></link><description><![CDATA[People's lives change. To keep all your old friends is like keeping all your old clothes -- pretty soon your closet is so jammed and everything so crushed you can't find anything to wear. Help these friends when they need you; bless the years and happy times when you meant a lot to each other, but try not to have the guilts if new people mean more to you now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God dropped a spark down into everyone, And if we find and fan it to a blaze,  It'll spring ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53821]]></link><description><![CDATA[God dropped a spark down into everyone, And if we find and fan it to a blaze,  It'll spring up and glow, like--like the sun,   And light the wandering out of stony ways.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end. Will the day's journey take the whole ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23377]]></link><description><![CDATA[Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end. Will the day's journey take the whole long day? From morn to night, my friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["How does the Water Come down at Lodore?" ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61307]]></link><description><![CDATA["How does the Water Come down at Lodore?"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create anger where we never meant harm; and these ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62372]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create anger where we never meant harm; and these thoughts are the thorns in our cushion.   - William Makepeace Thackeray,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52921]]></link><description><![CDATA[The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One Pinch, a hungry lean-faced villain, A mere anatomy. -The Comedy of Errors. Act v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55409]]></link><description><![CDATA[One Pinch, a hungry lean-faced villain, A mere anatomy. -The Comedy of Errors. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be at all is to be religious more or less ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53777]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be at all is to be religious more or less]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the state. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24320]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the state.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62716]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are in some brown study. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58040]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are in some brown study.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any boy can get a girl, it takes a man to keep one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53288]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any boy can get a girl, it takes a man to keep one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61844]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Still people are dangerous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Still people are dangerous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone's first concern is always the grass or their crops, but trees can suffer too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone's first concern is always the grass or their crops, but trees can suffer too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you, but not in one ahead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45735]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you, but not in one ahead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have heard from many PUD customers that they prefer smaller, more frequent rate increases versus larger, occasional rate increases. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32822]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have heard from many PUD customers that they prefer smaller, more frequent rate increases versus larger, occasional rate increases.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the heavens, he shows me where the bachelors sit, and there live we as merry as the day is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27423]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the heavens, he shows me where the bachelors sit, and there live we as merry as the day is long.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Personality is to a man what perfume is to a flower. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Personality is to a man what perfume is to a flower.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O God! that one might read the book of fate, And see the revolution of the times  Make mountains ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54142]]></link><description><![CDATA[O God! that one might read the book of fate, And see the revolution of the times  Make mountains level. and the continent,   Weary of solid firmness, melt itself    Into the sea!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concluding a short series about the early church:   The early Christians... enjoyed the inestimable advantage of believing that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7981]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concluding a short series about the early church:   The early Christians... enjoyed the inestimable advantage of believing that the millennium was near, which precluded them from seeking to establish a beneficent regime in this world. In the time at their disposal, it was just not worth while. Perhaps the best hope of reviving the Christian religion would be to convince the Pope, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and other dignitaries likewise, that the world will shortly be coming to an end. A difficult undertaking, I fear, notwithstanding much evidence pointing that way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19904]]></link><description><![CDATA[My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some day this old Broadway shall climb to the skies, As a ribbon of cloud on a soul-wind shall rise, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some day this old Broadway shall climb to the skies, As a ribbon of cloud on a soul-wind shall rise,  And we shall be lifted, rejoicing by night,   Till we join with the planets who choir their delight,    The signs in the streets and the signs in the skies     Shall make a new Zodiac, guiding the wise,      And Broadway make one with that marvelous stair       That is climbed by the rainbow-clad spirits of prayer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And then a whoreson jackanapes must take me up for swearing, as if I borrowed mine oaths of him and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58475]]></link><description><![CDATA[And then a whoreson jackanapes must take me up for swearing, as if I borrowed mine oaths of him and might not spend them at my pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The slow, sweet hours that bring us all things good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51717]]></link><description><![CDATA[The slow, sweet hours that bring us all things good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26780]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He did a great job for us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35540]]></link><description><![CDATA[He did a great job for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35540</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[It's only words...unless they're true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27898]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's only words...unless they're true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All decent people live beyond their incomes; those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's; a few gifted individuals manage ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14773]]></link><description><![CDATA[All decent people live beyond their incomes; those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's; a few gifted individuals manage to do both.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Native American grandfather talking to his young grandson tells the boy he has two wolves inside of him struggling ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18839]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Native American grandfather talking to his young grandson tells the boy he has two wolves inside of him struggling with each other. The first is the wolf of peace, love and kindness. The other wolf is fear, greed and hatred. "Which wolf will win, grandfather?" asks the young boy. "Whichever one I feed," is the reply.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As commodity prices go up, ultimately everyone will raise prices, including Tiffany. Tiffany wants to maintain its competitive position in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41665]]></link><description><![CDATA[As commodity prices go up, ultimately everyone will raise prices, including Tiffany. Tiffany wants to maintain its competitive position in the industry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they willgrant others their own freedom, and give less interference ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22441]]></link><description><![CDATA[The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they willgrant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another'sstate of consciousness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And a good south wind sprung up behind, The Albatross did follow,  And every day, for food or play, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1979]]></link><description><![CDATA[And a good south wind sprung up behind, The Albatross did follow,  And every day, for food or play,   Came to the mariner's hollo!    "God save thee, ancient Mariner!     From the fiends that plague thus thee!--      Why look'st thou so?"--"With my cross-bow       I shot the Albatross."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most smiles are started by another smile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66701]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most smiles are started by another smile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61203]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That which is called firmness in a king is called obstinacy in a donkey. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16038]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which is called firmness in a king is called obstinacy in a donkey.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . make the abhorrent eye Roll back and close. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . make the abhorrent eye Roll back and close.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't let one bad moment spoil a bunch of good ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21903]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't let one bad moment spoil a bunch of good ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The celebration of unbounded individualism means, beyond some point, the acceptance of force- either private (crime, riot, vigilanteism) or public ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47209]]></link><description><![CDATA[The celebration of unbounded individualism means, beyond some point, the acceptance of force- either private (crime, riot, vigilanteism) or public (authoritarianism).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before a cure is found we will all have been affected one way or another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before a cure is found we will all have been affected one way or another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When someone exits your life, let them go with class and style. They mattered, if only for a little while. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62933]]></link><description><![CDATA[When someone exits your life, let them go with class and style. They mattered, if only for a little while.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you. - The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27724]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you. - The Oracle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3290]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just want to put some positive stuff out there. If it works, great. If it doesn't, no problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66361]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just want to put some positive stuff out there. If it works, great. If it doesn't, no problem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The minority of a country is never known to agree, except in its efforts to reduce and oppress the majority. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27539]]></link><description><![CDATA[The minority of a country is never known to agree, except in its efforts to reduce and oppress the majority.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27539</guid></item></channel></rss>