<?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[A dead end can never be a one way street; you can always turn around and take another road. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65145]]></link><description><![CDATA[A dead end can never be a one way street; you can always turn around and take another road.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acerra always drinks till dawn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50615]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acerra always drinks till dawn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17946]]></link><description><![CDATA[Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pure eye for the true vision of another's claims can only go with the loving heart. The man who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8078]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pure eye for the true vision of another's claims can only go with the loving heart. The man who hates can hardly be delicate in doing Justice, say to his neighbor's love, to his neighbor's predilections and peculiarities. It is hard enough to be just to our friends; and how shall our enemies fare with us?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rain, rain, and sun! a rainbow in the sky! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rain, rain, and sun! a rainbow in the sky!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth,  And constancy lives in realms above; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth,  And constancy lives in realms above;   And life is thorny, and youth is vain;    And to be wrothe with one we love     Doth work like madness in the brain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But how carve way i' the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45662]]></link><description><![CDATA[But how carve way i' the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is strange so great a statesman should Be so sublime a poet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57837]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is strange so great a statesman should Be so sublime a poet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their monument sticks like a fishbone in the city's throat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43044]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their monument sticks like a fishbone in the city's throat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even before he had one book published, Jack was one of those people you could feel was very special. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33067]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even before he had one book published, Jack was one of those people you could feel was very special.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53374]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That intelligent creatures exist in outerspace is proven by the fact that they have not contacted us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57308]]></link><description><![CDATA[That intelligent creatures exist in outerspace is proven by the fact that they have not contacted us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even the gods love jokes ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23300]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even the gods love jokes]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best things in life come in threes, like friends, dreams, and memories. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16744]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best things in life come in threes, like friends, dreams, and memories.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gold! gold! gold! gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17774]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gold! gold! gold! gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're overwhelmed with the orders and requests but it just seemed to be the thing to do. And it worked ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33008]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're overwhelmed with the orders and requests but it just seemed to be the thing to do. And it worked out and fell in place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But with what incessant and grievous ills is old age surrounded! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50434]]></link><description><![CDATA[But with what incessant and grievous ills is old age surrounded!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19562]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Watch what you choose to do. For instance, someone might want you to smoke. Never forget that I told you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21824]]></link><description><![CDATA[Watch what you choose to do. For instance, someone might want you to smoke. Never forget that I told you -- don't do it. Say no. That can of beer that somebody wants you to try, don't do it. Don't you ever do it. That drug that someone might want you to use, don't touch it. Stay away from it. It can destroy you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Edmund of the East Angles, Martyr, 870 Commemoration of Priscilla Lydia Sellon, a Restorer of the Religious Life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7357]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Edmund of the East Angles, Martyr, 870 Commemoration of Priscilla Lydia Sellon, a Restorer of the Religious Life in the Church of England, 1876   It is to be acknowledged that many passages in the Bible are abstruse, and not to be easily understood. Yet we are not to omit reading the abstruser texts, which have any appearance of relating to us; but should follow the example of the Blessed Virgin, who understood not several of our Saviour's sayings, but kept them all in her heart. Were we only to learn humility thus, it would be enough; but we shall by degrees come to apprehend far more than we expected, if we diligently compare spiritual things to spiritual.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3225]]></link><description><![CDATA[Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heir follows heir, as wave succeeds to wave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50255]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heir follows heir, as wave succeeds to wave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5230]]></link><description><![CDATA[Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5372]]></link><description><![CDATA[In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Living with integrity means: Not settling for less than what you know you deserve in your relationships. Asking for what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29860]]></link><description><![CDATA[Living with integrity means: Not settling for less than what you know you deserve in your relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speaking your truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values. Making choices based on what you believe, and not what others believe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is not just about the film industry: whether you're talking about the pharmaceutical industry, the information technology industry or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32680]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is not just about the film industry: whether you're talking about the pharmaceutical industry, the information technology industry or filmed entertainment, the protection of intellectual property is crucial. If we can't build businesses around ideas, and feel comfortable that we have the right to those ideas, then our entire business is threatened.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Devil himself is good, when he is pleased. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12182]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Devil himself is good, when he is pleased.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where the virgins are soft as the roses they twine, And all, save the spirit of man, is divine? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26265]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where the virgins are soft as the roses they twine, And all, save the spirit of man, is divine?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Josephine Butler, Social Reformer, 1906 Commemoration of Joan of Arc, Visionary, 1431 Commemoration of Apolo Kivebulaya, Priest, Evangelist, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6799]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Josephine Butler, Social Reformer, 1906 Commemoration of Joan of Arc, Visionary, 1431 Commemoration of Apolo Kivebulaya, Priest, Evangelist, 1933   I would have the whole of my experience one continued sense -- first, of my nothingness, and dependence on God; second, of my guiltiness and desert before Him; third, of my obligations to redeeming love, as utterly overwhelming me with its incomprehensible extent and grandeur.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['T is not for gravity to play at cherry-pit with Satan. -Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55762]]></link><description><![CDATA['T is not for gravity to play at cherry-pit with Satan. -Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love conquers all things except poverty and a toothache. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25902]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love conquers all things except poverty and a toothache.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sun was down, And all the west was paved with sullen fire.  I cried, "Behold! the barren beach ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58340]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sun was down, And all the west was paved with sullen fire.  I cried, "Behold! the barren beach of hell   At ebb of tide."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1235]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music tells no truths. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43427]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music tells no truths.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses, made money because they offered ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52623]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses, made money because they offered honest products and treated their people decently . . . This business creed, sadly, seems long forgotten.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59020]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good is to bee sought out, and evill attended. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49287]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good is to bee sought out, and evill attended.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Failure is an event, never a person. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44151]]></link><description><![CDATA[Failure is an event, never a person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So much promise stretches before us. Americans have always reached for the impossible, looked to the next horizon and asked, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2454]]></link><description><![CDATA[So much promise stretches before us. Americans have always reached for the impossible, looked to the next horizon and asked, "What if?"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Painting is just like a guy playing an instrument; it's something to look forward to the next day. When I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Painting is just like a guy playing an instrument; it's something to look forward to the next day. When I was painting in Dixon, I was out of the place . . . and I made some money selling paintings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hell is the wrath of God--His hate of sin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hell is the wrath of God--His hate of sin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot teach old dogs new tricks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58736]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot teach old dogs new tricks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is more difficult to organize a peace than to win a war; but the fruits of victory will be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46929]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is more difficult to organize a peace than to win a war; but the fruits of victory will be lost if the peace is not organized.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hope the public will offer ideas about how we can best present the local history of each region we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41127]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hope the public will offer ideas about how we can best present the local history of each region we visit. We also welcome suggestions about artifacts that we might want to exhibit in the new museum.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not believe in God, angels and the hereafter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29761]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not believe in God, angels and the hereafter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[held in a free and democratic atmosphere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36706]]></link><description><![CDATA[held in a free and democratic atmosphere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend should bear a friend's infirmities, But Brutus makes mine greater than they are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51290]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend should bear a friend's infirmities, But Brutus makes mine greater than they are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This deal with Iran is probably the most apparent thing driving prices up. But you don't know what is happening ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41242]]></link><description><![CDATA[This deal with Iran is probably the most apparent thing driving prices up. But you don't know what is happening behind the scenes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25114]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With various people complaining about "price gouging... economist Walter Williams has coined a new term: "Tax gouging." But government is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58686]]></link><description><![CDATA[With various people complaining about "price gouging... economist Walter Williams has coined a new term: "Tax gouging." But government is never accused of either "greed" or "gouging" — not even when they bulldoze people's homes in order to turn the land over to businesses that will pay more taxes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58686</guid></item></channel></rss>