<?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 bitterness of poor quality remains long after low pricing is forgotten! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21531]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bitterness of poor quality remains long after low pricing is forgotten!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You kick against the goad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51760]]></link><description><![CDATA[You kick against the goad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wars damage the civilian society as muchas they damage the enemy. Soldiers never get over it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wars damage the civilian society as muchas they damage the enemy. Soldiers never get over it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The few wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20942]]></link><description><![CDATA[The few wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The election will be conducted in a calm manner and the Azerbaijani society will remain stable, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36713]]></link><description><![CDATA[The election will be conducted in a calm manner and the Azerbaijani society will remain stable,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a very common story. They're two very hard-working parents who have careers. They have aspirations. They're working extremely hard, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32240]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a very common story. They're two very hard-working parents who have careers. They have aspirations. They're working extremely hard, but they have children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He did not care a button for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51058]]></link><description><![CDATA[He did not care a button for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is the creature of circumstances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8718]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is the creature of circumstances.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A society that will not embrace the Holy Spirit of God is encouraging satanic influences. We are not introducing Jesus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28560]]></link><description><![CDATA[A society that will not embrace the Holy Spirit of God is encouraging satanic influences. We are not introducing Jesus Christ to America, but this society has become a post-Christian society and that is a dangerous thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wishing, of all employments is the worst. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wishing, of all employments is the worst.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is by nature a political animal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is by nature a political animal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25527]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who would not praise Patrico's high desert, His hand unstain'd, his uncorrupted heart,  His comprehensive head? all interests weigh'd, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57848]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who would not praise Patrico's high desert, His hand unstain'd, his uncorrupted heart,  His comprehensive head? all interests weigh'd,   All Europe sav'd, yet Britain not betray'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is always a chance that he who sets himself up as his brother's keeper will end up by being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27230]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is always a chance that he who sets himself up as his brother's keeper will end up by being his jail-keeper.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune may rob us of our wealth, not of our courage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51145]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune may rob us of our wealth, not of our courage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you are unhappy, is there anything more maddening than to be told that you should be contented with your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60086]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are unhappy, is there anything more maddening than to be told that you should be contented with your lot?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature is at work.. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12095]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature is at work.. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41520]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The master in the art of living makes little distinction between hiswork and his play, his labor and his leisure, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21089]]></link><description><![CDATA[The master in the art of living makes little distinction between hiswork and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, hisinformation and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knowswhich is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever hedoes, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To himhe's always doing both.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Press bravely onward!--not in vain Your generous trust in human kind;  The good which bloodshed could not gain  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62638]]></link><description><![CDATA[Press bravely onward!--not in vain Your generous trust in human kind;  The good which bloodshed could not gain   Your peaceful zeal shall find.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This bombastic announcement is open defiance of what the international community is asking from Iran. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32995]]></link><description><![CDATA[This bombastic announcement is open defiance of what the international community is asking from Iran.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5558]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Bear and the FoxA bear boasted very much of his philanthropy, saying that of all animals he was the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1528]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Bear and the FoxA bear boasted very much of his philanthropy, saying that of all animals he was the most tender in his regard for man, for he had such respect for him that he would not even touch his dead body. A Fox hearing these words said with a smile to the Bear, Oh! that you would eat the dead and not the living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hate merit while it is with us; when taken away from our gaze, we long for it jealously. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50381]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hate merit while it is with us; when taken away from our gaze, we long for it jealously.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20126]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They say that the best defense is offense, and I intend to start offending right now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57543]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say that the best defense is offense, and I intend to start offending right now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This last section of Psalm 22 [i.e., verses 27-31] reminds us of Hebrews 12:2: "Looking unto Jesus the author and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6209]]></link><description><![CDATA[This last section of Psalm 22 [i.e., verses 27-31] reminds us of Hebrews 12:2: "Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God." The "joy" that was set before Jesus was, we feel, knowing of the riches which would come to his brethren out of his death. In short, we are his joy, set before him when on the cross. As we have seen, only as the circle of the love of Jesus becomes world wide and as big as history will it be complete.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civilization will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civilization will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind unite together to defend them and show themselves possessed of a constabulary power before which barbaric and atavistic forces will]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Race, what is that? Race is a competition, somebody winning and somebody losing. . . . Blood doesn't run in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Race, what is that? Race is a competition, somebody winning and somebody losing. . . . Blood doesn't run in races! Come on!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's a veteran guy, get his bat in the lineup. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34865]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's a veteran guy, get his bat in the lineup.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I take the blame for this one. Being a senior, I should be able to do more. . . . ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36364]]></link><description><![CDATA[I take the blame for this one. Being a senior, I should be able to do more. . . . I'm not blaming it on that one possession (where he lost it). We were up in the first half and in the second half we didn't jump on them. I don't blame one play. Mistakes happen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Necessity dispenseth with decorum. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44075]]></link><description><![CDATA[Necessity dispenseth with decorum.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Thomas] Carlyle believed that every man has a special duty to do in this world. If he had been asked ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7998]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Thomas] Carlyle believed that every man has a special duty to do in this world. If he had been asked what especially he conceived his own duty to be, he would have said that it was to force men to realize once more that the world was actually governed by a just God; that the old familiar story, acknowledged everywhere in words on Sundays and disregarded or openly denied on week-days, was, after all, true. His writings, every one of them, ... were to this same purpose and on this same text -- that truth must be spoken and justice must be done; on any other conditions, no real commonwealth, no common welfare, is permitted or possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger manages everything badly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2575]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger manages everything badly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Among mortals second thoughts are wisest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5384]]></link><description><![CDATA[Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4553]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Financial services are not excluded; they are simply not yet included. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Financial services are not excluded; they are simply not yet included.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two starving men cannot be twice as hungry as one; but two rascals can be ten times as vicious as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61542]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two starving men cannot be twice as hungry as one; but two rascals can be ten times as vicious as one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have you noticed that life, real honest to goodness life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have you noticed that life, real honest to goodness life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in newspapers?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O ye powers that search The heart of man, and weigh his inmost thoughts,  If I have done amiss, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53810]]></link><description><![CDATA[O ye powers that search The heart of man, and weigh his inmost thoughts,  If I have done amiss, impute it not!   The best may err, but you are good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27301]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["O Charidas, what of the underworld?" "Great darkness."  "And what of the resurrection?"   "A lie."   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43170]]></link><description><![CDATA["O Charidas, what of the underworld?" "Great darkness."  "And what of the resurrection?"   "A lie."    "And Pluto?"     "A fable; we perish utterly."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every animal loves itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every animal loves itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35529]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As many men, so many opinions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51734]]></link><description><![CDATA[As many men, so many opinions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do desire we may be better strangers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11959]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do desire we may be better strangers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comedy is tragedy - plus time ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59539]]></link><description><![CDATA[Comedy is tragedy - plus time]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I refuse to stand by while our democracy is trampled by politicians more concerned about amassing power than helping the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19197]]></link><description><![CDATA[I refuse to stand by while our democracy is trampled by politicians more concerned about amassing power than helping the people who sent them to Washington in the first place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59094]]></link><description><![CDATA[Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59094</guid></item></channel></rss>