<?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[Oh! this opponent, this collaborator against your will, whose notion of beauty always differs from yours and whose means are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh! this opponent, this collaborator against your will, whose notion of beauty always differs from yours and whose means are often too limited for active assistance to your intentions!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None can less afford to delay than the aged sinner. Now is the time. Now or never. You have, as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29567]]></link><description><![CDATA[None can less afford to delay than the aged sinner. Now is the time. Now or never. You have, as it were, one foot already in the grave. Your opportunities will soon be over. Strive, then, I entreat you, to enter in at the strait gate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He won't, won't he? Then bring me my boots. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48614]]></link><description><![CDATA[He won't, won't he? Then bring me my boots.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fine words dresse ill deedes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fine words dresse ill deedes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So was hir jolly whistel wel y-wette. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48820]]></link><description><![CDATA[So was hir jolly whistel wel y-wette.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11399]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We could be on scene and see someone mistreat an animal and we couldn't arrest them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40406]]></link><description><![CDATA[We could be on scene and see someone mistreat an animal and we couldn't arrest them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children in Iraq are seriously suffering psychologically with all the insecurity, especially with the fear of kidnapping and explosions. In ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41957]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children in Iraq are seriously suffering psychologically with all the insecurity, especially with the fear of kidnapping and explosions. In some cases, they?re found to be suffering extreme stress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54255]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Resolved to die in the last dyke of prevarication. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26111]]></link><description><![CDATA[Resolved to die in the last dyke of prevarication.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45386]]></link><description><![CDATA[When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[(I-Newswire) - In the free event, Bell will read from] No Planets Strike, ... Edgy in both senses of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38737]]></link><description><![CDATA[[(I-Newswire) - In the free event, Bell will read from] No Planets Strike, ... Edgy in both senses of the word, Josh Bell populates his daft American heartland with the runaway muse Ramona and her clones. The resulting landscapes are as dangerous, funny, and drop-dead gorgeous as those in a Road Runner cartoon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a gentle way, you can shake the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21096]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a gentle way, you can shake the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As seniors, we've been through two coaches. We just kept playing basketball. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28583]]></link><description><![CDATA[As seniors, we've been through two coaches. We just kept playing basketball.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who is brave is free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16654]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who is brave is free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feedback is a pleasant thing. I get a lot of letters from unexpected people in unexpected places. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30582]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feedback is a pleasant thing. I get a lot of letters from unexpected people in unexpected places.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her standard to the air,  She tore the azure robe of night, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16131]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her standard to the air,  She tore the azure robe of night,   And set the stars of glory there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51197]]></link><description><![CDATA[The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man can die but once. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55934]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man can die but once. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone seemed to be doing well except me and my career. And my accent was no helping me any. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33536]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone seemed to be doing well except me and my career. And my accent was no helping me any.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never write a letter while you are angry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62844]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never write a letter while you are angry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1099]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once I got there, I noticed that smoke was everywhere, and we noticed that someone had tried to kick one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38911]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once I got there, I noticed that smoke was everywhere, and we noticed that someone had tried to kick one of the side doors in to get in the church.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55131]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23707]]></link><description><![CDATA[The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Arrogance diminishes wisdom ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3116]]></link><description><![CDATA[Arrogance diminishes wisdom]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He would not, with a peremptory tone, Assert the nose upon his face his own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12746]]></link><description><![CDATA[He would not, with a peremptory tone, Assert the nose upon his face his own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot win a game of tug-o-war by merely standing firm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32314]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot win a game of tug-o-war by merely standing firm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Howbeit he refused to turn aside: wherefore Abner with the hinder end of the spear smote him under the fifth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57136]]></link><description><![CDATA[Howbeit he refused to turn aside: wherefore Abner with the hinder end of the spear smote him under the fifth rib, that the spear came out behind him; and he fell down there, and died in the same place: and it came to pass, that as many as came to the place when Asahel fell down and died stood still.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not believe in sex distinction in literature, law, politics, or trade - or that modesty and virtue are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55283]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not believe in sex distinction in literature, law, politics, or trade - or that modesty and virtue are more becoming to women than to men, but wish we had more of it everywhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better to be without logic than without feeling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25434]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better to be without logic than without feeling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sermon on a hat: "'The hat, my boy, the hat, whatever it may be, is in itself nothing--makes nothing, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18889]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sermon on a hat: "'The hat, my boy, the hat, whatever it may be, is in itself nothing--makes nothing, goes for nothing; but, be sure of it, everything is life depends upon the cock of the hat.' For how many men--we put it to your own experience, reader--have made their way through the thronging crowds that beset fortune, not by the innate worth and excellence of their hats, but simply, as Sampson Piebald has it, by 'the cock of their hats'? The cock's all."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63224]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing worse than a silly politician analyzing art is a silly artist analyzing politics ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39023]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing worse than a silly politician analyzing art is a silly artist analyzing politics]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61700]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Markets that don't work we're going to step away from, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35683]]></link><description><![CDATA[Markets that don't work we're going to step away from,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56311]]></link><description><![CDATA[Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No intelligent man has any respect for an unjust law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47175]]></link><description><![CDATA[No intelligent man has any respect for an unjust law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53388]]></link><description><![CDATA[The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Work is a four-letter word. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43462]]></link><description><![CDATA[Work is a four-letter word.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope and fear are inseparable. -La Rochefoucauld. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19808]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope and fear are inseparable. -La Rochefoucauld.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19808</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[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[I don't know very much, but what I do know I know better than anybody, and I don't want to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36978]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know very much, but what I do know I know better than anybody, and I don't want to argue about it. I know what I think about an actor or an actress, and am not interested in what anybody else thinks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47558]]></link><description><![CDATA[You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stars are the daisies that begem The blue fields of the sky,  Beheld by all, and everywhere,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10994]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stars are the daisies that begem The blue fields of the sky,  Beheld by all, and everywhere,   Bright prototypes on high.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you were to rise early every morning, as an instance of self-denial, as a method of renouncing indulgence, as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7180]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you were to rise early every morning, as an instance of self-denial, as a method of renouncing indulgence, as a means of redeeming your time, and fitting your spirit for prayer, you would find mighty advantages from it. This method, though it seem such a small circumstance of life, would in all probability be a means of great piety. It would keep it constantly in your head, that softness and idleness were to be avoided, that self-denial was a part of Christianity... It would teach you to exercise power over yourself, and make you able by degrees to renounce other pleasures and tempers that war against the soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The point is plain as a pike staff. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48716]]></link><description><![CDATA[The point is plain as a pike staff.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There has been much tragedy in my life; at least half of it actually happend. -Mark Twain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24939]]></link><description><![CDATA[There has been much tragedy in my life; at least half of it actually happend. -Mark Twain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24939</guid></item></channel></rss>