<?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[You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66188]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twas good advice, and meant, "My son, be good." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/778]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twas good advice, and meant, "My son, be good."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Passion costs me too much to bestow it on every trifle. (1640). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22712]]></link><description><![CDATA[Passion costs me too much to bestow it on every trifle. (1640).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man can be chained, but he cannot be domesticated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56951]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man can be chained, but he cannot be domesticated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more deeply the path is etched, the more it is used, and the more it is used, the more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52207]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more deeply the path is etched, the more it is used, and the more it is used, the more deeply it etched.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I didn't have this affliction, I would be the first. As a rule the if-clause contains an unfulfillable condition, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1654]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I didn't have this affliction, I would be the first. As a rule the if-clause contains an unfulfillable condition, or the patient's own arrangement, which only he can change.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What garlic is to food, insanity is to art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28090]]></link><description><![CDATA[What garlic is to food, insanity is to art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mentor: Someone whose hindsight can become your foresight ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16458]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mentor: Someone whose hindsight can become your foresight]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14650]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9258]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What were vices have become the fashion of the day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51209]]></link><description><![CDATA[What were vices have become the fashion of the day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well-married, a man is winged: ill-matched, he is shackled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26462]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well-married, a man is winged: ill-matched, he is shackled.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we're saying Big Tobacco is going to be held to account for their products, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35509]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we're saying Big Tobacco is going to be held to account for their products,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It needs not nor it boots thee not, proud queen, Unless the adage must be verified,  That beggars mounted ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3933]]></link><description><![CDATA[It needs not nor it boots thee not, proud queen, Unless the adage must be verified,  That beggars mounted run their horse to death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I stood on the bridge at midnight, As the clocks were striking the hour,  And the moon rose over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27452]]></link><description><![CDATA[I stood on the bridge at midnight, As the clocks were striking the hour,  And the moon rose over the city,   Behind the dark church tower.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28002]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55046]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Ben Adams, founder and director of the program, was pleased with the turnout.] We estimated 1,000 people but we had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29965]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Ben Adams, founder and director of the program, was pleased with the turnout.] We estimated 1,000 people but we had about 2 or 3 thousand come today, ... Everybody can come out, have a good time and listen to music.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A banquet will be held for the kids at the Jewett Sportsmen Club in the evening so they can share ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40120]]></link><description><![CDATA[A banquet will be held for the kids at the Jewett Sportsmen Club in the evening so they can share experiences. There will be someone to do the meat processing at a reduced cost. If they do not have use for the deer, it will donated to a local food pantry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Richard! O my king! The universe forsakes thee! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54499]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Richard! O my king! The universe forsakes thee!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has opened a new diplomatic channel for Pakistan and the pro-Israeli groups in the US will not oppose Pakistan ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36342]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has opened a new diplomatic channel for Pakistan and the pro-Israeli groups in the US will not oppose Pakistan to the extent they used to do in the past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laurel crowned Horatius True, how true the saying,  Swift as wind flies over us   Time devouring, slaying. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59294]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laurel crowned Horatius True, how true the saying,  Swift as wind flies over us   Time devouring, slaying.    [Lat., Lauriger Horatius     Quam dixisti verum;      Fugit curo citius       Tempus edax rerum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My prediction? This move will be completely forgotten. Few to nobody will use it. And, 6 to 12 months from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42165]]></link><description><![CDATA[My prediction? This move will be completely forgotten. Few to nobody will use it. And, 6 to 12 months from now, Oracle will have to give a real response to the open-source threat it faces. Tossing a lightweight database in front of a fast-moving market that wants free, open, and killer databases just won't fly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1426]]></link><description><![CDATA[Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser than usual; if with your superiors, no finer. Be what you say; and, within the rules of prudence, say what you are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education: The inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13516]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education: The inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm going to send you by fax a list of ingredients. And I want you to come up with recipes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36758]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm going to send you by fax a list of ingredients. And I want you to come up with recipes for lovers that (are) easy. Because if you're going to spend the day cooking, you won't have any energy left for love-making.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who shall dispute what the Reviewers say? Their word's sufficient; and to ask a reason,  In such a state ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10731]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who shall dispute what the Reviewers say? Their word's sufficient; and to ask a reason,  In such a state as theirs, is downright treason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The boat was overturned, just floating upside down in the water. All the safety gear, paddles, vests, were along the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38674]]></link><description><![CDATA[The boat was overturned, just floating upside down in the water. All the safety gear, paddles, vests, were along the shore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But we must believe that Judas, who repented even to agony, who repented so that his high-prized life, self, soul, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8250]]></link><description><![CDATA[But we must believe that Judas, who repented even to agony, who repented so that his high-prized life, self, soul, became worthless in his eyes and met with no mercy at his own hand, -- must we believe he could find no mercy in such a God? I think when Judas fled from his hanged and fallen body, he fled to the tender help of Jesus, and found it -- I say not how. He was in a more hopeful condition now than during any moment of his past life, for he had never repented before. But I believe that Jesus loved Judas even when he was kissing Him with traitor's kiss; and I believe that He was his Saviour still.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One father is more then a hundred Schoolemasters. [One father is more than a hundred Schoolmasters.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49688]]></link><description><![CDATA[One father is more then a hundred Schoolemasters. [One father is more than a hundred Schoolmasters.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43420]]></link><description><![CDATA[When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If patriotism is, as Dr. Johnson used to remark, the last refuge of the scoundrel, wrapping outdated industry in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15808]]></link><description><![CDATA[If patriotism is, as Dr. Johnson used to remark, the last refuge of the scoundrel, wrapping outdated industry in the mantle of national interest is the last refuge of the economically dispossessed. In economic terms, pleading national interest is the declining cottage industry of those who have been bypassed by the global economy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a misunderstanding. The justice did not intend for the event to be closed to print press. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39609]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a misunderstanding. The justice did not intend for the event to be closed to print press.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: THE ELEMENTS OF PRAYER   Its ground: God, by whose goodness it springeth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: THE ELEMENTS OF PRAYER   Its ground: God, by whose goodness it springeth in us.  Its use: to turn our will to His will.  Its end: to be made one with Him and like to Him in all things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Iran is striving to take a dominant position in the region, and its nuclear program is the most suitable means ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Iran is striving to take a dominant position in the region, and its nuclear program is the most suitable means of achieving this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65963]]></link><description><![CDATA[I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66500]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any time Republicans spend money and it isn't against Democrats, it's a distraction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38739]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any time Republicans spend money and it isn't against Democrats, it's a distraction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She must temper her anger and frustration. We have work too hard to lose the public relations battle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38909]]></link><description><![CDATA[She must temper her anger and frustration. We have work too hard to lose the public relations battle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's just so much like Iraq, it's not funny, ... except for all the water, and they speak English. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35086]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's just so much like Iraq, it's not funny, ... except for all the water, and they speak English.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From their folded mates they wander far, Their ways seem harsh and wild:  They follow the beck of a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5640]]></link><description><![CDATA[From their folded mates they wander far, Their ways seem harsh and wild:  They follow the beck of a baleful star,   Their paths are dream-beguiled.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History: An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65959]]></link><description><![CDATA[History: An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My toast would be, may our country always be successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2391]]></link><description><![CDATA[My toast would be, may our country always be successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the end we are all separate: our stories, no matter how similar, come to a fork and diverge. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13793]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the end we are all separate: our stories, no matter how similar, come to a fork and diverge. We are drawn to each other because of our similarities, but it is our differences we must learn to respect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19318]]></link><description><![CDATA[Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65315]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63117</guid></item></channel></rss>