<?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[All of us have mortal bodies, composed of perishable matter, but the soul lives forever: it is a portion of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4456]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of us have mortal bodies, composed of perishable matter, but the soul lives forever: it is a portion of the Deity housed in our bodies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55052]]></link><description><![CDATA[A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The question now is: Can we understand our stupidity? This is a test of intellect, not of character. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46308]]></link><description><![CDATA[The question now is: Can we understand our stupidity? This is a test of intellect, not of character.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel comfortable and confident she is learning how to take care of herself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40808]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel comfortable and confident she is learning how to take care of herself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40808</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[A lie has speed, but truth has endurance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13802]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Immortality - a fate worse than death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20589]]></link><description><![CDATA[Immortality - a fate worse than death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you hire people that are smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter than they are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15767]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you hire people that are smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter than they are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61737]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62761]]></link><description><![CDATA[A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
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I think it shows a lot of good character.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give me but one hour of Scotland, Let me see it ere I die.   - William Edmondstoune Aytoun, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54886]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give me but one hour of Scotland, Let me see it ere I die.   - William Edmondstoune Aytoun,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spake full well, in language quaint and olden, One who dwelleth by the castled Rhine,  When he call'd the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spake full well, in language quaint and olden, One who dwelleth by the castled Rhine,  When he call'd the flowers, so blue and golden,   Stars that on earth's firmament do shine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a solution for war. It is to expand the sphere of liberty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47109]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a solution for war. It is to expand the sphere of liberty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Anskar, Archbishop of Hamburg, Missionary to Denmark and Sweden, 865  But sons who are more generously and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7474]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Anskar, Archbishop of Hamburg, Missionary to Denmark and Sweden, 865  But sons who are more generously and candidly treated by their fathers do not hesitate to offer them incomplete and halfdone and even defective works, trusting that their obedience and readiness of mind will be accepted by their fathers, even though they have not quite achieved what their fathers intended. Such children ought we to be, firmly trusting that our services will be approved by our most merciful Father, however small, rude, and imperfect these may be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65205]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Iran is fully committed to its NPT ((non-proliferation treaty) responsibilities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35725]]></link><description><![CDATA[Iran is fully committed to its NPT ((non-proliferation treaty) responsibilities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The men that is now is only all palaver and what they can get out of you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64530]]></link><description><![CDATA[The men that is now is only all palaver and what they can get out of you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human voice is the organ of the soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60938]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human voice is the organ of the soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who enjoy what they are doing invariably do it well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22278]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who enjoy what they are doing invariably do it well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Surround yourself with positive people and you'll be a positive person. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66297]]></link><description><![CDATA[Surround yourself with positive people and you'll be a positive person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is not contrary to reason…. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53712]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is not contrary to reason….]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are like a fine wine. They all start out like grapes, and it's our job to stomp on them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26994]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are like a fine wine. They all start out like grapes, and it's our job to stomp on them and keep them in the dark until they mature into something you'd like to have dinner with.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65436]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16653]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who knows he has enough is rich. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21545]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who knows he has enough is rich.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modesty is the only sure bait when you are fishing for praise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modesty is the only sure bait when you are fishing for praise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all the fools that pride can boast, A Coxcomb claims distinction most. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16422]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all the fools that pride can boast, A Coxcomb claims distinction most.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Borrow money from a pessimist - they don't expect it back ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17056]]></link><description><![CDATA[Borrow money from a pessimist - they don't expect it back]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But see, the shepherds shun the noonday heat, The lowing herds to murmuring brooks retreat,  To closer shades the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58269]]></link><description><![CDATA[But see, the shepherds shun the noonday heat, The lowing herds to murmuring brooks retreat,  To closer shades the panting flocks remove;   Ye gods! and is there no relief for love?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63402]]></link><description><![CDATA[One's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that in itself is a choice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6082]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that in itself is a choice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My countrymen should have nerves of steel, muscles of iron, and minds like thunderbolt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10216]]></link><description><![CDATA[My countrymen should have nerves of steel, muscles of iron, and minds like thunderbolt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64649]]></link><description><![CDATA[My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart ran o'er With silent worship of the great of old!--  The dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62304]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart ran o'er With silent worship of the great of old!--  The dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule   Our spirits from their urns.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65441]]></link><description><![CDATA[Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding things from within.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An election tells how many of your supporters are alive, and a war tells how many are willing to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13693]]></link><description><![CDATA[An election tells how many of your supporters are alive, and a war tells how many are willing to be dead]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26430]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is sufficient reward in the mere consciousness of a good action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48882]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is sufficient reward in the mere consciousness of a good action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cause a day keeps reality away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22052]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cause a day keeps reality away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The giving of love is an education in itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63403]]></link><description><![CDATA[The giving of love is an education in itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O star-eyed Science, hast thou wander'd there, To waft us home the message of despair? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54809]]></link><description><![CDATA[O star-eyed Science, hast thou wander'd there, To waft us home the message of despair?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus sung the shepherds till th' approach of night, The skies yet blushing with departing light,  When falling dews ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3568]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus sung the shepherds till th' approach of night, The skies yet blushing with departing light,  When falling dews with spangles deck'd the glade,   And the low sun had lengthened every shade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3568</guid></item></channel></rss>