<?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 flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58104]]></link><description><![CDATA[The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.   - Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's still frustrating to us that a national environmental organization that's never seen it or knows nothing about it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37881]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's still frustrating to us that a national environmental organization that's never seen it or knows nothing about it is trying to preserve a piece of land that's got oil wells all over it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lively, disinterested, persistent liking for truth is extraordinarily rare. Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36450]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lively, disinterested, persistent liking for truth is extraordinarily rare. Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not to be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism or doubt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Serve a noble disposition, though poore, the time comes that hee will repay thee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49738]]></link><description><![CDATA[Serve a noble disposition, though poore, the time comes that hee will repay thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When all else is lost, the future still remains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17133]]></link><description><![CDATA[When all else is lost, the future still remains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eventually, I stopped picking up the phone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30221]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eventually, I stopped picking up the phone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Baths, wine and Venus bring decay to our bodies; but baths, wine and Venus make up life. [Lat., Balnea, vina, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Baths, wine and Venus bring decay to our bodies; but baths, wine and Venus make up life. [Lat., Balnea, vina, Venus corrumpunt corpora nostra;  Sed vitam faciunt baldea, vina, Venus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ill fortune seldom comes alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16582]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ill fortune seldom comes alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And we will be in tune with our bodies only if we truly love and honor them. We can't be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55191]]></link><description><![CDATA[And we will be in tune with our bodies only if we truly love and honor them. We can't be in good communication with the enemy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It definitely is a signal of change - this engine is not just continuing on at the same pace as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31180]]></link><description><![CDATA[It definitely is a signal of change - this engine is not just continuing on at the same pace as it was in the past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25981]]></link><description><![CDATA[My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Helpe thy selfe, and God will helpe thee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Helpe thy selfe, and God will helpe thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Purity of heart is to will one thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52599]]></link><description><![CDATA[Purity of heart is to will one thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All we're seeing now in the market are multimedia phones. It's clear that this isn't a fad. The cell phone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30613]]></link><description><![CDATA[All we're seeing now in the market are multimedia phones. It's clear that this isn't a fad. The cell phone is becoming a different device.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions, it is walled and roofed with them ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19116]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions, it is walled and roofed with them]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shelters here are less than comfortable, and poor sanitation can develop quickly. Residents who decide to stay in the county, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shelters here are less than comfortable, and poor sanitation can develop quickly. Residents who decide to stay in the county, even those who go to local shelters, are risking their health and safety.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Incredulity is the wisdom of the fool ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Incredulity is the wisdom of the fool]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4743]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25722]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44481]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was so proud of the heart we showed. Over the last three quarters, we fought our way back into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31952]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was so proud of the heart we showed. Over the last three quarters, we fought our way back into the game and had a big surge in the fourth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These are people who are choosing between food or paying the rent, people who are choosing between food and buying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33384]]></link><description><![CDATA[These are people who are choosing between food or paying the rent, people who are choosing between food and buying their child a pair of shoes, food and heat in the wintertime. They?re seniors who are choosing whether to buy food or pay for medicine. Folks are going entire days without anything to eat at all. They are literally going to bed hungry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they're the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4035]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they're the first to be rescued off sinking ships]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a lot of faith in my players. They have to believe in themselves. We have to be the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38427]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a lot of faith in my players. They have to believe in themselves. We have to be the doers, not takers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is harder to be poor without complaining than to be rich without boasting ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9249]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is harder to be poor without complaining than to be rich without boasting]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45922]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do little things as though they were great, because of the majesty of Jesus Christ who does them in us, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7683]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do little things as though they were great, because of the majesty of Jesus Christ who does them in us, and who lives our life: and do the greatest things as though they were little and easy, because of His omnipotence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those griefs burn most which gall in secret. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51201]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58840]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53628]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you keep at it, one day something which at first appeared impossible will become merely something very difficult indeed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62514]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you keep at it, one day something which at first appeared impossible will become merely something very difficult indeed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the silence between the notes that makes the music; it is the space between the bars that holds ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44674]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the silence between the notes that makes the music; it is the space between the bars that holds the tiger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature is a revelation of God; Art is a revelation of man ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43762]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature is a revelation of God; Art is a revelation of man]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This woman is amazing. I should take her to one of the classes I teach on debt, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39470]]></link><description><![CDATA[This woman is amazing. I should take her to one of the classes I teach on debt,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who will not reason, is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52083]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who will not reason, is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quotation... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4661]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quotation... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give it himself, or because they are beautiful or witty, or because he expects them to touch a cord of association in his reader, or because he wishes to show that he is learned and well read. Quotations due to the last motive are invariably ill-advised; the discerning reader detects it and is contemptuous; the undiscerning is perhaps impressed, but even then is at the same time repelled, pretentious quotations being the surest road to tedium.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; When health is lost, something is lost;  When character is lost, all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25578]]></link><description><![CDATA[When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; When health is lost, something is lost;  When character is lost, all is lost!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John Keble, Priest, Poet, Tractarian, 1866  We are born knowing nothing and with much striving we learn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7414]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John Keble, Priest, Poet, Tractarian, 1866  We are born knowing nothing and with much striving we learn but a little; yet all the while we are bound by laws that hearken to no plea of ignorance, and measure out their rewards and punishments with calm indifference. In such a state, humility is the virtue of men, and their only defense; to walk humbly with God, never doubting, whatever befall, that His will is good, and that His law is right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26014]]></link><description><![CDATA[I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep your face towards the sunshine and the shadows will fall behind you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1480]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep your face towards the sunshine and the shadows will fall behind you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52476]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantity and more quality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An inch in a miss is as good as an ell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48796]]></link><description><![CDATA[An inch in a miss is as good as an ell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one swain scorns you, you will soon find another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51810]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one swain scorns you, you will soon find another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Green little vaulter, in the sunny grass, Catching your heart up at the feel of June,  Sole noise that's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18141]]></link><description><![CDATA[Green little vaulter, in the sunny grass, Catching your heart up at the feel of June,  Sole noise that's heard amidst the lazy noon,   When ev'n the bees lag at the summoning brass.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Narcissus is the glory of his race: For who does nothing with a better grace? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18092]]></link><description><![CDATA[Narcissus is the glory of his race: For who does nothing with a better grace?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48325]]></link><description><![CDATA[We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am bourgeois to the core and parochial beyond belief, and yet I am drawn to art and scholarship as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58708]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am bourgeois to the core and parochial beyond belief, and yet I am drawn to art and scholarship as my anti-type, my shadow, the voice of distinction I never possessed. I don't think of myself as a teacher so much as an impersonator of profundities, inhabiting the wisdom of texts with the naked confidence that the value of the genius I espouse transcends the particular fraud that I am the one espousing it. And it doesn't even matter to me that no one seems to be listening; those who listen that I don't know about are enough to keep me going--soaring on the wings of borrowed metaphors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Year's Eve, where auld acquaintance be forgot. Unless, of course, those tests come back positive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62729]]></link><description><![CDATA[New Year's Eve, where auld acquaintance be forgot. Unless, of course, those tests come back positive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62650]]></link><description><![CDATA[Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62650</guid></item></channel></rss>