<?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 modesty's a candle to thy merit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42905]]></link><description><![CDATA[The modesty's a candle to thy merit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody creates a fad. It just happens. People love going along with the idea of a beautiful pig. It's like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2883]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody creates a fad. It just happens. People love going along with the idea of a beautiful pig. It's like a conspiracy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If't be summer news, Smile to't before; if winterly, thou need'st  But keep that count'nance still. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44468]]></link><description><![CDATA[If't be summer news, Smile to't before; if winterly, thou need'st  But keep that count'nance still.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a business. Be smart. Choose wisely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38607]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a business. Be smart. Choose wisely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47654]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18948]]></link><description><![CDATA[Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brains, integrity, and force may be all very well, but what you need today is Charm. Go ahead and work ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35937]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brains, integrity, and force may be all very well, but what you need today is Charm. Go ahead and work on your economic programs if you want to, I'll develop my radio personality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The "now" wherein God made the first man, and the "now" wherein the last man disappears, and the "now" I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8401]]></link><description><![CDATA[The "now" wherein God made the first man, and the "now" wherein the last man disappears, and the "now" I am speaking in, all are the same in God, where this is but the now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No, it is not only our fate but our business to lose innocence, and once we have lost that, it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20973]]></link><description><![CDATA[No, it is not only our fate but our business to lose innocence, and once we have lost that, it is futile to attempt a picnic in Eden.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We always weaken everything we exaggerate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14371]]></link><description><![CDATA[We always weaken everything we exaggerate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15861]]></link><description><![CDATA[A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just see it as another guy trying to get what I'm trying to get, a win for our team. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36969]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just see it as another guy trying to get what I'm trying to get, a win for our team. I treat it like a battlefield.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Paradox with him was only truth standing on its head to attract attention ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Paradox with him was only truth standing on its head to attract attention]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5541]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64386]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The emotions aren't always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13724]]></link><description><![CDATA[The emotions aren't always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even though it looked like an easy game, he went deep into the count on a lot of hitters. But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even though it looked like an easy game, he went deep into the count on a lot of hitters. But he threw a strike when he had to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12540]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People like me who believe the left can be a moderate forceÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Âwe have failed. We are stuck in the medieval ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41121]]></link><description><![CDATA[People like me who believe the left can be a moderate forceÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Âwe have failed. We are stuck in the medieval notion that there is an aristocracy and a people, and the people want a piece of what the aristocracy hadÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Âa life subsidized enough to have a minimum of work and a maximum of pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as living souls and of the fact that the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5861]]></link><description><![CDATA[One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as living souls and of the fact that the Whites and the Blacks have more in common with each other than with the players. Suddenly one loses all interest in who will be champion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no knowledge that is not power ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47917]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no knowledge that is not power]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smile, damn it !! Smile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26842]]></link><description><![CDATA[Smile, damn it !! Smile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great Creator to revereMust sure become the creature;But still the preaching cant forbear,And ev'n the rigid feature:Yet ne'er with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25299]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great Creator to revereMust sure become the creature;But still the preaching cant forbear,And ev'n the rigid feature:Yet ne'er with wits profane to rangeBe complaisance extended;An atheist laugh's a poor exchangeFor deity offended. - Epistle to a Young Friend, An.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would say it's four to one we've had more bad days than good days. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32282]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would say it's four to one we've had more bad days than good days.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To know how to dissemble is the knowledge of kings. [Fr., Savoir dissimuler est le savoir des rois.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54495]]></link><description><![CDATA[To know how to dissemble is the knowledge of kings. [Fr., Savoir dissimuler est le savoir des rois.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We learn simply by the exposure of living. Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13447]]></link><description><![CDATA[We learn simply by the exposure of living. Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're denying that person the right to run a business, ... We can't find no Kahlua cream in south Bibb ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38126]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're denying that person the right to run a business, ... We can't find no Kahlua cream in south Bibb County now! We need that place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65241]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He knows little who tells his wife all he knows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61569]]></link><description><![CDATA[He knows little who tells his wife all he knows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Morris, Artist, Writer, 1896 Commemoration of George Kennedy Bell, Bishop of Chichester, Ecumenist, Peacemaker, 1958   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6718]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Morris, Artist, Writer, 1896 Commemoration of George Kennedy Bell, Bishop of Chichester, Ecumenist, Peacemaker, 1958   If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27601]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes a wise man to handle a lie. A fool had better remain honest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26155]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes a wise man to handle a lie. A fool had better remain honest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54290]]></link><description><![CDATA[In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The children will not leave unless I do. I shall not leave unless their father does, and the King will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52709]]></link><description><![CDATA[The children will not leave unless I do. I shall not leave unless their father does, and the King will not leave the country in any circumstances whatever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We decided let's put the challenge to them, ... These kids know what's going on at parties, and probably have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39496]]></link><description><![CDATA[We decided let's put the challenge to them, ... These kids know what's going on at parties, and probably have much better ideas as to how they can get the message to their peers in a way that will make them think.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John Vianney, Curè d'Ars, 1859   Prayer is not a way of making use of God; prayer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7523]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John Vianney, Curè d'Ars, 1859   Prayer is not a way of making use of God; prayer is a way of offering ourselves to God in order that He should be able to make use of us. It may be that one of our great faults in prayer is that we talk too much and listen too little. When prayer is at its highest we wait in silence for God's voice to us; we linger in His presence for His peace and His power to flow over us and around us; we lean back in His everlasting arms and feel the serenity of perfect security in Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1287]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ass, the Fox, and the LionThe ass and the fox, having entered into partnership together fortheir mutual protection, went ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1606]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Ass, the Fox, and the LionThe ass and the fox, having entered into partnership together fortheir mutual protection, went out into the forest to hunt. Theyhadnot proceeded far when they met a Lion. The Fox, seeing imminentdanger, approached the Lion and promised to contrive for him thecapture of the Ass if the Lion would pledge his word not to harmtheFox. Then, upon assuring the Ass that he would not be injured,theFox led him to a deep pit and arranged that he should fall into it.The Lion, seeing that the Ass was secured, immediately clutchedtheFox, and attacked the Ass at his leisure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23791]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from reproach.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This glorious raid, like the others before it in New York, Washington and Madrid, has moved our battle right to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29809]]></link><description><![CDATA[This glorious raid, like the others before it in New York, Washington and Madrid, has moved our battle right to the enemy's doorstep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have arrived at the conviction that the neglect by economists to discuss seriously what is really the crucial problem ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35195]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have arrived at the conviction that the neglect by economists to discuss seriously what is really the crucial problem of our time is due to a certain timidity about soiling their hands by going from purely scientific questions into value questions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A faire death honours the whole life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49015]]></link><description><![CDATA[A faire death honours the whole life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We Are The Living Graves Of Murdered Beasts We are the living graves of murdered beastsSlaughtered to satisfy our appetitesWe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45975]]></link><description><![CDATA[We Are The Living Graves Of Murdered Beasts We are the living graves of murdered beastsSlaughtered to satisfy our appetitesWe never pause to wonder at our feastsIf animals, like men, can possiblyhave rightsWe pray on Sundays that we may have lightTo guide our footsteps on the path wetreadWe're sick of war We do not want tofightThe thought of it now fills our hearts with dreadAnd yet we gorge ourselves upon the deadLike carrion crows we live and feed on meatRegardless of the suffering and painWe cause by doing so. If thus we treatDefenseless animals for sport or gainHow can we hope in this world to attainthe PEACE we say we are so anxious forWe pray for it o'er hecatombs of slain To God, while outraging the moral lawThus cruelty begets its offspring: war.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Human face divine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14866]]></link><description><![CDATA[Human face divine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are never deceived, we deceive ourselves. [Ger., Man wird betrogen, man betrugt sich selbst.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11526]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are never deceived, we deceive ourselves. [Ger., Man wird betrogen, man betrugt sich selbst.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62038]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24712]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2699]]></link><description><![CDATA[If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53059]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53059</guid></item></channel></rss>