<?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[A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63693]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Passive pleasure is no pleasure at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29645]]></link><description><![CDATA[Passive pleasure is no pleasure at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66094]]></link><description><![CDATA[Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Water a farre off quencheth not fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Water a farre off quencheth not fire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fragrance always remains on the hand that gives the rose. -Gandhi. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55248]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fragrance always remains on the hand that gives the rose. -Gandhi.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With the time compression we have in the world, people are interested ... in fitness facilities for casual use and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31109]]></link><description><![CDATA[With the time compression we have in the world, people are interested ... in fitness facilities for casual use and paths in parks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two perfect men; one dead, and the other unborn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62835]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two perfect men; one dead, and the other unborn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Luckily the disc was in the up position, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33907]]></link><description><![CDATA[Luckily the disc was in the up position,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who overcomesBy force, hath overcome but half his foe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47446]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who overcomesBy force, hath overcome but half his foe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hasty multitude Admiring enter'd, and the work some praise,  And some the architect: his hand was known  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3033]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hasty multitude Admiring enter'd, and the work some praise,  And some the architect: his hand was known   In heaven by many a tower'd structure high,    Where scepter'd angels held their residence,     And sat as princes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19507]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The things that have really struck me are just the overwhelming support from the communities and the churches themselves, ... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37033]]></link><description><![CDATA[The things that have really struck me are just the overwhelming support from the communities and the churches themselves, ... People have provided aid to these families even before the government's been there to help them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're passing through, and this is the one place they can learn about the state, about blues, civil rights, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41130]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're passing through, and this is the one place they can learn about the state, about blues, civil rights, the Civil War, cotton ... and also the history and significance of this National Historic Landmark.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For me, hard work represents the supreme luxury of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15771]]></link><description><![CDATA[For me, hard work represents the supreme luxury of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is not this a lamentable thing, that of the skin of an innocent lamb should be made parchment? that parchment, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54052]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is not this a lamentable thing, that of the skin of an innocent lamb should be made parchment? that parchment, being scribbled o'er, should undo a man? Some say the bee stings, but I say 'tis the bee's wax; for I did but seal once to a thing, and I was never mind own man since.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it can't be expressed in figures, it is not science; it is opinion ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54844]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it can't be expressed in figures, it is not science; it is opinion]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As an example of the cooperation existing among the governments, the idea is also to establish and intensify cooperation between ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42604]]></link><description><![CDATA[As an example of the cooperation existing among the governments, the idea is also to establish and intensify cooperation between chambers of commerce in both regions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21012]]></link><description><![CDATA[The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61696]]></link><description><![CDATA[Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is today, my dear, that I take a perilous leap. [Fr., C'est demain, me belle amie, que je fais ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24124]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is today, my dear, that I take a perilous leap. [Fr., C'est demain, me belle amie, que je fais le saut perilleux.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wallet of the timid man neither increases nor decreases. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59372]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wallet of the timid man neither increases nor decreases.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63482]]></link><description><![CDATA[That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Augustine, first Archbishop of Canterbury, 605  You can also offer your prayers, obedience, and endurance of dryness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7719]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Augustine, first Archbishop of Canterbury, 605  You can also offer your prayers, obedience, and endurance of dryness to Our Lord, for the good of other souls, and then you have practiced intercession. Never mind if it all seems for the time very second-hand. The less you get out of it, the nearer it approaches to being something worth offering; and the humiliation of not being able to feel as devout as we want to be, is excellent for most of us. Use vocal prayer... very slowly, trying to realize the meaning with which it is charged and remember that... you are only a unit in the Chorus of the Church, so that the others will make good the shortcomings you cannot help.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This comes of altering fundamental laws and overpersuading by his landlord to take physic (of which he died) for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14097]]></link><description><![CDATA[This comes of altering fundamental laws and overpersuading by his landlord to take physic (of which he died) for the benefit of the doctor--Stavo bene (was written on his monument) ma per star meglio, sto qui.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no love of life without despair of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65861]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no love of life without despair of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and of our miseries. A marriage of love is pleasant, of interest, easy, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and of our miseries. A marriage of love is pleasant, of interest, easy, and where both meet, happy. A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendship, all the enjoyments of sense and reason, and,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47659]]></link><description><![CDATA[I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so American.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No serious historian of politics would imagine that he had accounted for the protective tariff of the system of bounties ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47412]]></link><description><![CDATA[No serious historian of politics would imagine that he had accounted for the protective tariff of the system of bounties or subsidies, for the monetary and banking laws, for the state of law in regard to corporate privileges and immunities, for the actual status of property rights, for agricultural or for labor policies, until he had gone behind the general claims and the abstract justifications and had identified the specifically interested groups which promoted the specific law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one in this world, so far as I know- and I have researched the records for years, and employed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57014]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one in this world, so far as I know- and I have researched the records for years, and employed agents to help me- has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Musicians duet better ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43545]]></link><description><![CDATA[Musicians duet better]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we look carefully within ourselves, we shall find that there are certain limits beyond which we refuse to go ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6433]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we look carefully within ourselves, we shall find that there are certain limits beyond which we refuse to go in offering ourselves to God. We hover around these reservations, making believe not to see them, for fear of self-reproach. The more we shrink from giving up any such reserved point, the more certain it is that it needs to be given up. If we were not fast bound by it, we should not make so many efforts to persuade ourselves that we are free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12896]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our team is a long way from being set for Germany. It will take time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30791]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our team is a long way from being set for Germany. It will take time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the longfingered sunreaches out to toucha cloistered trillium or a lake trembles inthe light of moon and starsso can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43492]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the longfingered sunreaches out to toucha cloistered trillium or a lake trembles inthe light of moon and starsso can a poet's long rainbowof wordsplay our heartstrings from afar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4662]]></link><description><![CDATA[A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I dress for women and I undress for men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2849]]></link><description><![CDATA[I dress for women and I undress for men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mine's not an idle cause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5357]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mine's not an idle cause.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where entity and quiddity, The ghosts of defunct bodies, fly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where entity and quiddity, The ghosts of defunct bodies, fly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone. - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25503]]></link><description><![CDATA[Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone. - The Labyrinth of Solitude, 1950.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The circumstances changed when I heard the other proposals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40436]]></link><description><![CDATA[The circumstances changed when I heard the other proposals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4005]]></link><description><![CDATA[When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He, who will not pardon others, must not himself expect pardon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51159]]></link><description><![CDATA[He, who will not pardon others, must not himself expect pardon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe I am the highest power, absolutely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35701]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe I am the highest power, absolutely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Running into debt isn't so bad. It's running into creditors that hurts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Running into debt isn't so bad. It's running into creditors that hurts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I find nothing more depressing than optimism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45203]]></link><description><![CDATA[I find nothing more depressing than optimism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the Sabbath bell, That over wood and wild and mountain dell  Wanders so far, chasing all thoughts unholy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4125]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the Sabbath bell, That over wood and wild and mountain dell  Wanders so far, chasing all thoughts unholy   With sounds most musical, most melancholy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And last the Vice and Follies of the Age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60499]]></link><description><![CDATA[And last the Vice and Follies of the Age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60499</guid></item></channel></rss>