<?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[When Fortune smiles, I smile to think how quickly she will frown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66215]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Fortune smiles, I smile to think how quickly she will frown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[College is a refuge from hasty judgment.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64720]]></link><description><![CDATA[College is a refuge from hasty judgment.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think most historians will agree that the part played by impulses of selfish, individual aggression in the holocausts of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47194]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think most historians will agree that the part played by impulses of selfish, individual aggression in the holocausts of history was small; first and foremost, the slaughter was meant as an offering to the gods, to king and country, or the future happiness of mankind. The crimes of Caligula shrink to insignificance compared to the havoc wrought by Torquemada. The number of victims of robbers, highwaymen, rapists, gangsters and other criminals at any period of history is negligible compared to the massive numbers of those cheerfully slain in the name of the true religion, just policy, or correct ideology.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25772]]></link><description><![CDATA[When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they fell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strict law is often great injustice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48871]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strict law is often great injustice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never wedding, ever wooing, Still a lovelorn heart pursuing,  Read you not the wrong you're doing   In ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62014]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never wedding, ever wooing, Still a lovelorn heart pursuing,  Read you not the wrong you're doing   In my cheek's pale hue?    All my life with sorrow strewing;     Wed or cease to woo.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I sing of brooks, of blossoms, birds, and bowers: Of April, May, of June, and July flowers.  I sing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57796]]></link><description><![CDATA[I sing of brooks, of blossoms, birds, and bowers: Of April, May, of June, and July flowers.  I sing of Maypoles, Hock-carts, wassails, wakes,   Of bridegrooms, brides, and of their bridal cakes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63212]]></link><description><![CDATA[With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was in yoga the other day. I was in full lotus position. My chakras were all aligned. My mind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62513]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was in yoga the other day. I was in full lotus position. My chakras were all aligned. My mind is cleared of all clatter and I'm looking out of my third eye and everything that I'm supposed to be doing. It's amazing what comes up, when you sit in that silence. 'Mama keeps whites bright like the sunlight, Mama's got the magic of Clorox 2.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're not a member of a major league baseball team, your errors, unless they are truly spectacular, probably don't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3764]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're not a member of a major league baseball team, your errors, unless they are truly spectacular, probably don't show up in the morning paper.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As you make your bed, so you must lie in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47235]]></link><description><![CDATA[As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eliot has never shied away from an opportunity to take on his opponents. We have requests from news organizations, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31805]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eliot has never shied away from an opportunity to take on his opponents. We have requests from news organizations, and Eliot looks forward to debating.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All human wisdom is summed up in two words - wait and hope ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45702]]></link><description><![CDATA[All human wisdom is summed up in two words - wait and hope]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope. . -Martin Luther King. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19816]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope. . -Martin Luther King.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65082]]></link><description><![CDATA[I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Government, which does not and did not grant us our rights, must not now seek to deny them by using ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17963]]></link><description><![CDATA[Government, which does not and did not grant us our rights, must not now seek to deny them by using fear as its justification]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Juliana of Norwich, Mystic, Teacher, c.1417   He said not Thou shalt not be tempested, thou shalt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6792]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Juliana of Norwich, Mystic, Teacher, c.1417   He said not Thou shalt not be tempested, thou shalt not be travailed, thou shalt not be distressed; but He said, Thou shalt not be overcome.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. - De Legibus, 1240. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17212]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. - De Legibus, 1240.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The marble index of a mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54939]]></link><description><![CDATA[The marble index of a mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy rul'd the day, and Love the night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23422]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy rul'd the day, and Love the night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58765]]></link><description><![CDATA[Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all religions, Christianity is without a doubt the one that should inspire tolerance most, although, up to now, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6153]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all religions, Christianity is without a doubt the one that should inspire tolerance most, although, up to now, the Christians have been the most intolerant of all men]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, the Shamrock, the green, immortal Shamrock! Chosen leaf  OF Bard and Chief,   Old Erin's native Shamrock. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56152]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, the Shamrock, the green, immortal Shamrock! Chosen leaf  OF Bard and Chief,   Old Erin's native Shamrock.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45409]]></link><description><![CDATA[Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Failure is success if we learn from it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62895]]></link><description><![CDATA[Failure is success if we learn from it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some good lessons Are also learnt from Ceres and from Bacchus,  Without whom Venus will not long attack us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48759]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some good lessons Are also learnt from Ceres and from Bacchus,  Without whom Venus will not long attack us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hang my ears like an ass whose spirits droop. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50261]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hang my ears like an ass whose spirits droop.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only the heart without a stain knows perfect ease. [Ger., Ganz unbefleckt geniesst sich nur das Herz.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19048]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the heart without a stain knows perfect ease. [Ger., Ganz unbefleckt geniesst sich nur das Herz.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3447]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Japan, 1597   The Christian must be consumed with the infinite beauty of holiness and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Japan, 1597   The Christian must be consumed with the infinite beauty of holiness and the infinite damnability of sin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17920]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52796]]></link><description><![CDATA[An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She will be much better if she fights out of the country to get the feel of away matches and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40332]]></link><description><![CDATA[She will be much better if she fights out of the country to get the feel of away matches and even jeering from other fans,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To get thine ends, lay bashfulnesse aside; Who fears to aske, doth teach to be deny'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3924]]></link><description><![CDATA[To get thine ends, lay bashfulnesse aside; Who fears to aske, doth teach to be deny'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What think you, if he were conveyed to bed, Wrapped in sweet clothes, rings put upon his fingers,  A ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26088]]></link><description><![CDATA[What think you, if he were conveyed to bed, Wrapped in sweet clothes, rings put upon his fingers,  A most delicious banquet by his bed,   And brave attendants near him when he wakes,    Would not the beggar then forget himself?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have not yet reached the goal but.. we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/907]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have not yet reached the goal but.. we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall be banished from this nation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He had a fever when he was in Spain, And when the fit was on him, I did mark  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56240]]></link><description><![CDATA[He had a fever when he was in Spain, And when the fit was on him, I did mark  How he did shake. 'Tis true, this god did shake.   His coward lips did from their color fly,    And that same eye whose bend doth awe the world     Did lose his luster.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God may thunder His commands from Mount Sinai and men may fear, yet remain at heart exactly as they were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7703]]></link><description><![CDATA[God may thunder His commands from Mount Sinai and men may fear, yet remain at heart exactly as they were before. But let a man once see his God down in the arena as a Man, -- suffering, tempted, sweating, and agonized, finally dying a criminal's death - and he is a hard man indeed who is untouched.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24516]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17759]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I recover my property wherever I find it. [Fr., Je reprends mon bien ou je le trouve.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46646]]></link><description><![CDATA[I recover my property wherever I find it. [Fr., Je reprends mon bien ou je le trouve.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe the best social program is a job. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65994]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe the best social program is a job.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Matthias the Apostle  If the ordinary canons of history, used in every other case, hold good in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6217]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Matthias the Apostle  If the ordinary canons of history, used in every other case, hold good in this case, Jesus is undoubtedly an historical person. If he is not an historical person, the only alternative is that there is no such thing as history at all -- it is delirium, nothing else; and a rational being would be better employed in the collection of snuff-boxes. And if history is impossible, so is all other knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14948]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No vision and you perish; No Ideal, and you're lost; Your heart must ever cherish Some faith at any cost. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21680]]></link><description><![CDATA[No vision and you perish; No Ideal, and you're lost; Your heart must ever cherish Some faith at any cost. Some hope, some dream to cling to, Some rainbow in the sky, Some melody to sing to, Some service that is high.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wit, now and then, struck smartly, shows a spark. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wit, now and then, struck smartly, shows a spark.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drinking will make a man quaff, Quaffing will make a man sing,  Singing will make a man laugh,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drinking will make a man quaff, Quaffing will make a man sing,  Singing will make a man laugh,   And laughing long life doth bring,    Says old Simon the King.   - Unattributed Author, Old Sir Simon the King,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words pay no debts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51757]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words pay no debts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/683]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/683</guid></item></channel></rss>