<?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 worst form of tyranny the world has ever known the tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59949]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst form of tyranny the world has ever known the tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kristin and Molly beat a solid doubles team. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38653]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kristin and Molly beat a solid doubles team.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For what is he they follow? Truly, gentlemen, A bloody tyrant and a homicide;  One raised in blood and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59977]]></link><description><![CDATA[For what is he they follow? Truly, gentlemen, A bloody tyrant and a homicide;  One raised in blood and one in blood established;   One that made means to come by what he hath,    And slaughtered those that were the means to help him;     A base foul stone, made precious by the foil      Of England's chair, where he is falsely set;       One that hath ever been God's enemy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand, And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2320]]></link><description><![CDATA[But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand, And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To choose time is to save time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14593]]></link><description><![CDATA[To choose time is to save time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was the South Ozone National Bank looking as though it had been waiting for me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13317]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was the South Ozone National Bank looking as though it had been waiting for me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Patrick, Bishop of Armagh, Missionary, Patron of Ireland, c.460  Some people want to see God with their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Patrick, Bishop of Armagh, Missionary, Patron of Ireland, c.460  Some people want to see God with their eyes as they see a cow, and to love Him as they love their cow -- for the milk and cheese and profit it brings them. This is how it is with people who love God for the sake of outward wealth or inward comfort. They do not rightly love God, when they love Him for their own advantage. Indeed, I tell you the truth, any object you have in your mind, however good, will be a barrier between you and the inmost Truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How far your eyes may pierce I cannot tell; Striving to better, oft we mar what's well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54053]]></link><description><![CDATA[How far your eyes may pierce I cannot tell; Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A blossom of returning light, An April flower of sun and dew;  The earth and sky, the day and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60706]]></link><description><![CDATA[A blossom of returning light, An April flower of sun and dew;  The earth and sky, the day and night   Are melted in her depth of blue!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shall I, to please another wine-sprung minde, Lose all mine own? God hath giv'n me a measure  Short of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22922]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shall I, to please another wine-sprung minde, Lose all mine own? God hath giv'n me a measure  Short of His can and body; must I find   A pain in that, wherein he finds a pleasure?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the highest tribute we can pay him, our appreciation for his superlative writing, his incomparable writing. Quite frankly, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38549]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the highest tribute we can pay him, our appreciation for his superlative writing, his incomparable writing. Quite frankly, I've never experienced writing like this before, except for 'Fences,' something that addresses me as an individual, addresses me as a black man and addresses the history of the African-American culture and the African-American experience in this country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An expert knows all the answers -- if you ask the right questions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52783]]></link><description><![CDATA[An expert knows all the answers -- if you ask the right questions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26196]]></link><description><![CDATA[The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tavern owners and, by extension, the beer truck companies (we do sell some trucks to people who deliver beer) ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28672]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tavern owners and, by extension, the beer truck companies (we do sell some trucks to people who deliver beer) have not pulled any business from GM over our support of MADD.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think anegative thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21155]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think anegative thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Extremes meet and there is no better example than the haughtiness of humility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14786]]></link><description><![CDATA[Extremes meet and there is no better example than the haughtiness of humility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65161]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2465]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You Are My Sunshine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35481]]></link><description><![CDATA[You Are My Sunshine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants them to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26289]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants them to do, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To finish first, you must first finish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22219]]></link><description><![CDATA[To finish first, you must first finish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have no country to fight for: my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10227]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have no country to fight for: my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The really happy man never laughs - seldom - though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18682]]></link><description><![CDATA[The really happy man never laughs - seldom - though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping, is a relief of mental tension - and the happy are not over strung.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the morning of the night ~~ When I woke to find you gone ~~ I knew your distant devil ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25568]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the morning of the night ~~ When I woke to find you gone ~~ I knew your distant devil ~~Must be draggin' you along]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First we make our habits, then our habits make us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18512]]></link><description><![CDATA[First we make our habits, then our habits make us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many man's scruples lie almost wholly about obedience to authority and compliance with indifferent customs, but very seldom about the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6911]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many man's scruples lie almost wholly about obedience to authority and compliance with indifferent customs, but very seldom about the dangers of disobedience and unpeaceableness and rending in pieces the Church of Christ by needless separations and endless divisions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18167]]></link><description><![CDATA[A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is "God is crying." ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11729]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is "God is crying." And if he asks why God is crying, another cute thing to tell him is "Probably because of something you did.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History never looks like history when you are living through it. It always looks confusing and messy, and it always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19395]]></link><description><![CDATA[History never looks like history when you are living through it. It always looks confusing and messy, and it always feels uncomfortable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt there truth is--'tis her shadow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt there truth is--'tis her shadow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The computer is a moron. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9585]]></link><description><![CDATA[The computer is a moron.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Other people's success spurs me on to do well and gives me motivation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64948]]></link><description><![CDATA[Other people's success spurs me on to do well and gives me motivation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face,  Thy naiad airs have brought me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23100]]></link><description><![CDATA[On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face,  Thy naiad airs have brought me home   To the glory that was Greece    And the grandeur that was Rome.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those talents which God has bestowed upon us are not our own goods but the free gifts of God; and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8114]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those talents which God has bestowed upon us are not our own goods but the free gifts of God; and any persons who become proud of them show their ungratefulness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O shame, where is thy blush? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56135]]></link><description><![CDATA[O shame, where is thy blush?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5417]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time cools; time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59361]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time cools; time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll be home in 15 minutes. Call me back in 15 minutes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41980]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll be home in 15 minutes. Call me back in 15 minutes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prospering just doesn't have to do with money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66461]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prospering just doesn't have to do with money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63715]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honesty is the best policy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48813]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honesty is the best policy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A radical thinks two and two makes five. A liberal is more conservative. he knows two and two make four, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24651]]></link><description><![CDATA[A radical thinks two and two makes five. A liberal is more conservative. he knows two and two make four, but he's unhappy about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is meant to upset people, science reassures them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is meant to upset people, science reassures them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's definitely going to be a positive for the bottom line, but we're talking pennies here. All of this is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34321]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's definitely going to be a positive for the bottom line, but we're talking pennies here. All of this is gravy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature, exerting an unwearied power, Forms, opens, and gives scent to every flower;  Spreads the fresh verdure of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature, exerting an unwearied power, Forms, opens, and gives scent to every flower;  Spreads the fresh verdure of the field, and leads   The dancing Naiads through the dewy meads.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice: It is not a thing to be waited ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice: It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even at low speeds, trains with that much weight can take as much as a half-mile to stop. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38200]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even at low speeds, trains with that much weight can take as much as a half-mile to stop.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38200</guid></item></channel></rss>