<?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[He that cannot obey, cannot command. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12397]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that cannot obey, cannot command.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we debunk a fanatical faith or prejudice, we do not strike at the root of fanaticism. We merely prevent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53720]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we debunk a fanatical faith or prejudice, we do not strike at the root of fanaticism. We merely prevent its leaking out at a certain point, with the likely result that it will leak out at some other point. Thus by denigrating prevailing beliefs and loyalties, the militant man of words unwittingly creates in the disillusioned masses a hunger for faith. For the majority of people cannot endure the barrenness and futility of their lives unless they have some ardent dedication, or some passionate pursuit in which they can lose themselves. Thus, in spite of himself, the scoffing man of words becomes the precursor of a new faith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We believe this has been a scare tactic to create attention, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28265]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe this has been a scare tactic to create attention,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil, and one of the worst kinds of devils, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48108]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil, and one of the worst kinds of devils, for it shuts out the truth, and often leads to ruinous error.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has been my misfortune to be engaged in more battles than any other general on the other side of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42795]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has been my misfortune to be engaged in more battles than any other general on the other side of the Atlantic; but there was never a time during my command when I would not have chosen some settlement by reason rather than the sword.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We peruse one ideal, that of bringing people together in peace, irrespective of race, religion and political convictions, for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19380]]></link><description><![CDATA[We peruse one ideal, that of bringing people together in peace, irrespective of race, religion and political convictions, for the benefit of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59530]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civilization ceases when we no longer respect and no longer put into their correct places the fundamental values, such as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civilization ceases when we no longer respect and no longer put into their correct places the fundamental values, such as work, family and country such as the individual, honor and religion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1447]]></link><description><![CDATA[Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Television networks don't deliver the audiences that they did a year ago or five years ago and yet (ad) prices ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30410]]></link><description><![CDATA[Television networks don't deliver the audiences that they did a year ago or five years ago and yet (ad) prices continue to go up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Over the years, I've had hundreds of shots blocked. You've got to go in and take chances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22577]]></link><description><![CDATA[Over the years, I've had hundreds of shots blocked. You've got to go in and take chances.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9820]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seemed to me that he was there for her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36169]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seemed to me that he was there for her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cannot see myself as a writer, writing about lovers in Accra because you see, there are so many other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29700]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cannot see myself as a writer, writing about lovers in Accra because you see, there are so many other problems.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59102]]></link><description><![CDATA[The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the peace process should soon be back on track, hopefully with everyone involved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41539]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the peace process should soon be back on track, hopefully with everyone involved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That load becomes light which is cheerfully borne. [Lat., Leve fit quod bene fertur onus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5843]]></link><description><![CDATA[That load becomes light which is cheerfully borne. [Lat., Leve fit quod bene fertur onus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While we are under the tyranny of Priests [...] it will ever be their interest, to invalidate the law of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34751]]></link><description><![CDATA[While we are under the tyranny of Priests [...] it will ever be their interest, to invalidate the law of nature and reason, in order to establish systems incompatible therewith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A weak Invention of the Enemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13846]]></link><description><![CDATA[A weak Invention of the Enemy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But I certainly made mistakes, for which I regret, I think most human beings in their lifetime make mistakes, mine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37725]]></link><description><![CDATA[But I certainly made mistakes, for which I regret, I think most human beings in their lifetime make mistakes, mine ended up in two years prison - two very remarkable years from which I learnt a lot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have steadily endeavored to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved (and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57091]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have steadily endeavored to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved (and I cannot resist forming one on every subject), as soon as the facts are shown to be opposed to it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Christianity should happen to be true -- that is to say, if its God is the real God of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7552]]></link><description><![CDATA[If Christianity should happen to be true -- that is to say, if its God is the real God of the universe -- then defending it may mean talking about anything and everything. Things can be irrelevant to the proposition that Christianity is false, but nothing can be irrelevant to the proposition that Christianity is true. [All] things not only may have something to do with the Christian God, but must have something to do with Him if He lives and reigns.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship isn't a big thing - it's a million little things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62740]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship isn't a big thing - it's a million little things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have found (to my regret) that the degrees of shame and disgust which I actually feel at my own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8523]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have found (to my regret) that the degrees of shame and disgust which I actually feel at my own sins do not at all correspond to what my reason tells me about their comparative gravity. Just as the degree to which, in daily life, I feel the emotion of fear has very little to do with my rational judgment of the danger. I'd sooner have really nasty seas when I'm in an open boat than look down in perfect (actual) safety from the edge of a cliff. Similarly, I have confessed ghastly uncharities with less reluctance than small unmentionables -- or those sins which happen to be ungentlemanly as well as unchristian. Our emotional reactions to our own behaviour are of limited ethical significance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is making something out of nothing and selling it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3193]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go forth and preach impostures to the world, But give them truth to build on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go forth and preach impostures to the world, But give them truth to build on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I loved no King since Forty One When Prelacy went down,  A Cloak and Band I then put on, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54453]]></link><description><![CDATA[I loved no King since Forty One When Prelacy went down,  A Cloak and Band I then put on,   And preached against the Crown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What garlic is to food, insanity is to art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28090]]></link><description><![CDATA[What garlic is to food, insanity is to art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All somebody had to do was throw a cigarette out and we have a disaster, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35568]]></link><description><![CDATA[All somebody had to do was throw a cigarette out and we have a disaster,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vain, froward child of empire, say, Are all thy playthings snatched away? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vain, froward child of empire, say, Are all thy playthings snatched away?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Benedict of Nursia, Father of Western Monasticism, c.550 Continuing a short series on topics of Christian apologetics:  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Benedict of Nursia, Father of Western Monasticism, c.550 Continuing a short series on topics of Christian apologetics:  Naturally, the first emotion of man towards the being he calls God, but of whom he knows so little, is fear. Where it is possible that fear should exist it is well that it should exist, cause continual uneasiness, and be cast out by nothing less than love.... Until love, which is the truth towards God, is able to cast out fear, it is well that fear should hold; it is a bond, however poor, between that which is and that which creates -- a bond that must be broken, but a bond that can be broken only by the tightening of an infinitely closer bond. Verily God must be terrible to those that are far from Him: for they fear He will do -- yea, is doing -- with them what they do not, cannot desire, and can ill endure... While they are such as they are, there is much in Him that cannot but affright them: they ought, they do well, to fear Him... To remove that fear from their hearts, save by letting them know His love with its purifying fire, a love which for ages, it may be, they cannot know, would be to give them up utterly to the power of evil. Persuade men that fear is a vile thing, that it is an insult to God, that He will have none of it -- while they are yet in love with their own will, and slaves to every movement of passionate impulse -- and what will the consequence be? That they will insult God as a discarded idol, a superstition, a falsehood, as a thing under whose evil influence they have too long groaned, a thing to be cast out and spit upon. After that, how much will they learn of Him?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sence I've ben here, I've hired a chap to look about for me, To git me a transplantable an' thrifty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2498]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sence I've ben here, I've hired a chap to look about for me, To git me a transplantable an' thrifty fem'ly-tree.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like one that on a lonesome road  Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like one that on a lonesome road  Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on,  And turns no more his head; Because he knows a frightful fiend  Doth close behind him tread.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["How does the Water Come down at Lodore?" ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61307]]></link><description><![CDATA["How does the Water Come down at Lodore?"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61307</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[Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty, and I'll show you a man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59028]]></link><description><![CDATA[Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty, and I'll show you a man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The early heat-up in temperatures and the relatively few number of days with rain have definitely contributed to the early ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40992]]></link><description><![CDATA[The early heat-up in temperatures and the relatively few number of days with rain have definitely contributed to the early heat-up in housing sales.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was a true freshman (at Texas), I had Ricky Williams and he took a hell of a lot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41335]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was a true freshman (at Texas), I had Ricky Williams and he took a hell of a lot of pressure off me. Obviously the run game helps the pass. Nothing's changed in football.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mother said to her daughter, "Daughter, bid thy daughter tell her daughter that her daughter's daughter hath a daughter." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43202]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mother said to her daughter, "Daughter, bid thy daughter tell her daughter that her daughter's daughter hath a daughter."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't have that right now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33773]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't have that right now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ridicule is the first and last argument of fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54226]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ridicule is the first and last argument of fools.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a wise man behaves prudently, how can he be overcome by his enemies? Even a single man, by right ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51951]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a wise man behaves prudently, how can he be overcome by his enemies? Even a single man, by right action, can overcome a host of foes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feelings and our manners and rules the world with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feelings and our manners and rules the world with the hand of a despot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2045]]></link><description><![CDATA[Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man only,--rash, refined, presumptuous Man-- Starts from his rank, and mars Creation's plan!  Born the free heir of nature's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26243]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man only,--rash, refined, presumptuous Man-- Starts from his rank, and mars Creation's plan!  Born the free heir of nature's wide domain,   To art's strict limits bounds his narrow'd reign;    Resigns his native rights for meaner things,     For Faith and Fetters, Laws and Priests and Kings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laugh and the world laughs with you; snore and you sleep alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laugh and the world laughs with you; snore and you sleep alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is by will alone that I set my mind in motion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61628]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is by will alone that I set my mind in motion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61628</guid></item></channel></rss>