<?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 English doctrine that all power is a trust for the public good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52513]]></link><description><![CDATA[The English doctrine that all power is a trust for the public good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you are an Anvill, hold you still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50080]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are an Anvill, hold you still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The two Britons ... never made contact with the [International Solidarity Movement], never registered to join us and never attended ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36651]]></link><description><![CDATA[The two Britons ... never made contact with the [International Solidarity Movement], never registered to join us and never attended our mandatory training and orientation. There is in fact no connection to be made.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And gladly wolde he lerne and gladly teche. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24530]]></link><description><![CDATA[And gladly wolde he lerne and gladly teche.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you have to do all the more crappy jobs before, you appreciate all the good work that comes out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65308]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you have to do all the more crappy jobs before, you appreciate all the good work that comes out of that. There are many girls who immediately have a top model career, and there are lots of models who are doing things that aren't as exciting as doing big campaigns and beautiful magazines.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wicked book cannot repent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4610]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wicked book cannot repent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The economy is weakening and we're going to see more of the effects of that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38036]]></link><description><![CDATA[The economy is weakening and we're going to see more of the effects of that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44976]]></link><description><![CDATA[For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humor prevents a "hardening of the attitudes." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3452]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor prevents a "hardening of the attitudes."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But thou, O hope, with eyes so fair, What was thy delighted measure?  Still it whisper'd promised pleasure,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19777]]></link><description><![CDATA[But thou, O hope, with eyes so fair, What was thy delighted measure?  Still it whisper'd promised pleasure,   And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think and that is all that I am. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21503]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think and that is all that I am.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11224]]></link><description><![CDATA[How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59069]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whence come these hatreds...? They are an expression of a desperate effort to suppress an awareness of our inadequacy, worthlessness, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52317]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whence come these hatreds...? They are an expression of a desperate effort to suppress an awareness of our inadequacy, worthlessness, guilt and other shortcomings of the self. Self-contempt is here transmuted into hatred of others- and there is a most determined and persistent effort to mask this switch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, to begin with, you can pray. Pray!, you say scornfully, pray! I knew it would all fizzle out, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7459]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, to begin with, you can pray. Pray!, you say scornfully, pray! I knew it would all fizzle out, and come to nothing. I could pray! Yes, you could pray, and, whatever you may think about it -- using it as a poor makeshift of a thing much lower than a second-best, not really a best at all, on which men fall back only when they can do nothing effectively, and are too fidgety to be able to do nothing at all -- Christ holds that prayer is a tremendous power which achieves what, without it, was a sheer impossibility. And this amazing thing you can set into operation. And the fact that you are not so using it, and simply don't believe in it and its efficiency and efficacy as our fathers did, and that so many nowadays agree with you, is certainly a major reason why the churches are so cold, and the promises seem so tardy of fulfillment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I quote others only in order the better to express myself. •Michel De Montaigne    Certain brief sentences ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52879]]></link><description><![CDATA[I quote others only in order the better to express myself. •Michel De Montaigne    Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said. •Jean Rostand    I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were clearly underdogs before the series and people thought it was a two horse race (between Australia and South ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41971]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were clearly underdogs before the series and people thought it was a two horse race (between Australia and South Africa) but here we are. We believe in ourselves and back ourselves and we played almost as well as we can today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we're hoping for is to come up with a generalized plan of how people want to see the town ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36879]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we're hoping for is to come up with a generalized plan of how people want to see the town develop.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42841]]></link><description><![CDATA[All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63648]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of James the Apostle   In the absence of so many vital points -- the spiritual understanding of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of James the Apostle   In the absence of so many vital points -- the spiritual understanding of the Law, and the consciousness of sin, the unity and all-sufficiency of Scripture, and the expectation of the Messiah -- we cannot wonder that the idea of God, as it lived in faithful Israel of old, was also obscured. Instead of the living, loving, self-manifesting God of the Old Testament Israel now took hold of the abstract idea of the unity, or rather the unicity, of God, as if that were God. Before -- when they lived in communion with God, when God was known to them as a Person, speaking, acting, blessing, who had chosen them, who was educating them, and who was going to fulfill His promises -- they declared, in opposition to the idolatrous nations that surrounded them, that this God of Israel was one God, that there are not many gods; but when they lost communion with God, in order to show what distinguished them from the nations of the earth, and especially from Christians, they emphasized that God in Himself was only one Person, and not as He is revealed to us in the Scripture: Sender, Sent, and Spirit. It is the boast of the modern Jewish synagogue that their great mission is to testify to the world the unity of God. But it is a striking fact that the Gentile nations who have, since the dispersion of Israel, been converted from idolatry, have been influenced, not by the synagogue, but by the congregations of Jesus Christ, and were baptized in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost... It is one thing to believe in justification by faith, it is another thing to be justified by faith; and so it is one thing to believe in God, who is One, and it is another to believe in the numerical abstraction, in the mere idea of unicity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63551]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a blue print for how to make a national or state fund work after the success of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39196]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a blue print for how to make a national or state fund work after the success of the Florida catastrophe fund. Commissioners are calling for special sessions in legislature and are hoping that the process will be more seamless than it was in Florida.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has gold makes and accomplishes whatever he wishes in the world and finally uses it to send souls ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45475]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has gold makes and accomplishes whatever he wishes in the world and finally uses it to send souls to paradise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45475</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[How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds Makes deeds ill done! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58905]]></link><description><![CDATA[How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds Makes deeds ill done!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These other states, they don't let grass grow, so we've got to get it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30277]]></link><description><![CDATA[These other states, they don't let grass grow, so we've got to get it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55239]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Up to his nest again, I shall not live in vain. -Emily Dickinson.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Cyril & Methodius, Missionaries to the Slavs, 869 & 885 Commemoration of Valentine, Martyr at Rome, c.269 Continuing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6769]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Cyril & Methodius, Missionaries to the Slavs, 869 & 885 Commemoration of Valentine, Martyr at Rome, c.269 Continuing a short series on forgiveness:   As we get older, we know what we need most from forgiveness is not suspension of punishment, but assurance that love is unbroken even when we are separated... We must realize that God is against us when we are sinning; yet we dare trust that His gracious love reaches to us across the chasm which separates us from Him. When we understand His loving attitude and accept His Grace, He releases His love in us. By that love we are able to begin to keep His commands for us -- to love Him with heart, mind, soul and strength, and to love our neighbors as we love ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pity me that the heart is slow to learn What the swift mind beholds at every turn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46623]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pity me that the heart is slow to learn What the swift mind beholds at every turn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My question is whether we need the legislation because these arrests have taken place under the existing laws and it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29076]]></link><description><![CDATA[My question is whether we need the legislation because these arrests have taken place under the existing laws and it appears that the current laws are working efficiently,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A night-cap deck'd his brows instead of bay, A cap by night,--a stocking all the day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2731]]></link><description><![CDATA[A night-cap deck'd his brows instead of bay, A cap by night,--a stocking all the day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A host of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees,  Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10979]]></link><description><![CDATA[A host of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees,  Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Digestive cheese, and fruit there sure will be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13213]]></link><description><![CDATA[Digestive cheese, and fruit there sure will be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For they conquer who believe they can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9698]]></link><description><![CDATA[For they conquer who believe they can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19392]]></link><description><![CDATA[When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any excuse will serve a tyrant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47580]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any excuse will serve a tyrant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ourselves are to ourselves the cause of ill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48822]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ourselves are to ourselves the cause of ill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He'll reach up and take one of those big old floppy ears and he'll say, 'I can't hear you,' and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42391]]></link><description><![CDATA[He'll reach up and take one of those big old floppy ears and he'll say, 'I can't hear you,' and they'll start that all over again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the first time anywhere in the United States, an appellate court has ruled that such private communities are 'constitutional ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35083]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the first time anywhere in the United States, an appellate court has ruled that such private communities are 'constitutional actors' and must therefore respect their members' freedom of speech.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a wonderful make-up crew. They're the same people restoring the Statue of Liberty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63546]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a wonderful make-up crew. They're the same people restoring the Statue of Liberty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15123]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I knew a miser, who gave up every kind of comfortable living, all the pleasure of doing good to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42738]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I knew a miser, who gave up every kind of comfortable living, all the pleasure of doing good to others, all the esteem of his fellow-citizens, and the joys of benevolent friendship, for the sake of accumulating wealth. Poor man, said I, you pay too much for your whistle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One today is worth two tomorrows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59451]]></link><description><![CDATA[One today is worth two tomorrows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Innovation is not the product of logical thought, although the result is tied to logical structure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Innovation is not the product of logical thought, although the result is tied to logical structure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So far as business and money are concerned, a country gains nothing by a successful war, even though that war ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47259]]></link><description><![CDATA[So far as business and money are concerned, a country gains nothing by a successful war, even though that war involves the acquisition of immense new provinces.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He will hew to the line of right, let the chips fly where they may. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54240]]></link><description><![CDATA[He will hew to the line of right, let the chips fly where they may.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54240</guid></item></channel></rss>