<?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[Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the surgery ward, the staff works in teams and no one could refuse his orders. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36526]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the surgery ward, the staff works in teams and no one could refuse his orders.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where is it written in the Constitution that you may take children from their parents, and parents from their children, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where is it written in the Constitution that you may take children from their parents, and parents from their children, and compel them to fight the battles of any war in which the folly or wickedness of government may engage it?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An harmless flaming meteor shone for hair, And fell adown his shoulders with losse care. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18581]]></link><description><![CDATA[An harmless flaming meteor shone for hair, And fell adown his shoulders with losse care.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I sat me down to watch upon a bank With ivy canopied and interwove  With flaunting honeysuckle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19691]]></link><description><![CDATA[I sat me down to watch upon a bank With ivy canopied and interwove  With flaunting honeysuckle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the lone Angler, patient man, At Mewry-Water, or the Banne,  Leaves off, against his placid wish,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16105]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the lone Angler, patient man, At Mewry-Water, or the Banne,  Leaves off, against his placid wish,   Impaling worms to torture fish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most successful war seldom pays for its losses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65355]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Willibrord of York, Archbishop of Utrecht, Apostle of Frisia, 739  We ought indeed to expect to find ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Willibrord of York, Archbishop of Utrecht, Apostle of Frisia, 739  We ought indeed to expect to find the works of God in such things as the advance of knowledge. Knowledge of the physical universe is not to be thought of as irrelevant to Christian faith [simply] because it does not lead to saving knowledge of God. In so far as it is concerned with God's creation, physical science is a fitting study for God's children. Moreover, the advance of scientific knowledge does negatively correct and enlarge theological notions--at the least, the geologists and astrophysicists have helped us to rid ourselves of parochial notions of God, and filled in some of the meaning of such phrases as "almighty".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25330]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3474]]></link><description><![CDATA[An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble theirfood, and tyrannize their teachers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22760]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble theirfood, and tyrannize their teachers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mr. Robertson is, of course, no ordinary private citizen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30105]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mr. Robertson is, of course, no ordinary private citizen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27889]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption, too, after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60397]]></link><description><![CDATA[It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption, too, after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful on earth, to ask the Lord for immortality in addition to all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heaven goes by favor; if it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heaven goes by favor; if it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This means a lot. We came through some dark days to get here. The kids never stopped practicing hard. They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30478]]></link><description><![CDATA[This means a lot. We came through some dark days to get here. The kids never stopped practicing hard. They never stopped working ... I think this says a lot about their ability to persevere. It says a lot about their toughness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can keep from a child all knowledge of earlier myths, but we cannot take from him the need for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43603]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can keep from a child all knowledge of earlier myths, but we cannot take from him the need for mythology]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One use of prayer is to maintain in us a higher standard and prevent our principles insensibly sinking to our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7250]]></link><description><![CDATA[One use of prayer is to maintain in us a higher standard and prevent our principles insensibly sinking to our practice, or to the practice of the world around us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She was a wonderful caregiver who touched the lives of many patients personally. And she touched many more lives by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40081]]></link><description><![CDATA[She was a wonderful caregiver who touched the lives of many patients personally. And she touched many more lives by helping other nurses learn and grow in their profession.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28735]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I also cannot imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58892]]></link><description><![CDATA[But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But doth not the appetite alter? A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2906]]></link><description><![CDATA[But doth not the appetite alter? A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more a man denies himself, the more he shall receive from heaven. Naked, I seek the camp of those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9951]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more a man denies himself, the more he shall receive from heaven. Naked, I seek the camp of those who covet nothing. [Lat., Quanto quisque sibi plura negaverit,  A dis plura feret. Nil cupientium   Nudus castra peto.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And dreams in their development have breath, And tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy;  They have a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12864]]></link><description><![CDATA[And dreams in their development have breath, And tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy;  They have a weight upon our waking thoughts,   They take a weight from off our waking toils,    They do divide our being.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A DEEP-SWORN VOWOthers because you did not keep That deep-sworn vow have been friends of mine; Yet always when I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/182]]></link><description><![CDATA[A DEEP-SWORN VOWOthers because you did not keep That deep-sworn vow have been friends of mine; Yet always when I look death in the face, When I clamber to the heights of sleep, Or when I grow excited with wine, Suddenly I meet your face.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Still desiring, we live without hope. [It., Senza speme vivemo in desio.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19781]]></link><description><![CDATA[Still desiring, we live without hope. [It., Senza speme vivemo in desio.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flowers are words which even a baby can understand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. -Mother Theresa. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23801]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. -Mother Theresa.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign: that all the dunces are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1083]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in confederacy against him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What nature wants, commodious gold bestows; 'Tis thus we cut the bread another sows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17781]]></link><description><![CDATA[What nature wants, commodious gold bestows; 'Tis thus we cut the bread another sows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4451]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Critics complained it wasn't opera, it wasn't a musical. You give someone something delicious to eat and they complain because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44918]]></link><description><![CDATA[Critics complained it wasn't opera, it wasn't a musical. You give someone something delicious to eat and they complain because they have no name for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That might be an omen that I need to leave whatever I brought from there and just start completely over. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40549]]></link><description><![CDATA[That might be an omen that I need to leave whatever I brought from there and just start completely over.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Real wealth is ideas plus energy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Real wealth is ideas plus energy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no otherdiscipline to impose, if we would but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21762]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no otherdiscipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept lifeunquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run awayfrom, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in theend. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy,and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one forhim who has the vision to recognize it as such.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Day of wrath that day of burning, Seer and Sibyl speak concerning,  All the world to ashes turning.  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11133]]></link><description><![CDATA[Day of wrath that day of burning, Seer and Sibyl speak concerning,  All the world to ashes turning.   [Lat., Dies irae, dies illa!    Solvet saeclum in favilla,     Teste David cum Sybilla.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had been told by other participating districts to expect an initial enrollment of 500 students. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39773]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had been told by other participating districts to expect an initial enrollment of 500 students.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27443]]></link><description><![CDATA[Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My definition [of a philosopher] is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41088]]></link><description><![CDATA[My definition [of a philosopher] is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which confine him to earth and trying to haul him down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cure for anger is delay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21226]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cure for anger is delay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15968]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love , if you have it , you don't need anything else...and if you don't have it , it harldy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2230]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love , if you have it , you don't need anything else...and if you don't have it , it harldy matters what else you have .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first law for the historian is that he shall never dare utter an untruth. The second is that he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19299]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first law for the historian is that he shall never dare utter an untruth. The second is that he shall suppress nothing that is true. Moreover, there shall be no suspicion of partiality in his writing, or of malice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4553]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a thing has been said and well said, have no scruple; take it and copy it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52827]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a thing has been said and well said, have no scruple; take it and copy it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leave the poor Some time for self-improvement. Let them not  Be forced to grind the bones out of their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leave the poor Some time for self-improvement. Let them not  Be forced to grind the bones out of their arms   For bread, but have some space to think and feel    Like moral and immortal creatures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14666]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground--long heath, brown furze, anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51489]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground--long heath, brown furze, anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The evening praises the day, and the morning a frost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49838]]></link><description><![CDATA[The evening praises the day, and the morning a frost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65524]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65524</guid></item></channel></rss>