<?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[Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58939]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Social values in general are incrementally variable: neither safety, diversity, rational articulation, nor morality is categorically a "good thing" to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52177]]></link><description><![CDATA[Social values in general are incrementally variable: neither safety, diversity, rational articulation, nor morality is categorically a "good thing" to have more of, without limits. All are subject to diminishing returns, and ultimately negative returns.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[He said] that it was a great delusion to think that the times of prayer ought to differ from other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7634]]></link><description><![CDATA[[He said] that it was a great delusion to think that the times of prayer ought to differ from other times; that we are as strictly obliged to adhere to God by action in the time of action as by prayer in the season of prayer. That his view of prayer was nothing else but a sense of the Presence of God, his soul being at that time insensible to everything but Divine Love; and that when the appointed times of prayer were past, he found no difference, because he still continued with God, praising and blessing Him with all his might, so that he passed his life in continual joy; yet hoped that God would give him somewhat to suffer when he should have grown stronger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm saddened that I have to work at some fundamental areas. I feel I'm starting from scratch at times. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36305]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm saddened that I have to work at some fundamental areas. I feel I'm starting from scratch at times.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54617]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The child saies nothing, but what it heard by the fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49815]]></link><description><![CDATA[The child saies nothing, but what it heard by the fire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All are not merry that dance lightly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49094]]></link><description><![CDATA[All are not merry that dance lightly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She just wore enough for modesty; no more! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27754]]></link><description><![CDATA[She just wore enough for modesty; no more!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All covet, all lose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49099]]></link><description><![CDATA[All covet, all lose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want work well done, select a busy man; the other kind has no time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52659]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want work well done, select a busy man; the other kind has no time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take away her rewards, and who will ever clasp naked Virtue to his bosom? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50488]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take away her rewards, and who will ever clasp naked Virtue to his bosom?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good behavior is the last refuge of mediocrity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21334]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good behavior is the last refuge of mediocrity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16919]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The words walked right out of my mouth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27811]]></link><description><![CDATA[The words walked right out of my mouth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65079]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why does a virtuous man take delight in the landscapes? Because the din of the dusty world and the locked-in-ness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why does a virtuous man take delight in the landscapes? Because the din of the dusty world and the locked-in-ness of human habitations are what human nature habitually abhors; while on the contrary, haze, mist, and the haunting spirits of the mountains are what human nature seeks, and yet can rarely find.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mary Slessor, Missionary in West Africa, 1915  It is vain for bishops and pious bigwigs to discuss ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mary Slessor, Missionary in West Africa, 1915  It is vain for bishops and pious bigwigs to discuss what dreadful things will happen if wild skepticism runs its course. It has run its course. It is vain for eloquent atheists to talk of the great truths that will be revealed if once we see free thought begin. We have seen it end. It has no more questions to ask; it has questioned itself. You cannot call up any wilder vision than a city in which men ask themselves if they have any selves. You cannot fancy a more skeptical world than that in which men doubt whether there is a world. It might certainly have reached its bankruptcy more quickly and cleanly if it had not been feebly hampered by the application of indefensible laws of blasphemy or by the absurd pretense that modern England is Christian. But it would have reached the bankruptcy anyhow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Montana. It's everything Colorado thinks it is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43022]]></link><description><![CDATA[Montana. It's everything Colorado thinks it is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm not so sure ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17057]]></link><description><![CDATA[I used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm not so sure]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man can become so accustomed to the thought of his own faults that he will begin to cherish them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15434]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man can become so accustomed to the thought of his own faults that he will begin to cherish them as charming little "personal characteristics."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A gentle houswife marres the houshold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49024]]></link><description><![CDATA[A gentle houswife marres the houshold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because of ongoing litigation, we won't answer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because of ongoing litigation, we won't answer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He did a great job for us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35540]]></link><description><![CDATA[He did a great job for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No price is set on the lavish summer; June may be had by the poorest comer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23567]]></link><description><![CDATA[No price is set on the lavish summer; June may be had by the poorest comer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46109]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42887]]></link><description><![CDATA[He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am, Sir, a brother of the angle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16087]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am, Sir, a brother of the angle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,rnAnd therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,rnAnd therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When cats run home and light is come, And dew is cold upon the ground,  And the far-off stream ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45344]]></link><description><![CDATA[When cats run home and light is come, And dew is cold upon the ground,  And the far-off stream is dumb,   And the whirring sail goes round,    And the whirring sail goes round;     Alone and warming his five wits,      The white owl in the belfry sits.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're basically looking at a 21st-century fence, not a 19th-century fence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37279]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're basically looking at a 21st-century fence, not a 19th-century fence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some innocents 'scape not the thunderbolt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51226]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some innocents 'scape not the thunderbolt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26964]]></link><description><![CDATA[The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My Book and Heart Shall never part. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45567]]></link><description><![CDATA[My Book and Heart Shall never part.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love. If I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7715]]></link><description><![CDATA[Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love. If I do not love a person I am not moved to help him by proofs that he is in need; if I do love him, I wait for no proof of a special need to urge me to help him. Knowledge of Christ is so rich a treasure that the spirit of love must necessarily desire to impart it. The mere assurance that others have it not is sufficient proof of their need. This spirit of love throws aside intellectual arguments that they can do very well without it. But if this spirit is not present, a man is easily persuaded that to impart a knowledge of Christianity (for it is noteworthy that such men always speak of Christianity rather than of Christ) is not necessary -- nay, is superfluous expense of energy which might be better used in other ways.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stream of the living world Where dash the billows of strife!--  One plunge in the mighty torrent   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44431]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stream of the living world Where dash the billows of strife!--  One plunge in the mighty torrent   Is a year of tamer life!    City of glorious days,     Of hope, and labour and mirth,      With room and to spare, on thy splendid bays       For the ships of all the earth!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two heads are better than one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50149]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two heads are better than one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and Adversity is not without comforts and hopes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/686]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and Adversity is not without comforts and hopes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune is a great deceiver. She sells very dear the things she seems to give us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune is a great deceiver. She sells very dear the things she seems to give us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My bottom line is that if the U.S. government just stands on the autopilot, just on the current trim line ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35956]]></link><description><![CDATA[My bottom line is that if the U.S. government just stands on the autopilot, just on the current trim line ... I think that it is more likely than not that we will see a nuclear bomb exploding in one of our cities in less than a decade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41061]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For whatever deserves to exist deserves also to be known, for knowledge is the image of existence; and things mean ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47440]]></link><description><![CDATA[For whatever deserves to exist deserves also to be known, for knowledge is the image of existence; and things mean and splendid exist alike.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a society in the deepest solitude. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57176]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a society in the deepest solitude.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'll have the problem of the cold and the state of the field, but I'm convinced we can win. Slovakia ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41160]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'll have the problem of the cold and the state of the field, but I'm convinced we can win. Slovakia is a good team. But when Spain does things right it's a powerful team.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Criticism is easy, and art is difficult. [Fr., La critique est aisee, et l'art est difficile.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10739]]></link><description><![CDATA[Criticism is easy, and art is difficult. [Fr., La critique est aisee, et l'art est difficile.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66518]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shallow men believe in luck,  believe in circumstances -- it was somebody's name, or he happened to be there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shallow men believe in luck,  believe in circumstances -- it was somebody's name, or he happened to be there at the time, or it was so then, and another day would have been otherwise. Strong men believe in cause and effect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65799]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18194]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quality means doing it right when no one is looking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52626]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56641</guid></item></channel></rss>