<?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[Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are those who in their very first seeking of it are nearer the kingdom of Heaven than many who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8200]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are those who in their very first seeking of it are nearer the kingdom of Heaven than many who have for years believed themselves to be of it. In the former there is more of the mind of Jesus, and when He calls them they recognize Him at once and go after Him; while the others examine Him from head to foot and, finding Him not sufficiently like the Jesus of their conception, turn their backs and go to church or chapel or chamber to kneel before a vague form mingled of tradition and fancy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3872]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The word "impossible" is not in my dictionary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50693]]></link><description><![CDATA[The word "impossible" is not in my dictionary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27871]]></link><description><![CDATA[Advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the idea, the more eager they are to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the idea, the more eager they are to die for it. And to kill for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Against stupidity the very gods Themselves contend in vain.  [Ger., Mit der Dummheit kampfen Gotter selbst vergebens.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Against stupidity the very gods Themselves contend in vain.  [Ger., Mit der Dummheit kampfen Gotter selbst vergebens.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4052]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do villainy, do, since you protest to do't, Like workmen. I'll example you with thievery:  The sun's a thief, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59137]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do villainy, do, since you protest to do't, Like workmen. I'll example you with thievery:  The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction   Robs the vast sea; the moon's an arrant thief,    And her pale fire she snatches from the sun;     The sea's a thief, whose liquid surges resolves      The moon into salt tears; the earth's a thief,       That feeds and breeds by a composture stol'n        From gen'ral excrement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2524]]></link><description><![CDATA[Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell, where his influence stops. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36465]]></link><description><![CDATA[A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell, where his influence stops.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bursts as a wave that from the clouds impends, And swell'd with tempests on the ship descends;  White are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bursts as a wave that from the clouds impends, And swell'd with tempests on the ship descends;  White are the decks with foam; the winds aloud   Howl o'er the masts, and sing through every shroud:    Pale, trembling, tir'd, the sailors freeze with fears;     And instant death on every wave appears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43297]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas how difficult is it to preserve a high reputation! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51582]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas how difficult is it to preserve a high reputation!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25269]]></link><description><![CDATA[The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11891]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole point of the story of Cornelius and of the admission of the Gentiles lies in the fact that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7636]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole point of the story of Cornelius and of the admission of the Gentiles lies in the fact that these people had not accepted what up to that moment had been considered a necessary part of the Christian teaching. The question was whether they could be admitted without accepting the teaching and undergoing the rite. It was that question which was settled by the acknowledgement that they had received the Holy Spirit... The difficulty today is that Christians acknowledge that others have the Spirit, and yet do not recognize that they ought to be, and must be -- because spiritually they are -- in communion with one another. Men who hold a theory of the Church which excludes from communion those whom they admit to have the Spirit of Christ simply proclaim that their theory is in flat contradiction to the spiritual fact.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are firm believers in the maxim that, for all right judgment of any man or thing, it is useful, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5646]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are firm believers in the maxim that, for all right judgment of any man or thing, it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Play out the play. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Play out the play. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We really get two weeks instead of three (after the dead period). It will be fast and furious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38027]]></link><description><![CDATA[We really get two weeks instead of three (after the dead period). It will be fast and furious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rest strengthens the body, the mind too is thus supported; but unremitting toil destroys both. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rest strengthens the body, the mind too is thus supported; but unremitting toil destroys both.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Epicureans, that ascribed the origin and frame of the world not to the power of God, but to the fortuitous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8700]]></link><description><![CDATA[Epicureans, that ascribed the origin and frame of the world not to the power of God, but to the fortuitous concourse of atoms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go, and do thou likewise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/488]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go, and do thou likewise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27891]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no evil without its compensation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51200]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no evil without its compensation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We called William Grice to the stand because he said he was with Cannon the day they tried to arrest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29259]]></link><description><![CDATA[We called William Grice to the stand because he said he was with Cannon the day they tried to arrest him in Montgomery to pick up his cousin. We did some research and found out that Grice was stabbed that day and he was in the hospital.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be true to your work, your word, and your friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1431]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think that's necessarily true. I feel the same way about exotic dancers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29206]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think that's necessarily true. I feel the same way about exotic dancers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honest criticism is hard to take - especially when it comes from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honest criticism is hard to take - especially when it comes from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60549]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no vice so simple but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60510]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no vice so simple but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You should not decide until you have heard what both have to say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29578]]></link><description><![CDATA[You should not decide until you have heard what both have to say.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people's faces as unfinished as their minds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52345]]></link><description><![CDATA[What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people's faces as unfinished as their minds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there is no difference, there is only indifference. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12219]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there is no difference, there is only indifference.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Charity sees the need, not the cause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5738]]></link><description><![CDATA[Charity sees the need, not the cause.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56636]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23091]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The obscenities of recent days may well be designed toundermine the peace process. They must not be allowed to doso, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33111]]></link><description><![CDATA[The obscenities of recent days may well be designed toundermine the peace process. They must not be allowed to doso,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we would have made half of those attempts, we would have won by 10. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38853]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we would have made half of those attempts, we would have won by 10.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You shape your own destiny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31468]]></link><description><![CDATA[You shape your own destiny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His friends he loved. His direst earthly foes-- Cats--I believe he did but feign to hate.  My hand will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5318]]></link><description><![CDATA[His friends he loved. His direst earthly foes-- Cats--I believe he did but feign to hate.  My hand will miss the insinuated nose,   Mine eyes the tail that wagged contempt at Fate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There never was in the world two opinions alike, no more that two hairs, or two grains; the most universal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44949]]></link><description><![CDATA[There never was in the world two opinions alike, no more that two hairs, or two grains; the most universal quality is diversity.   - Michael Eyquen de Montaigne,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I keep going over a sentence. I nag it, gnaw it, pat and flatter it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43617]]></link><description><![CDATA[I keep going over a sentence. I nag it, gnaw it, pat and flatter it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Architecture is music in space, as it were a frozen music ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3007]]></link><description><![CDATA[Architecture is music in space, as it were a frozen music]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27752]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27752</guid></item></channel></rss>