<?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[Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5948]]></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/5948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing safe in religion, except in such a course of behaviour that leaves nothing for corrupt nature to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7008]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing safe in religion, except in such a course of behaviour that leaves nothing for corrupt nature to feed or live upon; which can only then be done when every degree of perfection we aim at is a degree of death to the passions of the natural man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A court is a place where what was confused before becomes more unsettled than ever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23662]]></link><description><![CDATA[A court is a place where what was confused before becomes more unsettled than ever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And I read the moral--A brave endeavour To do thy duty, whate'er its worth,  Is better than life with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13071]]></link><description><![CDATA[And I read the moral--A brave endeavour To do thy duty, whate'er its worth,  Is better than life with love forever,   And love is the sweetest thing on earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What sought they thus afar? Bright jewels of the mine?  The wealth of seas, the spoils of war?--  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14972]]></link><description><![CDATA[What sought they thus afar? Bright jewels of the mine?  The wealth of seas, the spoils of war?--   They sought a faith's pure shrine!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rather than come clean about their mistake, they helped launch the United States into a bloody war that would last ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42193]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rather than come clean about their mistake, they helped launch the United States into a bloody war that would last for 10 years,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chaos often breeds life when order breeds habit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chaos often breeds life when order breeds habit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5410]]></link><description><![CDATA[If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more new ideas for more wise men reading more good books in more public libraries. These libraries should be open to all—except the censor. We must know all the facts and hear all the alternatives and listen to all the criticisms. Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors. For the Bill of Rights is the guardian of our security as well as our liberty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And wanting the right rule they take chalke for cheese, as the saying is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54246]]></link><description><![CDATA[And wanting the right rule they take chalke for cheese, as the saying is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Conversion of Paul  If I say to you that no one has time to finish, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Conversion of Paul  If I say to you that no one has time to finish, that the longest human life leaves a man, in any branch of learning, a beginner, I shall seem to you to be saying something quite academic and theoretical. You would be surprised if you knew how soon one begins to feel the shortness of the tether: of how many things, even in middle life, we have to say, "No time for that", "Too late now" and "Not for me". But Nature herself forbids you [young people] to share that experience. A more Christian attitude, which can be attained at any age, is that of leaving futurity in God's hands. We may as well, for God will certainly retain it whether we leave it to Him or not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History, as it lies at the root of all science, is also the first distinct product of man's spiritual nature; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19320]]></link><description><![CDATA[History, as it lies at the root of all science, is also the first distinct product of man's spiritual nature; his earliest expression of what can be called Thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The feasant hens of Colchis, which have two ears as it were consisting of feathers, which they will set up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46448]]></link><description><![CDATA[The feasant hens of Colchis, which have two ears as it were consisting of feathers, which they will set up and lay down as they list.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some full-breasted swan That, fluting a wild carol ere her death,  Ruffles her pure cold plume, and takes the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58465]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some full-breasted swan That, fluting a wild carol ere her death,  Ruffles her pure cold plume, and takes the flood   With swarthy webs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Burmese leader welcomed our offer and explained to our president their seven-point political road map in detail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28929]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Burmese leader welcomed our offer and explained to our president their seven-point political road map in detail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He sins not, who is not wilfully a sinner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51152]]></link><description><![CDATA[He sins not, who is not wilfully a sinner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22960]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45790]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48407]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All that we are is the result of what we have thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16291]]></link><description><![CDATA[All that we are is the result of what we have thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some village Hampden, that, with dauntless breast, The little tyrant of his fields withstood,  Some mute inglorious Milton here ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18221]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some village Hampden, that, with dauntless breast, The little tyrant of his fields withstood,  Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest,   Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To take an unequivocal stand, it seems to me, is of greater heuristic value and far more likely to stimulate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52211]]></link><description><![CDATA[To take an unequivocal stand, it seems to me, is of greater heuristic value and far more likely to stimulate constructive criticism than to evade the issue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53728]]></link><description><![CDATA[To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I have always wagered against God and I regard the little that I have won in this world as simply the outcome of this bet. However paltry may have been the stake (my life) I am conscious of having won to the full. Everything that is doddering, squint-eyed, vile, polluted and grotesque is summoned up for me in that one word: God!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are as sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55550]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are as sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though outwardly a gloomy shroud, The inner half of every cloud  Is bright and shining:   I therefore ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8906]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though outwardly a gloomy shroud, The inner half of every cloud  Is bright and shining:   I therefore turn my clouds about    And always wear them inside out     To show the lining.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no downside to it whatsoever. If you make one star out of it, you've come ahead. In a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30829]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no downside to it whatsoever. If you make one star out of it, you've come ahead. In a good season, they'll make a handful of stars. Despite what some hardcore fans might say, a card with five stars on it will do better business than card with zero stars on it, even if those zero stars are the best fighters in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sense of the value of time--that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities--is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13620]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sense of the value of time--that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities--is an essential preliminary to efficient work; it is the only method of avoiding hurry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never before have so many been taken for so much and left with so little. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58670]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never before have so many been taken for so much and left with so little.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So Satan, whom repulse upon repulse Met ever, and to shameful silence brought,  Yet gives not o'er though desperate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46161]]></link><description><![CDATA[So Satan, whom repulse upon repulse Met ever, and to shameful silence brought,  Yet gives not o'er though desperate of success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26866]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66814]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nakedness of the indigent world may be clothed from the trimmings of the vain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2733]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nakedness of the indigent world may be clothed from the trimmings of the vain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death. I can work out a good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death. I can work out a good character much faster than anyone can lie me out of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12048]]></link><description><![CDATA[Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Him that makes shoes go barefoot himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Him that makes shoes go barefoot himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If advice will not improve him, neither will the rod. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/801]]></link><description><![CDATA[If advice will not improve him, neither will the rod.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Identity is theft of the self ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3373]]></link><description><![CDATA[Identity is theft of the self]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55166]]></link><description><![CDATA[The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's alienated most of the state; he's alienated most of the voters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33401]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's alienated most of the state; he's alienated most of the voters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Until you're broken, you don't know what you're made of. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64960]]></link><description><![CDATA[Until you're broken, you don't know what you're made of.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26828]]></link><description><![CDATA[Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Anne & Joachim, parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary  Gladly shall I come whenever bodily strength will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6925]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Anne & Joachim, parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary  Gladly shall I come whenever bodily strength will allow to join my testimony with yours in Olney pulpit, that God is love. As yet I have not recovered from the fatigues of my American expedition. My shattered bark is scarce worth docking any more. But I would fain wear, not rust, out. Oh! my dear Mr. Newton, indeed and indeed I am ashamed that I have done and suffered so little for Him that hath done and suffered so much for ill and hell-deserving me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12033]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can never really be prepared for that which is wholly new. We have to adjust ourselves, and every radical ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52362]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can never really be prepared for that which is wholly new. We have to adjust ourselves, and every radical adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem: we undergo a test, we have to prove ourselves. It needs inordinate self-confidence to face drastic change without inner trembling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want to emphasize that a large earthquake such as 1906 is not just a San Francisco quake, but a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30386]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want to emphasize that a large earthquake such as 1906 is not just a San Francisco quake, but a Northern California earthquake. Earthquakes greater than magnitude 7 are going to cause intense shaking over a large area everyone needs to be prepared.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've never been able to play defense in my life. I knew that from the first second on the floor, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34661]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've never been able to play defense in my life. I knew that from the first second on the floor, I was going to be dominated on the defensive side.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Huge amounts of money have disappeared. In return we got nothing but scraps of metal, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28937]]></link><description><![CDATA[Huge amounts of money have disappeared. In return we got nothing but scraps of metal,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In this new system, the star players have to be star players. If they aren't, you are probably not going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33977]]></link><description><![CDATA[In this new system, the star players have to be star players. If they aren't, you are probably not going to be successful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day, like those of a baseball player. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3771]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day, like those of a baseball player.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3771</guid></item></channel></rss>