<?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[This is my wish, this is my command, my pleasure is my reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50522]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is my wish, this is my command, my pleasure is my reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What loss feels he that wots not what he loses? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48679]]></link><description><![CDATA[What loss feels he that wots not what he loses?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adam ate the apple, and our teeth still ache. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56416]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adam ate the apple, and our teeth still ache.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Publicity, publicity, publicity is the greatest moral factor and force in our public life ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52515]]></link><description><![CDATA[Publicity, publicity, publicity is the greatest moral factor and force in our public life]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was encouraging for me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39182]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was encouraging for me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12916]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not satisfied at all with this and I hope in court it all comes out. Right now, I can't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39190]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not satisfied at all with this and I hope in court it all comes out. Right now, I can't believe what's happening to my baby girl.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace without justice is tyranny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45907]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace without justice is tyranny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conservatives divide the world in terms of good and evil while liberals do it in terms of the rich and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conservatives divide the world in terms of good and evil while liberals do it in terms of the rich and poor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43183]]></link><description><![CDATA[God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43631]]></link><description><![CDATA[But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let them stew in their own grease (or juice).   - Karl Otto von Schonhausen Bismarck, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52553]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let them stew in their own grease (or juice).   - Karl Otto von Schonhausen Bismarck,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight, even though the ruler forbid it; if fighting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15670]]></link><description><![CDATA[If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight, even though the ruler forbid it; if fighting will not result is victory, then you must not fight, even at the ruler's bidding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We spend our lives talking about this mystery. Our life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65329]]></link><description><![CDATA[We spend our lives talking about this mystery. Our life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've never been convinced that the number of available hands is all that is important, however. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40752]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've never been convinced that the number of available hands is all that is important, however.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To err is human; to forgive, divine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16545]]></link><description><![CDATA[To err is human; to forgive, divine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It gets to seem as if way back in the Garden of Eden after the Fall, Adam and Eve had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33603]]></link><description><![CDATA[It gets to seem as if way back in the Garden of Eden after the Fall, Adam and Eve had begged the Lord to forgive them and He, in his boundless exasperation, had said, ''All right, then. Stay. Stay in the Garden. Get civilized. Procreate. Muck it up.'' And they did.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How far must suffering and misery go before we see that even in the day of vast cities and powerful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13135]]></link><description><![CDATA[How far must suffering and misery go before we see that even in the day of vast cities and powerful machines, the good earth is our mother and that if we destroy her, we destroy ourselves?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cleon hath ten thousand acres,-- Ne'er a one have I;  Cleon dwelleth in a place,--   In a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47772]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cleon hath ten thousand acres,-- Ne'er a one have I;  Cleon dwelleth in a place,--   In a cottage I.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The final reality, and the ultimate fact of our total situation to which we need to be adjusted, is God. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8417]]></link><description><![CDATA[The final reality, and the ultimate fact of our total situation to which we need to be adjusted, is God. That indeed would be my definition of God: God is He with whom we have ultimately to do, the final reality to which we have to face up, and with whom we have, in the last resort, to reckon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gods of men are sillier than their kings and queens, and emptier and more powerless ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42318]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gods of men are sillier than their kings and queens, and emptier and more powerless]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We took our time to examine all potential alternatives, contacted every team, and tried to make the best deal we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31649]]></link><description><![CDATA[We took our time to examine all potential alternatives, contacted every team, and tried to make the best deal we could. I think there were a lot of teams, like us, that liked his talent, but found it hard to find a spot on their major league team.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63970]]></link><description><![CDATA[We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2015]]></link><description><![CDATA[The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks to the European like serial polygamy, is the moral solution to the problem of the itch. Love comes into it too, of course, but in Europe we tend to see marital love as an eternity which encompasses hate and also indifference: when we promise to love we really mean that we promise to honor a contract. Americans, seeming to take marriage with not enough seriousness, are really taking love and sex with too much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any people anywhere being inclined and having the power have the right to rise up and shake off the existing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54155]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any people anywhere being inclined and having the power have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government, and force a new one that suits them better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Equipment you'll leave at home, you'll need the most. You're always out of film when you'll have the best ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46557]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Equipment you'll leave at home, you'll need the most. You're always out of film when you'll have the best opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a back-and-forth, close game all the way. It was one of those games where we were kind of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31951]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a back-and-forth, close game all the way. It was one of those games where we were kind of out of sync at times, but we definitely executed when the game was on the line; all eight players contributed to the win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5416]]></link><description><![CDATA[I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45360]]></link><description><![CDATA[The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But when Fate destines one to ruin it begins by blinding the eyes of his understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21014]]></link><description><![CDATA[But when Fate destines one to ruin it begins by blinding the eyes of his understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At my fingers' ends. -Twelfth Night. Act i. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55735]]></link><description><![CDATA[At my fingers' ends. -Twelfth Night. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My parents are trying to not show their emotions, but I know they're getting really excited. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33489]]></link><description><![CDATA[My parents are trying to not show their emotions, but I know they're getting really excited.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adversity reminds men of religion. [Lat., Adverse res admonent religionum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/695]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adversity reminds men of religion. [Lat., Adverse res admonent religionum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation . . . . ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17179]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation . . . . A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11320]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shallows where a lamb could wade and depths where an elephant would drown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54912]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shallows where a lamb could wade and depths where an elephant would drown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has been called a mediocre man; but this is unwarranted flattery. He was a politician of monumental littleness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47353]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has been called a mediocre man; but this is unwarranted flattery. He was a politician of monumental littleness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When it draws near to witching time of night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44517]]></link><description><![CDATA[When it draws near to witching time of night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To gauge the understanding and insight that metaphysics provides is to ask whether, in the final analysis, it helps us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57035]]></link><description><![CDATA[To gauge the understanding and insight that metaphysics provides is to ask whether, in the final analysis, it helps us to cope with our world and harmonize our existence with nature, humanity, and ourselves, and leads to greater freedom and self-realization. Metaphysics is only the beginning. The end is human progress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1160]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some often repent, yet never reform; they resemble a man traveling in a dangerous path, who frequently starts and stops, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some often repent, yet never reform; they resemble a man traveling in a dangerous path, who frequently starts and stops, but never turns back]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13772]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My heart I fain would ask thee What then is Love? say on.  "Two souls and one thought only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25624]]></link><description><![CDATA[My heart I fain would ask thee What then is Love? say on.  "Two souls and one thought only   Two hearts that throb as one."    [Ger., Mein Herz ich will dich fragen,     Was ist denn Liebe, sag?      "Zwei Seelen und ein Gedanke,       Zwei Herzen und ein Schlag."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For murder though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51256]]></link><description><![CDATA[For murder though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not she with trait'rous kiss her Saviour stung, Not she denied Him with unholy tongue;  She, while apostles shrank, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61926]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not she with trait'rous kiss her Saviour stung, Not she denied Him with unholy tongue;  She, while apostles shrank, could danger brave,   Last at His cross, and earliest at His grave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son. -Ralph Waldo Emerson. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13570]]></link><description><![CDATA[I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's been an interesting group. Most days we start seven or eight freshmen. They've handled situations pretty well, and we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31553]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's been an interesting group. Most days we start seven or eight freshmen. They've handled situations pretty well, and we also have pretty good leadership from our sophomore class.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's really gone remarkably well when you consider some of the tensions we were dealing with two years ago, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42402]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's really gone remarkably well when you consider some of the tensions we were dealing with two years ago,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Irenæus, Bishop of Lyons, Teacher, Martyr, c.200  Knowledge of God can be fully given to man only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7729]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Irenæus, Bishop of Lyons, Teacher, Martyr, c.200  Knowledge of God can be fully given to man only in a Person, never in a doctrine. Faith is not the holding of correct doctrine, but personal fellowship with the living God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the standing toast that pleased me most Was, "The wind that blows, the ship that goes,  And the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59387]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the standing toast that pleased me most Was, "The wind that blows, the ship that goes,  And the lass that loves a sailor!"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59387</guid></item></channel></rss>