<?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[Fear not, but trust in Providence, Wherever thou may'st be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear not, but trust in Providence, Wherever thou may'st be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jas in the Arab language is despair, And Min the darkest meaning of a lie.  Thus cried the Jessamine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23123]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jas in the Arab language is despair, And Min the darkest meaning of a lie.  Thus cried the Jessamine among the flowers,   How justly doth a lie    Draw on its head despair!     Among the fragrant spirits of the bowers      The boldest and the strongest still was I.       Although so fair,        Therefore from Heaven         A stronger perfume unto me was given          Than any blossom of the summer hours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59752]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To me [the pope] was the incarnation of all that is capitalism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42344]]></link><description><![CDATA[To me [the pope] was the incarnation of all that is capitalism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let no man deceive you with vain words or vain hopes or false notions of a slight and sudden repentance. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6882]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let no man deceive you with vain words or vain hopes or false notions of a slight and sudden repentance. As if heaven were a hospital founded on purpose to receive all sick and maimed persons that, when they can live no longer to the lusts of the flesh and the sinful pleasures of this world, can but put up a cold and formal petition to be admitted there. No, no, as sure as God is true, they shall never see the Kingdom of God who, instead of seeking it in the first place, make it their last refuge and retreat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43122]]></link><description><![CDATA[The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25554]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who friendship with a knave hath made, Is judg'd a partner in the trade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48981]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who friendship with a knave hath made, Is judg'd a partner in the trade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A long dispute means both parties are wrong ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52690]]></link><description><![CDATA[A long dispute means both parties are wrong]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race. They never grow up and they keep their curiosity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46580]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race. They never grow up and they keep their curiosity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thy liquid notes that close the eye of day First heard before the shallow cuckoo's bill,  Portend success in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thy liquid notes that close the eye of day First heard before the shallow cuckoo's bill,  Portend success in love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No pressure, no diamonds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1050]]></link><description><![CDATA[No pressure, no diamonds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And as the soldiers bore dead bodies by, He called them untaught knaves, unmannerly, To bring a slovenly unhandsome corse ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55843]]></link><description><![CDATA[And as the soldiers bore dead bodies by, He called them untaught knaves, unmannerly, To bring a slovenly unhandsome corse Betwixt the wind and his nobility. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They weren't the best games we've played, but we played well enough to win. We've got a lot of work ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38078]]></link><description><![CDATA[They weren't the best games we've played, but we played well enough to win. We've got a lot of work to do, and we're going to work hard tomorrow in practice; I guarantee that. ... We're getting a little lackadaisical, and that's going to end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world. [Ger., Wir Deutschen furchten Gott, sonst aber Nichts in der ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17391]]></link><description><![CDATA[We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world. [Ger., Wir Deutschen furchten Gott, sonst aber Nichts in der Welt.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It costs more to revenge injuries than to bear them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20923]]></link><description><![CDATA[It costs more to revenge injuries than to bear them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above five-and-twenty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1722]]></link><description><![CDATA[By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above five-and-twenty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hatreds are the cinders of affection. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18806]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hatreds are the cinders of affection.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why fear death when it is the only path to meet the Maker. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11289]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why fear death when it is the only path to meet the Maker.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let Apella the Jew credit it, if he will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let Apella the Jew credit it, if he will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57198]]></link><description><![CDATA[If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And he helped bring out the wounded, and the colors. You did not lose your colors in battle. And it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35438]]></link><description><![CDATA[And he helped bring out the wounded, and the colors. You did not lose your colors in battle. And it was a terrible disgrace if you lost your colors in battle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Benedict of Nursia, Father of Western Monasticism, c.550 And have the bright immensities received our risen Lord Where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7086]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Benedict of Nursia, Father of Western Monasticism, c.550 And have the bright immensities received our risen Lord Where light-years frame the Pleiades and point Orion's sword? Do flaming suns his footsteps trace through corridors sublime, The Lord of interstellar space and Conqueror of time? The heaven that hides Him from our sight knows neither near nor far: An altar candle sheds its light as surely as a star; And where His loving people meet to share the gift divine, There stands He with unhurrying feet, and Heaven's splendors shine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hence, dear delusion, sweet enchantment hence!   - Horace Smith and James Smith, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60886]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hence, dear delusion, sweet enchantment hence!   - Horace Smith and James Smith,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much cooking is based on the season. We serve spring foods during that time of year, all served together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29160]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much cooking is based on the season. We serve spring foods during that time of year, all served together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ethelburga, Abbess of Barking, 675  Like the eye which sees everything in front of it and never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7261]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ethelburga, Abbess of Barking, 675  Like the eye which sees everything in front of it and never sees itself, faith is occupied with the Object upon which it rests and pays no attention to itself at all. While we are looking at God, we do not see ourselves -- blessed riddance. The man who has struggled to purify himself and has had nothing but repeated failures will experience real relief when he stops tinkering with his soul and looks away to the perfect One.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loud is the summer's busy song The smallest breeze can find a tongue,  While insects of each tiny size ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loud is the summer's busy song The smallest breeze can find a tongue,  While insects of each tiny size   Grow teasing with their melodies,    Till noon burns with its blistering breath     Around, and day lies still as death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is worse than a crime: it is a mistake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53278]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is worse than a crime: it is a mistake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The object of oratory alone is not truth, but persuasion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45239]]></link><description><![CDATA[The object of oratory alone is not truth, but persuasion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Christ at Cana's feast by pow'r divine, Inspir'd cold water, with the warmth of wine,  See! cry'd they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27556]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Christ at Cana's feast by pow'r divine, Inspir'd cold water, with the warmth of wine,  See! cry'd they while, in red'ning tide, it gush'd,   The bashful stream hath seen its God and blush'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exercise: you don't have time not to ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14473]]></link><description><![CDATA[Exercise: you don't have time not to]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we are to live unto God at any time, or in any place, we are to live unto Him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7062]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we are to live unto God at any time, or in any place, we are to live unto Him at all times and all places. If we are to use anything as the gift of God, we are to use everything as His gift.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It really put us on ... the mass consumer map, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39853]]></link><description><![CDATA[It really put us on ... the mass consumer map,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Half this game is ninety percent mental. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13628]]></link><description><![CDATA[Half this game is ninety percent mental.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9454]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is a piece of the universe made alive ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26304]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is a piece of the universe made alive]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58165]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957   Who seeks for heaven alone to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7824]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957   Who seeks for heaven alone to save his soul  May keep the path, but will not reach the goal;  While he who walks in love may wander far,  Yet God will bring him where the blessed are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Criticism of others is futile and if you indulge in it often you should be warned that it can be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10768]]></link><description><![CDATA[Criticism of others is futile and if you indulge in it often you should be warned that it can be fatal to your career.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I pray that every passing hour Your hearts may bruise and beat,  I pray that every step you take ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18844]]></link><description><![CDATA[I pray that every passing hour Your hearts may bruise and beat,  I pray that every step you take   May bruise and burn your feet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A righteous man regardeth the life of this beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48639]]></link><description><![CDATA[A righteous man regardeth the life of this beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are all in the same boat in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25989]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are all in the same boat in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Something must be allowed to custom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48869]]></link><description><![CDATA[Something must be allowed to custom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We only play two games a week, so if we have to add a third game it isn't too bad. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32478]]></link><description><![CDATA[We only play two games a week, so if we have to add a third game it isn't too bad. We just haven't been getting the practice time, but the guys are trying to stay sharp.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14957]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of his law. The people assembled; Mahomet called the hill to come to him, again and again, and when the hill stood still, he was never a whit abashed, but said, "If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee meetings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57512]]></link><description><![CDATA[Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee meetings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the world of human thought generally, and in physical science particularly, the most important and fruitful concepts are those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27663]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the world of human thought generally, and in physical science particularly, the most important and fruitful concepts are those to which it is impossible to attach a well-defined meaning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43806]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And especially, especially, don't f*ck with vegans. Do not look vegans in the eye. If you get into an argument ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54702]]></link><description><![CDATA[And especially, especially, don't f*ck with vegans. Do not look vegans in the eye. If you get into an argument with a vegan, say "I'm wrong", and run away as fast as you can. Do not f*ck with vegans because they will f*ck you up... BECAUSE THEY'RE HUNGRY.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Addressing a conference in Tehran on Wednesday, entitled] The World Without Zionism ... To those who doubt, to those who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41326]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Addressing a conference in Tehran on Wednesday, entitled] The World Without Zionism ... To those who doubt, to those who ask is it possible, or those who do not believe, I say accomplishment of a world without America and Israel is both possible and feasible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41326</guid></item></channel></rss>