<?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[I plucked a honeysuckle where The hedge on high is quick with thorn,  And climbing for the prize, was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19692]]></link><description><![CDATA[I plucked a honeysuckle where The hedge on high is quick with thorn,  And climbing for the prize, was torn,   And fouled my feet in quag-water;    And by the thorns and by the wind     The blossom that I took was thinn'd      And yet I found it sweet and fair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The emergency we face in the Horn today is the result of successive seasons of failed rains. Consequently, pastoralists living ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36565]]></link><description><![CDATA[The emergency we face in the Horn today is the result of successive seasons of failed rains. Consequently, pastoralists living in these arid, remote lands have very few survival strategies left and require our assistance to make it through until the next rains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our lawyers have interpreted when you add the word 'assist,' it could mean anything from providing soup in a soup ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our lawyers have interpreted when you add the word 'assist,' it could mean anything from providing soup in a soup kitchen, to letting someone stay a night, to giving someone water. A prosecutor could use that language to come after you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who talks much cannot talk well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25544]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who talks much cannot talk well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mockery king of snow. -King Richard II. Act iv. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55828]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mockery king of snow. -King Richard II. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country. - Inaugural Address. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47369]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country. - Inaugural Address.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64494]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now this is the ground and original of the Spirit of Love in the creature, it is and must be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now this is the ground and original of the Spirit of Love in the creature, it is and must be a will to all goodness; and you have not the Spirit of Love in you till you have this will to all goodness at all times and on all occasions. You may indeed do many works of love and delight in them -- especially at such times as they are not inconvenient to your state or temper or occurrences in life. But the Spirit of Love is not in you till it is the spirit of your life, till you live freely, willingly, and universally according to it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you have come to the edge Of all light that you know And are about to drop off into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14953]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you have come to the edge Of all light that you know And are about to drop off into the darkness Of the unknown, Faith is knowing One of two things will happen: There will be something solid to stand on or You will be taught to fly]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He maketh the deep to boil like a pot: he maketh the sea like a pot of ointment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44872]]></link><description><![CDATA[He maketh the deep to boil like a pot: he maketh the sea like a pot of ointment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must intensify and render continuous by repeatedly presenting with suggestive ideas and mental pictures of the feast of good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22658]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must intensify and render continuous by repeatedly presenting with suggestive ideas and mental pictures of the feast of good things, and the flowing fountain, which awaits the successful achievement or attainment of the desires.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you judge people you have no time to love them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25653]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you judge people you have no time to love them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This hand, to tyrants ever sworn the foe, For freedom only deals the deadly blow;  Then sheathes in calm ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45861]]></link><description><![CDATA[This hand, to tyrants ever sworn the foe, For freedom only deals the deadly blow;  Then sheathes in calm repose the vengeful blade,   For gentle peace in freedom's hallowed shade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to creep up behind someone at their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17193]]></link><description><![CDATA[There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you would find them smiling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have to ask, you can't afford it! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5034]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have to ask, you can't afford it!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He went like one that hath been stunn'd, And is of sense forlorn:  A sadder and a wiser man, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42799]]></link><description><![CDATA[He went like one that hath been stunn'd, And is of sense forlorn:  A sadder and a wiser man,   He rose the morrow morn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Word of God must always be heard quite specifically and in a new way, varying according to the conditions ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8023]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Word of God must always be heard quite specifically and in a new way, varying according to the conditions under which it is preached. Faith is not an acceptance of general, abstract truths, but an answer and a decision at a certain time and in a very certain place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3121]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sudden money is going from zero to two hundred dollars a week. The rest doesn't count. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15938]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sudden money is going from zero to two hundred dollars a week. The rest doesn't count.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Envy depreciates the genius of the great Homer. [Lat., Ingenium magni detractat livor Homeri.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14023]]></link><description><![CDATA[Envy depreciates the genius of the great Homer. [Lat., Ingenium magni detractat livor Homeri.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A late Easter this year, following an early one last year, contributed to weakness in chain store sales in March, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36353]]></link><description><![CDATA[A late Easter this year, following an early one last year, contributed to weakness in chain store sales in March, and should ensure strength in April.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never trust anyone completely but God. Love people, but put your full trust only in God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64290]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never trust anyone completely but God. Love people, but put your full trust only in God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To-morrow the dreams and flowers will fade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59461]]></link><description><![CDATA[To-morrow the dreams and flowers will fade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Social Security is truly a test of our values as Americans. Social Security is a fundamental promise that lifts half ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Social Security is truly a test of our values as Americans. Social Security is a fundamental promise that lifts half of our seniors out of poverty and helps millions of disabled Americans, widows and orphans. We owe Americans a better debate than we're having today. It's about time we do everything we can to keep the promise of Social Security.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But civlyzation doos git forrid Sometimes upon a powder-cart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50583]]></link><description><![CDATA[But civlyzation doos git forrid Sometimes upon a powder-cart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47425]]></link><description><![CDATA[No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one. - "London Times", February 17, 1941.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As this is their right in line with the criminal code of the country, the court has recorded their decision ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28426]]></link><description><![CDATA[As this is their right in line with the criminal code of the country, the court has recorded their decision of choice as a plea of not guilty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meek Walton's heavenly memory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Meek Walton's heavenly memory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The act of putting pen to paper encourages pause for thought, this in turn makes us think more deeply about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59158]]></link><description><![CDATA[The act of putting pen to paper encourages pause for thought, this in turn makes us think more deeply about life, which helps us regain our equilibrium.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2205]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My ankle was going toward the left and my foot was going toward the right. I was shaking, and they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39303]]></link><description><![CDATA[My ankle was going toward the left and my foot was going toward the right. I was shaking, and they kept covering my eyes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I plan on being a sponge all year and see how quickly we can adapt. I can't imagine doing this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41459]]></link><description><![CDATA[I plan on being a sponge all year and see how quickly we can adapt. I can't imagine doing this from Nazareth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Letters, from absent friends, extinguish fear, Unite division, and draw distance near;  Their magic force each silent wish conveys, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47817]]></link><description><![CDATA[Letters, from absent friends, extinguish fear, Unite division, and draw distance near;  Their magic force each silent wish conveys,   And wafts embodied though, a thousand ways:    Could souls to bodies write, death's pow'r were mean,     For minds could then meet minds with heav'n between.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But men are men; the best sometimes forget. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51438]]></link><description><![CDATA[But men are men; the best sometimes forget.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Necessity has no law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44085]]></link><description><![CDATA[Necessity has no law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feel the fear and do it anyway. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22685]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feel the fear and do it anyway.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give the historians something to write about. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19359]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give the historians something to write about.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Monuments of the safety with which errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44943]]></link><description><![CDATA[Monuments of the safety with which errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man only,--rash, refined, presumptuous Man-- Starts from his rank, and mars Creation's plan!  Born the free heir of nature's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26243]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man only,--rash, refined, presumptuous Man-- Starts from his rank, and mars Creation's plan!  Born the free heir of nature's wide domain,   To art's strict limits bounds his narrow'd reign;    Resigns his native rights for meaner things,     For Faith and Fetters, Laws and Priests and Kings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only person worth envying is he person who doesn't envy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14043]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only person worth envying is he person who doesn't envy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is the nature of men such, that they can reject miracle, and at the great moments of their life, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60304]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is the nature of men such, that they can reject miracle, and at the great moments of their life, the moments of their deepest, most agonising spiritual difficulties, cling only to the free verdict of the heart? Oh, Thou didst know that Thy deed would be recorded in books, would be handed down to remote times and the utmost ends of the earth, and Thou didst hope that man, following Thee, would cling to God and not ask for a miracle. But Thou didst not know that when man rejects miracle he rejects God too; for man seeks not so much God as the miraculous. And as man cannot bear to be without the miraculous, he will create new miracles of his own for himself, and will worship deeds of sorcery and witchcraft, though he might be a hundred times over a rebel, heretic and infidel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It never crossed my mind that it would be Marla. I didn't want to push God it didn't have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31177]]></link><description><![CDATA[It never crossed my mind that it would be Marla. I didn't want to push God it didn't have to be her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bigotry's birthplace is the sinister back room of the mind where plots and schemes are hatched for the persecution and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bigotry's birthplace is the sinister back room of the mind where plots and schemes are hatched for the persecution and oppression of other human beings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66046]]></link><description><![CDATA[We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44990]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For whoever meditates a crime is guilty of the deed. [Lat., Nam scelus intra se tacitum qui cogitat ullum,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10665]]></link><description><![CDATA[For whoever meditates a crime is guilty of the deed. [Lat., Nam scelus intra se tacitum qui cogitat ullum,  Facti crimen habet.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14727]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel we are all islands - in a common sea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65166]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65166</guid></item></channel></rss>