<?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[Yestreen, when to the trembling string The dance gaed thro' the lighted ha',  To thee my fancy took its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48704]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yestreen, when to the trembling string The dance gaed thro' the lighted ha',  To thee my fancy took its wing;   I sat, but neither heard nor saw.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Internet's been so great, and it's so nice to have fans do nice, elaborate websites, but I think the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9381]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Internet's been so great, and it's so nice to have fans do nice, elaborate websites, but I think the downside is some of the things... for real fans to go on and see that 90 percent of the information isn't true or to see pictures that aren't really me, or for them to be able to sell these things, that's one of the downsides, I think.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The really idle man gets nowhere; the perpetually busy man does not get much further. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24397]]></link><description><![CDATA[The really idle man gets nowhere; the perpetually busy man does not get much further.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45286]]></link><description><![CDATA[Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not be in a hurry to tie what you cannot untie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57086]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not be in a hurry to tie what you cannot untie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just hope if any of those folks are illegal that they realize there are millions that immigrate properly and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41674]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just hope if any of those folks are illegal that they realize there are millions that immigrate properly and legally and they don't have to protest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[In a] natural fear of lowering the Divine dignity of Christ, we often forget His true humanity. We think of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7187]]></link><description><![CDATA[[In a] natural fear of lowering the Divine dignity of Christ, we often forget His true humanity. We think of His earthly life as moving on a plane so different from ours that no parallel can be drawn between them. What we forget is, that He too needed to walk by faith, needed to be filled with the Holy Spirit, needed the sympathy of loving friends, needed the strengthening that is gained by private prayer. His strong and beautiful, serene and holy life so fills the eye that we lose sight of His secret intercourse with the Father, out of which came all its beauty, all its power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The art of the indirect approach can only be mastered, and its full scope appreciated, by study of and reflection ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47262]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art of the indirect approach can only be mastered, and its full scope appreciated, by study of and reflection upon the whole history of war. But we can at least crystallize the lessons into two simple maxims- one negative, the other positive. The first is that, in face of the overwhelming evidence of history, no general is justified in launching his troops to a direct attack upon an enemy firmly in position. The second, that instead of seeking to upset the enemy's equilibrium by one's attack, it must be upset before a real attack is, or can be successfully launched.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48010]]></link><description><![CDATA[Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that a worthwhile life is defined by a kind of spiritual journey and a sense of obligation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44755]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that a worthwhile life is defined by a kind of spiritual journey and a sense of obligation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have measured many a mile To tread a measure with you on this grass. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55502]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have measured many a mile To tread a measure with you on this grass. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act v. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who is not satisfied with himself will grow; he who is not sure of his own correctness will learn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54736]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who is not satisfied with himself will grow; he who is not sure of his own correctness will learn many things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where'er his fancy bids him roam, In ev'ry Inn he finds a home--  . . . .   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20990]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where'er his fancy bids him roam, In ev'ry Inn he finds a home--  . . . .   Will not an Inn his cares beguile,    Where on each face he sees a smile?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art bids us touch and taste and hear and see the world, and shrinks from what Blake calls mathematic form, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3215]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art bids us touch and taste and hear and see the world, and shrinks from what Blake calls mathematic form, from every abstract form, from all that is of the brain only.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9743]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heaven is blessed with perfect rest but the blessing of earth is toil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62153]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heaven is blessed with perfect rest but the blessing of earth is toil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every burned book enlightens the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5426]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every burned book enlightens the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most curious offspring of shame is shyness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56139]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most curious offspring of shame is shyness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every politician, clergyman, educator, or physician, in short, anyone dealing with human individuals, is bound to make grave mistakes if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every politician, clergyman, educator, or physician, in short, anyone dealing with human individuals, is bound to make grave mistakes if he ignores these two great truths of population zoology: (1) no two individuals are alike, and (2) both environment and genetic endowment make a contribution to nearly every trait.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The right to swing my fist ends where the other man’s nose begins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14231]]></link><description><![CDATA[The right to swing my fist ends where the other man’s nose begins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Philosophy is an unusually ingenious attempt to think fallaciously. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46507]]></link><description><![CDATA[Philosophy is an unusually ingenious attempt to think fallaciously.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51346]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As sure as ever God puts His children in the furnace, He will be in the furnace with them.  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59693]]></link><description><![CDATA[As sure as ever God puts His children in the furnace, He will be in the furnace with them.   - Charles Hadden Spurgeon,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because of their courage, their lack of fear, they (creative people) are willing to make silly mistakes. The truly creative ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because of their courage, their lack of fear, they (creative people) are willing to make silly mistakes. The truly creative person is one who can think crazy; such a person knows full well that many of his great ideas will prove to be worthless. The creative person is flexible -- he is able to change as the situation changes, to break habits, to face indecision and changes in conditions without undue stress. He is not threatened by the unexpected as rigid, inflexible people are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some have unwittingly entertained angels. [Hebrews 13:2]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53759]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some have unwittingly entertained angels. [Hebrews 13:2].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None but the brave deserve the fair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48948]]></link><description><![CDATA[None but the brave deserve the fair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Halfe the world knowes not how the other halfe lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26124]]></link><description><![CDATA[Halfe the world knowes not how the other halfe lies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're crazy not to recognize that Mike Vick is a great player. He's going to make plays. We just tried ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39663]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're crazy not to recognize that Mike Vick is a great player. He's going to make plays. We just tried to contain him as best as possible, but it's hard to contain someone so special.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18681]]></link><description><![CDATA[To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truest characters of ignorance Are vanity, and pride, and annoyance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20401]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truest characters of ignorance Are vanity, and pride, and annoyance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47031]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Journalism consists largely in saying 'Lord Jones died' to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23346]]></link><description><![CDATA[Journalism consists largely in saying 'Lord Jones died' to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65204]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65055]]></link><description><![CDATA[For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26257]]></link><description><![CDATA[For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21528]]></link><description><![CDATA[The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like his own ghost unlawfully tenanting a defunct carcass.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43996]]></link><description><![CDATA[The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In all the sins of men, God principally regards the principle -- that is, the heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7079]]></link><description><![CDATA[In all the sins of men, God principally regards the principle -- that is, the heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was not Lisa Holland. She didn't know about it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29214]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was not Lisa Holland. She didn't know about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't want to be known as the 'Intelligent Design University,' ... We don't think this is science. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36394]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't want to be known as the 'Intelligent Design University,' ... We don't think this is science.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The universe, they said, depended for its operation on the balance of four forces which they identified as charm, persuasion, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60177]]></link><description><![CDATA[The universe, they said, depended for its operation on the balance of four forces which they identified as charm, persuasion, uncertainty and bloody-mindedness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ideal social state is not that in which each gets an equal amount of wealth, but in which each ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61388]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ideal social state is not that in which each gets an equal amount of wealth, but in which each gets in proportion to his contribution to the general stock.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead! There's none of these so lonely and poor of old,  But, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead! There's none of these so lonely and poor of old,  But, dying, has made us rarer gifts than gold.   These laid the world away: poured out the red    Sweet wine of youth; gave up the years to be     Of work and joy, and that unhoped serene      That men call age, and those who would have been       Their sons, they gave their immortality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60808]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, Th' oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely  The pangs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27392]]></link><description><![CDATA[For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, Th' oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely  The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,   The insolence of office, and the spurns    That patient merit of th' unworthy takes,     When he himself might his quietus make      With a bare bodkin?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kind reader! take your choice to cry or laugh; Here Harod lies--but where's his Epitaph?  If such you seek, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14090]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kind reader! take your choice to cry or laugh; Here Harod lies--but where's his Epitaph?  If such you seek, try Westminister, and view   Ten thousand, just as fit for him as you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The defender of his country--the founder of liberty, The friend of man,  History and tradition are explored in vain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61234]]></link><description><![CDATA[The defender of his country--the founder of liberty, The friend of man,  History and tradition are explored in vain   For a parallel to his character.    In the annals of modern greatness     He stands alone;      And the noblest names of antiquity       Lose their lustre in his presence.        Born the benefactor of mankind,         He united all the greatness necessary          To an illustrious career.           Nature made him great,            He made himself virtuous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Richard of Chichester, Bishop, 1253 Commemoration of Joseph Butler, Bishop of Durham, Moral Philosopher, 1752  If indeed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7726]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Richard of Chichester, Bishop, 1253 Commemoration of Joseph Butler, Bishop of Durham, Moral Philosopher, 1752  If indeed there had been anything better and more profitable to the health of men than to suffer, Christ would surely have shown it by word and example.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why an arbitrary figure of 30 days? The US Government has long accepted it only takes one day to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38808]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why an arbitrary figure of 30 days? The US Government has long accepted it only takes one day to be exposed to Agent Orange.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9211</guid></item></channel></rss>