<?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[And in that town a dog was found, As many dogs there be,  Both mongrel, puppy, whelp and hound, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12658]]></link><description><![CDATA[And in that town a dog was found, As many dogs there be,  Both mongrel, puppy, whelp and hound,   And curs of low degree.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2248]]></link><description><![CDATA[God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being made and let God be God in you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Philosophers are capable of almost endless enjoyment of mutual misunderstanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13938]]></link><description><![CDATA[Philosophers are capable of almost endless enjoyment of mutual misunderstanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that's fed at anothers hand may stay long ere he be full. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that's fed at anothers hand may stay long ere he be full.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you doubt, abstain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12788]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you doubt, abstain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This last section of Psalm 22 [i.e., verses 27-31] reminds us of Hebrews 12:2: "Looking unto Jesus the author and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6209]]></link><description><![CDATA[This last section of Psalm 22 [i.e., verses 27-31] reminds us of Hebrews 12:2: "Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God." The "joy" that was set before Jesus was, we feel, knowing of the riches which would come to his brethren out of his death. In short, we are his joy, set before him when on the cross. As we have seen, only as the circle of the love of Jesus becomes world wide and as big as history will it be complete.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm particularly interested in how all the functions of a military organization this size are integrated, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36786]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm particularly interested in how all the functions of a military organization this size are integrated,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17335]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sure there are poets which did never dream Upon Parnassus, nor did taste the stream  Of Helicon; we therefore ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46861]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sure there are poets which did never dream Upon Parnassus, nor did taste the stream  Of Helicon; we therefore may suppose   Those made not poets, but the poets those.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59059]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the camelauction slaughterhousethe camel lotthe rejected creaturessee no Camelot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24995]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the camelauction slaughterhousethe camel lotthe rejected creaturessee no Camelot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16925]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23413]]></link><description><![CDATA[Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23224]]></link><description><![CDATA[All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. -Thomas Alva Edison. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6079]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. -Thomas Alva Edison.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41603]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Alban, first Martyr of Britain, c.209  Jesus... did not finish all the urgent tasks in Palestine or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8124]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Alban, first Martyr of Britain, c.209  Jesus... did not finish all the urgent tasks in Palestine or all the things He would have liked to do, but He did finish the work which God gave Him to do. The only alternative to frustration is to be sure that we are doing what God wants. Nothing substitutes for knowing that this day, this hour, in this place, we are doing the will of the Father. Then and only then can we think of all the other unfinished tasks with equanimity, and leave them with God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's in the preparation -- in those dreary pedestrian virtues they taught you in seventh grade and you didn't believe. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5274]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's in the preparation -- in those dreary pedestrian virtues they taught you in seventh grade and you didn't believe. It's making the extra call and caring a lot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is with words as with sunbeams--the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62020]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is with words as with sunbeams--the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hold fast to youth and beauty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34424]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hold fast to youth and beauty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dear Lord, though I be changed to senseless clay, And serve the Potter as he turn his wheel,  I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58781]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dear Lord, though I be changed to senseless clay, And serve the Potter as he turn his wheel,  I thank Thee for the gracious gift of tears!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poor little men, poor little cocks! As soon as they're old enough, they swell their plumage to be conquerors. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37516]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poor little men, poor little cocks! As soon as they're old enough, they swell their plumage to be conquerors. If they only knew that it's enough to be just a little bit wounded and sad in order to obtain everything without fighting for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12841]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the School of Coquettes Madam Rose is a scholar,--  O, they fish with all nets   In ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10168]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the School of Coquettes Madam Rose is a scholar,--  O, they fish with all nets   In the School of Coquettes!    When her brooch she forgets     'Tis to show her new collar;      In the School of Coquettes       Madam Rose is a scholar!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from thevalley. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21302]]></link><description><![CDATA[Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from thevalley.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're going to make sure we send more people to the ball. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35238]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're going to make sure we send more people to the ball.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We certainly welcome anyone into this race, but the frank reality is when it comes to changing Pennsylvania, Lynn Swann ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40653]]></link><description><![CDATA[We certainly welcome anyone into this race, but the frank reality is when it comes to changing Pennsylvania, Lynn Swann is the clear choice today and will be in November.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It appears I am destined for something; I will live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14498]]></link><description><![CDATA[It appears I am destined for something; I will live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guts are a combination of confidence, courage, conviction, strength of character, stick-to-itiveness, pugnaciousness, backbone, and intestinal fortitude. They are mandatory ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22225]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guts are a combination of confidence, courage, conviction, strength of character, stick-to-itiveness, pugnaciousness, backbone, and intestinal fortitude. They are mandatory for anyone who wants to get to and stay at the top.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I pray, what flowers are these? The pansy this,  O, that's for lover's thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45438]]></link><description><![CDATA[I pray, what flowers are these? The pansy this,  O, that's for lover's thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First thing I killed was no kind of thing at all. It was an enemy soldier. Which is a hell ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60631]]></link><description><![CDATA[First thing I killed was no kind of thing at all. It was an enemy soldier. Which is a hell of a lot easier to say, than the first thing I ever killed was a man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I had obeyed God, as I have obeyed him, He would not have punished me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62636]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I had obeyed God, as I have obeyed him, He would not have punished me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I love doing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man sufficiently gifted with humor is in small danger of succumbing to flattering delusions about himself, because he cannot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11849]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man sufficiently gifted with humor is in small danger of succumbing to flattering delusions about himself, because he cannot help perceiving what a pompous ass he would become if he did]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gallantry to women--the sure road to their favor--is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gallantry to women--the sure road to their favor--is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Slow rises worth by poverty depressed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50413]]></link><description><![CDATA[Slow rises worth by poverty depressed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Land of my sires! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band  That knits me to thy rugged ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25968]]></link><description><![CDATA[Land of my sires! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band  That knits me to thy rugged strand!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is seldom that the miserable of the world can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42774]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is seldom that the miserable of the world can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The final war will be between Pavlov's dog and Schoedinger's Cat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61157]]></link><description><![CDATA[The final war will be between Pavlov's dog and Schoedinger's Cat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discomfort guides my tongue And bids me speak of nothing but despair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12017]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discomfort guides my tongue And bids me speak of nothing but despair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imperceptibly the hours glide on, and beguile us as they pass. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imperceptibly the hours glide on, and beguile us as they pass.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As long as you know men are like children, you know everything! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66802]]></link><description><![CDATA[As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the fate of every great achievement to be pounced upon by pedants and imitators who drain it of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52256]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the fate of every great achievement to be pounced upon by pedants and imitators who drain it of life and turn it into an orthodoxy which stifles all stirrings of originality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kill Not. Cause no pain.Mahavira, founder of the Jain religion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20927]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kill Not. Cause no pain.Mahavira, founder of the Jain religion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wasn't even thinking about a flush. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35644]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wasn't even thinking about a flush.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Matthias the Apostle  Life is not long enough for a religion of inferences; we shall never have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Matthias the Apostle  Life is not long enough for a religion of inferences; we shall never have done beginning, if we determine to begin with proof. We shall ever be laying our foundations; we shall turn theology into evidences, and divines into textuaries... Life is for action. If we insist on proofs for everything, we shall never come to action: to act you must assume, and that assumption is faith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who laughs, lasts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20109]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who laughs, lasts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12971]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unless experience be a jewel. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unless experience be a jewel. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56110</guid></item></channel></rss>