<?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[Feast of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Teacher, Martyr, 1945  It is not experience of life but experience of the Cross that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8585]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Teacher, Martyr, 1945  It is not experience of life but experience of the Cross that makes one a worthy hearer of confessions. The most experienced psychologist or observer of human nature knows infinitely less of the human heart than the simplest Christian who lives beneath the Cross of Jesus. The greatest psychological insight, ability, and experience cannot grasp this one thing: what sin is. Worldly wisdom knows what distress and weakness and failure are, but it does not know the godlessness of men. And so it also does not know that man is destroyed only by his sin and can be healed only by forgiveness. Only the Christian knows this. In the presence of a psychiatrist I can only be a sick man; in the presence of a Christian brother, I can dare to be a sinner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65741]]></link><description><![CDATA[The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal: my strength lies solely in my tenacity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58940]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal: my strength lies solely in my tenacity]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gotta take my puppy on the road with me, Killer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gotta take my puppy on the road with me, Killer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behold him in conceited circles sail, Strutting and dancing and now planted stiff,  In all his pomp of pageantry, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50156]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behold him in conceited circles sail, Strutting and dancing and now planted stiff,  In all his pomp of pageantry, as if   He felt the eyes of Europe on his tail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48381]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I simple cannot understand the passion that some people have for making themselves thoroughly uncomfortable and then boasting about it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45626]]></link><description><![CDATA[I simple cannot understand the passion that some people have for making themselves thoroughly uncomfortable and then boasting about it afterwards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunities multiply as they are seized, they die when neglected. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunities multiply as they are seized, they die when neglected.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your secret is your prisoner; once you reveal it, you become its slave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your secret is your prisoner; once you reveal it, you become its slave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are trying and we continue to try. We have increased oil production to over 10 million barrels a day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40148]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are trying and we continue to try. We have increased oil production to over 10 million barrels a day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23910]]></link><description><![CDATA[All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O you much partial gods!Why gave ye men affections, and not powerTo govern them? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2063]]></link><description><![CDATA[O you much partial gods!Why gave ye men affections, and not powerTo govern them?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One man thinks one thing best, another another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48861]]></link><description><![CDATA[One man thinks one thing best, another another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a child, one looks for compliments. As an adult, one looks for evidence of effectiveness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13605]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a child, one looks for compliments. As an adult, one looks for evidence of effectiveness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20671]]></link><description><![CDATA[How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want everybody to be one of the top players in the league, and it's not out of the realm ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35492]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want everybody to be one of the top players in the league, and it's not out of the realm of possibly to do that. We've got all the ingredients. It's just a matter of doing it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All feete tread not in one shoe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49100]]></link><description><![CDATA[All feete tread not in one shoe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54364]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17498]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great Pompey's shade complains that we are slow, And Scipio's ghost walks unavenged amongst us! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2775]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great Pompey's shade complains that we are slow, And Scipio's ghost walks unavenged amongst us!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think another problem people have is they are always searching for that high, and they don't realize they can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31785]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think another problem people have is they are always searching for that high, and they don't realize they can get that same high with that same person again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speme e Fortune, addio; che' in porto entrai. Schernite gli altri; ch'io vi spregio omai. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14083]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speme e Fortune, addio; che' in porto entrai. Schernite gli altri; ch'io vi spregio omai.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in Fench; I never did succeed in making those idiots ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59596]]></link><description><![CDATA[In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in Fench; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aggravate your choler. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act ii. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55927]]></link><description><![CDATA[Aggravate your choler. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of George Herbert, Priest, Poet, 1633 Come, my Way, my Truth, my Life : Such a Way, as gives ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7231]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of George Herbert, Priest, Poet, 1633 Come, my Way, my Truth, my Life : Such a Way, as gives us breath : Such a Truth, as ends all strife : And such a Life as killeth death. Come, my Light, my Feast, my Strength : Such a Light, as shows a feast : Such a Feast, as mends in length : Such a Strength, as makes his guest. Come, my Joy, my Love, my Heart : Such a Joy, as none can move : Such a Love, as none can part : Such a Heart, as joyes in love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things."  "The question is," said ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62027]]></link><description><![CDATA["The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things."  "The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master -- that's all.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God does not play dice [with the universe]. [Ger., Gott wurfelt nicht.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46587]]></link><description><![CDATA[God does not play dice [with the universe]. [Ger., Gott wurfelt nicht.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I came up-stairs into the world; for I was born in a cellar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2487]]></link><description><![CDATA[I came up-stairs into the world; for I was born in a cellar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Betrayal is about learning not to idealize external sources. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4172]]></link><description><![CDATA[Betrayal is about learning not to idealize external sources.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Jesus Christ came back today, He and I would get into our brown corduroys and go to the nearest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36661]]></link><description><![CDATA[If Jesus Christ came back today, He and I would get into our brown corduroys and go to the nearest jean store and overturn the racks of blue denim.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My dad actually looked at the wrong list in the paper and we just figured I didn't get it. Then, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39953]]></link><description><![CDATA[My dad actually looked at the wrong list in the paper and we just figured I didn't get it. Then, 10 minutes later he saw the right list and came and told me. It's an honor. I felt like if I had a good season I might get it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A boy is better unborn than untaught. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58745]]></link><description><![CDATA[A boy is better unborn than untaught.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14949]]></link><description><![CDATA[There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15116]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Openly questioning the way the world works and challenging the power of the powerful is not an activity customarily rewarded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Openly questioning the way the world works and challenging the power of the powerful is not an activity customarily rewarded.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can remember way back when a liberal was one who was generous with his own money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24654]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can remember way back when a liberal was one who was generous with his own money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we resist our passions it is more from their weakness than from our strength. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45605]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we resist our passions it is more from their weakness than from our strength.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience proves that those are oftenest abused who can be abused with the greatest impunity. Men are whipped oftenest who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience proves that those are oftenest abused who can be abused with the greatest impunity. Men are whipped oftenest who are whipped easiest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In an age when man has forgotten his origins and is blind even to his most essential needs for survival, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61277]]></link><description><![CDATA[In an age when man has forgotten his origins and is blind even to his most essential needs for survival, water along with other resources has become the victim of his indifference]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come to me now! O, come! benignest sleep! And fold me up, as evening doth a flower,  From my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56610]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come to me now! O, come! benignest sleep! And fold me up, as evening doth a flower,  From my vain self, and vain things which have power   Upon my soul to make me smile or weep.    And when thou comest, oh, like Death be deep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11155]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14771]]></link><description><![CDATA[My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends -- it gives a lovely light!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Had Cleopatra's nose been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been different. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19339]]></link><description><![CDATA[Had Cleopatra's nose been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been different.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Paines to get, care to keep, feare to lose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49702]]></link><description><![CDATA[Paines to get, care to keep, feare to lose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The vigor of a mass movement stems from the propensity of its followers for united action and self-sacrifice. When we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56862]]></link><description><![CDATA[The vigor of a mass movement stems from the propensity of its followers for united action and self-sacrifice. When we ascribe the success of a movement to its faith, doctrine, propaganda, leadership, ruthlessness and so on, we are but referring to instruments of unification and to means used to inculcate a readiness for self-sacrifice. It is perhaps impossible to understand the nature of a mass movement unless it is recognized that their chief preoccupation is to foster, perfect and perpetuate a facility for united action and self-sacrifice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What power had Ibefore I learned to yield?Shatter me Great Wind!I shall possess the field!Richard Wilbura stanza from his poem ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26588]]></link><description><![CDATA[What power had Ibefore I learned to yield?Shatter me Great Wind!I shall possess the field!Richard Wilbura stanza from his poem To A Milkweed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17264]]></link><description><![CDATA[Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At thirty, man suspects himself a fool, Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan;  At fifty, chides his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43177]]></link><description><![CDATA[At thirty, man suspects himself a fool, Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan;  At fifty, chides his infamous delay,   Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve,    In all the magnanimity of thought;     Resolves, and re-resolves, then dies the same.      And why? because he thinks himself immortal,       All men think all men mortal but themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deeper than e'er plummet sounded. -The Tempest. Act iii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56089]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deeper than e'er plummet sounded. -The Tempest. Act iii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56089</guid></item></channel></rss>