<?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[What we're looking at is a comprehensive plan for the border, not so much a Band-Aid approach. We want a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37277]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we're looking at is a comprehensive plan for the border, not so much a Band-Aid approach. We want a mix of technology, resources and a temporary-worker program.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13842]]></link><description><![CDATA[Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51937]]></link><description><![CDATA[God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sweet disorder in the dresse Kindles in cloathes a wantonnesse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2737]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sweet disorder in the dresse Kindles in cloathes a wantonnesse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29465]]></link><description><![CDATA[I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13657]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66543]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing to which men cling more tenaciously than the privileges of class. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8845]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing to which men cling more tenaciously than the privileges of class.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So far, we've had 7.36 inches (of rain) for the year. Normal is about 4.51, so we're well above it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38407]]></link><description><![CDATA[So far, we've had 7.36 inches (of rain) for the year. Normal is about 4.51, so we're well above it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43817]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Christian clearly understands that Jesus does not reveal all that is signified by the word "God", but only as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6423]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Christian clearly understands that Jesus does not reveal all that is signified by the word "God", but only as much as could be revealed through a perfect human personality living in absolute obedience to God's will. The knowledge of God that men have by virtue of Jesus' revelation is quite enough for men to live by in this life, and to live gloriously and thankfully by, Christians maintain -- the knowledge that God the Creator, the Almighty and Eternal, the Lord of history, is man's Heavenly Father, and that love might well be, and indeed is, the ultimate meaning of human existence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He did good, but we teased him in the second half when he got barbecued. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35775]]></link><description><![CDATA[He did good, but we teased him in the second half when he got barbecued.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11450]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hold a wolf by the ears. [I am in a dilemma I have caught a Tartar.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51742]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hold a wolf by the ears. [I am in a dilemma I have caught a Tartar.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. [Fr., Car c'est double plaisir de tromper le trompeur.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11533]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. [Fr., Car c'est double plaisir de tromper le trompeur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can change your faith without changing gods, and vice versa. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53543]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can change your faith without changing gods, and vice versa.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42747]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ascension Feast of John and Charles Wesley, Priests, Poets, Teachers, 1791 & 1788   I met the society and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7022]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ascension Feast of John and Charles Wesley, Priests, Poets, Teachers, 1791 & 1788   I met the society and explained to them ... the original design of the Methodists, namely, not to be a distinct party, but to stir up all parties, ... to worship God in spirit and in truth; but the Church of England in particular, to which they belonged from the beginning. With this view I have uniformly gone on for fifty years, never varying from the doctrine of the Church at all; nor from her discipline, of choice, but of necessity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deeds of violence in our society are performed largely by those trying to establish their self-esteem, to defend their self-image, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57031]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deeds of violence in our society are performed largely by those trying to establish their self-esteem, to defend their self-image, and to demonstrate that they, too, are significant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who does the best that circumstance allows, Does well, acts nobly, angels could no more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8731]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who does the best that circumstance allows, Does well, acts nobly, angels could no more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every failure teaches a man something, to wit, that he will probably fail again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57016]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every failure teaches a man something, to wit, that he will probably fail again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52608]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vanity as an impulse has without doubt been of far more benefit to civilization than modesty has ever been. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vanity as an impulse has without doubt been of far more benefit to civilization than modesty has ever been.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nor can his blessed soul look down from heaven, Or break the eternal sabbath of his rest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nor can his blessed soul look down from heaven, Or break the eternal sabbath of his rest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can only be free if I am free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46371]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can only be free if I am free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've had the boyhood thing of being Elvis. Now I want to be with my best friend, and my best ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27313]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've had the boyhood thing of being Elvis. Now I want to be with my best friend, and my best friend's my wife. Who could ask for anything more?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposedlimitations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21804]]></link><description><![CDATA[A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposedlimitations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is so difficult that diligence cannot master it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12299]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is so difficult that diligence cannot master it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54628]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only the mediocre are always at their best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26760]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the mediocre are always at their best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We probably sell over 1,000 bags a week. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32281]]></link><description><![CDATA[We probably sell over 1,000 bags a week.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With Congress, every time they make a joke it's a law; and every time they make a law it's a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28060]]></link><description><![CDATA[With Congress, every time they make a joke it's a law; and every time they make a law it's a joke.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Painting is just like a guy playing an instrument; it's something to look forward to the next day. When I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Painting is just like a guy playing an instrument; it's something to look forward to the next day. When I was painting in Dixon, I was out of the place . . . and I made some money selling paintings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50472]]></link><description><![CDATA[No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1988]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not science fiction. The fact is that the world will exist in 100 years, 300 years and one thousand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32981]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not science fiction. The fact is that the world will exist in 100 years, 300 years and one thousand years from now...This makes good sense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are apt to overlook the hand and heart of God in our afflictions, and to consider them as mere ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7613]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are apt to overlook the hand and heart of God in our afflictions, and to consider them as mere accidents, and unavoidable evils. This view makes them absolute and positive evils, which admit of no remedy or relief. If we view our troubles and trials aside from the divine design and agency in them, we cannot be comforted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good behavior is the last refuge of mediocrity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21334]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good behavior is the last refuge of mediocrity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66610]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What was once impossible now summons us to dismantle the walls betweenourselves and our sisters and brothers, to dissolve the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22090]]></link><description><![CDATA[What was once impossible now summons us to dismantle the walls betweenourselves and our sisters and brothers, to dissolve the distinctionsbetween flesh and spirit, to transcend the present limits of time andmatter, to find, at last, not wealth or power but the ecstasy (so longforgotten) of commonplace, unconditional being. For the atom's soul isnothing but energy. Spirit blazes in the dullest of clay. The life ofevery woman or man-the heart of it-is pure and holy joy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the morning we received some very thin coffee. For lunch we had potato soup with a few pieces of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40642]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the morning we received some very thin coffee. For lunch we had potato soup with a few pieces of meat in it, in the evening we had a very thin meat soup with some potatoes in it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's going to a good team, but also to a team where they do things differently. It may take him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42470]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's going to a good team, but also to a team where they do things differently. It may take him some time to adjust.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42470</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[Strict law is often great injustice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48871]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strict law is often great injustice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Physicians, of all men, are most happy: whatever good success soever they have, the world proclaimeth and what faults they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Physicians, of all men, are most happy: whatever good success soever they have, the world proclaimeth and what faults they commit, the earth covereth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do you ne'er think what wondrous beings these? Do you ne'er think who made them, and who taught  The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do you ne'er think what wondrous beings these? Do you ne'er think who made them, and who taught  The dialect they speak, where melodies   Alone are the interpreters of thought?    Whose household words are songs in many keys,     Sweeter than instrument of man e'er caught!   - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The test of a true myth is that each time you return to it, new insights and interpretations arise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43612]]></link><description><![CDATA[The test of a true myth is that each time you return to it, new insights and interpretations arise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature's self's thy Ganymede. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17746]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature's self's thy Ganymede.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12932]]></link><description><![CDATA[We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12932</guid></item></channel></rss>