<?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[Without free speech no search for truth is possible… no discovery of truth is useful… Better a thousandfold abuse of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without free speech no search for truth is possible… no discovery of truth is useful… Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech. The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the people, and entombs the hope of the race.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis virtue, wit, and worth, and all That men divine and sacred call;  For what is worth, in anything, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62323]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis virtue, wit, and worth, and all That men divine and sacred call;  For what is worth, in anything,   But so much money as 't will bring?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lieutenant Dunbar wasn't really swallowed. But that was the first word that stuck in his head. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24334]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lieutenant Dunbar wasn't really swallowed. But that was the first word that stuck in his head.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be good to others, that will protect you against evil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63862]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be good to others, that will protect you against evil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18705]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11742]]></link><description><![CDATA[If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have this running quandary about Christmas. I get upset about it, because I feel that we American Christians make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7997]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have this running quandary about Christmas. I get upset about it, because I feel that we American Christians make too much of it, and too little. Too little of it, because we pile all sorts of other things onto it, including some that have only the feeblest connection with the Event it is supposed to commemorate. If God did become a man, in any real sense, it is the most important thing that ever happened. Surely we, who believe it, could well devote one day a year to uninterrupted contemplation of the fact, and let Saturnalia fall on the winter solstice, where it belongs.   On the other hand, we make so much of the actual birth, and forget the things that make it more than just the birth of a baby (though even that is, in Walt Whitman's phrase, "miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels") -- more, even, than the birth of the greatest man who ever lived. We forget the promise to Eve of a descendant who will solve the problem of Evil; the promise to Abraham of one by whom all mankind will be blessed; the promise to Moses of a greater prophet than he, to arise from his people; and the promise to David of a Son who would be his Master. We forget about the eternal Purpose behind it all: it's like telling a story and leaving out the point. Yes, it is true that God gave us His Son, and so maybe we ought also to give gifts -- but what, and to whom? It is also true that God gave us Himself, and the only sensible response to that is to give ourselves to Him. There is nothing else that He wants from us, or, if there is something, He can take it. Only I, my ego, my heart, is truly mine to give or to withhold -- and is therefore the appropriate gift to Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My father had never lost his temper with us, never beaten us, but we had for him that feeling often ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8414]]></link><description><![CDATA[My father had never lost his temper with us, never beaten us, but we had for him that feeling often described as fear, which is something quite different and far deeper than alarm. It was that sense which, without irreverence, I have thought to find expressed by the great evangelists when they speak of the fear of God. One does not fear God because He is terrible, but because He is literally the soul of goodness and truth, because to do Him wrong is to do wrong to some mysterious part of oneself, and one does not know exactly what the consequences may be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about is money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is Truth which we must look for in Holy Writ, not cunning of words. All Scripture ought to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7799]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is Truth which we must look for in Holy Writ, not cunning of words. All Scripture ought to be read in the spirit in which it was written. We must rather seek for what is profitable in Scripture, than for what ministereth to subtlety in discourse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16774]]></link><description><![CDATA[True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fierce unrest seethes at the core Of all existing things:  It was the eager wish to soar  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22826]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fierce unrest seethes at the core Of all existing things:  It was the eager wish to soar   That gave the gods their wings.    . . . .     There throbs through all the worlds that are      This heart-beat not and strong,       And shaken systems, star by star,        Awake and glow in song.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[who will shuffle when he's not going anywhere, scratch when he's not itching and grin when he's not tickled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33478]]></link><description><![CDATA[who will shuffle when he's not going anywhere, scratch when he's not itching and grin when he's not tickled.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I seen him come in through the balcony door, and he pulled the gun from under his coat. He just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29392]]></link><description><![CDATA[I seen him come in through the balcony door, and he pulled the gun from under his coat. He just started shooting her, then he shot at the pulpit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enemies carry a report in form different from the original. [Lat., Nam inimici famam non ita ut nata est ferunt.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enemies carry a report in form different from the original. [Lat., Nam inimici famam non ita ut nata est ferunt.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death--the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death--the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11214</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[The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4156]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Bartholomew the Apostle  It is often said with a sneer that the God of Israel was only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8135]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Bartholomew the Apostle  It is often said with a sneer that the God of Israel was only a God of Battles, "a mere barbaric Lord of Hosts" pitted in rivalry against other gods only as their envious foe. Well it is for the world that He was indeed a God of Battles. Well it is for us that He was to all the rest only a rival and a foe. In the ordinary way, it would have been only too easy for them to have achieved the desolate disaster of conceiving Him as a friend. It would have been only too easy for them to have seen Him stretching out His hands in love and reconciliation, embracing Baal and kissing the painted face of Astarte... It would have been easy enough for His worshipers to follow the enlightened course of Syncretism and the pooling of all the pagan traditions. It is obvious indeed that His followers were always sliding down this easy slope; and it required the almost demoniac energy of certain inspired demagogues, who testified to the divine unity in words that are still like winds of inspiration and ruin, [to stop them]. The more we really understand of the ancient conditions that contributed to the final culture of the Faith, the more we shall have a real and even a realistic reverence for the greatness of the Prophets of Israel. As it was, while the whole world melted into this mass of confused mythology, this Deity who is called tribal and narrow, precisely because He was what is called tribal and narrow, preserved the primary religion of all mankind. He was tribal enough to be universal. He was as narrow as the universe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art thou the bird whom Man loves best, The pious bird with the scarlet breast,  Our little English Robin; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54345]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art thou the bird whom Man loves best, The pious bird with the scarlet breast,  Our little English Robin;   The bird that comes about our doors    When autumn winds are sobbing?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44130]]></link><description><![CDATA[A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adversity is the first path to truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/716]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adversity is the first path to truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26636]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you were a tadpole, and I was a fish, In the Palaeozoic time,  And side by side in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14359]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you were a tadpole, and I was a fish, In the Palaeozoic time,  And side by side in the sluggish tide   We sprawled in the ooze and slime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20933]]></link><description><![CDATA[A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56741]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was just sad. It's real unfortunate. Now I'm at the stage where I'm mad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31842]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was just sad. It's real unfortunate. Now I'm at the stage where I'm mad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Taking into account the good relations between Russia and Iran, I hope that together we can overcome this crisis which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35732]]></link><description><![CDATA[Taking into account the good relations between Russia and Iran, I hope that together we can overcome this crisis which has arisen recently.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kind messages, that pass from land to land; Kind letters, that betray the heart's deep history,  In which we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kind messages, that pass from land to land; Kind letters, that betray the heart's deep history,  In which we feel the pressure of a hand,--   One touch of fire,--and all the rest is mystery!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When eating an elephant take one bite at a time ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32257]]></link><description><![CDATA[When eating an elephant take one bite at a time]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10470]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54298]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was a very loyal and passionate audience that unfortunately never did grow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31589]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was a very loyal and passionate audience that unfortunately never did grow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remembrance of death saves one from this world's deceit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36716]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remembrance of death saves one from this world's deceit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the government does not help us, we are ready to take up arms, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36725]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the government does not help us, we are ready to take up arms,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flirting is the sin of the virtuous and the virtue of the sinful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flirting is the sin of the virtuous and the virtue of the sinful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61112]]></link><description><![CDATA[War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A certain man has called us, "of all peoples the wisest in action," but he added, "the stupidest in speech." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13913]]></link><description><![CDATA[A certain man has called us, "of all peoples the wisest in action," but he added, "the stupidest in speech."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord, since Thou hast taken from me all that I had of Thee, yet of Thy grace leave me the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6368]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord, since Thou hast taken from me all that I had of Thee, yet of Thy grace leave me the gift which every dog has by nature: that of being true to Thee in my distress, when I am deprived of all consolation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou water turn'st to wine, fair friend of life; Thy foe, to cross the sweet arts of Thy reign,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou water turn'st to wine, fair friend of life; Thy foe, to cross the sweet arts of Thy reign,  Distils from thence the tears of wrath and strife,   And so turns wine to water back again.   - Richard Crashaw,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one ever complains about a speech being too short! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27841]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one ever complains about a speech being too short!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63752]]></link><description><![CDATA[There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Volunteering is an act of heroism on a grand scale. And it matters profoundly. It does more than help people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Volunteering is an act of heroism on a grand scale. And it matters profoundly. It does more than help people beat the odds; it changes the odds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe you can make forces of good and evil work for you, to get what you want. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35702]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe you can make forces of good and evil work for you, to get what you want.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The restlessness that comes upon girls upon summer evenings results in lasting trouble unless it is speedily controlled. The right ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17471]]></link><description><![CDATA[The restlessness that comes upon girls upon summer evenings results in lasting trouble unless it is speedily controlled. The right kind of man does not look for a wife on the streets, and the right kind of girl waits till the man comes to her home for her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59803]]></link><description><![CDATA[As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63437]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hear you this Triton of the minnows? Mark you His absolute shall? -Coriolanus. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hear you this Triton of the minnows? Mark you His absolute shall? -Coriolanus. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only reverance can restrain violence - reverance for human life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60667]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only reverance can restrain violence - reverance for human life and the environment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60667</guid></item></channel></rss>