<?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[If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field  That is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13905]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field  That is forever England. There shall be   In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;    A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,     Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam,      A body of England's, breathing English air,       Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is determined by those whom prove the impossible, possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58159]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is determined by those whom prove the impossible, possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The seeing of objects involves many sources of information beyond those meeting the eye when we look at an object. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46327]]></link><description><![CDATA[The seeing of objects involves many sources of information beyond those meeting the eye when we look at an object. It generally involves knowledge of the object derived from previous experience, and this experience is not limited to vision but may include the other senses: touch, taste, smell, hearing, and perhaps also temperature or pain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Historians are prophets with their face turned backward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19302]]></link><description><![CDATA[Historians are prophets with their face turned backward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bless a thing and it will bless you. Curse it and it will curse you...If you bless a situation, it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12237]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bless a thing and it will bless you. Curse it and it will curse you...If you bless a situation, it has no power to hurt you, and even if it is troublesome for a time, it will gradually fade out, if you sincerely bless it. -Emmet Fox.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It cannot be too often repeated that it is not helps, but obstacles, not facilities, but difficulties that make men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12227]]></link><description><![CDATA[It cannot be too often repeated that it is not helps, but obstacles, not facilities, but difficulties that make men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These are the forgeries of jealousy; And never, since the middle summer's spring,  Met we on hill, in dale, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58274]]></link><description><![CDATA[These are the forgeries of jealousy; And never, since the middle summer's spring,  Met we on hill, in dale, forest, or mead,   By paved fountain or by rushy brook,    Or in the beached margent of the sea,     To dance our ringlets to the whistling wind,      But with thy brawls thou hast disturbed our sport.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19606]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We read the past by the light of the present, and the forms vary as the shadows fall, or as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14678]]></link><description><![CDATA[We read the past by the light of the present, and the forms vary as the shadows fall, or as the point of vision alters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man, wretched man, whene'er he stoops to sin, Feels, with the act, a strong remorse within. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53792]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man, wretched man, whene'er he stoops to sin, Feels, with the act, a strong remorse within.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blood will tell, but often it tells too much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4361]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it makes it much easier if we're looking at a 10-year number for $35 billion, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30200]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it makes it much easier if we're looking at a 10-year number for $35 billion,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never say "Fail" again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never say "Fail" again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16632]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Repentance is another name for aspiration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53844]]></link><description><![CDATA[Repentance is another name for aspiration.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm very anxious not to fall into archaism or "literary" diction. I want my vocabulary to have a very large ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36990]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm very anxious not to fall into archaism or "literary" diction. I want my vocabulary to have a very large range, but the words must be alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's in the reaction of others that perfection is found in the flawed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46242]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's in the reaction of others that perfection is found in the flawed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8999]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you a formula forfailure-which is: Try to please ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21967]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you a formula forfailure-which is: Try to please everybody.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11283]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails and impious men bear away,  The post of honor is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails and impious men bear away,  The post of honor is a private station.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right human relations is the only true peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right human relations is the only true peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957   Who seeks for heaven alone to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7824]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957   Who seeks for heaven alone to save his soul  May keep the path, but will not reach the goal;  While he who walks in love may wander far,  Yet God will bring him where the blessed are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24811]]></link><description><![CDATA[To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Oh, ship ahoy!" rang out the cry; "Oh, give us water or we die!"  A voice came o'er the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45071]]></link><description><![CDATA["Oh, ship ahoy!" rang out the cry; "Oh, give us water or we die!"  A voice came o'er the waters far,   "Just drop your bucket where you are."    And then they dipped and drank their fill     Of water fresh from mead and hill;      And then they knew they sailed upon       The broad mouth of the Amazon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Persuasion tips his tongue whene'er he talks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58607]]></link><description><![CDATA[Persuasion tips his tongue whene'er he talks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the ill effects of cruelty is that it makes the bystanders cruel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10799]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the ill effects of cruelty is that it makes the bystanders cruel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21050]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They who are not induced to believe and live as they ought by those discoveries which God hath made in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34997]]></link><description><![CDATA[They who are not induced to believe and live as they ought by those discoveries which God hath made in Scriptures would stand out against any evidence whatever, even that of a messenger sent express from the other world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The inertia of the human mind and its resistance to innovation are most clearly demonstrated not, as one might expect, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52021]]></link><description><![CDATA[The inertia of the human mind and its resistance to innovation are most clearly demonstrated not, as one might expect, by the ignorant mass- which is easily swayed once its imagination is caught- but by professionals with a vested interest in tradition and in the monopoly of learning. Innovation is a twofold threat to academic mediocrities: it endangers their oracular authority, and it evokes the deeper fear that their whole, laboriously constructed intellectual edifice might collapse. The academic backwoodsmen have been the curse of genius from Aristarchus to Darwin and Freud; they stretch, a solid and hostile phalanx of pedantic mediocrities, across the centuries.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The life of man is a winter way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49885]]></link><description><![CDATA[The life of man is a winter way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing more frightful than an active ignorance. [Ger., Es ist nichts schrecklicher als eine thatige Unwissenheit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20414]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing more frightful than an active ignorance. [Ger., Es ist nichts schrecklicher als eine thatige Unwissenheit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62791]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Up men to your posts! Don't forget today that you are from old Virginia. - Gettysburg, July 3, 1863. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47230]]></link><description><![CDATA[Up men to your posts! Don't forget today that you are from old Virginia. - Gettysburg, July 3, 1863.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trouble brings experience, and experience brings wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14663]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trouble brings experience, and experience brings wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now they'll say that the public chamber is the expression of civil society -- and all the rest of us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41247]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now they'll say that the public chamber is the expression of civil society -- and all the rest of us are marginal. Gradually people will forget that we exist. And to make that happen more quickly, that completely senseless bill has been passed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spiritual writer, 1893  If the true revelation of God is in Christ, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7776]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spiritual writer, 1893  If the true revelation of God is in Christ, the Bible is not properly a revelation, but the History of a Revelation. This is not only a Fact but a necessity, for a Person cannot be revealed in a Book, but must find revelation, if at all, in a Person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes a thorn to remove a thorn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21941]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes a thorn to remove a thorn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The will to conquer is the first condition of victory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60603]]></link><description><![CDATA[The will to conquer is the first condition of victory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silence is the ultimate weapon of power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The principle of fashion is . . . the principle of the kaleidoscope. A new year can only bring us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23678]]></link><description><![CDATA[The principle of fashion is . . . the principle of the kaleidoscope. A new year can only bring us a new combination of the same elements; and about once in so often we go back and begin again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63901]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity - but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had to have this purse. It was shaped like a big saddle with stirrups and everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30143]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had to have this purse. It was shaped like a big saddle with stirrups and everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weak souls always set to work at the wrong time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46241]]></link><description><![CDATA[Weak souls always set to work at the wrong time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Christ reveals Himself there is satisfaction in the slenderest portion, and without Christ there is emptiness in the greatest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6824]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Christ reveals Himself there is satisfaction in the slenderest portion, and without Christ there is emptiness in the greatest fulness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44816]]></link><description><![CDATA[The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In honest plainness thou hast heard me say My daughter is not for thee; and now, in madness,  Being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22932]]></link><description><![CDATA[In honest plainness thou hast heard me say My daughter is not for thee; and now, in madness,  Being full of supper and distemp'ring draughts,   Upon malicious knavery does thou come    To start my quiet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22932</guid></item></channel></rss>