<?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[Always when I see a man fond of praise I always think it is because he is an affectionate man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1634]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always when I see a man fond of praise I always think it is because he is an affectionate man craving for affection.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11895]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20750]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/976]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our own form of right action is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16037]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56616]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52486]]></link><description><![CDATA[The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  Every true prayer has its background and its foreground. The foreground of prayer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7491]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  Every true prayer has its background and its foreground. The foreground of prayer is the intense, immediate desire for a certain blessing which seems to be absolutely necessary for the soul to have; the background of prayer is the quiet, earnest desire that the will of God, whatever it may be, should be done. What a picture is the perfect prayer of Jesus in Gethsemane! In front burns the strong desire to escape death and to live; but behind there stands, calm and strong, the craving of the whole life for the doing of the will of God... Leave out the foreground, let there be no expression of the will of him who prays, and there is left a pure submission which is almost fatalism. Leave out the background, let there be no acceptance of the will of God, and the prayer is only an expression of self-will, a petulant claiming of the uncorrected choice of him who prays. Only when the two are there together, the special desire resting on the universal submission, the universal submission opening into the special desire, is the picture perfect and the prayer complete.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11974]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It can hardly be denied that such a demand quite arbitrarily limits the facts which are to be admitted as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35200]]></link><description><![CDATA[It can hardly be denied that such a demand quite arbitrarily limits the facts which are to be admitted as possible causes of the events which occur in the real world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43980]]></link><description><![CDATA[The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For bonny sweet Robin is all my joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23436]]></link><description><![CDATA[For bonny sweet Robin is all my joy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59275]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2884]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53466]]></link><description><![CDATA[The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Begging a courtesy is selling liberty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50970]]></link><description><![CDATA[Begging a courtesy is selling liberty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Back of the boy is Wilson, Pledge of his high degree,  Back of the boy is Lincoln,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57145]]></link><description><![CDATA[Back of the boy is Wilson, Pledge of his high degree,  Back of the boy is Lincoln,   Lincoln and Grant and Lee;    Back of the boy is Jackson,     Jackson and Tippecanoe,      Back of each son is Washington,       And the old red, white and blue!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13947]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some force whole regions, in despite O' geography, to change their site;  Make former times shake hands with latter, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some force whole regions, in despite O' geography, to change their site;  Make former times shake hands with latter,   And that which was before come after;    But those that write in rhyme still make     The one verse for the other's sake;      For one for sense, and one for rhyme,       I think's sufficient at one time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66010]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He had a good look. From my angle, it looked like it might fall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37569]]></link><description><![CDATA[He had a good look. From my angle, it looked like it might fall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We who revel in nature's diversity and feel instructed by every animal tend to brand Homo sapiens as the greatest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43846]]></link><description><![CDATA[We who revel in nature's diversity and feel instructed by every animal tend to brand Homo sapiens as the greatest catastrophe since the Cretaceous extinction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are men who never err, because they never propose anything rational. [Ger., Est giebt Menschen die gar nicht irren, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14159]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are men who never err, because they never propose anything rational. [Ger., Est giebt Menschen die gar nicht irren, weil sie sich nichts Vernunftiges vorsetzen.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John Chrysostom, Bishop of Constantinople, Teacher, 407  You must not lose confidence in God because you lost ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John Chrysostom, Bishop of Constantinople, Teacher, 407  You must not lose confidence in God because you lost confidence in your pastor. If our confidence in God had to depend upon our confidence in any human person, we would be on shifting sand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A winning wave, (deserving note.) In the tempestuous petticote,  A careless shoe-string, in whose tye   I see ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2738]]></link><description><![CDATA[A winning wave, (deserving note.) In the tempestuous petticote,  A careless shoe-string, in whose tye   I see a wilde civility,--    Doe more bewitch me than when art     Is too precise in every part.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a body meet a body going to the Fair, If a body kiss a body need a body care? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23827]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a body meet a body going to the Fair, If a body kiss a body need a body care?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5496]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glory paid to our ashes comes too late. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17568]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glory paid to our ashes comes too late.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are all in the same boat in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25989]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are all in the same boat in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This gives us a range of things we could do. Some of that is pretty big dollar amounts. The next ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31908]]></link><description><![CDATA[This gives us a range of things we could do. Some of that is pretty big dollar amounts. The next step will be ... how do we choose among those options and how do we pay for it?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61057]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a great difference between worry and concern. A worried person sees a problem, and a concerned person solves ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9627]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a great difference between worry and concern. A worried person sees a problem, and a concerned person solves a problem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd be under the nearest table the second I felt the first shudder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30384]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd be under the nearest table the second I felt the first shudder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Qualities absolutely necessary for a historian: (1) Imagination. (2) Prejudice. (3) The power of writing your own biography at the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Qualities absolutely necessary for a historian: (1) Imagination. (2) Prejudice. (3) The power of writing your own biography at the same time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56425]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15637]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13985]]></link><description><![CDATA[Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart is forever inexperienced. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13747]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart is forever inexperienced.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People's reactions can be surprising but, if you have overwhelming news, I suppose the only thing you can do is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42538]]></link><description><![CDATA[People's reactions can be surprising but, if you have overwhelming news, I suppose the only thing you can do is just look, because you're stunned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47122]]></link><description><![CDATA[You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65860]]></link><description><![CDATA[I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nostalgia is a seductive liar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nostalgia is a seductive liar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59869]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People want to be able to use more of their outdoor space, and they want flexibility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33316]]></link><description><![CDATA[People want to be able to use more of their outdoor space, and they want flexibility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10473]]></link><description><![CDATA[How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you review them from someone else's perspective, you have a better filtering system to filter out people that wouldn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39435]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you review them from someone else's perspective, you have a better filtering system to filter out people that wouldn't work for you,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot do that through acquisitions alone. The real engine of growth is the core businesses themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31367]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot do that through acquisitions alone. The real engine of growth is the core businesses themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We judge other according to results; how else?--not knowing the process by which results are arrived at. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23531]]></link><description><![CDATA[We judge other according to results; how else?--not knowing the process by which results are arrived at.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art thou a magistrate? then be severe: If studious, copy fair what time hath blurr'd,  Redeem truth from his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23500]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art thou a magistrate? then be severe: If studious, copy fair what time hath blurr'd,  Redeem truth from his jaws: if a soldier,   Chase brave employments with a naked sword    Throughout the world. Fool not, for all may have     If they dare try, a glorious life, or grave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I must learn to love the fool in me the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5473]]></link><description><![CDATA[I must learn to love the fool in me the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5473</guid></item></channel></rss>