<?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[It was a cold winter Sunday afternoon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4626]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a cold winter Sunday afternoon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I saw a smith stand with his hammer, thus, The whilst his iron did on the anvil cool, With open ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55799]]></link><description><![CDATA[I saw a smith stand with his hammer, thus, The whilst his iron did on the anvil cool, With open mouth swallowing a tailor's news. -King John. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books are humanity in print. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4503]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books are humanity in print.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doubting charms me not less than knowledge. [It., Non menno che saper, dubbiar m'aggrata.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12747]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doubting charms me not less than knowledge. [It., Non menno che saper, dubbiar m'aggrata.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the long run, we only hit what we aim at. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45109]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good-morrow to thy sable beak, And glossy plumage, dark and sleek,  Thy crimson moon and azure eye,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good-morrow to thy sable beak, And glossy plumage, dark and sleek,  Thy crimson moon and azure eye,   Cock of the heath, so wildly shy!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I find a film dull, I find it infinitely more entertaining to watch the scratches. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43356]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I find a film dull, I find it infinitely more entertaining to watch the scratches.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59610]]></link><description><![CDATA[And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a wise father that knows his own child. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55573]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a wise father that knows his own child. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Misery travels free through the whole world! [Ger., Frei geht das Ungluck durch die ganze Erde!] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Misery travels free through the whole world! [Ger., Frei geht das Ungluck durch die ganze Erde!]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's definitely nice to get in. I knew it would be a challenge against that team. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28807]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's definitely nice to get in. I knew it would be a challenge against that team.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By starlight, I'll kiss you, and promise to be your one and only. I'll make you feel happy and leave ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23845]]></link><description><![CDATA[By starlight, I'll kiss you, and promise to be your one and only. I'll make you feel happy and leave you to be lost in mine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They keep saying the right person will come along, I think mine got hit by a truck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27045]]></link><description><![CDATA[They keep saying the right person will come along, I think mine got hit by a truck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder.Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels.Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies.Elves are glamorous. They project ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26632]]></link><description><![CDATA[Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder.Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels.Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies.Elves are glamorous. They project glamour.Elves are enchanting. They weave enchantment.Elves are terrific. They beget terror.The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning.No one ever said elves are nice.Elves are bad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis no sin love's fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal;  To be taken, to be seen, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10662]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis no sin love's fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal;  To be taken, to be seen,   These have crimes accounted been.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mass enormous! which, in modern days No two of earth's degenerate sons could raise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57940]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mass enormous! which, in modern days No two of earth's degenerate sons could raise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20263]]></link><description><![CDATA[I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That perfect devoting ourselves to God, from which devotion has its name, requires that we should not only do the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6550]]></link><description><![CDATA[That perfect devoting ourselves to God, from which devotion has its name, requires that we should not only do the will of God, but also that we should do it with love. "He loveth a cheerful giver," and without the heart no obedience is acceptable to Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63054]]></link><description><![CDATA[The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A storm in a cream bowl.   - James Butler, first Duke of Ormonde, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57895]]></link><description><![CDATA[A storm in a cream bowl.   - James Butler, first Duke of Ormonde,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beginning a short series of verse on Christ:   ... They haled him, trembling, to the Judgement Seat.  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beginning a short series of verse on Christ:   ... They haled him, trembling, to the Judgement Seat.  "O Lord, behold the man who made the nails that pierced Thy feet!"  The Master laid a thin, scarred hand upon the shame-bowed head.  "They were good nails," he said...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With this rescue in West Virginia , I feel even more helpless because I'm here, and not doing much other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30208]]></link><description><![CDATA[With this rescue in West Virginia , I feel even more helpless because I'm here, and not doing much other than praying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A doctrine capable of being stated only in obscure and involved terms is open to reasonable suspicion of being either ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12625]]></link><description><![CDATA[A doctrine capable of being stated only in obscure and involved terms is open to reasonable suspicion of being either crude or erroneous]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object. -Laurence J. Peter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45511]]></link><description><![CDATA[Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object. -Laurence J. Peter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[hey i'd like to daze away to a place no one has known in a state of mind i could ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24601]]></link><description><![CDATA[hey i'd like to daze away to a place no one has known in a state of mind i could call mine, that only i could own where i could hum a tune any time i choose and there's no such thing as time where i can feel no pain, just calm and sane what a place for one to find]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A novel is never anything but a philosophy put into images. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25384]]></link><description><![CDATA[A novel is never anything but a philosophy put into images.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Summer time an' the livin' is easy, Fish are jumpin' an' the cotton is high.  Oh, yo' daddy's rich, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58259]]></link><description><![CDATA[Summer time an' the livin' is easy, Fish are jumpin' an' the cotton is high.  Oh, yo' daddy's rich, and yo' ma' is good-lookin',   So hush, little baby, don' yo' cry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The police are not going to run this court. The defendants are not going to run this court. The defense ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46881]]></link><description><![CDATA[The police are not going to run this court. The defendants are not going to run this court. The defense attorneys are not going to run this court. The district attorney is not going to run this court. I'm going to run this court.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, And wretches hang that jurymen may dine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23511]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, And wretches hang that jurymen may dine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27125]]></link><description><![CDATA[Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some have meat but cannot eat; Some could eat but have no meat;  We have meat and can all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59410]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some have meat but cannot eat; Some could eat but have no meat;  We have meat and can all eat;   Blest, therefore, be God for our meat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The biggest things are often the easiest to do because there is so little competition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57489]]></link><description><![CDATA[The biggest things are often the easiest to do because there is so little competition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13432]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13432</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[I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8817]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast,  Still to be powder'd, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast,  Still to be powder'd, all perfum'd.   Lady, it is to be presumed,    Though art's hid causes are not found,     All is not sweet, all is not sound.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ash Wednesday  The apologetic of the New Testament, and of the early centuries generally, was addressed to men who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8153]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ash Wednesday  The apologetic of the New Testament, and of the early centuries generally, was addressed to men who had been brought up within one or other of the great pre-Christian religious systems and who had staunchly defended their own inherited traditions against the innovation of the Christian outlook; whereas any apologetic that is to be effective in this country today must be addressed to men who stand within the inheritance of the Christian tradition and know nothing, save by hearsay, of any other, but who have now in varying degrees disengaged themselves from this tradition and whose quarrel with Christianity is therefore undertaken from the point of view either of no religion at all or of some very vague and tenuous residuum of Christian religiosity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Huns, wops, gooks, Japs..words to dehumanizeand demonize. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16906]]></link><description><![CDATA[Huns, wops, gooks, Japs..words to dehumanizeand demonize.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Necessity is the mother of invention. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Necessity is the mother of invention.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is in the details. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21776]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is in the details.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When God will punish, hee will first take away the understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50071]]></link><description><![CDATA[When God will punish, hee will first take away the understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46890]]></link><description><![CDATA[For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60172]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The press, the pulpit, and the stage, Conspire to censure and expose our age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10740]]></link><description><![CDATA[The press, the pulpit, and the stage, Conspire to censure and expose our age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3261]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good Judge conceives quickly, judges slowly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49029]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good Judge conceives quickly, judges slowly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20507]]></link><description><![CDATA[To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All great ideas are dangerous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20282]]></link><description><![CDATA[All great ideas are dangerous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is my seventh decade... and every once in a while I get a hankering to re-visit these songs again... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34242]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is my seventh decade... and every once in a while I get a hankering to re-visit these songs again... songs with which I have had a great relationship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34242</guid></item></channel></rss>