<?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[A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry.  But were we burd'ned ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/702]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry.  But were we burd'ned with like weight of pain,   As much or more we should ourselves complain:    So thou, that hast no unkind mate to grieve thee,     With urging helpless patience wouldst relieve me;      But if thou live to see like right bereft,       This fool-begged patience in thee will be left.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have but nine-pence in ready money, but I can draw for a thousand pounds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57326]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have but nine-pence in ready money, but I can draw for a thousand pounds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Willibrord of York, Archbishop of Utrecht, Apostle of Frisia, 739   There never was a pain that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8405]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Willibrord of York, Archbishop of Utrecht, Apostle of Frisia, 739   There never was a pain that befell a man, no frustration or discouragement, however insignificant, that, transferred to God, did not affect God endlessly more than man, and was not infinitely more contrary to Him. So, if God puts up with it for the sake of some good He foresees for you, and if you are willing to suffer what God suffers, and to take what comes to you through Him, then whatever it is, it becomes divine in itself; shame becomes honor, bitterness becomes sweet, and gross darkness, clear light. Everything takes its flavor from God and becomes divine; everything that happens [reveals] God when a man's mind works that way; things all have this one taste; and therefore God is the same to this man alike in life's bitterest moments and sweetest pleasures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No question is so difficult to answer as that which the answer is obvious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52780]]></link><description><![CDATA[No question is so difficult to answer as that which the answer is obvious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53016]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That particular exclusion has disproportionately affected black American citizens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29669]]></link><description><![CDATA[That particular exclusion has disproportionately affected black American citizens.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kissing your hand may make you feel very very good but a diamond and sapphire bracelet lasts forever ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kissing your hand may make you feel very very good but a diamond and sapphire bracelet lasts forever]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The commonest form, one of the most often neglected, and the safest opportunity for the average man to seize, is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45114]]></link><description><![CDATA[The commonest form, one of the most often neglected, and the safest opportunity for the average man to seize, is hard work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best things in life come in threes, like friends, dreams, and memories. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16744]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best things in life come in threes, like friends, dreams, and memories.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For God to explain a trial would be to destroy its purpose, calling forth simple faith and implicit obedience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7569]]></link><description><![CDATA[For God to explain a trial would be to destroy its purpose, calling forth simple faith and implicit obedience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17220]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had, and there is no conceivable human action which custom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10885]]></link><description><![CDATA[Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had, and there is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The oil is good in some ways. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38893]]></link><description><![CDATA[The oil is good in some ways.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24566]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pride of the dewy morning, The swain's experienced eye  From thee takes timely warning.   Nor trusts the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52950]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pride of the dewy morning, The swain's experienced eye  From thee takes timely warning.   Nor trusts the gorgeous sky.   - John Keble,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is not given but exchanged. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18662]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is not given but exchanged.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Very few people in the world would care to listen to the real defense of their own characters. The real ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8275]]></link><description><![CDATA[Very few people in the world would care to listen to the real defense of their own characters. The real defense, the defense which belongs to the Day of Judgment, would make such damaging admissions, would clear away so many artificial virtues, would tell such tragedies of weakness and failure, that a man would sooner be misunderstood and censured by the world than exposed to that awful and merciless eulogy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Part of being a champ is acting like a champ. You have to learn how to win and not run ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22017]]></link><description><![CDATA[Part of being a champ is acting like a champ. You have to learn how to win and not run away when you lose. Everyone has bad stretches and real successes. Either way, you have to be careful not to lose your confidence or get to confident.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our yesterday's to-morrow now is gone, And still a new to-morrow does come on.  We by to-morrow draw out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48928]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our yesterday's to-morrow now is gone, And still a new to-morrow does come on.  We by to-morrow draw out all our store,   Till the exhausted well can yield no more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ignorance is the dominion of absurdity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ignorance is the dominion of absurdity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps our eyes are merely a blank film which is taken from us after our deaths to be developed elsewhere ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21187]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps our eyes are merely a blank film which is taken from us after our deaths to be developed elsewhere and screened as our life story in some infernal cinema or dispatched as microfilm into the sidereal void.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have. -Doris Mortman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4028]]></link><description><![CDATA[Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have. -Doris Mortman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better the feet slip then the tongue. [Better the feet slip than the tongue.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59480]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better the feet slip then the tongue. [Better the feet slip than the tongue.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons that you cannot see with the naked eye unless ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13696]]></link><description><![CDATA[Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15027]]></link><description><![CDATA[In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your thoughts close, and your countenance loose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50139]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your thoughts close, and your countenance loose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4710]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26425]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65734]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The skips (elevators) that once lifted about 4 tons of salt to the surface were eventually replaced with hydraulic hoists ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36328]]></link><description><![CDATA[The skips (elevators) that once lifted about 4 tons of salt to the surface were eventually replaced with hydraulic hoists that can bring up as much as 19 tons.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power has no limits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47971]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power has no limits.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The methods of the natural sciences cannot be applied to human behavior because this behavior...lacks the peculiarity that characterizes events ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56802]]></link><description><![CDATA[The methods of the natural sciences cannot be applied to human behavior because this behavior...lacks the peculiarity that characterizes events in the field of the natural sciences, viz., regularity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it annoys the pig. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58727]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it annoys the pig.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was greek to me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24074]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was greek to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Era of good feeling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Era of good feeling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Boasting TravelerA man who had traveled in foreign lands boasted very much, on returning to his own country, of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1547]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Boasting TravelerA man who had traveled in foreign lands boasted very much, on returning to his own country, of the many wonderful and heroic feats he had performed in the different places he had visited. Among other things, he said that when he was at Rhodes he had leaped to such a distance that no man of his day could leap anywhere near him as to that, there were in Rhodes many persons who saw him do it and whom he could call as witnesses. One of the bystanders interrupted him, saying: Now, my good man, if this be all true there is no need of witnesses. Suppose this to be Rhodes, and leap for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In this bright future you can't forget your past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63442]]></link><description><![CDATA[In this bright future you can't forget your past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable world, words appear to change very little. State power has become congenitally deaf, which is why --but the editorialists forget it --terrorists are reduced to bombs and hijacking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Republic of letters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25254]]></link><description><![CDATA[Republic of letters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We got in late this morning. That wasn't a factor. We just got out here and took things as they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35255]]></link><description><![CDATA[We got in late this morning. That wasn't a factor. We just got out here and took things as they came.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let me show you, the rhyme..Excuse me - but, Lady Liberty needs glassesand so does Mrs. Justice by her sideBoth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52966]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let me show you, the rhyme..Excuse me - but, Lady Liberty needs glassesand so does Mrs. Justice by her sideBoth the broads are blind as bats, stumblin through - the systemJustice bumped into M'Tulu, trippin on Geronimo Prattbut stepped right over Oliver and his crooked partner RonnieJustice stubbed her big toe on MandelaAnd Liberty was misquoted by the IndiansSlavery was just a learning phase, forgotten without a verdictwhile Justice is on a rampagefor endangered survivin black malesI mean really; if anyone REALLY valued lifeand cared about the massesThey'd take 'em both to Pen Opticaland get TWO pairs of glassesExcuse me - but, Lady Liberty needs glassesI'm kickin asses up and down New York CityIt's a pityBrothers wanna be grimy and gritty to each otherWhat would your mother think, smotherin your brother?I see you sink, into another levelDancin with the devilTurn up the bass, cause I'm player; also a rhyme sayerKind of fly, layer after layerWhy.. cause I'm blessedCause I've progressedI've learned my lessonsClass has always been in session, so you better take notesAnd stop chokin on negativity]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I used to watch the world as if it was a performance and I would realize that certain things that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28708]]></link><description><![CDATA[I used to watch the world as if it was a performance and I would realize that certain things that people did moved me, and certain things didn't move me, and I tried to analyze, even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is danger when a man throws his tongue into high gear before he gets his brain a-going. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11063]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is danger when a man throws his tongue into high gear before he gets his brain a-going.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24502]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester, 1095  There are a number of Hebrew words about salvation which also mean ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6187]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester, 1095  There are a number of Hebrew words about salvation which also mean "to bring into a spacious environment", "to be at one's ease", "to be free to develop". "Salvation" can be seen then as the new life in Christ, in which we are to be "free to develop" into Christ-like people. For this maturing to take place, there needs to be a breaking down of barriers, a breaking up of the soil of our personalities, and a healing of inner wounds and hurts. The soil is softened, the clay becomes malleable through the experience of the tender love of God and the accepting, non-judgmental love of Christians. We cannot be beaten into shape.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a powerful potential in out youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62552]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a powerful potential in out youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1161]]></link><description><![CDATA[In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in which all goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those in which the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life is designed to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty and uncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. We survive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn't want it any other way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man suffers death himself as often as he loses those dear to him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51574]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man suffers death himself as often as he loses those dear to him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a part of a continent, a part of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43734]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a part of a continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were . . .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5430]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5430</guid></item></channel></rss>