<?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[True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1265]]></link><description><![CDATA[True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great collections of books are subject to certain accidents besides the damp, the worms, and the rats; one not less ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4740]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great collections of books are subject to certain accidents besides the damp, the worms, and the rats; one not less common is that of the borrowers, not to say a word of the purloiners.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas, we but chase feathers flying in the air, and tire our own spirits, for the froth and over-gilded clay ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas, we but chase feathers flying in the air, and tire our own spirits, for the froth and over-gilded clay of a dying life. One sight of what my Lord hath let me see within this short time, is worth a world of worlds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But we that have but span-long life, The thicker must lay on the pleasure;  And since time will not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44509]]></link><description><![CDATA[But we that have but span-long life, The thicker must lay on the pleasure;  And since time will not stay,   We'll add night to the day,    Thus, thus we'll fill the measure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worship and birth to me are known By look, by bearing, and by tone,  Not by furred robe, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51114]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worship and birth to me are known By look, by bearing, and by tone,  Not by furred robe, or broidered zone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret is out. There is something decent unfolding in Iraq. It's unfolding in the shadow of a terrible insurgency, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34956]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret is out. There is something decent unfolding in Iraq. It's unfolding in the shadow of a terrible insurgency, but a society is finding its way to constitutional politics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47557]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No really great man ever thought himself so.   - William Hazlitt, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18258]]></link><description><![CDATA[No really great man ever thought himself so.   - William Hazlitt,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26870]]></link><description><![CDATA[In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the rich man, Lazarus was part of the landscape. If ever he did notice him, it never struck him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7785]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the rich man, Lazarus was part of the landscape. If ever he did notice him, it never struck him that Lazarus had anything to do with him. He was simply unaware of his presence, or, if he was aware of it, he had no sense of responsibility for it... A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62761]]></link><description><![CDATA[A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
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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[Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9869]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who pauses on the paths of treason, Halts on a quicksand, the first step engulfs him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59646]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who pauses on the paths of treason, Halts on a quicksand, the first step engulfs him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[High in his chariot glow'd the lamp of day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58287]]></link><description><![CDATA[High in his chariot glow'd the lamp of day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10569]]></link><description><![CDATA[First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am concerned because even in the past two years that were the jubilee years, I have seen evident signs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30148]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am concerned because even in the past two years that were the jubilee years, I have seen evident signs which show that the people are still in great difficulties, and there are things that still need to be remedied and looked after in many areas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27221]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We often say how impressive power is. But I do not find it impressive at all. The guns and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47959]]></link><description><![CDATA[We often say how impressive power is. But I do not find it impressive at all. The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure. They are necessary symbols. They protect what we cherish. But they are witness to hum.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have tied me to a stake. I cannot fly, But bear-like I must fight the course. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12014]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have tied me to a stake. I cannot fly, But bear-like I must fight the course.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her physical-education teacher in junior high was always impressed with her running talent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39480]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her physical-education teacher in junior high was always impressed with her running talent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Technology is fine. . ., but that popular vision of the future, where you plug somebody in and leave them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60858]]></link><description><![CDATA[Technology is fine. . ., but that popular vision of the future, where you plug somebody in and leave them there and they don't get out and interact with actual flesh-and-blood humans -- you know the answer before I say it -- that's not good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People seem to think that life began with the achievement of personal independence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39550]]></link><description><![CDATA[People seem to think that life began with the achievement of personal independence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15145]]></link><description><![CDATA[Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mode in which the inevitable comes to pass is through effort. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59897]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mode in which the inevitable comes to pass is through effort.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True praise rootes and spreedes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50021]]></link><description><![CDATA[True praise rootes and spreedes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cat is above all things, a dramatist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12818]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cat is above all things, a dramatist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60627]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Jack Winslow, Missionary, Evangelist, 1974  Let him who cannot be alone beware of community. He will only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8578]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Jack Winslow, Missionary, Evangelist, 1974  Let him who cannot be alone beware of community. He will only do harm to himself and to the community. Alone you stood before God when He called you; alone you had to answer that call; alone you had to struggle and pray; and alone you will die and give an account to God. You cannot escape yourself; for God has singled you out. If you refuse to be alone, you are rejecting Christ's call to you, and you can have no part in the community of those who are called.... Let him who is not in community beware of being alone. Into the community you were called -- the call was not meant for you alone; in the community of the called you bear your cross, you struggle, you pray. You are not alone even in death, and on the Last Day you will be only one of the great congregation of Jesus Christ. If you scorn the fellowship of the brethren, you reject the call of Jesus Christ.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I wish life had a fast-forward button. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I wish life had a fast-forward button.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274  The very Nazis look at you with wonderment and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8029]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274  The very Nazis look at you with wonderment and an open contempt! For even they are sure that to live for nothing higher than oneself is to lose life; that life, to be called life, can be found only in serving something bigger than one's personal interests; something that crowds these out of mind and heart, till one forgets about them and lives wholly, and without exception, for that other, worthier thing... It is long since Aristotle told us that only barbarians have as their ideal the wish to live as they please, and to do what they like. And the New Testament gravely sets us down before the Cross, and bids us gaze, and still gaze, and keep gazing, till the fact has soaked itself into our minds that that, not less than that, is now the standard set us, and that whatever in our lives clashes with that is sin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27101]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love and a cough cannot be hid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love and a cough cannot be hid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2425]]></link><description><![CDATA[Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We liberated 24 cases of Scotch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34132]]></link><description><![CDATA[We liberated 24 cases of Scotch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At every close she made, th' attending throng Replied, and bore the burden of the song:  So just, so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56450]]></link><description><![CDATA[At every close she made, th' attending throng Replied, and bore the burden of the song:  So just, so small, yet in so sweet a note,   It seemed the music melted in the throat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10446]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66846]]></link><description><![CDATA[The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of course it's benefited from commodity prices, but it's growing organically well above average. They have a good inventory of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39165]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of course it's benefited from commodity prices, but it's growing organically well above average. They have a good inventory of projects to continue this above-average production growth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is impossible, the word itself says "I'm possible"!" ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is impossible, the word itself says "I'm possible"!"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The road to ruin is always in good repair, and the travellers pay the expense of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65118]]></link><description><![CDATA[The road to ruin is always in good repair, and the travellers pay the expense of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acting gave me the opportunity to do outrageous things. It allowed me to be sad, happy, angry and lustful even ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37949]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acting gave me the opportunity to do outrageous things. It allowed me to be sad, happy, angry and lustful even if it was just vicariously.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evaluation and judgment are responses to what exists, sorting the things that pass before us into categories of good, bad, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51994]]></link><description><![CDATA[Evaluation and judgment are responses to what exists, sorting the things that pass before us into categories of good, bad, and indifferent. But a rational life, the life of a valuer, does not consist essentially in reaction. It consists in action. Man does not find his values, like the other animals; he creates them. The primary focus of a valuer is not to take the world as it comes and pass judgment. His primary focus is to identify what might and ought to exist, to uncover potentialities that he can exploit, to find ways of reshaping the world in the image of his values.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cheese -- milk's leap forward to immortality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20622]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cheese -- milk's leap forward to immortality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've developed a new philosophy... I only dread one day at a time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10428]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've developed a new philosophy... I only dread one day at a time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of success is constancy of purpose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12302]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of success is constancy of purpose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[…the analogy between the noises we make when these noises do not symbolize anything which exists, and the worthless checks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24227]]></link><description><![CDATA[…the analogy between the noises we make when these noises do not symbolize anything which exists, and the worthless checks we write when our bank balance is zero…]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63793]]></link><description><![CDATA[The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63793</guid></item></channel></rss>