<?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[The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6023]]></link><description><![CDATA[The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation. -Pearl S. Buck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, he's a limb that has but a disease: Mortal, to cut it off; to cure it, easy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12496]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, he's a limb that has but a disease: Mortal, to cut it off; to cure it, easy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest god. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4846]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest god. [Lat., Fortis vero, dolorem summum malum judicans; aut temperans, voluptatem summum bonum statuens, esse certe nullo modo potest.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am never long, even in the society of her I love, without yearning for the company of my lamp ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25392]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am never long, even in the society of her I love, without yearning for the company of my lamp and my library.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One must not cheat anybody, not even the world of one's triumph. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5825]]></link><description><![CDATA[One must not cheat anybody, not even the world of one's triumph.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cruelest lies are often told in silence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26152]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cruelest lies are often told in silence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the last of earth! I am content. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24114]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the last of earth! I am content.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cheerful at morn he wakes from short repose, Breathes the keen air, and carols as he goes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cheerful at morn he wakes from short repose, Breathes the keen air, and carols as he goes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! virtue is at hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! virtue is at hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58505]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around wondering about yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[main line of investigation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29315]]></link><description><![CDATA[main line of investigation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the peculiarities of the American Revolution was that its leaders pinned their hopes on the organization of decision-making ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47139]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the peculiarities of the American Revolution was that its leaders pinned their hopes on the organization of decision-making units, the structuring of their incentives, and the counterbalancing of the units against one another, rather than on the more usual (and more exciting) principle of substituting "the good guys" for "the bad guys.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't. Thanks to Maria ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55067]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't. Thanks to Maria Marquis Thoreau There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strives in vain to relieve. -Margaret Thatcher.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Direct The clasping ivy where to climb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Direct The clasping ivy where to climb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53651]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All three of us had a vision for an exceptional opera program. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28885]]></link><description><![CDATA[All three of us had a vision for an exceptional opera program.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would fain die a dry death. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56109]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would fain die a dry death. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas à Kempis, priest, spiritual writer, 1471   It is no great matter to associate with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas à Kempis, priest, spiritual writer, 1471   It is no great matter to associate with the good and gentle; for this is a naturally pleasing to all, and everyone willingly enjoyeth peace, and loveth those best that agree with him. But to be able to live peaceably with hard and perverse persons, or with the disorderly, or with such as go contrary to us, is a great grace, and a most commendable thing.  ... Thomas à Kempis July 25, 2000 Feast of James the Apostle  When Jesus calls his disciples "brothers" and "friends", he is contradicting general Jewish usage and breaking through into a new concept of brotherhood which is not tribal, but open to any person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And beauty, for confiding youth, Those shocks of passion can prepare  That kill the bloom before its time,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45622]]></link><description><![CDATA[And beauty, for confiding youth, Those shocks of passion can prepare  That kill the bloom before its time,   And blanch, without the owner's crime,    The most resplendent hair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the first time we've heard about this proposal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38203]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the first time we've heard about this proposal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16888]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23591]]></link><description><![CDATA[The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no past or future. Using tenses to divide time is like making chalk marks on water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65981]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no past or future. Using tenses to divide time is like making chalk marks on water.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The frivolous work of polished idleness.   - Sir James Mackintosh, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20342]]></link><description><![CDATA[The frivolous work of polished idleness.   - Sir James Mackintosh,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3256]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was no end to the ways in which nice things are nicer than nasty ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40152]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was no end to the ways in which nice things are nicer than nasty ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47904]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blood cannot be washed out with blood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4345]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blood cannot be washed out with blood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4320]]></link><description><![CDATA[The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John & Henry Venn, Priests, Evangelical Divines, 1813, 1873   Here [in the Gospels] is something that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6405]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John & Henry Venn, Priests, Evangelical Divines, 1813, 1873   Here [in the Gospels] is something that the layman can hold on to, quite apart from the vagaries of critical scholarship, for it is a portrait unaffected by the authenticity of any particular saying or story. Such an encounter with the historical Jesus is, of course, not the same as Christian faith in him. Even Caiaphas, Herod, and Pontius Pilate encountered him in this way. Christian faith is still a matter of decision -- either this Man is God's redemptive act, or he is not. Nor is the historical Jesus the object of our faith. That object is the Risen Christ preached by the Church. But the Risen Christ is in continuity with the historical Jesus, and it is the historical Jesus which makes the Risen Christ not just an abstraction, but clothes him with flesh and blood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to heaven is sent;  Long may thy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54887]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to heaven is sent;  Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil   Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Between two hawks, which flies the higher pitch, Between two dogs, which hath the deeper mouth,  Between two blades, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Between two hawks, which flies the higher pitch, Between two dogs, which hath the deeper mouth,  Between two blades, which bears the better temper,   Between two horses, which doth bear him best,    Between two girls, which hath the merriest eye,     I have perhaps some shallow spirit of judgment;      But in these nice sharp quillets of the law,       Good faith, I am no wiser than a daw.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes in our confusion, we see not the world as it is, but the world though eyes blurred by the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1468]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes in our confusion, we see not the world as it is, but the world though eyes blurred by the mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26732]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4227]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All has been looted, betrayed, sold; black death's wing flashed ahead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29395]]></link><description><![CDATA[All has been looted, betrayed, sold; black death's wing flashed ahead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brigid, Abbess of Kildare, c.525   After Calvary, God has the right to be trusted; to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brigid, Abbess of Kildare, c.525   After Calvary, God has the right to be trusted; to be believed that He means what He says; and that His love is dependable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ox and the FrogAn ox drinking at a pool trod on a brood of young frogs and crushed one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1581]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Ox and the FrogAn ox drinking at a pool trod on a brood of young frogs and crushed one of them to death. The Mother coming up, and missing one of her sons, inquired of his brothers what had become of him. He is dead, dear Mother; for just now a very huge beast with four great feet came to the pool and crushed him to death with his cloven heel. The Frog, puffing herself out, inquired, if the beast was as big as that in size. Cease, Mother, to puff yourself out, said her son, and do not be angry; for you would, I assure you, sooner burst than successfully imitate the hugeness of that monster.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Builders, raise the ceiling high, Raise the dome into the sky,  Hear the wedding song!   For the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Builders, raise the ceiling high, Raise the dome into the sky,  Hear the wedding song!   For the happy groom is near,    Tall as Mars, and statelier,     Hear the wedding song!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like letting people in on the process. When we did a speed-dating scene, we hired all these hilarious women ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39256]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like letting people in on the process. When we did a speed-dating scene, we hired all these hilarious women ... and let them go off on Steve. ... If something's funny, I hate for it to just sit in a basement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59589]]></link><description><![CDATA[I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consideration, like an angel, came And whipped the offending Adam out of him. -King Henry V. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55945]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consideration, like an angel, came And whipped the offending Adam out of him. -King Henry V. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22909]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success in crime always invites to worse deeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48910]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success in crime always invites to worse deeds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seven principles for eradicating selfish ambition in the fellowship: 2. the ministry of meekness   He who would learn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8606]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seven principles for eradicating selfish ambition in the fellowship: 2. the ministry of meekness   He who would learn to serve must first learn to think little of himself... Only he who lives by the forgiveness of his sin in Jesus Christ will rightly think little of himself. He will know that his own wisdom reached the end of its tether when Jesus forgave him. He will know that it is good for his own will to be broken in the encounter with his neighbor...   But not only my neighbor's will, but also his honor is more important than mine. The desire for one's own honor hinders faith. One who seeks his own honor is no longer seeking God and his neighbor. What does it matter if I suffer injustice? Would I not have deserved even worse punishment from God, if He had not dealt with me according to His mercy?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18122]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most dramatic entrance for an autograph was probably when I was in Edmonton Alberta Canada or... whatever, and she ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15295]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most dramatic entrance for an autograph was probably when I was in Edmonton Alberta Canada or... whatever, and she jumped on my back and asked for the autograph. She was so cool and she said she wanted to be in a band... Well, whoever that was, I totally support you!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ten day ago I drowned these news in tears; And now, to add more measure to your woes,  I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44472]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ten day ago I drowned these news in tears; And now, to add more measure to your woes,  I come to tell you things sith then befallen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love taught him shame; and shame, with love at strife, Soon taught the sweet civilities of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56127]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love taught him shame; and shame, with love at strife, Soon taught the sweet civilities of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56127</guid></item></channel></rss>