<?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[Feast of Thomas Ken, Bishop of Bath & Wells, Hymnographer, 1711  [The] doctrine of [inevitable] progress sustained our fathers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6477]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Ken, Bishop of Bath & Wells, Hymnographer, 1711  [The] doctrine of [inevitable] progress sustained our fathers in the carrying of capitalistic democratic culture to most parts of the globe. Its core was the conviction that, in thus extending the range of western liberal culture and developing its assumptions, they were in effect establishing on earth that which would grow into the kingdom of God. Some put it sharply but un-Biblically: "building the kingdom"; others, of a more secular turn of mind, echoed J. A. Symonds' hymn, "These Things Shall Be". That whole view exists today only as debris, for it has foundered on the rocks, not so much of human sin, as of the contradictions and complexities of the very western culture that was the substance of its belief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone has their ups and downs, I decided to have mine between good and great! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28022]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone has their ups and downs, I decided to have mine between good and great!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am the last man in the world to say that the succor which is given us from America is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62234]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am the last man in the world to say that the succor which is given us from America is not in itself something to rejoice at greatly. But I also say that I can see more in the knowledge that America is going to win a right to be at the conference table when the terms of peace are discussed. . . . It would have been a tragedy for mankind if America had not been there, and there with all her influence and power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tommy looked fine. He had only two walks and located the ball well. He gave up three runs in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tommy looked fine. He had only two walks and located the ball well. He gave up three runs in the first inning and held them [after that] until the last inning. He mixes his pitches up well and is comfortable throwing any pitch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the long run, the pessimist may be proven right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46434]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the long run, the pessimist may be proven right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having nothing, nothing can he lose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having nothing, nothing can he lose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, we started about 24 years ago demonstrating corn-husk weaving at the Boone County Conservatory and, well, one thing leads ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31888]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, we started about 24 years ago demonstrating corn-husk weaving at the Boone County Conservatory and, well, one thing leads to another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An old friend is a new house. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49128]]></link><description><![CDATA[An old friend is a new house.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20587]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature drawes more then ten teemes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49638]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature drawes more then ten teemes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought so hard I got a headache. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1121]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought so hard I got a headache.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These evils I deserve, and more . . . .  Justly, yet despair not of his final pardon,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16511]]></link><description><![CDATA[These evils I deserve, and more . . . .  Justly, yet despair not of his final pardon,   Whose ear is ever open, and his eye    Gracious to re-admit the suppliant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The streams, rejoiced that winter's work is done, Talk of to-morrow's cowslips as they run.   - Ebenezer Elliott ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4919]]></link><description><![CDATA[The streams, rejoiced that winter's work is done, Talk of to-morrow's cowslips as they run.   - Ebenezer Elliott ("The Corn Law Rhymer"),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's smart. But it's like a learning disability. If you're talking to him straight on, you either have to repeat ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33591]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's smart. But it's like a learning disability. If you're talking to him straight on, you either have to repeat it so he can catch on to it or he'll catch it the first time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For there's nae luck about the house; There's nae luck at aw;  There's little pleasure in the house  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/152]]></link><description><![CDATA[For there's nae luck about the house; There's nae luck at aw;  There's little pleasure in the house   When our gudeman's awa.   - William Julius Mickle,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each night the Tree of Nutout of naught knits neat nuts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each night the Tree of Nutout of naught knits neat nuts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Home improvement retailers like Lowe's have large bulky merchandise in our stores and we carry big quantities of these products, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31547]]></link><description><![CDATA[Home improvement retailers like Lowe's have large bulky merchandise in our stores and we carry big quantities of these products, as many as 40,000 products.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The scourge of life, and death's extreme disgrace, The smoke of hell,--that monster called Paine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45371]]></link><description><![CDATA[The scourge of life, and death's extreme disgrace, The smoke of hell,--that monster called Paine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ages elapsed ere Homer's lamp appeared, And ages ere the Mantuan Swan was heard;  To carry nature lengths unknown ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ages elapsed ere Homer's lamp appeared, And ages ere the Mantuan Swan was heard;  To carry nature lengths unknown before,   To give a Milton birth, asked ages more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Youth is wasted on the young. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1734]]></link><description><![CDATA[Youth is wasted on the young.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We may outrun, By violent swiftness, that which we run at,  And lose by over-running. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51355]]></link><description><![CDATA[We may outrun, By violent swiftness, that which we run at,  And lose by over-running.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't say it's autobiographical, but I do tell a number of anecdotes that I think are amusing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29915]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't say it's autobiographical, but I do tell a number of anecdotes that I think are amusing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'll see how things go in the morning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36225]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'll see how things go in the morning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If God wants people to suffer, he sends them too much understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61098]]></link><description><![CDATA[If God wants people to suffer, he sends them too much understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52819]]></link><description><![CDATA[You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a scientist were to cut his ear off, no one would take it as evidence of a heightened sensibility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54830]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a scientist were to cut his ear off, no one would take it as evidence of a heightened sensibility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is the fire-proofer of emotions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is the fire-proofer of emotions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that by and large chess players have been very kind. Like I said there have been a few ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42277]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that by and large chess players have been very kind. Like I said there have been a few incidents, but they certainly didn't serve to bring me down any.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27269]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disease is an experience of mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body. Divine Science takes away this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Disease is an experience of mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body. Divine Science takes away this physical sense of discord, just as it removes a sense of moral or mental inharmony.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambassadors are the eye and ear of states. [It., Gli ambasciadori sono l'occhio e l'orecchio degli stati.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57844]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambassadors are the eye and ear of states. [It., Gli ambasciadori sono l'occhio e l'orecchio degli stati.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We read poetry because the poets, like ourselves, have been haunted by the inescapable tyranny of time and death; have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25338]]></link><description><![CDATA[We read poetry because the poets, like ourselves, have been haunted by the inescapable tyranny of time and death; have suffered the pain of loss, and the more wearing, continuous pain of frustration and failure; and have had moods of unlooked-for release and peace. They have known and watched in themselves and others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children have more need of models than of critics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6015]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children have more need of models than of critics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us live for the beauty of our own reality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53041]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34287]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revenge is the abject pleasure of an abject mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60473]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revenge is the abject pleasure of an abject mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why should Ireland be treated as a geographical fragment of England . . . Ireland is not a geographical fragment, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23051]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why should Ireland be treated as a geographical fragment of England . . . Ireland is not a geographical fragment, but a nation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was very comfortable taking a second role to him. There is no doubt about his ability to step up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39636]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was very comfortable taking a second role to him. There is no doubt about his ability to step up in big games.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thank the McAllen Police Department for assisting us in bringing this man to justice, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35974]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thank the McAllen Police Department for assisting us in bringing this man to justice,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Treading the soil of the moon, palpitating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendor of the event, feeling in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14759]]></link><description><![CDATA[Treading the soil of the moon, palpitating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendor of the event, feeling in the pit of one's stomach the separation from terra - these form the most romantic sensation an explorer has ever known]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I guess we were all guilty, in a way. We all shot him, we all skinned him, and we all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11756]]></link><description><![CDATA[I guess we were all guilty, in a way. We all shot him, we all skinned him, and we all got a complimentary bumper sticker that said, "I helped skin Bob.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56570]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all need each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64763]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all need each other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greater the loyalty of a group toward the group, the greater is the motivation among the members to achieve ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17630]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greater the loyalty of a group toward the group, the greater is the motivation among the members to achieve the goals of the group, and the greater the probability that the group will achieve its goals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Arrestment, sudden really as a bolt out of the blue has hit strange victims. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56511]]></link><description><![CDATA[Arrestment, sudden really as a bolt out of the blue has hit strange victims.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sweeter sound of woman's praise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48015]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sweeter sound of woman's praise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I pray your Highness mark this curious herb: Touch it but lightly, stroke it softly, Sir,  And it gives ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58482]]></link><description><![CDATA[I pray your Highness mark this curious herb: Touch it but lightly, stroke it softly, Sir,  And it gives forth an odor sweet and rare;   But crush it harshly and you'll make a scent    Most disagreeable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wise old owl lived in an oak; The more he saw the less he spoke; The less he spoke ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25214]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wise old owl lived in an oak; The more he saw the less he spoke; The less he spoke the more he heard: Why can't we all be like that bird? -Edward H. Richards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25214</guid></item></channel></rss>