<?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[Curse on his virtues! they've undone his country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60759]]></link><description><![CDATA[Curse on his virtues! they've undone his country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the best book ever written by any man on the wrong side of a question of which he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4601]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the best book ever written by any man on the wrong side of a question of which he is profoundly ignorant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though you see a Church-man ill, yet continue in the Church still. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though you see a Church-man ill, yet continue in the Church still.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy is the feeling of grinning inside. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23384]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Excessive liberty leads both nations and individuals into excessive slavery. [Lat., Nimia libertas et populis et privatis in nimiam servitutem ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56582]]></link><description><![CDATA[Excessive liberty leads both nations and individuals into excessive slavery. [Lat., Nimia libertas et populis et privatis in nimiam servitutem cadit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54660]]></link><description><![CDATA[If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's our job -- to come in the game, bring energy and change the tempo of the game. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31054]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's our job -- to come in the game, bring energy and change the tempo of the game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From naive simplicity we arrive at more profound simplicity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56339]]></link><description><![CDATA[From naive simplicity we arrive at more profound simplicity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Lucy, Martyr at Syracuse, 304 Commemoration of Samuel Johnson, Writer, Moralist, 1784  It is by affliction chiefly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8194]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Lucy, Martyr at Syracuse, 304 Commemoration of Samuel Johnson, Writer, Moralist, 1784  It is by affliction chiefly that the heart of man is purified, and that the thoughts are fixed on a better state. Prosperity has power to intoxicate the imagination, to fix the mind upon the present scene, to produce confidence and elation, and to make him who enjoys affluence and honors forget the hand by which they were bestowed. It is seldom that we are otherwise than by affliction awakened to a sense of our imbecility, or taught to know how little all our acquisitions can conduce to safety or quiet, and how justly we may inscribe to the superintendence of a higher power those blessings which in the wantonness of success we considered as the attainments of our policy and courage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A living cell requires energy not only for all its functions, but also for the maintenance of its structure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63720]]></link><description><![CDATA[A living cell requires energy not only for all its functions, but also for the maintenance of its structure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One good quote is worth a book ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52829]]></link><description><![CDATA[One good quote is worth a book]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a fantastic breakthrough advertising and marketing campaign that is sure to be a great success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38065]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a fantastic breakthrough advertising and marketing campaign that is sure to be a great success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Know Ye not ... that the spirit of God dwelleth within you? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4197]]></link><description><![CDATA[Know Ye not ... that the spirit of God dwelleth within you?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29462]]></link><description><![CDATA[Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature never says one thing and wisdom another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43824]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature never says one thing and wisdom another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I could never accept findings based almost exclusively on mathematics. It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34328]]></link><description><![CDATA[I could never accept findings based almost exclusively on mathematics. It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know that ain't so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A book of Verses underneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, A Loaf of Bread, and Thou  Beside me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45467]]></link><description><![CDATA[A book of Verses underneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, A Loaf of Bread, and Thou  Beside me singing in the Wilderness--   On, Wilderness were Paradise enow!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Patrick, Bishop of Armagh, Missionary, Patron of Ireland, c.460  Some people want to see God with their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Patrick, Bishop of Armagh, Missionary, Patron of Ireland, c.460  Some people want to see God with their eyes as they see a cow, and to love Him as they love their cow -- for the milk and cheese and profit it brings them. This is how it is with people who love God for the sake of outward wealth or inward comfort. They do not rightly love God, when they love Him for their own advantage. Indeed, I tell you the truth, any object you have in your mind, however good, will be a barrier between you and the inmost Truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9877]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peacetime conscription is the greatest step toward regimentation and militarism ever undertaken by the Congress of the United States. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12814]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peacetime conscription is the greatest step toward regimentation and militarism ever undertaken by the Congress of the United States.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55149]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No wife can endure a gambling husband, unless he is a steady winner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17165]]></link><description><![CDATA[No wife can endure a gambling husband, unless he is a steady winner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another: people are friends ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16943]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another: people are friends in spots.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13767]]></link><description><![CDATA[A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is essential that the US government guarantees his safety when he visits this country in the future, including his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30107]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is essential that the US government guarantees his safety when he visits this country in the future, including his scheduled visit to the United Nations in New York,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frederick Buechner,'Whistling in the Dark' When a child is born, a father is born. A mother is born, too of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45524]]></link><description><![CDATA[Frederick Buechner,'Whistling in the Dark' When a child is born, a father is born. A mother is born, too of course, but at least for her it's a gradual process. Body and soul, she has nine months to get used to what's happening. She becomes what's happening. But for even the best-prepared father, it happens all at once. On the other side of a plate-glass window, a nurse is holding up something roughly the size of a loaf of bread for him to see for the first time. Even if he should decide to abandon it forever ten minutes later, the memory will nag him to the grave. He has seen the creation of the world. It has his mark on it. He has its mark on him. Both marks are, for better or for worse, indelible. All sons, like all daughters, are prodigals if they're smart. Assuming the Old Man doesn't run out on them first, they will run out on him if they are to survive, and if he's smart he won't put up too much of a fuss. A wise father sees all this coming, and maybe that's why he keeps his distance from the start. He must survive too. Whether they ever find their way home again, none can say for sure, but it's the risk he must take if they're ever to find their way at all. In the meantime, the world tends to have a soft spot in its heart for lost children. Lost fathers have to fend for themselves. Even as the father lays down the law, he knows that someday his children will break it as they need to break it if ever they're to find something better than law to replace it. Until and unless that happens, there's no telling the scrapes they will get into trying to lose him and find themselves. Terrible blnders will be made-dissapointments and failures, hurts and losses of every kind. And they'll keep making them even after they've found themselves too, of course, because growing up is a process that goes on and on. And every hard knock they ever get, knocks the father even harder still, if that's possible, and if and when they finally come through more or less in one piece at the end, there's maybe no rejoicing greater than his in all creation. -Fatherhood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night, Brother to Death, in silent darkness born;  Relive my languish, and restore ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56631]]></link><description><![CDATA[Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night, Brother to Death, in silent darkness born;  Relive my languish, and restore the light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People that hate cats, will come back as mice in their next life ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5307]]></link><description><![CDATA[People that hate cats, will come back as mice in their next life]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always hold your head up but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always hold your head up but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9011]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are completely in bed with the Israelis to the detrimentof the wellbeing of the Palestiniansspoken on the Diane Rehm ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20924]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are completely in bed with the Israelis to the detrimentof the wellbeing of the Palestiniansspoken on the Diane Rehm Show.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13108]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9663]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roastduck to drop in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22734]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roastduck to drop in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O madness to think use of strongest wines And strongest drinks our chief support of health,  When God with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58878]]></link><description><![CDATA[O madness to think use of strongest wines And strongest drinks our chief support of health,  When God with these forbidden made choice to rear   His mighty champion, strong above compare,    Whose drink was only from the liquid brook.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If half thy outward graces had been placed About the thoughts and counsels of thy heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51432]]></link><description><![CDATA[If half thy outward graces had been placed About the thoughts and counsels of thy heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'drather be anywhere else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22696]]></link><description><![CDATA[A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'drather be anywhere else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[His posse of longtime pals provides another outlet.] They carry on like your classic 'boys will be boys,' ... knows ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29123]]></link><description><![CDATA[[His posse of longtime pals provides another outlet.] They carry on like your classic 'boys will be boys,' ... knows who his friends are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reading furnishes the mind only with materials ofknowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22367]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reading furnishes the mind only with materials ofknowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The unions are seeing the reality of the situation. Their jobs and the future of their airlines are in very ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35138]]></link><description><![CDATA[The unions are seeing the reality of the situation. Their jobs and the future of their airlines are in very deep jeopardy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every one's true worship was that which he found in use in the place where he chanced to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every one's true worship was that which he found in use in the place where he chanced to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17429]]></link><description><![CDATA[Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't be afraid if things seem difficult in the beginning. That's only the initial impression. The important thing is not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44182]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't be afraid if things seem difficult in the beginning. That's only the initial impression. The important thing is not to retreat; you have to master yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is in your hands, now use it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14592]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is in your hands, now use it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It defies understanding to say that if we're building only three or four new schools, we may not need buses. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38474]]></link><description><![CDATA[It defies understanding to say that if we're building only three or four new schools, we may not need buses. That's simply not realistic. Until that kind of projection is made, a table of this sort is not complete.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must sacrifice, train, do everything possible to put yourself in a position to win. But if you consider second ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57577]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must sacrifice, train, do everything possible to put yourself in a position to win. But if you consider second or third a failure, I feel sorry for you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not mightbut lightlit Maccabees'lampthrough the night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not mightbut lightlit Maccabees'lampthrough the night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...whenever it is necessary that one of several conflicting opinions should prevail and when one would have to be made ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47389]]></link><description><![CDATA[...whenever it is necessary that one of several conflicting opinions should prevail and when one would have to be made to prevail by force if need be, it is less wasteful to determine which has the stronger support by counting numbers than by fighting. Democracy is the only method of peaceful change that man has yet been discovered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Nicholas Ferrar, Deacon, Founder of the Little Gidding Community, 1637   Some men, not content with [Christ] ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7553]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Nicholas Ferrar, Deacon, Founder of the Little Gidding Community, 1637   Some men, not content with [Christ] alone, are borne hither and thither from one hope to another; even if they concern themselves chiefly with him, they nevertheless stray from the right way in turning some part of their thinking in another direction. Yet such distrust cannot creep in where men have once for all truly known the abundance of his blessings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. -Lauren Bacall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. -Lauren Bacall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14800</guid></item></channel></rss>