<?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[Petition me no petitions, Sir, to-day; Let other hours be set apart for business,  To-day it is our pleasure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22920]]></link><description><![CDATA[Petition me no petitions, Sir, to-day; Let other hours be set apart for business,  To-day it is our pleasure to be drunk;   And this our queen shall be as drunk as we.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History shows that there are no invincible armies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66337]]></link><description><![CDATA[History shows that there are no invincible armies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17261]]></link><description><![CDATA[All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just side of a question is the generous and merciful side.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11057]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To wage a war for a purely moral reason is as absurd as to ravish a woman for a purely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47480]]></link><description><![CDATA[To wage a war for a purely moral reason is as absurd as to ravish a woman for a purely moral reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The police cannot protect the citizen at this stage of our development, and they cannot even protect themselves in many ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46876]]></link><description><![CDATA[The police cannot protect the citizen at this stage of our development, and they cannot even protect themselves in many cases. It is up to the private citizen to protect himself and his family, and this is not only acceptable, but mandatory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4346]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good grammar develops over time, so relax and put down the red pen. Kids need to make mistakes in writing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good grammar develops over time, so relax and put down the red pen. Kids need to make mistakes in writing to move toward correctness. They freeze up if they think you'll pounce on every error. You want your daughters to keep writing, since this is the best way for them to develop strong usage skills.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That conceit, elegantly expressed by the Emperor Charles V., in his instructions to the King, his son, "that fortune hath ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16570]]></link><description><![CDATA[That conceit, elegantly expressed by the Emperor Charles V., in his instructions to the King, his son, "that fortune hath somewhat the nature of a woman, that if she be too much wooed she is the farther off."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Out of difficulties grow miracles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27568]]></link><description><![CDATA[Out of difficulties grow miracles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They've become real Americans. They fit right into the mainstream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28626]]></link><description><![CDATA[They've become real Americans. They fit right into the mainstream.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Right now], if I want an encrypted e-mail service, I'll go to an encrypted e-mail company. It's not my first ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34602]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Right now], if I want an encrypted e-mail service, I'll go to an encrypted e-mail company. It's not my first thought to go to the post office for that kind of service.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without a struggle, there can be no progress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without a struggle, there can be no progress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We agreed in Cairo on a collective truce and the retaliation, therefore, should be collective, too, because this is an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41288]]></link><description><![CDATA[We agreed in Cairo on a collective truce and the retaliation, therefore, should be collective, too, because this is an Israeli carnage, the result of which must be shared by all parties.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it would be a tough run for her and she will be 67 years old, after she used ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35637]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it would be a tough run for her and she will be 67 years old, after she used age against Morgenthau.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But woman's grief is like a summer storm, Short as it violent is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61925]]></link><description><![CDATA[But woman's grief is like a summer storm, Short as it violent is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Impossibilities are merely things which we have not yet learned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20659]]></link><description><![CDATA[Impossibilities are merely things which we have not yet learned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not fewer than three nor more than nine. [Lat., Neque pauciores tribus, neque plures novem.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not fewer than three nor more than nine. [Lat., Neque pauciores tribus, neque plures novem.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask but enough, and you may lower the price as you list. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50967]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ask but enough, and you may lower the price as you list.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23367]]></link><description><![CDATA[Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems to me madness to wake up in the morning and do something other than paint, considering that one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35096]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems to me madness to wake up in the morning and do something other than paint, considering that one may not wake up the following morning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44858]]></link><description><![CDATA[By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66891]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hung around that third quarter, but the fourth quarter, our game plan went out the window. We settled for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41784]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hung around that third quarter, but the fourth quarter, our game plan went out the window. We settled for easy shots outside and we only got one chance. Faith did a great job on the boards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Avarice, envy, pride. Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of all on Fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Avarice, envy, pride. Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of all on Fire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66392]]></link><description><![CDATA[I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind contracts herself and shrinketh in, And to herself she gladly doth retire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56294]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind contracts herself and shrinketh in, And to herself she gladly doth retire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66200]]></link><description><![CDATA[How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17426]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can't communicate. I don't speak Japanese and he doesn't speak English. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39975]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can't communicate. I don't speak Japanese and he doesn't speak English.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a dangerous and idle dream to think that the state can become rule by philosophers turned kings or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47650]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a dangerous and idle dream to think that the state can become rule by philosophers turned kings or scientists turned commissars. For if philosophers become kings or scientists commissars, they become politicians, and the powers given to the state are powers given to men who are rulers of states, men subject to all the limitations and temptations of their dangerous craft. Unless this is borne in mind, there will be a dangerous optimistic tendency to sweep aside doubts and fears as irrelevant, since, in the state that the projectors have in mind, power will be exercised by men of a wisdom and degree of moral virtue that we have not yet seen. It won't. It will be exercised by men who will be men first and rulers next and scientists and saints long after.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66683]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's timely and silences those who were betting Syria would not allow the interrogation of any Syrian, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36203]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's timely and silences those who were betting Syria would not allow the interrogation of any Syrian,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the wand-like lily which lifted up, As a Maenad, its moonlight-coloured cup,  Till the fiery star, which is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25094]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the wand-like lily which lifted up, As a Maenad, its moonlight-coloured cup,  Till the fiery star, which is its eye,   Gazed through clear dew on the tender sky.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61103]]></link><description><![CDATA[The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hold on, and wait for the grasshoppers. [Wait for better times.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hold on, and wait for the grasshoppers. [Wait for better times.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So long as a man confines his ideas of Christ to a rather misty hero figure of long ago who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7754]]></link><description><![CDATA[So long as a man confines his ideas of Christ to a rather misty hero figure of long ago who died a tragic death, and so long as his ideas of Christianity are bounded by what he calls the Sermon on the Mount (which he has almost certainly not read in its entirety since he became grown-up), then the living truth never has a chance to touch him. This is plainly what has happened to many otherwise intelligent people. Over the years I have had hundreds of conversations with people, many of them of higher intellectual calibre than my own, who quite obviously had no idea of what Christianity is really about. I was in no case trying to catch them out: I was simply and gently trying to find out what they knew about the New Testament. My conclusion was that they knew virtually nothing. This I find pathetic and somewhat horrifying. It means that the most important Event in human history is politely and quietly bypassed. For it is not as though the evidence had been examined and found unconvincing: it had simply never been examined.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50298]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61568]]></link><description><![CDATA[I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sorrow preys upon Its solitude, and nothing more diverts it  From its sad visions of the other world  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sorrow preys upon Its solitude, and nothing more diverts it  From its sad visions of the other world   Than calling it at moments back to this.    The busy have no time for tears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I'd known I was gonna live this long. I'd have taken better care of myself. [Eubie Blake At Age ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1295]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I'd known I was gonna live this long. I'd have taken better care of myself. [Eubie Blake At Age 100].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Agnes, Child Martyr at Rome, 304  A Christian man is most free lord of all, and subject ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8302]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Agnes, Child Martyr at Rome, 304  A Christian man is most free lord of all, and subject to none; a Christian man is the most dutiful servant of all, and subject to everyone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The book that he has made renders its author this service in return, that so long as the book survives, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3508]]></link><description><![CDATA[The book that he has made renders its author this service in return, that so long as the book survives, its author remains immortal and cannot die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Taken as practical counsel for survival, the Fifth Commandment is now almost a dead letter. Yet if our world were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7887]]></link><description><![CDATA[Taken as practical counsel for survival, the Fifth Commandment is now almost a dead letter. Yet if our world were truly Christian, the change might be a reason for rejoicing. We no longer need our families -- we are therefore free to love them with complete unselfishness. Now at last it is possible to honour our parents genuinely, because they no longer have the power to kill us if we don't. The old sort of honour was sometimes an ugly sham: the son who respects Father only out of fear of punishment is not much of a son, just as the Christian who worships God only out of fear of hell is precious little of a Christian. But the new sort of honour can be a beautiful and holy thing. There are many sweet and sane families bound together by love; there are plenty of experts who remind us that only love can make the modern family work at all. And one must admit that there are plenty of parents very willing to be honoured. The catch is that not so many of them are willing to be honourable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ye diners out from whom we guard our spoons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13226]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ye diners out from whom we guard our spoons.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The voice of the majority is no proof of justice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26206]]></link><description><![CDATA[The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because indeed there was never law, or sect, or opinion, did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because indeed there was never law, or sect, or opinion, did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God the first garden made, and the first city Cain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48926]]></link><description><![CDATA[God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When they started understanding things kind of clicked together, it showed. We started shooting the ball better. We have come ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37856]]></link><description><![CDATA[When they started understanding things kind of clicked together, it showed. We started shooting the ball better. We have come a long way from the beginning of the year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All told, I consider my constitution a child on the verge of death, from which you can transplant some organs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35813]]></link><description><![CDATA[All told, I consider my constitution a child on the verge of death, from which you can transplant some organs into the Treaty of Nice,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35813</guid></item></channel></rss>