<?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 Christian cell in a factory or a professional circle, funding its own activities, deciding its own pattern of work, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6267]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Christian cell in a factory or a professional circle, funding its own activities, deciding its own pattern of work, studying the Bible and perhaps celebrating the Lord's supper as an entity on its own, comes very much closer to Independency as Robert Browne saw it than the unholy isolationism of a prosperous suburban church, with 200 members who scarcely know each other by sight. If a sizable proportion of the Free Church ministry were enabled to become itinerant once again -- not necessarily itinerant in the geographical sense, but itinerant in the complex mazes of contemporary society, fathers in God to Christian organisms evolved by the lay men and women who spend their lives in these mazes -- new heart would be put into both ministry and laity, and incidentally, new impetus given to the search for Christian unity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16882]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things happen that we don't understand, but maybe we're not supposed to understand everything. Maybe we're just supposed to have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62927]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things happen that we don't understand, but maybe we're not supposed to understand everything. Maybe we're just supposed to have faith,accept it and let it happen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9716]]></link><description><![CDATA[It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not for the money this time. The one thing we can't live with is class size and composition. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30779]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not for the money this time. The one thing we can't live with is class size and composition. We know that in going out, we're going to harm students, but this time, staying in the class will harm students. Do we go out, or do we stay in the class and watch students being harmed?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60403]]></link><description><![CDATA[We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63153]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65728]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't believe in mathematics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46588]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't believe in mathematics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To disbelieve is easy; to scoff is simple; to have faith is harder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63941]]></link><description><![CDATA[To disbelieve is easy; to scoff is simple; to have faith is harder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sly old fish, too cunning for the hook. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16067]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sly old fish, too cunning for the hook.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40473]]></link><description><![CDATA[By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And ne'er shall the sons of Columbia be slaves, While the earth bears a plant, or the sea rolls its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56600]]></link><description><![CDATA[And ne'er shall the sons of Columbia be slaves, While the earth bears a plant, or the sea rolls its waves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we\'re going to break ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66682]]></link><description><![CDATA[On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we\'re going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well; for as a whole city is affected by the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20855]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well; for as a whole city is affected by the licentious passions and vices of great men, so it is likewise reformed by their moderation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47231]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65151]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60342]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laborin' man an' laborin' woman Hev one glory an' one shame;  Ev'ything thet's done inhuman   Injers all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19958]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laborin' man an' laborin' woman Hev one glory an' one shame;  Ev'ything thet's done inhuman   Injers all on 'em the same.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either. They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46248]]></link><description><![CDATA[Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either. They keep you. - Essays.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We recognized a few years ago that we can't adopt our way out of the overpopulation problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34962]]></link><description><![CDATA[We recognized a few years ago that we can't adopt our way out of the overpopulation problem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And we had thought that our hard climb out of that cruel valley led to some cool, green, and peaceful, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23572]]></link><description><![CDATA[And we had thought that our hard climb out of that cruel valley led to some cool, green, and peaceful, sunlit place but it's all jungle here, a wild and savage wilderness that's overrun with ruins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The solemn fog; significant and budge; A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16336]]></link><description><![CDATA[The solemn fog; significant and budge; A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should be more anxious that our afflictions should benefit us than that they should be speedily removed from us.rnRobert ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65478]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should be more anxious that our afflictions should benefit us than that they should be speedily removed from us.rnRobert Hall]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was no way to plug the leak. The driver tried, but he got soaked in gas and had to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35566]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was no way to plug the leak. The driver tried, but he got soaked in gas and had to be treated in the ambulance,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55640]]></link><description><![CDATA[Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In some cases suicidal girls were stripped naked and isolated for extended time periods in windowless empty 'dark rooms' with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28782]]></link><description><![CDATA[In some cases suicidal girls were stripped naked and isolated for extended time periods in windowless empty 'dark rooms' with only a drain in the cement floor to serve as a toilet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Southward, two mighty ranges of the Appalachians shouldered their way into the blue distance like tremendous caravans marching across eternity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Southward, two mighty ranges of the Appalachians shouldered their way into the blue distance like tremendous caravans marching across eternity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[America has the longest prison sentences in the West, yet the only condition long sentences demonstrably cure is heterosexuality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2432]]></link><description><![CDATA[America has the longest prison sentences in the West, yet the only condition long sentences demonstrably cure is heterosexuality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64489]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63468]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a fine man Hath your tailor made you! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58566]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a fine man Hath your tailor made you!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right now, we've got our projected cost out to 2010, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right now, we've got our projected cost out to 2010,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The swallow follows not summer more willing than we your lordship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55226]]></link><description><![CDATA[The swallow follows not summer more willing than we your lordship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I liked what he had to say about where the team is going and what is going on in Chicago. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28465]]></link><description><![CDATA[I liked what he had to say about where the team is going and what is going on in Chicago. And Chicago has always been one of my favorite cities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15080]]></link><description><![CDATA[The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My definition of a University is Mark Hopkins at one end of a log and a student on the other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13406]]></link><description><![CDATA[My definition of a University is Mark Hopkins at one end of a log and a student on the other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47564]]></link><description><![CDATA[Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65241]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reproachful speech from either side The want of argument supplied;  They rail, reviled; as often ends   The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3048]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reproachful speech from either side The want of argument supplied;  They rail, reviled; as often ends   The contests of disputing friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2292]]></link><description><![CDATA[One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19805]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The kiss you take is paid by that you give: The joy is mutual, and I'm still in debt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23832]]></link><description><![CDATA[The kiss you take is paid by that you give: The joy is mutual, and I'm still in debt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A keen sense of humor helps us to overlook the unbecoming, understand the unconventional, tolerated the unpleasant, overcome the unexpected, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55121]]></link><description><![CDATA[A keen sense of humor helps us to overlook the unbecoming, understand the unconventional, tolerated the unpleasant, overcome the unexpected, and outlast the unbearable]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66048]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I started to play trumpet I was fortunate to learn very quickly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35109]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I started to play trumpet I was fortunate to learn very quickly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't drown yourself in drink. I've tried, you float. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66495]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't drown yourself in drink. I've tried, you float.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People forget how fast you did a job-but they remember how well you didit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21925]]></link><description><![CDATA[People forget how fast you did a job-but they remember how well you didit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the summit see, The seals of office glitter in his eyes;  He climbs, he pants, he grasps them! ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2318]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the summit see, The seals of office glitter in his eyes;  He climbs, he pants, he grasps them! At his heels,   Close at his heels, a demagogue ascends,    And with a dexterous jerk soon twists him down,     And wins them, but to lose them in his turn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60533]]></link><description><![CDATA[One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60533</guid></item></channel></rss>