<?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[You are his father by nature, I by counsel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51758]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are his father by nature, I by counsel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be wise to-day; 'tis madness to defer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51862]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be wise to-day; 'tis madness to defer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Crispin & Crispinian, Martyrs at Rome, c.285  The basis of our Lord's appeal was himself. "Follow me," ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6664]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Crispin & Crispinian, Martyrs at Rome, c.285  The basis of our Lord's appeal was himself. "Follow me," "come unto me," and "ye will not come unto me," indicate sufficiently that what he offered to men was himself. He seeks to win men's acceptance of the truth that had come in him. His words and deeds served to indicate what manner of man he was and what kind of work he had come to do; and all the time it is a person addressing persons, seeking to gain their recognition of and their self-commitment to himself. He sought to exercise no authority over men that was not personal, both in the way it was exercised and in the way in which it was recognized and accepted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11464]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we would have civilization and the exertion indispensable to its success, we must have property; if we have property, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47113]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we would have civilization and the exertion indispensable to its success, we must have property; if we have property, we must have its rights; if we have the rights of property, we must take those consequences of the rights of property which are inseparable from the rights themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here is little Effie's head. Her brains are made of gingerbread. Whenthe judgement day comes, God will find six crumbs. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21693]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here is little Effie's head. Her brains are made of gingerbread. Whenthe judgement day comes, God will find six crumbs. Stooping by the coffinlid waiting for something to rise as the something's always did. ImagineHis surprise, bellowing above the general noise, "Where is Effie? Shewas dead." Back to God in a tiny voice: "My name's Maybe."The first crumb said. The number two crumb picked up the song."Might, I'm called. I've done no wrong." Cried the third crumb,"I am Should. Here's our little brother Could and my big sisterWould. Don't punish us for we've been good." And the last crumb, withsome shame, whispered unto God, "My name is Must and with the others,we've been Effie, who isn't alive and never was. Cross the threshold haveno dread. Lift the sheet back in this way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['T was brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;  All mimsy were the borogoves, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44608]]></link><description><![CDATA['T was brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;  All mimsy were the borogoves,   And the mome raths outgrabe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're talking to a lot of major groups that may not have considered us in the past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40404]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're talking to a lot of major groups that may not have considered us in the past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I really don't want this to be goodbye. I'm not leaving anywhere. I'm still going to be around. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32833]]></link><description><![CDATA[I really don't want this to be goodbye. I'm not leaving anywhere. I'm still going to be around.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of Americans think they got a tax cut, and they didn't because their local property tax went up, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14455]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of Americans think they got a tax cut, and they didn't because their local property tax went up, their excise tax went up, their sales tax went up, and their prices went up and everything else, because we failed to invest in some of these other things we ought to be doing. ... We are squeezing the middle class, we are losing the middle class, and the gap between the haves and the have-nots is growing wider and wider, not closing as it used to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On, Amos Cottle!--Phoebus! what a name! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43638]]></link><description><![CDATA[On, Amos Cottle!--Phoebus! what a name!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57339]]></link><description><![CDATA[I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She that fails to command her thoughts will soon lose command of her actions ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59151]]></link><description><![CDATA[She that fails to command her thoughts will soon lose command of her actions]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people play very, very well just so they won't get embarrassed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13718]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people play very, very well just so they won't get embarrassed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bartolomè de las Casas, Apostle to the Indies, 1566  After all, Brethren, the whole end of Theology ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8374]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bartolomè de las Casas, Apostle to the Indies, 1566  After all, Brethren, the whole end of Theology is love. It seems hard to realize that that is so, but so it is. If your theology does not make you more loving, it has not Christianized you and to that extent is not a Christian theology... All ecclesiasticism and all doctrinalizing are in order to form character, and the soul of character is love. Preach the truth in love, and for the development of love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bureaucracy is the art of making the possible impossible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4992]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bureaucracy is the art of making the possible impossible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We lose that ability to connect with individuals who have that insight and could help us navigate through (government). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42461]]></link><description><![CDATA[We lose that ability to connect with individuals who have that insight and could help us navigate through (government).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the scripture saith, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn. And, The labourer is worthy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23921]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the scripture saith, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn. And, The labourer is worthy of his reward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6753]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The groves were God's first temples. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43967]]></link><description><![CDATA[The groves were God's first temples.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For Opening Day last year, almost 22,000 fans arrived at the ballpark within an hour of the first pitch. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38500]]></link><description><![CDATA[For Opening Day last year, almost 22,000 fans arrived at the ballpark within an hour of the first pitch. We advise they arrive a lot earlier on Monday. The later the fans wait to arrive, the more difficult it will be to get to and enter the ballpark.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The very fact that you are a complainer, shows that you deserve your lot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9239]]></link><description><![CDATA[The very fact that you are a complainer, shows that you deserve your lot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But if it makes the Americans happy and willing to go on to discuss the real issues of the peace ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36380]]></link><description><![CDATA[But if it makes the Americans happy and willing to go on to discuss the real issues of the peace process, we happily grant them that achievement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You no longer really have to record the Super Bowl because you can get all the commercials on AOL the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33017]]></link><description><![CDATA[You no longer really have to record the Super Bowl because you can get all the commercials on AOL the next day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With this there grows In my most ill-compos'd affection such  A stanchless avarice that, were I King,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20164]]></link><description><![CDATA[With this there grows In my most ill-compos'd affection such  A stanchless avarice that, were I King,   I should cut off the nobles for their lands,    Desire his jewels, and this other's house,     And my more-having would be as a sauce      To make me hunger more, that I should forge       Quarrels unjust against the good and loyal,        Destroying them for wealth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then press my lips, where plays a flame of bliss,-- A pure and holy love-light,--and forsake  The angel for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23836]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then press my lips, where plays a flame of bliss,-- A pure and holy love-light,--and forsake  The angel for the woman in a kiss,   At once I wis,    My soul will wake!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43725]]></link><description><![CDATA[A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13543]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships, And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?  Sweet Helen, make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14865]]></link><description><![CDATA[Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships, And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?  Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss.--   Her lips suck forth my soul; see, where it flies!--]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63950]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It certainly is the duty of every true Christian, to esteem himself a stranger and pilgrim in this world; and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38320]]></link><description><![CDATA[It certainly is the duty of every true Christian, to esteem himself a stranger and pilgrim in this world; and as bound to use earthly blessings, not as means of satisfying lust or gratifying wantonness, but of supplying his absolute wants and necessities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conservation means the wise use of the earth and its resources for the lasting good of men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9852]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conservation means the wise use of the earth and its resources for the lasting good of men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world seems ... a little less funny without you in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33254]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world seems ... a little less funny without you in it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old Camels carry young Camels skins to the Market. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49676]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old Camels carry young Camels skins to the Market.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be meek, patient, tactful, modest, honorable, brave, is not to be either manly or womanly; it is to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58547]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be meek, patient, tactful, modest, honorable, brave, is not to be either manly or womanly; it is to be humane.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/964]]></link><description><![CDATA[Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials. . -Lin Yutang.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fish not, with this melancholy bait, For this fool gudgeon, this opinion. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55547]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fish not, with this melancholy bait, For this fool gudgeon, this opinion. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By the apostle Paul, shadows to-night Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard  Than can the substance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55301]]></link><description><![CDATA[By the apostle Paul, shadows to-night Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard  Than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers   Armed in proof and led by shallow Richmond.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sundaies observe: think when the bells do chime, 'Tis angel's musick; therefore come not late. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54588]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sundaies observe: think when the bells do chime, 'Tis angel's musick; therefore come not late.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She would have made Hercules have turned spit, yea, and have cleft his club to make the fire too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10146]]></link><description><![CDATA[She would have made Hercules have turned spit, yea, and have cleft his club to make the fire too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is nothing without friendship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10933]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is nothing without friendship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we mean to build, We first survey the plot, then draw the model; And when we see the figure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55916]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we mean to build, We first survey the plot, then draw the model; And when we see the figure of the house, Then must we rate the cost of the erection. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Choose your friends by their character and your socks by theircolor. Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28150]]></link><description><![CDATA[Choose your friends by their character and your socks by theircolor. Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense, andchoosing your friends by their color is unthinkable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind is its own place, and in itself can make aHeav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22097]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind is its own place, and in itself can make aHeav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dont let life change your goals, because achieving your goals can change your life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dont let life change your goals, because achieving your goals can change your life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm off from an anointed king. -King Richard ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55820]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm off from an anointed king. -King Richard II. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27114]]></link><description><![CDATA[I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27114</guid></item></channel></rss>