<?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[Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/579]]></link><description><![CDATA[Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius--and a lot of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17311]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius--and a lot of courage--to move in the opposite direction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eye hath not seen it, my gentle boy! Ear hath not heard its deep songs of joy;  Dreams cannot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eye hath not seen it, my gentle boy! Ear hath not heard its deep songs of joy;  Dreams cannot picture a world so fair--   Sorrow and death may not enter there;    Time doth not breathe on its fadeless bloom,     For beyond the clouds, and beyond the tomb,      It is there, it is there, my child!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without promotion something terrible happens... Nothing! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48405]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without promotion something terrible happens... Nothing!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8696]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said "Let us pray." ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53603]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said "Let us pray." We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45540]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45540</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[So--now the danger dared at last, Look back and smile at perils past! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51101]]></link><description><![CDATA[So--now the danger dared at last, Look back and smile at perils past!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After last night's debate, the reputation of Messieurs Lincoln and Douglas is secure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11470]]></link><description><![CDATA[After last night's debate, the reputation of Messieurs Lincoln and Douglas is secure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We would, and we would not. -Measure for Measure. Act iv. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55399]]></link><description><![CDATA[We would, and we would not. -Measure for Measure. Act iv. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17116]]></link><description><![CDATA[My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10043]]></link><description><![CDATA[If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/882]]></link><description><![CDATA[Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In judging others, folks will work overtime for no pay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4676]]></link><description><![CDATA[In judging others, folks will work overtime for no pay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear has its use but cowardice has none. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10466]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear has its use but cowardice has none.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gladys Aylward, Missionary in China, 1970   [Leaders of the anarchist movement in Amsterdam] call their public ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6757]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gladys Aylward, Missionary in China, 1970   [Leaders of the anarchist movement in Amsterdam] call their public demonstrations "Happenings". These paintings, these poems, and these demonstrations... are the expression of men who are struggling with their appalling lostness. Dare we laugh at such things? Dare we feel superior when we view their tortured expressions in their art? Christians should stop laughing and take such men seriously. Then we shall have the right to speak again to our generation. These men are dying while they live, yet where is our compassion for them? There is nothing more ugly than an orthodoxy without understanding or without compassion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teach us to give and not to count the cost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17284]]></link><description><![CDATA[Teach us to give and not to count the cost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46790]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the end we are all separate: our stories, no matter how similar, come to a fork and diverge. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13793]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the end we are all separate: our stories, no matter how similar, come to a fork and diverge. We are drawn to each other because of our similarities, but it is our differences we must learn to respect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And his best riches, ignorance of wealth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20415]]></link><description><![CDATA[And his best riches, ignorance of wealth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many millions of faces there should be none alike. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14847]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many millions of faces there should be none alike.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24819]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage requires a person to prepare 4 types of "Rings": Engagement Ring Wedding Ring, Suffering, Enduring ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61491]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage requires a person to prepare 4 types of "Rings": Engagement Ring Wedding Ring, Suffering, Enduring]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A liberal is a person whose interests aren't at stake at the moment ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24666]]></link><description><![CDATA[A liberal is a person whose interests aren't at stake at the moment]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In love, it is better to know and be disappointed, than to not know and always wonder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14642]]></link><description><![CDATA[In love, it is better to know and be disappointed, than to not know and always wonder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When yu' can't have what you choose, yu' just choose what you have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6076]]></link><description><![CDATA[When yu' can't have what you choose, yu' just choose what you have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day. - The Oracle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27985]]></link><description><![CDATA[The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day. - The Oracle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Philip & James, Apostles  Here is opened to us the true reason of the whole process of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6965]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Philip & James, Apostles  Here is opened to us the true reason of the whole process of our Saviour's incarnation, passion, death, resurrection, and ascension into Heaven. It was because fallen man was to go through all these stages as necessary parts of his return to God; and therefore, if man was to go out of his fallen state there must be a son of this fallen man, who, as a head and fountain of the whole race, could do all this -- could go back through all these gates and so make it possible for all the individuals of human nature, as being born of Him, to inherit His conquering nature and follow Him through all these passages to eternal life. And thus we see, in the strongest and clearest light, both why and how the holy Jesus is become our great Redeemer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shall I not take mine ease in mine inn but I shall have my pocket picked? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shall I not take mine ease in mine inn but I shall have my pocket picked?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eyes of gentianellas azure, Staring, winking at the skies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14824]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eyes of gentianellas azure, Staring, winking at the skies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The road is long fro the project to its completion. [Fr., Et le chemin est long du projet a la ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13786]]></link><description><![CDATA[The road is long fro the project to its completion. [Fr., Et le chemin est long du projet a la chose.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God has called us to shine, just as much as Daniel was sent into Babylon to shine. Let no one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7109]]></link><description><![CDATA[God has called us to shine, just as much as Daniel was sent into Babylon to shine. Let no one say that he cannot shine because he has not so much influence as some others may have. What God wants you to do is to use the influence you have. Daniel probably did not have much influence down in Babylon at first, but God soon gave him more because he was faithful and used what he had.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There rose no day, there roll'd no hour Of pleasure unembitter'd;  And not a trapping deck'd my power,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48768]]></link><description><![CDATA[There rose no day, there roll'd no hour Of pleasure unembitter'd;  And not a trapping deck'd my power,   That gall'd not while it glitter'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If only the net was just a little wider. We should have won that game. Our kids fought hard, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36098]]></link><description><![CDATA[If only the net was just a little wider. We should have won that game. Our kids fought hard, and we overcame a short bench to put a scare into them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conventionality is not morality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conventionality is not morality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're fine to use. Just be sensible about the volume and amount of time you listen. If the person next ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31791]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're fine to use. Just be sensible about the volume and amount of time you listen. If the person next to you can hear your music, it's too loud.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58430]]></link><description><![CDATA[The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21755]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seek joy in what you give not in what you get ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seek joy in what you give not in what you get]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The place is all awave with trees, Limes, myrtles, purple-beaded,  Acacias having drunk the lees   Of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59671]]></link><description><![CDATA[The place is all awave with trees, Limes, myrtles, purple-beaded,  Acacias having drunk the lees   Of the night-dew, fain headed,    And wan, grey olive-woods, which seem     The fittest foliage for a dream.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sir Walter, being strangely surprised and put out of his countenance at so great a table, gives his son a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sir Walter, being strangely surprised and put out of his countenance at so great a table, gives his son a damned blow over the face. His son, as rude as he was, would not strike his father, but strikes over the face the gentleman that sat next to him and said ''Box about: twill come to my father anon.'']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we see light at the end of the tunnel, it the light of the oncoming train. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46432]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we see light at the end of the tunnel, it the light of the oncoming train.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If slander be a snake, it is a winged one--it flies as well as creeps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56544]]></link><description><![CDATA[If slander be a snake, it is a winged one--it flies as well as creeps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've played with a lot of these guys. They know I've had my struggles over there. They say if you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35268]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've played with a lot of these guys. They know I've had my struggles over there. They say if you keep pushing forward, working hard, plays like that are the reward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind that does not understand is the Buddha. There is no other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62657]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind that does not understand is the Buddha. There is no other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hail, glorious edifice, stupendous work! God bless the Regent, and the Duke of York. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54519]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hail, glorious edifice, stupendous work! God bless the Regent, and the Duke of York.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54519</guid></item></channel></rss>