<?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[Mysterious haunts of echoes old and far, The voice divine of human loyalty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13293]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mysterious haunts of echoes old and far, The voice divine of human loyalty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury, 690  The peculiarity of ill temper is that it is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7259]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury, 690  The peculiarity of ill temper is that it is the vice of the virtuous. It is often the one blot on an otherwise noble character. You know men who are all but perfect, and women who would be entirely perfect, but for an easily ruffled, quick-tempered, or "touchy" disposition. This compatibility of ill temper with high moral character is one of the strangest and saddest problems of ethics... No form of vice -- not worldliness, not greed of gold, not drunkenness itself -- does more to unChristianize society than evil temper. For embittering life, for breaking up communities, for destroying the most sacred relationships, for devastating homes, for withering up men and women, for taking the bloom off of childhood -- in short, for sheer, gratuitous misery-producing power -- this influence stands alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's someone who experiences a certain amount of bafflement about his talents. How did it happen? How did he become ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37097]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's someone who experiences a certain amount of bafflement about his talents. How did it happen? How did he become who he is?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27860]]></link><description><![CDATA[Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another. - "On the Cryptic and the Elliptic", 1908.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Government "help" to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48472]]></link><description><![CDATA[Government "help" to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, or heroism. St. Pierre ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2144]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, or heroism. St. Pierre To cultivate the sense of the beautiful, is one of the most effectual ways of cultivating an appreciation of the divine goodness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12966]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18028]]></link><description><![CDATA[All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember, remember always that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62464]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember, remember always that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bread is the staff of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13283]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bread is the staff of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11548]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And, after all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58094]]></link><description><![CDATA[And, after all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Horse made, and a man to make. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49037]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Horse made, and a man to make.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25730]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is more usual than the sight of old people who yearn for retirement: and nothing is so rare than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54061]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is more usual than the sight of old people who yearn for retirement: and nothing is so rare than those who have retired and do not regret it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24481]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is plenty of law at the end of a nightstick. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24285]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is plenty of law at the end of a nightstick.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You get him. I don't care what you have to do - just gethim. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29441]]></link><description><![CDATA[You get him. I don't care what you have to do - just gethim.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5299]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high-road that leads him to England. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54892]]></link><description><![CDATA[The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high-road that leads him to England.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where we desire to be informed 'tis good to contest with men above ourselves; but to confirm and establish our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where we desire to be informed 'tis good to contest with men above ourselves; but to confirm and establish our opinions, 'tis best to argue with judgments below our own, that the frequent spoils and victories over their reasons may settle in ourselves an esteem and confirmed opinion of our own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because we can expect future generations to be richer than we are, no matter what we do about resources, asking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47488]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because we can expect future generations to be richer than we are, no matter what we do about resources, asking us to refrain from using resources now so that future generations can have them later is like asking the poor to make gifts to the rich.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our modern society is engaged in polishing and decorating the cage in which man is kept imprisoned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56925]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our modern society is engaged in polishing and decorating the cage in which man is kept imprisoned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't hit a home run with a witness who has admittedly lied for years but all of a sudden, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38288]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't hit a home run with a witness who has admittedly lied for years but all of a sudden, because he has a get-out-of jail-free card, has changed his mind. If the prosecution thinks it hit a home run they're not going to last the full nine innings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Betray not a secret even though racked by wine or wrath. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50196]]></link><description><![CDATA[Betray not a secret even though racked by wine or wrath.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the twentieth century, the secularists, still living off the spiritual capital of Christianity, often pretended to chide Christians for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6308]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the twentieth century, the secularists, still living off the spiritual capital of Christianity, often pretended to chide Christians for having invented the term "secularist," a term which, they said, was devoid of meaning. Their leaders knew very well, however, that secularism, like any other parasite, derives its sustenance from the object on which it feeds, and so they were rather pleased when milquetoast Christians timidly offered, as a definition of secularism, "living as though God did not exist." What Christians should have called it was, rather, "a contemptibly fraudulent way of living on the cheap, by reaping the maximum fruits of Christian effort, while contributing the minimum effort of your own." When secularists accused Christians of "living in the past," the Christians ought to have retaliated by pointing out that secularists were "living off the past." By the time they got around to doing so, however, the majority of secularists had become morally incapable of seeing the point.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free - however free one can be on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5039]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free - however free one can be on this planet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57937]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength is to sit still.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dedication involves making the space to let young ideas take hold; every tree was once a seed and every company ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11645]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dedication involves making the space to let young ideas take hold; every tree was once a seed and every company was once an idea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can anyone be against abortion but for the death penalty ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/123]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can anyone be against abortion but for the death penalty]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. the foundation of such a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2114]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22728]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jesters do oft prove prophets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jesters do oft prove prophets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must do the thing you think you cannot do. -Eleanor Roosevelt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14802]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must do the thing you think you cannot do. -Eleanor Roosevelt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole worl's in a state o' chassis. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58042]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole worl's in a state o' chassis.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And He shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25350]]></link><description><![CDATA[And He shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. - Isaiah 2:4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47152]]></link><description><![CDATA[All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Lord! methought what pain it was to drown! What dreadful noise of waters in mine ears!  What sights ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61303]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Lord! methought what pain it was to drown! What dreadful noise of waters in mine ears!  What sights of ugly death within mine eyes!   Methoughts I saw a thousand fearful wracks;    A thousand men that fishes gnawed upon;     Wedges of gold, great anchors, heaps of pearl,      Inestimable stones, unvalued jewels,       All scatt'red in the bottom of the sea:        Some lay in dead men's skulls, and in the holes         Where eyes did once inhabit, there were crept          (As 'twere in scorn of eyes) reflecting gems,           That wooed the slimy bottom of the deep            And mocked the dead bones that lay scatt'red by.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't always get what you ask for, but you never get what you don't ask for... unless it's contagious!. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1064]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't always get what you ask for, but you never get what you don't ask for... unless it's contagious!.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4858]]></link><description><![CDATA[True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sarcasm is the language of the devil, for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54698]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sarcasm is the language of the devil, for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gardening is about enjoying the smell of things growing in the soil, getting dirty without feeling guilty, and generally taking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17195]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gardening is about enjoying the smell of things growing in the soil, getting dirty without feeling guilty, and generally taking the time to soak up a little peace and serenity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't always connect ourselves with our history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40753]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't always connect ourselves with our history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66667]]></link><description><![CDATA[Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success... it's what you do with what you've got. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/926]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success... it's what you do with what you've got.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman's love Is mighty, but a mother's heart is weak,  And by its weakness overcomes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43205]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman's love Is mighty, but a mother's heart is weak,  And by its weakness overcomes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we resort to lawlessness, the only thing we can hope for is civil war, untold bloodshed, and the end ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54285]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we resort to lawlessness, the only thing we can hope for is civil war, untold bloodshed, and the end of our dreams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is human nature to hate those whom we have injured. [Lat., Proprium humani ingenii, est odisse quem laeseris.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51675]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is human nature to hate those whom we have injured. [Lat., Proprium humani ingenii, est odisse quem laeseris.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51675</guid></item></channel></rss>