<?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[O wild and wondrous midnight, There is a might in thee  To make the charmed body   Almost ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27454]]></link><description><![CDATA[O wild and wondrous midnight, There is a might in thee  To make the charmed body   Almost like spirit be,    And give it some faint glimpses     Of immortality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest inventions were produced in the times of ignorance, as the use of the compass, gunpowder, and printing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19483]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest inventions were produced in the times of ignorance, as the use of the compass, gunpowder, and printing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a danger inherent in adopting rules that sound good but have no statistical basis or significance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33126]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a danger inherent in adopting rules that sound good but have no statistical basis or significance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was endless action - not just football, but sailboats, tennis and other things: movement. There was endless talk - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57480]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was endless action - not just football, but sailboats, tennis and other things: movement. There was endless talk - the ambassador at the head of the table laying out the prevailing wisdom, but everyone else weighing in with their opinions and taking part.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tithe, and be rich. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tithe, and be rich.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A rolling stone gathers no moss. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51650]]></link><description><![CDATA[A rolling stone gathers no moss.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy means not 'I am as good as you are,' but 'You are as good as I am.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11880]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy means not 'I am as good as you are,' but 'You are as good as I am.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Infinite riches in a little room. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61409]]></link><description><![CDATA[Infinite riches in a little room.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Health and mony goe farre. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Health and mony goe farre.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63667]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to allcreative endeavors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to allcreative endeavors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The eyes see not what is before them when the mind is intent on other matters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51633]]></link><description><![CDATA[The eyes see not what is before them when the mind is intent on other matters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Generally speaking, everyone is more interresting doing nothing than doing anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24620]]></link><description><![CDATA[Generally speaking, everyone is more interresting doing nothing than doing anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair and all the terrible things that happen to us, come because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60168]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair and all the terrible things that happen to us, come because actually deserve them? So now I take comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the Universe]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66623]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43408]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honest Criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, afriend, an aquaintance, or a stranger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22068]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honest Criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, afriend, an aquaintance, or a stranger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Important principles may and must be inflexible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Important principles may and must be inflexible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22430]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love and a cough cannot be hid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love and a cough cannot be hid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No, no! The energy of life may be Kept on after the grave, but not begun;  And he who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20597]]></link><description><![CDATA[No, no! The energy of life may be Kept on after the grave, but not begun;  And he who flagg'd not in the earthly strife,   From strength to strength advancing--only he    His soul well-knit, and all his battles won,     Mounts, and that hardly, to eternal life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sage awakes to light in the night of all creatures. That which the world calls day is the night ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20441]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sage awakes to light in the night of all creatures. That which the world calls day is the night of ignorance to the wise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A really great talent finds its happiness in execution. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58578]]></link><description><![CDATA[A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26542]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man, most man, works best for men: and, if most man indeed, he gets his manhood plainest from his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27024]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man, most man, works best for men: and, if most man indeed, he gets his manhood plainest from his soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23138]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44257]]></link><description><![CDATA[Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fame is not just. She never finely or discriminatingly praises, but coarsely hurrahs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15122]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fame is not just. She never finely or discriminatingly praises, but coarsely hurrahs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16949]]></link><description><![CDATA[Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He always wants to come with me. He insists, and he cries if I can't take him. He's afraid that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41275]]></link><description><![CDATA[He always wants to come with me. He insists, and he cries if I can't take him. He's afraid that if I go, I won't ever come back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52407]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is divine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the church was in the county, this never would have happened. They never would have allowed us to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37462]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the church was in the county, this never would have happened. They never would have allowed us to be inundated with traffic out here. The city never accepted responsibility for this. They do this all over. They give carte blanche to developers. I firmly believe that's why the church was annexed into the city. I firmly believe that's why they never talked to us and they never got a development order.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; and he that dares not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53130]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; and he that dares not reason is a slave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one loves somebody everything is clear -- where to go, what to do -- it all takes care of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25795]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one loves somebody everything is clear -- where to go, what to do -- it all takes care of itself and one doesn't have to ask anybody about anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think you blacked out for a little bit there, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38512]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think you blacked out for a little bit there,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nowhere in the world where sleep is so deep as in the libraries of the House of Commons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56627]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nowhere in the world where sleep is so deep as in the libraries of the House of Commons.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27712]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of patients we see come in asking for topical medicines because of wax burns and scars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40744]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of patients we see come in asking for topical medicines because of wax burns and scars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have just Three things to teach: Simplicity, Patience & Compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65350]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have just Three things to teach: Simplicity, Patience & Compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am for Peace, for Retrenchment, and for Reform,--thirty years ago the great watchwords of the great Liberal Party. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17984]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am for Peace, for Retrenchment, and for Reform,--thirty years ago the great watchwords of the great Liberal Party.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10834]]></link><description><![CDATA[Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tyranny and anarchy are never far asunder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59988]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tyranny and anarchy are never far asunder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I did not expect to hear that it could be, in an assembly convened for the propagation of Christian knowledge, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7956]]></link><description><![CDATA[I did not expect to hear that it could be, in an assembly convened for the propagation of Christian knowledge, a question whether any nation uninstructed in religion should receive instruction; or whether that, instruction should be imparted to them by a translation of the holy-books into their own language. If obedience to the will of GOD be necessary to happiness, and knowledge of his will be necessary to obedience, I know not how he that withholds this knowledge, or delays it, can be said to love his neighbour as himself. He, that voluntarily continues ignorance, is guilty of all the crimes which ignorance produces; as to him that should extinguish the tapers of a light-house, might justly be imputed the calamities of shipwrecks. (Continued tomorrow)   ... a letter from Samuel Johnson to William Drummond of Edinburgh, 1766  July 13, 2002   Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity; and as no man is good but as he wishes the good of others, so no man can be good in the highest degree, who wishes not to others the largest measures of the greatest good. To omit for a year, or for a day, the most efficacious method of advancing Christianity [i.e., the Bible], in compliance with any purposes that terminate this side of the grave, is a crime [the like] of which I know not that the world has yet had an example.   ... a letter from Samuel Johnson to William Drummond of Edinburgh, 1766  July 14, 2002 Feast of John Keble, Priest, Poet, Tractarian, 1866   The "good" man, the man whose god is righteousness, has as his life's ambition the keeping of rules and commandments and the keeping of himself uncontaminated by the world. This sounds admirable; but, as the truth of Christ showed, the whole of such living, the whole drive and ambition, the whole edifice, is self-centered. That entire process of effort must be abandoned if a man is to give himself in love to God and his fellows. He must lose his life if he is ever going to find it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["And now, Madam," I addressed her, "we shall try who shall get the breeches." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61931]]></link><description><![CDATA["And now, Madam," I addressed her, "we shall try who shall get the breeches."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separatedfrom right living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21968]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separatedfrom right living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Publicity, publicity, PUBLICITY is the greatest moral factor and force in our public life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52477]]></link><description><![CDATA[Publicity, publicity, PUBLICITY is the greatest moral factor and force in our public life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ovid's a rake, as half his verses show him, Anacreon's morals are a still worse sample,  Catullus scarcely has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46849]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ovid's a rake, as half his verses show him, Anacreon's morals are a still worse sample,  Catullus scarcely has a decent poem,   I don't think Sappho's Ode a good example,    Although Longinus tells us there is no hymn     Where the sublime soars forth on wings more ample;      But Virgil's songs are pure, except that horrid one       Being with "Formosum Pastor Corydon."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Golf is a spiritual game. It's like Zen. You have to let your mind take over. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Golf is a spiritual game. It's like Zen. You have to let your mind take over.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29129</guid></item></channel></rss>