<?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[But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59352]]></link><description><![CDATA[But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Citizen is at his businesse before he rise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49818]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Citizen is at his businesse before he rise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Midnight, and yet no eye Through all the Imperial City closed in sleep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27459]]></link><description><![CDATA[Midnight, and yet no eye Through all the Imperial City closed in sleep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65511]]></link><description><![CDATA[The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They had finished her own crown in glory, and she couldn't stay away from the coronation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19095]]></link><description><![CDATA[They had finished her own crown in glory, and she couldn't stay away from the coronation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A room without books is like a body without a soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4602]]></link><description><![CDATA[A room without books is like a body without a soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything -- and it works. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21981]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything -- and it works.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hate undermines communities, hate undermines democracy and so we look at it in a different way. The impact is much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39500]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hate undermines communities, hate undermines democracy and so we look at it in a different way. The impact is much more broad. Hate kills people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The weak in courage is strong in cunning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10844]]></link><description><![CDATA[The weak in courage is strong in cunning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56963]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil. It behooves the well-intentioned, therefore, vigorously to watch the tendency of even their most highly prized institutions, since that which was established in the interests of the right, may so easily become the agent of the wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aim at the sun and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2339]]></link><description><![CDATA[Aim at the sun and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if you had aimed at an object on a level with yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give an inch, he'll take an ell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17440]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give an inch, he'll take an ell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of the rich. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of the rich.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is this the sound and rumor? What is this that all men hear, Like the wind in hollow valleys ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54551]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is this the sound and rumor? What is this that all men hear, Like the wind in hollow valleys when the storm is drawing near, Like the rolling of the ocean in the eventide of fear? 'Tis the people marching on]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10390]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is the perfect poet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46815]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is the perfect poet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's important is that we recognize the falsehood of the notion that the Third World should be abandoned because it's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31494]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's important is that we recognize the falsehood of the notion that the Third World should be abandoned because it's a waste of time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Oxe is taken by the horns, and a Man by the tongue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49132]]></link><description><![CDATA[An Oxe is taken by the horns, and a Man by the tongue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Margaret, Queen of Scotland, Philanthropist, Reformer of the Church, 1093 Commemoration of Edmund Rich of Abingdon, Archbishop of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6671]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Margaret, Queen of Scotland, Philanthropist, Reformer of the Church, 1093 Commemoration of Edmund Rich of Abingdon, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1240  As a man increases in moral strength of character, so his conscience becomes more sensitive; he realizes more keenly the distance that separates him from the ideal, and hence the weight of the feeling of guiltiness oppresses him ever more heavily. Growth in goodness does not, therefore, necessarily imply increased happiness, on the contrary, it may mean greater unhappiness. And his unhappiness increasing in proportion to the elevation of his ethical standards, a man's end is either Buddha or suicide if he knows no God; while if he knows God, it is despair or that conversion which, having sobbed away its tears on the Father's breast, thence derives ever new strength to fight the battle of life, sure of the final victory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26870]]></link><description><![CDATA[In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God's will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37970]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God's will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're never a loser until you quit trying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21661]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're never a loser until you quit trying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's 120 degrees in Iraq and our soldiers are living in tents too, and they didn't commit any crimes, so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38225]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's 120 degrees in Iraq and our soldiers are living in tents too, and they didn't commit any crimes, so shut your mouths.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the best book ever written by any man on the wrong side of a question of which he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4601]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the best book ever written by any man on the wrong side of a question of which he is profoundly ignorant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We always try to be positive with the kids. The girls played a lot of tournament golf over the summer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30431]]></link><description><![CDATA[We always try to be positive with the kids. The girls played a lot of tournament golf over the summer and where down here two times. I think it helped us handle the pressure. To be 45 strokes better and tie for second tells you how tough a field it is. It's almost unbelievable. I couldn't be more proud of the girls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I put a new engine in my car, but forgot to take the old one out. Now my car goes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3543]]></link><description><![CDATA[I put a new engine in my car, but forgot to take the old one out. Now my car goes 500 miles per hour. The harmonica sounds amazing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More and more, churches have become gathering places that offer a panoply of services, and one of them is retail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30192]]></link><description><![CDATA[More and more, churches have become gathering places that offer a panoply of services, and one of them is retail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No serious historian of politics would imagine that he had accounted for the protective tariff of the system of bounties ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47412]]></link><description><![CDATA[No serious historian of politics would imagine that he had accounted for the protective tariff of the system of bounties or subsidies, for the monetary and banking laws, for the state of law in regard to corporate privileges and immunities, for the actual status of property rights, for agricultural or for labor policies, until he had gone behind the general claims and the abstract justifications and had identified the specifically interested groups which promoted the specific law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In jalousie I rede eek thou hym bynde And thou shalt make him couche as doeth a quaille. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52620]]></link><description><![CDATA[In jalousie I rede eek thou hym bynde And thou shalt make him couche as doeth a quaille.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Logic is the anatomy of thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25440]]></link><description><![CDATA[Logic is the anatomy of thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/73]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/73</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In hard times, no less than in prosperity, preserve equanimity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50273]]></link><description><![CDATA[In hard times, no less than in prosperity, preserve equanimity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power is the most persuasive rhetoric. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54177]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46591]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute-and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are as free as and free in exactly the sense that our neuronal processes are free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47556]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are as free as and free in exactly the sense that our neuronal processes are free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25679]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20319]]></link><description><![CDATA[The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With her high pale brow under her faded brown hair, she was like a rock washed clean by years of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41072]]></link><description><![CDATA[With her high pale brow under her faded brown hair, she was like a rock washed clean by years of her husband's absences at conventions, dinners, committee meetings or simply at the office.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[They say] "We do not know how this is, but we know that God can do it." You poor fools! ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56805]]></link><description><![CDATA[[They say] "We do not know how this is, but we know that God can do it." You poor fools! God can make a cow out of a tree, but has He ever done so? Therefore show some reason why a thing is so, or cease to hold that it is so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60241]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These kids are so desperate for the dream that almost nothing will deter them. Most of the time, they will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32171]]></link><description><![CDATA[These kids are so desperate for the dream that almost nothing will deter them. Most of the time, they will follow blindly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When it was reported to General Washington that the army was frequently indulging in swearing, he immediately sent out the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60294]]></link><description><![CDATA[When it was reported to General Washington that the army was frequently indulging in swearing, he immediately sent out the following order: The general is sorry to be informed that the foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing — a vice little known heretofore in the American army — is growing into fashion. Let the men and officers reflect 'that we can not hope for the blessing of heaven on our army if we insult it by our impiety and folly.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Both parties have been gearing up for this. It will be a very competitive year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39627]]></link><description><![CDATA[Both parties have been gearing up for this. It will be a very competitive year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need not feel ashamed of flirting with the zodiac. The zodiac is well worth flirting with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62673]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need not feel ashamed of flirting with the zodiac. The zodiac is well worth flirting with.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So so is good, very good, very excellent good; and yet it is not; it is but so so. -As ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55687]]></link><description><![CDATA[So so is good, very good, very excellent good; and yet it is not; it is but so so. -As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Human beings need pleasure the way they need vitamins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62898]]></link><description><![CDATA[Human beings need pleasure the way they need vitamins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Matthias the Apostle  There is more hid in Christ than we shall ever learn, here or there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8251]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Matthias the Apostle  There is more hid in Christ than we shall ever learn, here or there either; but they that begin first to inquire will soonest be gladdened with revelation; and with them He will be best pleased, for the slowness of His disciples troubled Him of old. To say that we must wait for the other world, to know the mind of Him who came to this world to give Himself to us, seems to me the foolishness of a worldly and lazy spirit. The Son of God is the teacher of men, giving to them of His Spirit -- that Spirit which manifests the deep things of God, being to a man the mind of Christ. The great heresy of the Church of the present day is unbelief in this Spirit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to go berry picking on the hogback, God.Keep me on a short leash. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17699]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to go berry picking on the hogback, God.Keep me on a short leash.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can get snow blindness if you're not careful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29030]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can get snow blindness if you're not careful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29030</guid></item></channel></rss>