<?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[Cursed be the man, the poorest wretch in life, The crouching vassal, to the tyrant wife,  Who has no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26555]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cursed be the man, the poorest wretch in life, The crouching vassal, to the tyrant wife,  Who has no will but by her high permission;   Who has not sixpence but in her possession;    Who must to her his dear friend's secret tell;     Who dreads a curtain lecture worse than hell.      Were such the wife had fallen to my part,       I'd break her spirit or I'd break her heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anything worth doing well is worth doing slowly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62349]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anything worth doing well is worth doing slowly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exist in each individual of the species, can never in its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43820]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exist in each individual of the species, can never in its perfection inhabit a single object.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No laborer in the world is expected to work for room, board, and love--except the housewife. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19899]]></link><description><![CDATA[No laborer in the world is expected to work for room, board, and love--except the housewife.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The full use of your powers along lines of excellence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27587]]></link><description><![CDATA[The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chaste as the icicle That 's curdied by the frost from purest snow And hangs on Dian's temple. -Coriolanus. Act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chaste as the icicle That 's curdied by the frost from purest snow And hangs on Dian's temple. -Coriolanus. Act v. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Jeremy Taylor, Bishop of Down & Connor, Priest, Teacher, 1667 Commemoration of Florence Nightingale, Social Reformer, 1910 Commemoration ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Jeremy Taylor, Bishop of Down & Connor, Priest, Teacher, 1667 Commemoration of Florence Nightingale, Social Reformer, 1910 Commemoration of Octavia Hill, Worker for the Poor, 1912   Avoid idleness, and fill up all the spaces of thy time with severe and useful employment: for lust easily creeps in at those emptinesses where the soul is unemployed and the body is at ease; no easy, healthful, idle person was ever chaste if he could be tempted; but of all employments, bodily labour is the most useful, and of the greatest benefit for driving away the Devil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And many strokes, though with a little axe, Hew down and fell the hardest-timbered oak. -King Henry VI. Part III. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55991]]></link><description><![CDATA[And many strokes, though with a little axe, Hew down and fell the hardest-timbered oak. -King Henry VI. Part III. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great majority of people in England and America are modest, decent and pure-minded and the amount of virgins in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60727]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great majority of people in England and America are modest, decent and pure-minded and the amount of virgins in the world today is stupendous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41557]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not the position, but the disposition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21640]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not the position, but the disposition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I started, actually, to make my first animated cartoon in 1920. Of course, they were very crude things then and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13958]]></link><description><![CDATA[I started, actually, to make my first animated cartoon in 1920. Of course, they were very crude things then and I used sort of little puppet things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See, how these rascals use me! They will not let my play run; and yet they steal my thunder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/419]]></link><description><![CDATA[See, how these rascals use me! They will not let my play run; and yet they steal my thunder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This autonomy of man, this attempt of the Ego to understand itself out of itself, is the lie concerning man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6222]]></link><description><![CDATA[This autonomy of man, this attempt of the Ego to understand itself out of itself, is the lie concerning man which we call sin. The truth about man is that his ground is not in himself but in God -- that his essence is not in self sufficient reason but in the Word, in the challenge of God, in responsibility, not in self-sufficiency. The true being of man is realized when he bases himself upon God's Word. Faith is then not an impossibility or a salto mortale [mortal leap], but that which is truly natural; and the real salto mortale (a mortal leap indeed!) is just the assertion of autonomy, self-sufficiency, God-likeness. [It is] through this usurped independence [that] man separates himself from God, and at the same time isolates himself from his fellows. Individualism is the necessary consequence of rational autonomy, just as love is the necessary consequence of faith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inaction, contrary for its reputation as being a refuge, is neither safe nor comfortable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20695]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inaction, contrary for its reputation as being a refuge, is neither safe nor comfortable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's after the rebuilding and getting back into a new home that people may realize the impact of the tornado. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36198]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's after the rebuilding and getting back into a new home that people may realize the impact of the tornado.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So many things become beautiful when you really look. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66860]]></link><description><![CDATA[So many things become beautiful when you really look.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends. -John Churton Collins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16931]]></link><description><![CDATA[In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends. -John Churton Collins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18617]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let your intentions be good - embodied in good thoughts, cheerful words, and unselfish deeds - and the world will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22940]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let your intentions be good - embodied in good thoughts, cheerful words, and unselfish deeds - and the world will be to you a bright and happy place in which to work and play and serve]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not the bulls and bears you need to avoid -- it's the bum steers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15768]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not the bulls and bears you need to avoid -- it's the bum steers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For my brethren and companions' sake, I will now ask, Peace be with thee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45869]]></link><description><![CDATA[For my brethren and companions' sake, I will now ask, Peace be with thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wal-Mart kills local businesses. Wal-Mart lowers their prices so far down that mom and pop stores can't compete with them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31622]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wal-Mart kills local businesses. Wal-Mart lowers their prices so far down that mom and pop stores can't compete with them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You look marvelous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5289]]></link><description><![CDATA[You look marvelous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And they gave him a piece of a broiled fish, and of an honeycomb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16056]]></link><description><![CDATA[And they gave him a piece of a broiled fish, and of an honeycomb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have on out hands a sick man,--a very sick man. [The sick man of Europe, the Turk.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59902]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have on out hands a sick man,--a very sick man. [The sick man of Europe, the Turk.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's no sure rule to fish with a cros-bow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49580]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's no sure rule to fish with a cros-bow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were devastated, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40069]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were devastated,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We may all be inclined to think of man's countless foolish and selfish intentions, his twisted and mischievous words and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8570]]></link><description><![CDATA[We may all be inclined to think of man's countless foolish and selfish intentions, his twisted and mischievous words and deeds. From all these, sin can be known, as a tree can be known from its fruits. Yet these outward signs are not sin itself, the wages of which are death. Sin is not confined to the evil things we do. It is the evil within us, the evil which we are. Shall we call it our pride or our laziness, or shall we call it the deceit of our life? Let us call it for once the great defiance which turns us again and again into the enemies of God and of our fellowmen, even of our own selves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the corner of Wood Street, when daylight appears, Hangs a thrush that sings loud, it has sung for three ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59258]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the corner of Wood Street, when daylight appears, Hangs a thrush that sings loud, it has sung for three years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3065]]></link><description><![CDATA[A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Divell never assailes a man, except he find him either void of knowledge, or of the fear of God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49833]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Divell never assailes a man, except he find him either void of knowledge, or of the fear of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Over the shoulders and slopes of the dune I saw the white daisies go down to the sea,  A ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Over the shoulders and slopes of the dune I saw the white daisies go down to the sea,  A host in the sunshine, an army in June,   The people God sends us to set our heart free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...the case for individual freedom rests largely on the recognition of the inevitable and universal ignorance of all of us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47400]]></link><description><![CDATA[...the case for individual freedom rests largely on the recognition of the inevitable and universal ignorance of all of us concerning a great many of the factors on which the achievements of our ends and welfare depend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A society that does not recognize that each individual has values of his own which he is entitled to follow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47399]]></link><description><![CDATA[A society that does not recognize that each individual has values of his own which he is entitled to follow can have no respect for the dignity of the individual and cannot really know freedom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friends depart, and memory takes them To her caverns, pure and deep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26922]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friends depart, and memory takes them To her caverns, pure and deep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Raising kids is part joy and part guerilla warfare. -Ed Asner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Raising kids is part joy and part guerilla warfare. -Ed Asner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you play safety in this defense, you have to know a lot about where people fit, what's going on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35375]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you play safety in this defense, you have to know a lot about where people fit, what's going on and the whole big picture. Eric has a very good grasp of the picture, of our whole defense. He's going to get the guys lined up in the right spots.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I seem to give a damn, please tell me. I would hate to be giving the wrong impression. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27804]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I seem to give a damn, please tell me. I would hate to be giving the wrong impression.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world men inhabit is rather bleak. It is a world full of doubt and confusion, where vulnerability must be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27083]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world men inhabit is rather bleak. It is a world full of doubt and confusion, where vulnerability must be hidden, not shared; where competition, not co-operation, is the order of the day; where men sacrifice the possibility of knowing their own children and sharing in their upbringing, for the sake of a job they may have chosen by chance, which may not suit them and which in many cases dominates their lives to the exclusion of much else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66468]]></link><description><![CDATA[When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The next morning, as I was preparing to go to work, I felt God saying he was going to make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30022]]></link><description><![CDATA[The next morning, as I was preparing to go to work, I felt God saying he was going to make it happen for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True Charity, a plant divinely nurs'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5698]]></link><description><![CDATA[True Charity, a plant divinely nurs'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is wise to learn; it is God-like to create. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10559]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is wise to learn; it is God-like to create.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of places call for money, but I wanted to do more, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31212]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of places call for money, but I wanted to do more,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31212</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[To greed, all nature is insufficient. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18296]]></link><description><![CDATA[To greed, all nature is insufficient.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26596]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26596</guid></item></channel></rss>