<?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[The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65201]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6059]]></link><description><![CDATA[The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It can only help the bottom line of a football club which is a business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41693]]></link><description><![CDATA[It can only help the bottom line of a football club which is a business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's important to recognize that charter schools are public schools, and that it is better for your tax dollars to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37538]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's important to recognize that charter schools are public schools, and that it is better for your tax dollars to be spent on innovative programs that equip children to succeed, rather than always sending money to schools regardless of whether or not they succeed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Slanders are like flies, that pass all over a man's good parts to light on his sores. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Slanders are like flies, that pass all over a man's good parts to light on his sores.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[some people who have same-sex attraction have changedand instead have successfully actualized their heterosexual potential and are now ex-gay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35614]]></link><description><![CDATA[some people who have same-sex attraction have changedand instead have successfully actualized their heterosexual potential and are now ex-gay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, in 1947... in Europe and in Italy especially, we thought of America as all-powerful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, in 1947... in Europe and in Italy especially, we thought of America as all-powerful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think they both are strong contenders especially with what they did this weekend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42384]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think they both are strong contenders especially with what they did this weekend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here beauty hangs upon the cheek of night, Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here beauty hangs upon the cheek of night, Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They, therefore, who are hasty in their devotions and think a little will do, are strangers both to the nature ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7258]]></link><description><![CDATA[They, therefore, who are hasty in their devotions and think a little will do, are strangers both to the nature of devotion and the nature of man; they do not know that they are to learn to pray, and that prayer is to be learnt as they learn other things, by frequency, constancy, and perseverance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To what base ends, and by what abject ways, Are mortals urg'd through sacred lust of praise! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48021]]></link><description><![CDATA[To what base ends, and by what abject ways, Are mortals urg'd through sacred lust of praise!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A clever person turns great troubles into little ones and little ones into none at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59738]]></link><description><![CDATA[A clever person turns great troubles into little ones and little ones into none at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And both were young, and one was beautiful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62565]]></link><description><![CDATA[And both were young, and one was beautiful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God places the heaviest burden on those who can carry its weight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10242]]></link><description><![CDATA[God places the heaviest burden on those who can carry its weight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time is too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time is too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love -- time is eternity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgotten? No, we never do forget: We let the years go; wash them clean with tears,  Leave them to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16477]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgotten? No, we never do forget: We let the years go; wash them clean with tears,  Leave them to bleach out in the open day,   Or lock them careful by, like dead friends' clothes,    Till we shall dare unfold them without pain,--     But we forget not, never can forget.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[who tries to keep the Civil War at bay and his family safe as the battle spreads and threatens their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31429]]></link><description><![CDATA[who tries to keep the Civil War at bay and his family safe as the battle spreads and threatens their very existence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grasp the subject, the words will follow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52478]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grasp the subject, the words will follow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And now abideth faith, hope and charity, these three, but the greatest of these is charity. [Corinthians] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5721]]></link><description><![CDATA[And now abideth faith, hope and charity, these three, but the greatest of these is charity. [Corinthians]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The essence of love is getting out of oneself and into others. When we care less about our feelings, our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65825]]></link><description><![CDATA[The essence of love is getting out of oneself and into others. When we care less about our feelings, our rights, our happiness, our security, etc., and begin to concern ourselves with the feelings, rights, happiness, and security of others, we will have found the true power of love.”]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65825</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[God gives not kings the stile of Gods in vaine, For on his throne his sceptre do they sway;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54472]]></link><description><![CDATA[God gives not kings the stile of Gods in vaine, For on his throne his sceptre do they sway;  And as their subjects ought them to obey,   So kings should feare and serve their God againe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65817]]></link><description><![CDATA[For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make fair agreements and stick to them ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1914]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make fair agreements and stick to them]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O close my hand upon Beatitude! Not on her toys. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4317]]></link><description><![CDATA[O close my hand upon Beatitude! Not on her toys.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46289]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the mercy of God is so great that He can instruct us, to our salvation, even when He hides ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7544]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the mercy of God is so great that He can instruct us, to our salvation, even when He hides Himself, what a brilliance of light we must expect when He reveals Himself!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou hast wounded the spirit that loved thee And cherish'd thine image for years;  Thou hast taught me at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62366]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou hast wounded the spirit that loved thee And cherish'd thine image for years;  Thou hast taught me at last to forget thee,   In secret, in silence, and tears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61224]]></link><description><![CDATA[In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women know The way to rear up children (to be just);  They know a simple, merry, tender knack  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5896]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women know The way to rear up children (to be just);  They know a simple, merry, tender knack   Of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes,    And stringing pretty words that make no sense,     And kissing full sense into empty words;      Which things are corals to cut life upon,       Although such trifles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53845]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is fond of her grandchildren, for it offers them the marrow of the bones, which the previous generation had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19506]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is fond of her grandchildren, for it offers them the marrow of the bones, which the previous generation had hurt its hands in breaking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2352]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11496]]></link><description><![CDATA[Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64246]]></link><description><![CDATA[How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Hark the herald angels sing, Glory to the new-born king."  Peace on earth, and mercy mild,   God ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8652]]></link><description><![CDATA["Hark the herald angels sing, Glory to the new-born king."  Peace on earth, and mercy mild,   God and sinners reconciled.!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62213]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That no Italian priest Shall tithe or toll in our dominions. -King John. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55789]]></link><description><![CDATA[That no Italian priest Shall tithe or toll in our dominions. -King John. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I really can't deny it, I am who I am. I'm pretty normal. I'm not that smooth type of girl. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17467]]></link><description><![CDATA[I really can't deny it, I am who I am. I'm pretty normal. I'm not that smooth type of girl. I run into things, I trip, I spill food. I say stupid things... I really don't have it all together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was the one who was helping him out. But I guess he heard from somebody that I told Coach ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35767]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was the one who was helping him out. But I guess he heard from somebody that I told Coach not to play him in Game 3. It wasn't like that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The North! the South! the West! the East! No one the most and none the least,  But each with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2403]]></link><description><![CDATA[The North! the South! the West! the East! No one the most and none the least,  But each with its own heart and mind,   Each of its own distinctive kind,    Yet each a part and none the whole,     But all together form one soul;      That soul Our Country at its best,       No North, no South, no East, no West,        No yours, no mine, but always Ours,         Merged in one Power our lesser powers,          For no one's favor, great or small,           But all for Each and each for All.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you can assume that your audience holds the same beliefs as you do, you can relax a little and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3468]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you can assume that your audience holds the same beliefs as you do, you can relax a little and use more normal means of talking to it; when you have to assume that it does not, then you have to make your vision apparent by shock, to the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost-blind, you draw large and startling figures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is it a fact -- or have I dreamt it -- that, by means of electricity, the world of matter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13890]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is it a fact -- or have I dreamt it -- that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be large in mirth; anon we'll drink a measure The table round. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be large in mirth; anon we'll drink a measure The table round.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17515]]></link><description><![CDATA[Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make, And ev'n with Paradise devise the snake;  For all the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make, And ev'n with Paradise devise the snake;  For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man   Is blackened--Man's forgiveness give and take!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on sin:  Evil is the soul's choice of the not-God. The corollary is that damnation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on sin:  Evil is the soul's choice of the not-God. The corollary is that damnation or hell, is the permanent choice of the not-God. God does not (in the monstrous old-fashioned phrase) "send" anybody to hell; hell is that state of the soul in which its choice becomes obdurate and fixed; the punishment (so to call it) of that soul is to remain eternally in that State which it has chosen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38666]]></link><description><![CDATA[The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world willbe clean. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world willbe clean.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have read somewhere or other, in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I think, that history is philosophy teaching by examples. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19313]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have read somewhere or other, in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I think, that history is philosophy teaching by examples.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19313</guid></item></channel></rss>