<?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[I have great faith in fools--self-confidence my friends call it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9707]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have great faith in fools--self-confidence my friends call it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52036]]></link><description><![CDATA[A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But even the Christian, for all this satisfying and hopeful conviction, does not know the meaning of the mystery of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7952]]></link><description><![CDATA[But even the Christian, for all this satisfying and hopeful conviction, does not know the meaning of the mystery of life, and if he is wise he does not pretend to. He has enough light to light him on his way, but there are a great many gaps in his knowledge. When he says, "One day we shall understand", he is by no means always uttering a pious platitude. Quite frequently he is voicing a solid conviction, a genuine facet of hope. At present his vision is severely limited, and that is probably just as well, if his sanity is to be preserved. But when he is free of the limitations of temporal life, he has every hope of being able to know as surely as he is at present known.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The constitution, on this hypothesis, is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the Judiciary, which they may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9916]]></link><description><![CDATA[The constitution, on this hypothesis, is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the Judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they please.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hercules and the WagonerA CARTER was driving a wagon along a country lane, when the wheels sank down deep into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hercules and the WagonerA CARTER was driving a wagon along a country lane, when the wheels sank down deep into a rut. The rustic driver, stupefied and aghast, stood looking at the wagon, and did nothing but utter loud cries to Hercules to come and help him. Hercules, it is said, appeared and thus addressed him: Put your shoulders to the wheels, my man. Goad on your bullocks, and never more pray to me for help, until you have done your best to help yourself, or depend upon it you will henceforth pray in vain. Self-help is the best help.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14321]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cultivate literature on a little oat-meal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25263]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cultivate literature on a little oat-meal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then indecision brings its own delays,And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days.Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute;What ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then indecision brings its own delays,And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days.Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute;What you can do, or dream you can, begin it;Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Attired to please herself: no gems of any kind She wore, nor aught of borrowed gloss in Nature's stead;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Attired to please herself: no gems of any kind She wore, nor aught of borrowed gloss in Nature's stead;  And, then her long, loose hair flung round her head   Fell carelessly behind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spirit divine, attend our prayers.  And make this house thy home; Descend with all thy gracious powers;  O ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6363]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spirit divine, attend our prayers.  And make this house thy home; Descend with all thy gracious powers;  O come, great spirit, come! Come as the light; to us reveal  Our emptiness and woe; And lead us in the paths of life  Where all the righteous go. Come as the wind: sweep clean away  What dead within us lies, And search and freshen all our souls  With living energies.  Come as the fire: and purge our hearts  Like sacrificial flame; Let our whole soul as offering be  To our redeemer's name. Spirit divine, attend our prayers,  Make a lost world thy home; Descend with all thy gracious powers:  O come, great Spirit, come!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One foote is better then two crutches. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49691]]></link><description><![CDATA[One foote is better then two crutches.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Language. I loved it. And for a long time I would think of myself, of my whole body, as an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24080]]></link><description><![CDATA[Language. I loved it. And for a long time I would think of myself, of my whole body, as an ear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A word to the wise ain't necessary -- it's the stupid ones who need the advice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/810]]></link><description><![CDATA[A word to the wise ain't necessary -- it's the stupid ones who need the advice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without a rich heart wealth is an ugly beggar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61457]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without a rich heart wealth is an ugly beggar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The foolish ofttimes teach the wise: I strain too much this string of life, belike,  Meaning to make such ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19153]]></link><description><![CDATA[The foolish ofttimes teach the wise: I strain too much this string of life, belike,  Meaning to make such music as shall save.   Mine eyes are dim now that they see the truth,    My strength is waned now that my need is most;     Would that I had such help as man must have,      For I shall die, whose life was all men's hope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They drill it in our head that special teams could determine the outcome of the game. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31413]]></link><description><![CDATA[They drill it in our head that special teams could determine the outcome of the game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64951]]></link><description><![CDATA[All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But over all things brooding slept The quiet sense of something lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25586]]></link><description><![CDATA[But over all things brooding slept The quiet sense of something lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It sometimes seems as though we were trying to combine the ideal of no schools at all with the democratic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13490]]></link><description><![CDATA[It sometimes seems as though we were trying to combine the ideal of no schools at all with the democratic ideal of schools for everybody by having schools without education.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When if or chance or hunger's powerful sway Directs the roving trout this fatal way,  He greedily sucks in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16113]]></link><description><![CDATA[When if or chance or hunger's powerful sway Directs the roving trout this fatal way,  He greedily sucks in the twining bait,   And tugs and nibbles the fallacious meat.    Now, happy fisherman; now twitch the line!     How thy rod bends! behold, the prize is thine!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11402]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘the doer’ is merely a fiction added to the deed – the deed is everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11658]]></link><description><![CDATA[‘the doer’ is merely a fiction added to the deed – the deed is everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38725]]></link><description><![CDATA[an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's one of the largest betrayals. People have been led into this false sense of security. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40488]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's one of the largest betrayals. People have been led into this false sense of security.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once the market realizes there is no real threat of an immediate conflict, the market will calm down and we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34760]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once the market realizes there is no real threat of an immediate conflict, the market will calm down and we will see oil prices back in the $50s or $60s per barrel. This is highly political.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concluding a short series on prayer:  He that seeks God in everything is sure to find God in everything. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7148]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concluding a short series on prayer:  He that seeks God in everything is sure to find God in everything. When we thus live wholly unto God, God is wholly ours and we are then happy in all the happiness of God; for by uniting with Him in heart, and will, and spirit, we are united to all that He is and has in Himself. This is the purity and perfection of life that we pray for in the Lord's Prayer, that God's kingdom may come and His will be done in us, as it is in Heaven. And this we may be sure is not only necessary, but attainable by us, or our Saviour would not have made it a part of our daily prayer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is by chance that we met, by choice that we became friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5474]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is by chance that we met, by choice that we became friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19966]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1438]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Maybe best pop female vocal, I am kind of keeping my fingers crossed but you never know what is going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3581]]></link><description><![CDATA["Maybe best pop female vocal, I am kind of keeping my fingers crossed but you never know what is going on behind the scenes, but good bums come in all shapes and sizes''.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43882]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children's faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2857]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3251]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I pray your Highness mark this curious herb: Touch it but lightly, stroke it softly, Sir,  And it gives ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58482]]></link><description><![CDATA[I pray your Highness mark this curious herb: Touch it but lightly, stroke it softly, Sir,  And it gives forth an odor sweet and rare;   But crush it harshly and you'll make a scent    Most disagreeable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War is the unfolding of miscalculations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61169]]></link><description><![CDATA[War is the unfolding of miscalculations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Me fail english? Thats unpossible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Me fail english? Thats unpossible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Fir-Tree and the BrambleA fir-tree said boastingly to the Bramble, You are useful for nothing at all; while I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1590]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Fir-Tree and the BrambleA fir-tree said boastingly to the Bramble, You are useful for nothing at all; while I am everywhere used for roofs and houses. The Bramble answered: 'You poor creature, if you would only call to mind the axes and saws which are about to hew you down, you would have reason to wish that you had grown up a Bramble, not a Fir-Tree. Better poverty without care, than riches with.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The things that mount the rostrum with a skip, And then skip down again, pronounce a text,  Cry hem; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48078]]></link><description><![CDATA[The things that mount the rostrum with a skip, And then skip down again, pronounce a text,  Cry hem; and reading what they never wrote   Just fifteen minutes, huddle up their work,    And with a well-bred whisper close the scene!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never utter these words: 'I do not know this, therefore it is false.' One must study to know; know to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23482]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never utter these words: 'I do not know this, therefore it is false.' One must study to know; know to understand; understand to judge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not that into the fake meat anymore. The familiar texture makes the transition from meat to soy and wheat ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31161]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not that into the fake meat anymore. The familiar texture makes the transition from meat to soy and wheat products easier, but it's kind of limiting. There are lots of great ways to prepare meatless dishes without simulating meat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's real special to be a part of. He's a great coach and he deserves it. He pushes us and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34100]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's real special to be a part of. He's a great coach and he deserves it. He pushes us and expects a lot of us. We didn't know until the last field goal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The opposite of love is not hate, the opposite of love is ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20446]]></link><description><![CDATA[The opposite of love is not hate, the opposite of love is ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27478]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66212]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63760]]></link><description><![CDATA[You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of English Saints & Martyrs of the Reformation Continuing a series on the person of Jesus:  We might ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7503]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of English Saints & Martyrs of the Reformation Continuing a series on the person of Jesus:  We might have said beforehand, if we had been told that God was coming into a man's life, ... "That must be something very terrible and awful. That certainly must rend and tear the life to which God comes. At least, it will separate it and make it unnatural and strange. God fills a bush with His glory and it burns. God enters into the great mountain, and it rocks with earthquake. When he comes to occupy a man, He must distort the humanity which He occupies into some inhuman shape." Instead of that, this new life into which God comes, seems to be the most quietly, naturally human life that was ever seen upon the earth. It glides into its place like sunlight. It seems to make it evident that God and man are essentially so near together, that the meeting of their natures in the life of a God-man is not strange. So always does Christ deal with His own nature, accepting His Divinity as you and I accept our humanity, and letting it shine out through the envelope with which it has most subtly and mysteriously mingled, as the soul is mingled with and shines out through the body.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm just a hoofer with a spare set of tails ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35158]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm just a hoofer with a spare set of tails]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're attractive, quality-of-life places and have a somewhat more diverse economic base. It's close to Chicago. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38872]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're attractive, quality-of-life places and have a somewhat more diverse economic base. It's close to Chicago.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They wanted me to do Scream 2, and I hate talking about movies I turned down, because it sounds judgmental. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31156]]></link><description><![CDATA[They wanted me to do Scream 2, and I hate talking about movies I turned down, because it sounds judgmental. There's nothing wrong with horror movies. I enjoy watching them. The main reason I turn a part down is if I think I won't be good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is more obnoxious than a low person raised to a high position. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48905]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is more obnoxious than a low person raised to a high position.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48905</guid></item></channel></rss>