<?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[Civilization rests on a set of promises; if the promises are broken too often, the civilization dies, no matter how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1274]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civilization rests on a set of promises; if the promises are broken too often, the civilization dies, no matter how rich it may be, or how mechanically clever. Hope and faith depend on the promises; if hope and faith go, everything goes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The amount of power freed by telling yourself you no longer choose toput energy into something can be remarkable. Be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21450]]></link><description><![CDATA[The amount of power freed by telling yourself you no longer choose toput energy into something can be remarkable. Be prepared for extra energy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This war in Vietnam is, I believe, a war for civilization. Certainly it is not a war of our seeking. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60632]]></link><description><![CDATA[This war in Vietnam is, I believe, a war for civilization. Certainly it is not a war of our seeking. It is a war thrust upon us and we cannot yield to tyranny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["When the Son of Man cometh, shall He find faith on the earth?" If He should now come, would He ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8051]]></link><description><![CDATA["When the Son of Man cometh, shall He find faith on the earth?" If He should now come, would He find it in us? What fruits of faith have we to show? Do we look upon this life only as a short passage to a better? Do we believe that we must suffer with Jesus Christ before we can reign with Him? Do we consider this world as a deceitful appearance, and death as the entrance to true happiness? Do we live by faith? Does it animate us? Do we relish the eternal truths it presents us with? Are we as careful to nourish our souls with those truths as to maintain our bodies with proper diet? Do we accustom ourselves to see all things in the light of faith? Do we correct all our judgements by it?  Alas! The greater part of Christians think and act like mere heathens; if we judge (as we justly may) of their faith by their practice, we must conclude they have no faith at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time is Too Slow for those who Wait,  Too Swift for those who Fear,   Too Long for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58323]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time is Too Slow for those who Wait,  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 not.   - Henry Jackson van Dyke,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis thus we heed no instincts but our own, Believe no evil, till the evil's done.  [Fr., Nous n'ecoutons ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22825]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis thus we heed no instincts but our own, Believe no evil, till the evil's done.  [Fr., Nous n'ecoutons d'instincts que ceux qui sont les notres.   Et ne croyons le mal que quand il est venu.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13772]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My way of joking is to tell the truth; it's the funniest joke in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28063]]></link><description><![CDATA[My way of joking is to tell the truth; it's the funniest joke in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52782]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who lives by himself and for himself is likely to be corrupted by the company he keeps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55091]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who lives by himself and for himself is likely to be corrupted by the company he keeps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The older I grow the more I listen to people who don't talk much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53353]]></link><description><![CDATA[The older I grow the more I listen to people who don't talk much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we have been doing is turning around and donating them (donations) to the various donation sites set up around ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40575]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we have been doing is turning around and donating them (donations) to the various donation sites set up around town for other hurricane evacuees. From what I understand, even more people are showing up here from that area,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just when you think that a person is just a backdrop for the rest of the universe, watch them and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just when you think that a person is just a backdrop for the rest of the universe, watch them and see that they laugh, they cry, they tell jokes ... they're just friends waiting to be made.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to buy books than to read them, and easier to read them than to absorb them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4595]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to buy books than to read them, and easier to read them than to absorb them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a massive scalp for us - the biggest result in the 22-year history of the club. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32788]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a massive scalp for us - the biggest result in the 22-year history of the club.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is to be acknowledged that many passages in the Bible are abstruse, and not to be easily understood. Yet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8039]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is to be acknowledged that many passages in the Bible are abstruse, and not to be easily understood. Yet we are not to omit reading the abstruser texts, which have any appearance of relating to us; but should follow the example of the Blessed Virgin, who understood not several of our Saviour's sayings, but kept them all in her heart. Were we only to learn humility thus, it would be enough; but we shall by degrees come to apprehend far more than we expected, if we diligently compare spiritual things to spiritual.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Popular Applause! what heart of man Is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2921]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Popular Applause! what heart of man Is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A joke's a very serious thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23225]]></link><description><![CDATA[A joke's a very serious thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Young fellows will be young fellows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Young fellows will be young fellows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10752]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We needed defensive stops. But then again, to get on the board, you need to execute and move the ball ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29066]]></link><description><![CDATA[We needed defensive stops. But then again, to get on the board, you need to execute and move the ball around and run our motion like we usually do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Except in the sacred texts of democracy and in the incantations of orators, we hardly take the trouble to pretend ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47441]]></link><description><![CDATA[Except in the sacred texts of democracy and in the incantations of orators, we hardly take the trouble to pretend that the rule of the majority is not at bottom a rule of force. What other virtue can there be in fifty-one percent except the brute fact that fifty-one is more than forty-nine? The rule of fifty-one per cent is a convenience, it is for certain matters a satisfactory political device, it is for others the lesser of two evils, and for others it is acceptable because we do not know any less troublesome method of obtaining a political decision. But it may easily become an absurd tyranny if we regard it worshipfully, as though it were more than a political device. We have lost all sense of its true meaning when we imagine that the opinion of fifty-one per cent is in some high fashion the true opinion of the whole hundred per cent, or indulge in the sophistry that the rule of a majority is based upon the ultimate equality of man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I take as my guide the hope of a saint: in crucial things, unity. . . in important things, diversity. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12595]]></link><description><![CDATA[I take as my guide the hope of a saint: in crucial things, unity. . . in important things, diversity. . . in all things, generosity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who suffers or stresses before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary. Kim, Age 11 -Seneca. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57987]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who suffers or stresses before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary. Kim, Age 11 -Seneca.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56946]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That water which wall from some Alpine height is dashed, broken, and will murmur loudly, but grows limpid by its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52592]]></link><description><![CDATA[That water which wall from some Alpine height is dashed, broken, and will murmur loudly, but grows limpid by its fall. [It., Quell' onda, che ruina  Dalla pendice alpina,   Balza, si frange, e mormora    Ma limpida si fa.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got to give it up to Evanston. They went into their trap and we stopped attacking and we played ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32374]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to give it up to Evanston. They went into their trap and we stopped attacking and we played timid. We were lucky we were able to hang on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46714]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In this age of the rule of brute force, it is almost impossible for anyone to believe that any one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16447]]></link><description><![CDATA[In this age of the rule of brute force, it is almost impossible for anyone to believe that any one else could possibly reject the law of the final supremacy of brute force.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not half so swift the trembling doves can fly, When the fierce eagle cleaves the liquid sky;  Not half ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12808]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not half so swift the trembling doves can fly, When the fierce eagle cleaves the liquid sky;  Not half so swiftly the fierce eagle moves,   When thro' the clouds he drives the trembling doves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right now, we only have half court and now we're going to have full court and like the computer lab ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39374]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right now, we only have half court and now we're going to have full court and like the computer lab that's going to be way better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nay, tarry a moment, my charming girl; Here is a jewel of gold and pearl;  A beautiful cross it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23264]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nay, tarry a moment, my charming girl; Here is a jewel of gold and pearl;  A beautiful cross it is I ween   As ever on beauty's breast was seen;    There's nothing at all but love to pay;     Take it and wear it, but only stay!      Ah! Sir Hunter, what excellent taste!       I'm not--in such--particular--haste.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8752]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No indulgence of passion destroys the spiritual nature so much as respectable selfishness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8204]]></link><description><![CDATA[No indulgence of passion destroys the spiritual nature so much as respectable selfishness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heaven sends us good meat, but the devil sends us cooks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heaven sends us good meat, but the devil sends us cooks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Necessity is a violent school-mistress. [Fr., C'est une violente maistresse d'eschole que la necessite.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44053]]></link><description><![CDATA[Necessity is a violent school-mistress. [Fr., C'est une violente maistresse d'eschole que la necessite.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the fate of every great achievement to be pounced upon by pedants and imitators who drain it of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52256]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the fate of every great achievement to be pounced upon by pedants and imitators who drain it of life and turn it into an orthodoxy which stifles all stirrings of originality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knavery and flattery are blood relations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16200]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knavery and flattery are blood relations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evil and good are God's right hand and left. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14288]]></link><description><![CDATA[Evil and good are God's right hand and left.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To live in hearts we leave behind, Is not to die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26926]]></link><description><![CDATA[To live in hearts we leave behind, Is not to die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The biggest difference between time and space is that you can't reuse time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14515]]></link><description><![CDATA[The biggest difference between time and space is that you can't reuse time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fire, with well-dried logs supplied, Went roaring up the chimney wide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51103]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fire, with well-dried logs supplied, Went roaring up the chimney wide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm very pleased at the improvement we've made. I am pleased at our direction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28639]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm very pleased at the improvement we've made. I am pleased at our direction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41435]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64293]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Others have done it before me. I can, too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1043]]></link><description><![CDATA[Others have done it before me. I can, too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common sense is perhaps the most equally divided, but surely the most under-employed, talent in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58591]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common sense is perhaps the most equally divided, but surely the most under-employed, talent in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47092]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which the masses of men exhibit their tyranny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our defense stepped up in the third quarter, and Missy hitting those two shots were just huge. It gave us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34671]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our defense stepped up in the third quarter, and Missy hitting those two shots were just huge. It gave us some breathing room and we were able to make some adjustments.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34671</guid></item></channel></rss>