<?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[Let no man think to kill sin with few, easy, or gentle strokes. He who hath once smitten a serpent, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7339]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let no man think to kill sin with few, easy, or gentle strokes. He who hath once smitten a serpent, if he follow not on his blow until he be slain, may repent that ever he began the quarrel. And so will he who undertakes to deal with sin, and pursues it not constantly to the death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59081]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15909]]></link><description><![CDATA[More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every fat (vat) must stand upon its bottom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48686]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every fat (vat) must stand upon its bottom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self-trust is the essence of heroism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self-trust is the essence of heroism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some force whole regions, in despite O' geography, to change their site;  Make former times shake hands with latter, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some force whole regions, in despite O' geography, to change their site;  Make former times shake hands with latter,   And that which was before come after;    But those that write in rhyme still make     The one verse for the other's sake;      For one for sense, and one for rhyme,       I think's sufficient at one time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Birth of John the Baptist   The Present is the point at which Time touches Eternity. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8548]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Birth of John the Baptist   The Present is the point at which Time touches Eternity. Of the present moment -- and of it only -- humans have an experience analogous to the experience which God has of reality as a whole; in it alone, freedom and actuality are offered them. He would therefore have them continually concerned either with Eternity (which means being concerned with Him) or with the Present -- either meditating on their eternal union with, or separation from, Himself; or else obeying the present voice of conscience, bearing the present cross, receiving the present grace, giving thanks for the present pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are all put in different positions for different reasons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40085]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are all put in different positions for different reasons.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dream of reason produces monsters. Imagination deserted by reason creates impossible, useless thoughts. United with reason, imagination is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15307]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dream of reason produces monsters. Imagination deserted by reason creates impossible, useless thoughts. United with reason, imagination is the mother of all art and the source of all its beauty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, Mirth and Innocence! Oh, Milk and Water! Ye happy mixture of more happy days! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18637]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, Mirth and Innocence! Oh, Milk and Water! Ye happy mixture of more happy days!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The strongest and the fiercest spirit That fought in heaven, now fiercer by despair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50657]]></link><description><![CDATA[The strongest and the fiercest spirit That fought in heaven, now fiercer by despair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good words are worth much, and cost little. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good words are worth much, and cost little.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage-to move in the opposite direction. -E. F. Schumacher.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But scandal's my aversion--I protest Against all evil speaking, even in jest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48723]]></link><description><![CDATA[But scandal's my aversion--I protest Against all evil speaking, even in jest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything actual must also first have been possible, before having actual existence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47790]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything actual must also first have been possible, before having actual existence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be happy. It's one way of being wise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18602]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be happy. It's one way of being wise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14571]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I stand here before you not as a prophet, but as a humble servant of you, the people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66441]]></link><description><![CDATA[I stand here before you not as a prophet, but as a humble servant of you, the people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47703]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without relationships, no matter how much wealth, fame, power, prestige and seeming success by the standards and opinions of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without relationships, no matter how much wealth, fame, power, prestige and seeming success by the standards and opinions of the world one has, happiness will constantly eluded him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hit some bad shots but didn't let it get to me. The course is there for the taking, you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29588]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hit some bad shots but didn't let it get to me. The course is there for the taking, you can make some birdies out there. I started with a 62 in my last European win and the club manager who was at the Mines Resort in Malaysia is now running this club here. It could be a good sign.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The language I have learnt these forty years, My native English, now I must forgo;  And now my tongue's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59490]]></link><description><![CDATA[The language I have learnt these forty years, My native English, now I must forgo;  And now my tongue's use is to me no more   Than an unstringed viol or a harp,    Or like a cunning instrument cased up     Or, being open, put into his hands      That knows no touch to tune the harmony.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901  As a good Christian should consider every place as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8064]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901  As a good Christian should consider every place as holy, because God is there, so he should look upon every part of his life as a matter of holiness, because it is offered unto God. The profession of a clergyman is a holy profession, because it is a ministration in holy things, an attendance at the alter. But worldly business is to be made holy unto the Lord, by being done as a service unto Him, and in conformity to His Divine will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Free soil, free men, free speech, Fremont. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16660]]></link><description><![CDATA[Free soil, free men, free speech, Fremont.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24608]]></link><description><![CDATA[He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For such kind of borrowing as this, if it be not bettered by the borrower, among good authors is accounted ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46644]]></link><description><![CDATA[For such kind of borrowing as this, if it be not bettered by the borrower, among good authors is accounted plagiary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ricky was "L" but he's home with the flu,Lizzie, our "O," had some homework to do,Mitchell, "E" prob'ly got lost ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10925]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ricky was "L" but he's home with the flu,Lizzie, our "O," had some homework to do,Mitchell, "E" prob'ly got lost on the way,So I'm all of the love that could make it today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing, though the overtaking and possessing of a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing, though the overtaking and possessing of a wish discovers the folly of the chase.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man proves too clearly and convincingly to himself . . . that a tiger is an optical illusion--well, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61976]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man proves too clearly and convincingly to himself . . . that a tiger is an optical illusion--well, he will find out he is wrong. The tiger will himself intervene in the discussion, in a manner which will be in every sense conclusive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not difficult to become a great Greyhound, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38341]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not difficult to become a great Greyhound,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60753]]></link><description><![CDATA[A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look upon the world as your enemy because only then the gifts it gives will give you immense pleasure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46724]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look upon the world as your enemy because only then the gifts it gives will give you immense pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humble Hearts have humble desires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humble Hearts have humble desires.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger may in time change to gladness; vexation may be succeeded by content. But a kingdom that has once been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2577]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger may in time change to gladness; vexation may be succeeded by content. But a kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being; norcan the dead ever be brought back to life. Hence the enlightened ruler is heedful, and the good general full of caution. This is the way to keep a country at peace and an army intact.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[YANKEE, n. In Europe, an American. In the Northern States of our Union, a New Englander. In the Southern States ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62471]]></link><description><![CDATA[YANKEE, n. In Europe, an American. In the Northern States of our Union, a New Englander. In the Southern States the word is unknown. (See DAMYANK.)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's like the next Harry Potter book. You'll have to wait for it and be grateful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31564]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's like the next Harry Potter book. You'll have to wait for it and be grateful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What does one woman see in another than a man cannot see? Tenderness ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58947]]></link><description><![CDATA[What does one woman see in another than a man cannot see? Tenderness]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are never a loser until you quit trying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10417]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are never a loser until you quit trying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19300]]></link><description><![CDATA[Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever there is a hard job to be done I assign it to a lazy man; he is sure to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13609]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever there is a hard job to be done I assign it to a lazy man; he is sure to find an easy way of doing it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let reason govern desire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53114]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let reason govern desire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The destroyer of weeds, thistles, and thorns is a benefactor whether he soweth grain or not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62355]]></link><description><![CDATA[The destroyer of weeds, thistles, and thorns is a benefactor whether he soweth grain or not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am fond of children--except boys. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17490]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am fond of children--except boys.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our lawyers have interpreted when you add the word 'assist,' it could mean anything from providing soup in a soup ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our lawyers have interpreted when you add the word 'assist,' it could mean anything from providing soup in a soup kitchen, to letting someone stay a night, to giving someone water. A prosecutor could use that language to come after you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learned or unlearned we all must be scribbling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50290]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learned or unlearned we all must be scribbling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14838]]></link><description><![CDATA[Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14838</guid></item></channel></rss>