<?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] doctrine of progress sustained our fathers in the carrying of capitalistic democratic culture to most parts of the globe. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6740]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The] doctrine of progress sustained our fathers in the carrying of capitalistic democratic culture to most parts of the globe. Its core was the conviction that in thus extending the range of western liberal culture and developing its assumptions, they were in effect establishing on earth that which would grow into the kingdom of God. Some put it sharply but un-Biblically: "building the Kingdom". That whole view exists today only as debris, for it has foundered on the rocks, not so much of human sin, as of the contradictions and complexities of the very western culture which was the substance of its belief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've had quite a few vehicles slide off the highway. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30796]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've had quite a few vehicles slide off the highway.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He [Moliere] pleases every one but can not please himself. [Fr., Il plait a tout le monde et ne saurait ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54723]]></link><description><![CDATA[He [Moliere] pleases every one but can not please himself. [Fr., Il plait a tout le monde et ne saurait se plaire.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judge not, that ye be not judged. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48582]]></link><description><![CDATA[Judge not, that ye be not judged.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5427]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[will be in very good shape to try this case again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41218]]></link><description><![CDATA[will be in very good shape to try this case again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether we name divine presence synchronicity, serendipity, or graced moment matters little. What matters is the reality that our hearts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether we name divine presence synchronicity, serendipity, or graced moment matters little. What matters is the reality that our hearts have been understood. Nothing is as real as a healthy dose of magic which restores our spirits.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh! no! we never mention her, Her name is never heard;  My lips are now forbid to speak  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43628]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh! no! we never mention her, Her name is never heard;  My lips are now forbid to speak   That once familiar word.   - Thomas Haynes Bayly,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, or a new country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62109]]></link><description><![CDATA[Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in.  A pessimist stays up to make sure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64511]]></link><description><![CDATA[An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in.  A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!  Thou art ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43400]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!  Thou art the ruins of the noblest man   That ever lived in the tide of times.    Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The person with a fixed goal, a clear picture of his desire, or an ideal always before him, causes it, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22498]]></link><description><![CDATA[The person with a fixed goal, a clear picture of his desire, or an ideal always before him, causes it, through repetition, to be buried deeply in his subconscious mind and is thus enabled, thanks to its generative and sustaining power, to realize his goal in a minimum of time and with a minimum of physical effort. Just pursue the thought unceasingly. Step by step you will achieve realization, for all your faculties and powers become directed to that end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't believe that winning is really everything. It's more important to stand for something. If you don't stand for something, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61698]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't believe that winning is really everything. It's more important to stand for something. If you don't stand for something, what do you win?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come unto these yellow sands, And then take hands: Courtsied when you have, and kiss'd The wild waves whist. -The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come unto these yellow sands, And then take hands: Courtsied when you have, and kiss'd The wild waves whist. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wee know not who lives or dies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wee know not who lives or dies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men who care passionately for women attach themselves at least as much to the temple and to the accessories of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20789]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men who care passionately for women attach themselves at least as much to the temple and to the accessories of the cult as to their goddess herself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mrs. Schmidt had a meeting with Mr. Tancredo about his support for her. We understood it to be an endorsement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38740]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mrs. Schmidt had a meeting with Mr. Tancredo about his support for her. We understood it to be an endorsement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47590]]></link><description><![CDATA[When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many people are looking for an ear that will listen. They do not find it among Christians, because these Christians ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many people are looking for an ear that will listen. They do not find it among Christians, because these Christians are talking where they should be listening. But he who can no longer listen to his brother will soon be no longer listening to God, either; he will be doing nothing but prattle in the presence of God, too. This is the beginning of the death of the spiritual life, and in the end there will be nothing left but spiritual chatter and clerical condescension arrayed in pious words ... never really speaking to others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The service you do for others is the rent you pay for the time you spend on earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57717]]></link><description><![CDATA[The service you do for others is the rent you pay for the time you spend on earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take heed of credit decaid, and people that have nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take heed of credit decaid, and people that have nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it. [Lat., Saepe satius fuit dissimulare quam ulcisci.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22846]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it. [Lat., Saepe satius fuit dissimulare quam ulcisci.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2435]]></link><description><![CDATA[My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hail! Independence, hail! Heaven's next best gift, To that of life and an immortal soul! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20735]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hail! Independence, hail! Heaven's next best gift, To that of life and an immortal soul!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4551]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no grotesques in nature; not anything framed to fill up empty cantons, and unnecessary spaces. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43791]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no grotesques in nature; not anything framed to fill up empty cantons, and unnecessary spaces.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a major accomplishment for me and I'll take it in stride. I was just trying to focus on helping ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38921]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a major accomplishment for me and I'll take it in stride. I was just trying to focus on helping the team get a 'W' today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every law is an infraction of liberty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24710]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every law is an infraction of liberty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The king himself has follow'd her When she has walk'd before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/609]]></link><description><![CDATA[The king himself has follow'd her When she has walk'd before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's someone who experiences a certain amount of bafflement about his talents. How did it happen? How did he become ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37097]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's someone who experiences a certain amount of bafflement about his talents. How did it happen? How did he become who he is?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on "income distribution," the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48477]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on "income distribution," the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I really think being at home helped. This is a big part of the season, with a lot of home ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36037]]></link><description><![CDATA[I really think being at home helped. This is a big part of the season, with a lot of home games coming up. It feels good to come home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prices continue to climb even though construction is under way. That means what may conceivably happen as we go along, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36741]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prices continue to climb even though construction is under way. That means what may conceivably happen as we go along, because we're locked into a number, is we may have to make cuts. If we start bumping up against the educational specifications, that's going to be tough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53573]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worry -- a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62270]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worry -- a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45700]]></link><description><![CDATA[The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Righteousness exalteth a nation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48647]]></link><description><![CDATA[Righteousness exalteth a nation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreams won't come looking for you. That's why you have to chase them. Pursue them until they become reality, then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63037]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreams won't come looking for you. That's why you have to chase them. Pursue them until they become reality, then hold on tightly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fit thy consent to my sharp appetite, Lay by all nicety and prolixious blushes,  That banish what they sue ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4389]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fit thy consent to my sharp appetite, Lay by all nicety and prolixious blushes,  That banish what they sue for: redeem thy brother   By yielding up thy body to my will,    Or else he must not only die the death,     But thy unkindess shall his death draw out      To ling'ring sufferance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has been said that although God cannot alter the past, historians can --it is perhaps because they can be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19488]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has been said that although God cannot alter the past, historians can --it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in this respect that He tolerates their existence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like a dog he hunts in dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51703]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like a dog he hunts in dreams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers…. There is divinity in odd numbers, either ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55373]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers…. There is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fair day in winter is the mother of a storme. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49014]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fair day in winter is the mother of a storme.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have people standing in line that want to be nurses. The problem is we don't have enough capacity in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40750]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have people standing in line that want to be nurses. The problem is we don't have enough capacity in our nursing schools.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm tired of ignoring that I march to a different beat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64836]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm tired of ignoring that I march to a different beat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3300]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58682]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest possible amount of hissing]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good health and good sense are two of life's greatest blessings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18930]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good health and good sense are two of life's greatest blessings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We didn't adopt them for a day. We just adopted them. We had heard that so many smaller areas were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42008]]></link><description><![CDATA[We didn't adopt them for a day. We just adopted them. We had heard that so many smaller areas were not getting help because of the focus on New Orleans. We all know what it's like to be a little town.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42008</guid></item></channel></rss>