<?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[Democracy, I do not conceive that ever God did ordain as a fit government either for church or commonwealth. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11889]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy, I do not conceive that ever God did ordain as a fit government either for church or commonwealth. If the people be governors, who shall be governed?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In light of activists' global boycottsof war profiteers, globalizationbegins to look evitable. Wereverse imperialist's sanctionswith the people's sanctions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13331]]></link><description><![CDATA[In light of activists' global boycottsof war profiteers, globalizationbegins to look evitable. Wereverse imperialist's sanctionswith the people's sanctions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In 1846 the prairie town of Oak River existed only in a settler's dream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4636]]></link><description><![CDATA[In 1846 the prairie town of Oak River existed only in a settler's dream.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I survived that trouble so likewise may I survive this one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59727]]></link><description><![CDATA[I survived that trouble so likewise may I survive this one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hat not much worse for wear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18884]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hat not much worse for wear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It isn't the incompetent who destroys an organization. The incompetent never gets in a position to destroy it. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/318]]></link><description><![CDATA[It isn't the incompetent who destroys an organization. The incompetent never gets in a position to destroy it. It is those who have achieved something and want to rest upon their achievements who are forever clogging things up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy -- a Jill a rich widow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61561]]></link><description><![CDATA[All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy -- a Jill a rich widow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2343]]></link><description><![CDATA[The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The intelligence which has learned to be a law to itself, criticising, rejecting, appropriating, assimilating, cannot deny its nature and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8006]]></link><description><![CDATA[The intelligence which has learned to be a law to itself, criticising, rejecting, appropriating, assimilating, cannot deny its nature and suspend its functions when it opens the New Testament. It cannot make itself the slave of men, not even though the men are Peter and Paul and John; no, not even though it were the Son of Man Himself. It resents dictation, not willfully nor wantonly, but because it must; and it resents it all the more when it claims to be inspired. If, therefore, the Atonement can only be received by those who are prepared from the threshold to acknowledge the inspiration and the consequent authority of Scripture, it can never be received by modern men at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Joseph of Nazareth  ... it be a certain truth, that none can understand [the prophets' and apostles'] ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Joseph of Nazareth  ... it be a certain truth, that none can understand [the prophets' and apostles'] writings aright, without the same Spirit by which they were written.  ... The Journal of George Fox  March 20, 1999  Feast of Cuthbert, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 687  It is no longer the fashion to suffer for the sake of God, and to bear the Cross for Him; for the diligence and real earnestness, that perchance were found in man, have been extinguished and have grown cold; and now no one is willing any longer to suffer distress for the sake of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25385]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling. -Margaret Lee Runbeck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18718]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling. -Margaret Lee Runbeck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46225]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It came down in buckets that day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37261]]></link><description><![CDATA[It came down in buckets that day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Propaganda) proceeds by psychological manipulations, character modifications, by creation of stereotypes useful when the time comes - The two great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48418]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Propaganda) proceeds by psychological manipulations, character modifications, by creation of stereotypes useful when the time comes - The two great routes that this sub-propaganda takes are the conditioned reflex and the myth]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kathleen Mavourneen, the gray dawn is breaking, The horn of the hunter is heard on the hill,  The lark ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kathleen Mavourneen, the gray dawn is breaking, The horn of the hunter is heard on the hill,  The lark from her light wing the bright dew is shaking--   Kathleen Mavourneen, what, slumbering, still?    Oh hast thou forgotten how soon we must sever?     Oh hast thou forgotten this day we must part?      It may be for years and it may be forever;       Oh why art thou silent, thou voice of my heart?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I played ball, I didn't play for fun... It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57699]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I played ball, I didn't play for fun... It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a contest and everything that implies, a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you are without a great player like Gilbert Arenas, the other guys have to step up and play at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31929]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are without a great player like Gilbert Arenas, the other guys have to step up and play at the top of their games. Tonight was a total team effort. We got a lot of energy, we played great defense, we moved the ball and we made sure that everybody got shots in. When we do that, it makes the game a lot of fun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love--and to put its trust in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59765]]></link><description><![CDATA[Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love--and to put its trust in life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first duty of love is to listen. -Paul Tillich. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25204]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first duty of love is to listen. -Paul Tillich.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We benefit as a growing sport being in a growing region. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41675]]></link><description><![CDATA[We benefit as a growing sport being in a growing region.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Know then, unnumber'd Spirits round thee fly, The light Militia of the lower sky. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Know then, unnumber'd Spirits round thee fly, The light Militia of the lower sky.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21674]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself. - The Art of Worldy Wisdom, 1647.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Easter Feast of George, Martyr, Patron of England, c.304 Commemoration of Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1988 I greet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Easter Feast of George, Martyr, Patron of England, c.304 Commemoration of Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1988 I greet Thy sepulchre, salute Thy grave,  That blest enclosure, where the angels gave  The first glad tidings of Thy early light,  And resurrection from the earth and night.  I see that morning in Thy convert's tears,  Fresh as the dew, which but this downing wears.  I smell her spices; and her ointment yields  As rich a scent as the now primrosed fields:  The Day-star smiles, and light, with Thee deceased,  Now shines in all the chambers of the East.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11855]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The release was an American-Iraqi decision and in line with an Iraqi government ruling made in December 2004, but hasn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29824]]></link><description><![CDATA[The release was an American-Iraqi decision and in line with an Iraqi government ruling made in December 2004, but hasn't been enforced until after the elections in an attempt to ease the political pressure in Iraq.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Habit with him was all the test of truth; "It must be right: I've done it from my youth." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18519]]></link><description><![CDATA[Habit with him was all the test of truth; "It must be right: I've done it from my youth."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14652]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The book which you are reading aloud is mine, Fidentinus; but, while you read it so badly, it begins to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14062]]></link><description><![CDATA[The book which you are reading aloud is mine, Fidentinus; but, while you read it so badly, it begins to be yours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I sing the Poppy! The frail snowy weed! The flower of Mercy! that within its heart  Doth keep "a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47681]]></link><description><![CDATA[I sing the Poppy! The frail snowy weed! The flower of Mercy! that within its heart  Doth keep "a drop serene" for human need,   A drowsy balm for every bitter smart.    For happy hours the Rose will idly blow--     The Poppy hath a charm for pain and woe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lysander when handing over the command of the fleet to Callicratidas, the Spartan, said to him, "I deliver you a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44024]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lysander when handing over the command of the fleet to Callicratidas, the Spartan, said to him, "I deliver you a fleet that is mistress of the seas."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a job's worth doing, it's too hard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18730]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a job's worth doing, it's too hard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All loose things seem to drift down to the sea, and so did I. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63939]]></link><description><![CDATA[All loose things seem to drift down to the sea, and so did I.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am about to -- or I am going to -- die; either expression is used. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24141]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am about to -- or I am going to -- die; either expression is used.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25879]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're getting a little out of hand, a little ridiculous. I still like a couple of them, but it gets ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29453]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're getting a little out of hand, a little ridiculous. I still like a couple of them, but it gets old after a while.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58251]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A healthy mind has an easy breath. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65716]]></link><description><![CDATA[A healthy mind has an easy breath.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59818]]></link><description><![CDATA[How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64901]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cannot afford to waste my time making money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14588]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cannot afford to waste my time making money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You see things; and you say, "Why"; But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?" ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52761]]></link><description><![CDATA[You see things; and you say, "Why"; But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To extend our memories by monuments, whose death we daily pray for, and whose duration we cannot hope, without injury ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43037]]></link><description><![CDATA[To extend our memories by monuments, whose death we daily pray for, and whose duration we cannot hope, without injury to our expectations in the advent of the last day, were a contradiction to our belief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is really and emotional time for the town, but I grew up with Lloyd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33007]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is really and emotional time for the town, but I grew up with Lloyd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21886]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have to think about whether you love someone or not then the answer is no. When you love ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10114]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have to think about whether you love someone or not then the answer is no. When you love someone you just know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On a large enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58388]]></link><description><![CDATA[On a large enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58388</guid></item></channel></rss>