<?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[No one is free who does not lord over himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1299]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one is free who does not lord over himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Far from all resort of mirth, / Save the cricket on the hearth! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10636]]></link><description><![CDATA[Far from all resort of mirth, / Save the cricket on the hearth!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well. Being in the minority, he has no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25369]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well. Being in the minority, he has no other choice. Failing this duty, he sinks into oblivion. Society, on the other hand, has no obligation toward the poet. A majority by definition, society thinks of itself as having other options than reading verses, no matter how well written. Its failure to do so results in its sinking to that level of locution at which society falls easy prey to a demagogue or a tyrant. This is society's own equivalent of oblivion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be in the company, you not only have to be an incredible performer, but you have to be able ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35502]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be in the company, you not only have to be an incredible performer, but you have to be able to-and like to-teach kids.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11469]]></link><description><![CDATA[Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While we teach, we learn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24514]]></link><description><![CDATA[While we teach, we learn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[post-apocalyptic fantasy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38846]]></link><description><![CDATA[post-apocalyptic fantasy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had 50 firefighters on the ground and 17 fire trucks. We fought the fire for five hours. The third ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33810]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had 50 firefighters on the ground and 17 fire trucks. We fought the fire for five hours. The third floor suffered extensive fire damage and is a total loss.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will be able to appreciate the influence of such an Engine on the future progress of science. I live ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28131]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will be able to appreciate the influence of such an Engine on the future progress of science. I live in a country which is incapable of estimating it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live to explain thy doctrine by thy life.   - Matthew Prior, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12639]]></link><description><![CDATA[Live to explain thy doctrine by thy life.   - Matthew Prior,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hilda, Abbess of Whitby, 680 Commemoration of Elizabeth, Princess of Hungary, Philanthropist, 1231 Commemoration of Mechtild, Bèguine of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7267]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hilda, Abbess of Whitby, 680 Commemoration of Elizabeth, Princess of Hungary, Philanthropist, 1231 Commemoration of Mechtild, Bèguine of Magdeburg, Mystic, Prophet, 1280  If He hath promised to make us happy, though He hath not particularly declared to us wherein this happiness shall consist, yet we may trust Him that made us, to find out ways to make us happy, and may believe that He who made us, without our knowledge or desire, is able to make us happy beyond them both.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of two evils I have chose the least. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50948]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of two evils I have chose the least.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ship of heaven guides itself and will not accept a wooden rudder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11924]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ship of heaven guides itself and will not accept a wooden rudder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When an unskillful servant gathers many herbs, flowers, and seeds in a garden, you gather them out that are useful, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7359]]></link><description><![CDATA[When an unskillful servant gathers many herbs, flowers, and seeds in a garden, you gather them out that are useful, and cast the rest out of sight; so Christ deals with our performances. All the ingredients of self that are in them He takes away, and adds incense to what remains, and presents it to God. This is the cause that the saints at the last day, when they meet their own duties and performances, know them not, they are so changed from what they were when they went out of their hand. "Lord, when saw we Thee naked or hungry?" So God accepts a little, and Christ makes our little a great deal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15492]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have cheveril consciences that will stretch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9788]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have cheveril consciences that will stretch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The solitary Bee Whose buzzing was the only sound of life,  Flew there on restless wing,   Seeking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3912]]></link><description><![CDATA[The solitary Bee Whose buzzing was the only sound of life,  Flew there on restless wing,   Seeking in vain one blossom where to fix.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This monument is dedicated to a man who loved his people. He became leader at the most difficult time for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28997]]></link><description><![CDATA[This monument is dedicated to a man who loved his people. He became leader at the most difficult time for his country, and we should raise the next generation by his example.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who could be happy and alone or good? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who could be happy and alone or good?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've just got to go at them, like you've got no fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41874]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've just got to go at them, like you've got no fear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not true that the assertion of spiritual principle is vain because we can not see at the moment ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7476]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not true that the assertion of spiritual principle is vain because we can not see at the moment how to express that principle in action. It would assuredly make a difference if Christians, in their approach one to another, realized that, in spite of appearances, they were in fact one. If, in their seeking after external reunion, they realized that they were seeking not to create a unity which does not yet exist, but to find an expression for a unity which does exist, which is indeed the one elemental reality, they would approach one another in a better frame of mind. The common recognition of the principle would in itself be a unifying force of great value, and would dispose those who shared it to approach questions of difference in a spirit of unity which would immensely assist their deliberations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Age, like distance lends a double charm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66869]]></link><description><![CDATA[Age, like distance lends a double charm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How are thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12133]]></link><description><![CDATA[How are thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Luke the Evangelist  Study universal holiness of life. Your whole usefulness depends on this, for your sermons ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6502]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Luke the Evangelist  Study universal holiness of life. Your whole usefulness depends on this, for your sermons last but an hour or two: your life preaches all week. If Satan can only make a covetous minister a lover of praise, of pleasure, of good eating, he has ruined your ministry. Give yourself to prayer, and get your texts, your thoughts, your words, from God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We work in lower Manhattan. This is New York. We're not afraid of attacks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34556]]></link><description><![CDATA[We work in lower Manhattan. This is New York. We're not afraid of attacks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So when two dogs are fighting in the streets, When a third dog one of the two dogs meets:  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9963]]></link><description><![CDATA[So when two dogs are fighting in the streets, When a third dog one of the two dogs meets:  With angry teeth he bites him to the bone,   And this dog smarts for what that dog has done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be too busie gets contempt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49999]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be too busie gets contempt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Contentions fierce, Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9971]]></link><description><![CDATA[Contentions fierce, Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13422]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[like an aging Pete Townshend kind of guy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35152]]></link><description><![CDATA[like an aging Pete Townshend kind of guy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A thick skin is a gift from God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21220]]></link><description><![CDATA[A thick skin is a gift from God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have need of the laws, so the laws, if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24325]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have need of the laws, so the laws, if they are to be observed, have need of good morals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will have to act like a serious efficient government with a small number of ministers, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35815]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will have to act like a serious efficient government with a small number of ministers,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to know about a man you can find out an awful lot by looking at who he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27094]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to know about a man you can find out an awful lot by looking at who he married.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Internet security threats are rising at an alarming pace, and while consumers are increasingly aware of the risks, to date ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42363]]></link><description><![CDATA[Internet security threats are rising at an alarming pace, and while consumers are increasingly aware of the risks, to date they have very little ammunition to combat and defend against these threats that are easy to use and cost effective.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61670]]></link><description><![CDATA[He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth; And wine that maketh glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face to shine, and bread which strengtheneth man's heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will not sit upon a hot stove lid again. But he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5306]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will not sit upon a hot stove lid again. But he won't sit upon a cold stove lid, either.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People know each other better on a journey. Plaatje ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28498]]></link><description><![CDATA[People know each other better on a journey. Plaatje]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53517]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a beautiful thriller, very, very well written, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29595]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a beautiful thriller, very, very well written,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've never done anything for money. My first love is things of limited commercial appeal. I could be happy doing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39465]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've never done anything for money. My first love is things of limited commercial appeal. I could be happy doing Shakespeare for the rest of my life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had just no power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36704]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had just no power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17048]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're trying to be judicious. It's not fantasy football. This is about people making sound judgements. That's what we're trying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34689]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're trying to be judicious. It's not fantasy football. This is about people making sound judgements. That's what we're trying to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5411]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas à Kempis, priest, spiritual writer, 1471   It is no great matter to associate with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas à Kempis, priest, spiritual writer, 1471   It is no great matter to associate with the good and gentle; for this is a naturally pleasing to all, and everyone willingly enjoyeth peace, and loveth those best that agree with him. But to be able to live peaceably with hard and perverse persons, or with the disorderly, or with such as go contrary to us, is a great grace, and a most commendable thing.  ... Thomas à Kempis July 25, 2000 Feast of James the Apostle  When Jesus calls his disciples "brothers" and "friends", he is contradicting general Jewish usage and breaking through into a new concept of brotherhood which is not tribal, but open to any person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64846]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64650]]></link><description><![CDATA[The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.rnRead more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/abraham_lincoln_2.html#0P2cCWMdWjEvdFdb.99rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58662]]></link><description><![CDATA[have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58662</guid></item></channel></rss>