<?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[If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found the time to conquer the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24044]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found the time to conquer the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peacetime conscription is the greatest step toward regimentation and militarism ever undertaken by the Congress of the United States. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12814]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peacetime conscription is the greatest step toward regimentation and militarism ever undertaken by the Congress of the United States.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All in the Downs are fleet was moor'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44020]]></link><description><![CDATA[All in the Downs are fleet was moor'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They make a desert and they call it peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51671]]></link><description><![CDATA[They make a desert and they call it peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He spots his pitches very well. It's also not uncommon for him to go out and throw four or five ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32221]]></link><description><![CDATA[He spots his pitches very well. It's also not uncommon for him to go out and throw four or five pitches and be out of the inning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The uselessness of men above sixty years of age and the incalculable benefit it would be in commercial, in political, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62139]]></link><description><![CDATA[The uselessness of men above sixty years of age and the incalculable benefit it would be in commercial, in political, and in professional life, if as a matter of course, men stopped work at this age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64429]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For Catholics before Vatican II, the land of the free was pre-eminently the land of Sister Says-except, of course, for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5302]]></link><description><![CDATA[For Catholics before Vatican II, the land of the free was pre-eminently the land of Sister Says-except, of course, for Sister, for whom it was the land of Father Says.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only people who never fail are those who never try. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22182]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only people who never fail are those who never try.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People call me feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55169]]></link><description><![CDATA[People call me feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14616]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64969]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As thou these ashes, little brook! will bear Into the Avon, Avon to the tide  Of Severn, Severn to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12641]]></link><description><![CDATA[As thou these ashes, little brook! will bear Into the Avon, Avon to the tide  Of Severn, Severn to the narrow seas,   Into main ocean they, this deed accurst,    An emblem yields to friends and enemies     How the bold teacher's doctrine, sanctified      By truth, shall spread throughout the world dispersed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I stayed in Sudan, I could not go to school, because I am not Muslim. If I stayed in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29704]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I stayed in Sudan, I could not go to school, because I am not Muslim. If I stayed in the country I could not go to college, because I am a black person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Just walk ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21071]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This inescapable duty to observe oneself: if someone else is observing me, naturally I have to observe myself too; if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44780]]></link><description><![CDATA[This inescapable duty to observe oneself: if someone else is observing me, naturally I have to observe myself too; if none observe me, I have to observe myself all the closer]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19346]]></link><description><![CDATA[The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some councils have only two or three pupils who need this help. That is not a big enough group to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some councils have only two or three pupils who need this help. That is not a big enough group to build up real expertise in dealing with them. They will look at using specialists like Spark of Genius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20894]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dance as though no one is watching you. Love as though you have never been hurt before. Sing as though ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dance as though no one is watching you. Love as though you have never been hurt before. Sing as though no one can hear you. Live as though heaven is on earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When my unit left, we felt good about what we had done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28687]]></link><description><![CDATA[When my unit left, we felt good about what we had done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only deadly sin I know is cynicism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10945]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only deadly sin I know is cynicism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The case is a prototype of the new post-Afghanistan network - a little bit of everything: native-born radicals, immigrants from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35845]]></link><description><![CDATA[The case is a prototype of the new post-Afghanistan network - a little bit of everything: native-born radicals, immigrants from Morocco, travel to places like Saudi Arabia, connection to operations like Madrid. It's like handling a number of particles of mercury, toxic in themselves and even more toxic when they come together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christ is the Word of God. It is not in certain texts written in the New Testament, valuable as they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7860]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christ is the Word of God. It is not in certain texts written in the New Testament, valuable as they are; it is not in certain words which Jesus spoke, vast as is their preciousness; it is in the Word, which Jesus is, that the great manifestation of God is made.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The learned man knows that he is ignorant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64677]]></link><description><![CDATA[The learned man knows that he is ignorant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45928]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[REPENTANCE, n. The faithful attendant and follower of Punishment. It is usually manifest in a degree of reformation that is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53838]]></link><description><![CDATA[REPENTANCE, n. The faithful attendant and follower of Punishment. It is usually manifest in a degree of reformation that is not inconsistent with continuity of sin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you find yourself beginning to feel a bond between yourself and the people you photograph, when you laugh and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3283]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you find yourself beginning to feel a bond between yourself and the people you photograph, when you laugh and cry with their laughter and tears, you will know you are on the right track.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We deplore this terrorist act and vow to get the criminals to justice as soon as possible, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36813]]></link><description><![CDATA[We deplore this terrorist act and vow to get the criminals to justice as soon as possible,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8356]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a garden in her face, Where roses and white lilies blow;  A heavenly paradise is that place, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14854]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a garden in her face, Where roses and white lilies blow;  A heavenly paradise is that place,   Wherein all pleasant fruits do grow.    There cherries grow that none may buy,     Till cherry ripe themselves do cry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better a bare foote then none. [Better a barefoot than none.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better a bare foote then none. [Better a barefoot than none.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Government is not reason, it is not eloquence -- it is force. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18061]]></link><description><![CDATA[Government is not reason, it is not eloquence -- it is force.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on topics of Christian apologetics:  I desire to exercise my faith in the most difficult ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6251]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on topics of Christian apologetics:  I desire to exercise my faith in the most difficult point, for to credit ordinary and visible objects is not faith, but persuasion. Some believe the better for seeing Christ's Sepulchre, and when they have seen the Red Sea, doubt not the miracle. Now contrarily I bless myself, and am thankful that I lived not in the days of miracles, that I never saw Christ nor His Disciples; I would not have been one of those Israelites that passed the Red Sea, nor one of Christ's patients, on whom He wrought His wonders; then had my faith been thrust upon me, nor should I enjoy that greater blessing pronounced to all that believe and saw not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52844]]></link><description><![CDATA[By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you wish to grow thinner, diminish your dinner, And take to light claret instead of pale ale;  Look ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13221]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you wish to grow thinner, diminish your dinner, And take to light claret instead of pale ale;  Look down with an utter contempt upon butter,   And never touch bread till its toasted--or stale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I remember a mass of things, but nothing distinctly; a quarrel, but nothing wherefore. O God, that men should put ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22933]]></link><description><![CDATA[I remember a mass of things, but nothing distinctly; a quarrel, but nothing wherefore. O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! that we should with joy, pleasance, revel, and applause transform ourselves into beasts!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beginning a short series of verse on Christ:   ... They haled him, trembling, to the Judgement Seat.  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beginning a short series of verse on Christ:   ... They haled him, trembling, to the Judgement Seat.  "O Lord, behold the man who made the nails that pierced Thy feet!"  The Master laid a thin, scarred hand upon the shame-bowed head.  "They were good nails," he said...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The store jelly doesn't compare. It's fun to give something you couldn't find in a store. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39275]]></link><description><![CDATA[The store jelly doesn't compare. It's fun to give something you couldn't find in a store.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come Tuesday morning, everybody's going to be here working. As soon as the insurance company gives us the OK, we're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39751]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come Tuesday morning, everybody's going to be here working. As soon as the insurance company gives us the OK, we're going to go ahead and rebuild. We should have a slight transition for our customers and our help.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19462]]></link><description><![CDATA[True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Relief workers in New Orleans, the money they're paid is burning a hole in their pocket and they're going to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36025]]></link><description><![CDATA[Relief workers in New Orleans, the money they're paid is burning a hole in their pocket and they're going to spend it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concerning all acts of iniative and creation, there is one elementary truth- that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5576]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concerning all acts of iniative and creation, there is one elementary truth- that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too. -W.H. Murray.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We get the kids involved. We'll tell them about three different times, 'Say no and shout,' and then we say, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42395]]></link><description><![CDATA[We get the kids involved. We'll tell them about three different times, 'Say no and shout,' and then we say, 'Ah, we can't hear you?' and they do it again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20539]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66419]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9383]]></link><description><![CDATA[Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So long as we judge ourselves by human comparisons, there is plenty of room for self-satisfaction, and self-satisfaction kills faith, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7499]]></link><description><![CDATA[So long as we judge ourselves by human comparisons, there is plenty of room for self-satisfaction, and self-satisfaction kills faith, for faith is born of the sense of need. But when we compare ourselves with Jesus Christ, and through Him, with God, we are humbled to the dust, and then faith is born, for there is nothing left to do but to trust to the mercy of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think he's the best country songwriter there ever was. My mom and dad played his music all the time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41022]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think he's the best country songwriter there ever was. My mom and dad played his music all the time when I was growing up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41022</guid></item></channel></rss>