<?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[Pride calls me to the window, gluttony to the table, wantonness to the bed, laziness to the chimney-corner; ambition commands ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7696]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pride calls me to the window, gluttony to the table, wantonness to the bed, laziness to the chimney-corner; ambition commands me to go upstairs, and covetousness to come down. Vices, I see, are as well contrary to themselves as to virtue. Free me, Lord, from this distracted case; fetch me from being sin's servant to be Thine, whose "service is perfect freedom," for Thou art but one, and ever the same.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26106]]></link><description><![CDATA[We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The glory of a nation and an age is always the work of a few great persons, and it disappears ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47583]]></link><description><![CDATA[The glory of a nation and an age is always the work of a few great persons, and it disappears with them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17023]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19824]]></link><description><![CDATA[A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42879]]></link><description><![CDATA[To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14565]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66203]]></link><description><![CDATA[A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14998]]></link><description><![CDATA[A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It should be noted that the games of children are not games, and must be considered as their most serious ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17180]]></link><description><![CDATA[It should be noted that the games of children are not games, and must be considered as their most serious actions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I made a decision to bring our troops home a few days early in order to spare the life of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35867]]></link><description><![CDATA[I made a decision to bring our troops home a few days early in order to spare the life of Angelo. I do not regret the decision. Every life is important. Angelo's was spared and we rejoice. We're all rewarded for it, particularly his loving family and friends,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After months of lies, the president has given millions of people around the world reason to doubt that he has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33661]]></link><description><![CDATA[After months of lies, the president has given millions of people around the world reason to doubt that he has sent Americans into battle for the right reasons, ... The fact that Americans are expressing these doubts shows that the president is losing his ability to lead. If the president refuses to resign for the sake of the nation, I believe he should be impeached and face Senate trial.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10472]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take time: much may be gained by patience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50760]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take time: much may be gained by patience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the abilityand determination to overcome bad luck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22080]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the abilityand determination to overcome bad luck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take man's most fantastic invention- God. Man invents God in the image of his longings, in the image of what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52269]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take man's most fantastic invention- God. Man invents God in the image of his longings, in the image of what he wants to be, then proceeds to imitate that image, vie with it, and strive to overcome it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43599]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62922]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are Republicans, and don't propose to leave our party and identify ourselves with the party whose antecedents have been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46941]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are Republicans, and don't propose to leave our party and identify ourselves with the party whose antecedents have been Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901  It may well be that the unknowable name stands ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7521]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901  It may well be that the unknowable name stands for the ultimate mystery of Jesus Christ. His love we can experience; His salvation we can appropriate; His help we can claim; but their remains in Him the divine mystery of the Incarnation, which is beyond our understanding, and before which we can only worship and adore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The little cannot bee great, unlesse he devoure many. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49887]]></link><description><![CDATA[The little cannot bee great, unlesse he devoure many.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She is but half a wife that is not, nor is capable of being, a friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61571]]></link><description><![CDATA[She is but half a wife that is not, nor is capable of being, a friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Bartholomew the Apostle  It is often said with a sneer that the God of Israel was only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8135]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Bartholomew the Apostle  It is often said with a sneer that the God of Israel was only a God of Battles, "a mere barbaric Lord of Hosts" pitted in rivalry against other gods only as their envious foe. Well it is for the world that He was indeed a God of Battles. Well it is for us that He was to all the rest only a rival and a foe. In the ordinary way, it would have been only too easy for them to have achieved the desolate disaster of conceiving Him as a friend. It would have been only too easy for them to have seen Him stretching out His hands in love and reconciliation, embracing Baal and kissing the painted face of Astarte... It would have been easy enough for His worshipers to follow the enlightened course of Syncretism and the pooling of all the pagan traditions. It is obvious indeed that His followers were always sliding down this easy slope; and it required the almost demoniac energy of certain inspired demagogues, who testified to the divine unity in words that are still like winds of inspiration and ruin, [to stop them]. The more we really understand of the ancient conditions that contributed to the final culture of the Faith, the more we shall have a real and even a realistic reverence for the greatness of the Prophets of Israel. As it was, while the whole world melted into this mass of confused mythology, this Deity who is called tribal and narrow, precisely because He was what is called tribal and narrow, preserved the primary religion of all mankind. He was tribal enough to be universal. He was as narrow as the universe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Results are what you expect, and consequences are what you get. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9850]]></link><description><![CDATA[Results are what you expect, and consequences are what you get.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our revels are now ended. These our actors As I foretold you, were all spirits and  Are melted into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60885]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our revels are now ended. These our actors As I foretold you, were all spirits and  Are melted into air, into thin air;   And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,    The cloud-capped tow'rs, the gorgeous palaces,     The solemn temples, the great globe itself,      Yea, all of which it inherit, shall dissolve,       And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,        Is rounded with a sleep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And finds with keen, discriminating sight, Black's not so black--nor white so very white. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56248]]></link><description><![CDATA[And finds with keen, discriminating sight, Black's not so black--nor white so very white.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30115]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At this point, with the mixture of the slushy snow because the temperature is at 32 or just a little ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37582]]></link><description><![CDATA[At this point, with the mixture of the slushy snow because the temperature is at 32 or just a little above, it is heavy snow to push off the roadway.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no accounting for taste and no taste for accounting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58634]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no accounting for taste and no taste for accounting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amende to-day and slack not, Deythe cometh and warneth not,  Tyme passeth and speketh not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58301]]></link><description><![CDATA[Amende to-day and slack not, Deythe cometh and warneth not,  Tyme passeth and speketh not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope to leave my children a sense of empathy and pity and a will to right social wrongs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13750]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope to leave my children a sense of empathy and pity and a will to right social wrongs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a rite of passage. He was dad's right-hand man . . . he was just doing things like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41611]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a rite of passage. He was dad's right-hand man . . . he was just doing things like that. We made a conscious decision for him to be there to help.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26402]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Davidson is an aggressive, tough team to play. They are a threat everywhere. We're pleased to get the win. Jasmine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Davidson is an aggressive, tough team to play. They are a threat everywhere. We're pleased to get the win. Jasmine Byrd started hot as fire and that gave us confidence. We made some little adjustments in the second half.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What does drunkenness accomplish? It discloses secrets, it ratifies hopes, and urges even the unarmed to battle. [Lat., Quid non ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22923]]></link><description><![CDATA[What does drunkenness accomplish? It discloses secrets, it ratifies hopes, and urges even the unarmed to battle. [Lat., Quid non ebrietas designat? Operta recludit;  Spes jubet esse ratas; in praelia trudit inermem.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope costs nothing ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope costs nothing]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People like me who believe the left can be a moderate forcewe have failed. We are stuck in the medieval ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41122]]></link><description><![CDATA[People like me who believe the left can be a moderate forcewe have failed. We are stuck in the medieval notion that there is an aristocracy and a people, and the people want a piece of what the aristocracy hada life subsidized enough to have a minimum of work and a maximum of pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64464]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be a spot on the ground where nothing is growing, where somethingmight be planted, a seed, from the Absolute. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be a spot on the ground where nothing is growing, where somethingmight be planted, a seed, from the Absolute.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once at a potent leader's voice I stayed; Once I went back when a good monarch prayed;  Mortals, howe'er ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once at a potent leader's voice I stayed; Once I went back when a good monarch prayed;  Mortals, howe'er we grieve, howe'er deplore,   The flying shadow will return no more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922  If ever I reach heaven I expect to find ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6964]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922  If ever I reach heaven I expect to find three wonders there: first, to meet some I had not thought to see there; second, to miss some I had expected to see there; and third -- the greatest wonder of all -- to find myself there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time is the fire in which we burn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27694]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time is the fire in which we burn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That law provides for competition and allows local communities to have a say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39452]]></link><description><![CDATA[That law provides for competition and allows local communities to have a say.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good things soon find a purchaser. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50860]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good things soon find a purchaser.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two kinds of light--the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25074]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two kinds of light--the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[... a place where they dispense with justice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10429]]></link><description><![CDATA[... a place where they dispense with justice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exploitation and oppression is not a matter of race. It is the system, the apparatus of world-wide brigandage called imperialism, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14752]]></link><description><![CDATA[Exploitation and oppression is not a matter of race. It is the system, the apparatus of world-wide brigandage called imperialism, which made the Powers behave the way they did.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3985]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3985</guid></item></channel></rss>