<?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 deceit, the lie of the devil consists of this, that he wishes to make man believe that he can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8616]]></link><description><![CDATA[The deceit, the lie of the devil consists of this, that he wishes to make man believe that he can live without God's Word. Thus he dangles before man's fantasy a kingdom of faith, of power, and of peace, into which only he can enter who consents to the temptations; and he conceals from men that he, as the devil, is the most unfortunate and unhappy of beings, since he is finally and eternally rejected by God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...passionate intensity may serve as a substitute for confidence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52277]]></link><description><![CDATA[...passionate intensity may serve as a substitute for confidence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was important for us to be patient and see what they were giving us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39526]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was important for us to be patient and see what they were giving us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What if we weren't what we thought all along? What if we were likeable, lovable even, funny and talented and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66919]]></link><description><![CDATA[What if we weren't what we thought all along? What if we were likeable, lovable even, funny and talented and easy to be around, easy to like? Then our self concept was a lie, told to us by cruelty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If inflation continues, the two-car garage will be replaced by the two-family garage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20837]]></link><description><![CDATA[If inflation continues, the two-car garage will be replaced by the two-family garage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24331]]></link><description><![CDATA[The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I tried marijuana once. I did not inhale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13031]]></link><description><![CDATA[I tried marijuana once. I did not inhale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The second day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19570]]></link><description><![CDATA[The second day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of the continent to the other, from this time forward forevermore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Financial services are not excluded; they are simply not yet included. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Financial services are not excluded; they are simply not yet included.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What millions died that Caesar might be great? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21165]]></link><description><![CDATA[What millions died that Caesar might be great?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I learned much more from defeat than I ever learned from winning ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11790]]></link><description><![CDATA[I learned much more from defeat than I ever learned from winning]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wolf shall also dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45864]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wolf shall also dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The road is long fro the project to its completion. [Fr., Et le chemin est long du projet a la ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13786]]></link><description><![CDATA[The road is long fro the project to its completion. [Fr., Et le chemin est long du projet a la chose.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A eulogist of past times. [Lat., Laudator temporis acti.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48011]]></link><description><![CDATA[A eulogist of past times. [Lat., Laudator temporis acti.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I, who have no sisters or brothers, look with some degree of innocent envy on those who may be said ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62862]]></link><description><![CDATA[I, who have no sisters or brothers, look with some degree of innocent envy on those who may be said to be born to friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Change but the name, and you are the subject of the story. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50201]]></link><description><![CDATA[Change but the name, and you are the subject of the story.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Baby bye Here's a fly,  Let us watch him, you and I,   How he crawls   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Baby bye Here's a fly,  Let us watch him, you and I,   How he crawls    Up the walls     Yet he never falls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is becoming bitter, he envies man his mortality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11191]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is becoming bitter, he envies man his mortality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John Keble, Priest, Poet, Tractarian, 1866  God gave the prophecies, not to gratify men's curiosity by enabling ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8266]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John Keble, Priest, Poet, Tractarian, 1866  God gave the prophecies, not to gratify men's curiosity by enabling them to foreknow things, but that after they were fulfilled they might be interpreted by the event, and His own providence, not the interpreter's, be thereby manifested to the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63464]]></link><description><![CDATA[A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, "Where's the self-help section?" She said if she told me, it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24754]]></link><description><![CDATA[I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, "Where's the self-help section?" She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Government is beating into submission, imprisoning, and killing...The authority of man-made law is entirely due to weapons of the constables ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47170]]></link><description><![CDATA[Government is beating into submission, imprisoning, and killing...The authority of man-made law is entirely due to weapons of the constables who enforce obedience to its provisions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Lanfranc, Prior of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1089  The denominations, churches, sects, are sociological groups whose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6473]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Lanfranc, Prior of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1089  The denominations, churches, sects, are sociological groups whose principle of differentiation is to be sought in their conformity to the order of social classes and castes. It would not be true to affirm that the denominations are not religious groups with religious purposes; but it is true that they represent the accommodation of religion to the caste system. They are emblems, therefore, of the victory of the world over the church, of the secularization of Christianity, of the church's sanction of that divisiveness which the church's gospel condemns.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let firm, well hammer'd soles protect thy feet Through freezing snows, and rains, and soaking sleet;  Should the big ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let firm, well hammer'd soles protect thy feet Through freezing snows, and rains, and soaking sleet;  Should the big last extend the shoe too wide,   Each stone will wrench the unwary step aside;    The sudden turn may stretch the swelling vein,     The cracking joint unhinge, or ankle sprain;      And when too short the modish shoes are worn,       You'll judge the seasons by your shooting corn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The war on terrorism is still his strong suit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28645]]></link><description><![CDATA[The war on terrorism is still his strong suit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46162]]></link><description><![CDATA[Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no knowledge that is not power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47960]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no knowledge that is not power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When your courtyard twists, do not pour the water abroad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5700]]></link><description><![CDATA[When your courtyard twists, do not pour the water abroad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman isn't complete without a man. But where do you find a man - a real man - these ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27059]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman isn't complete without a man. But where do you find a man - a real man - these days?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59241]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to hatch ideas -- and then hitch them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9500]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to hatch ideas -- and then hitch them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tombs are the clothes of the dead; a grave is but a plain suit; a rich monument is an embroidered ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43033]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tombs are the clothes of the dead; a grave is but a plain suit; a rich monument is an embroidered one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tasteful rather than expensive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tasteful rather than expensive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good intentions are at least, the seed of good actions; and every one ought to sow them, and leave It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22939]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good intentions are at least, the seed of good actions; and every one ought to sow them, and leave It to the soil and the seasons whether He or any other gather they fruit]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I handled all the program activities and he (Butterfield) did the overall operation of the ranch. During my senior year ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40455]]></link><description><![CDATA[I handled all the program activities and he (Butterfield) did the overall operation of the ranch. During my senior year of college Tom was looking for a building to start his boys' ranch. I went with him to look at the building that became the home of Butterfield Boys' Ranch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A great ship askes deepe waters. [A great ship asks deep waters.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49033]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great ship askes deepe waters. [A great ship asks deep waters.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The possibility of stepping into a higher plane is quite real foreveryone. It requires no force or effort or sacrifice. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22454]]></link><description><![CDATA[The possibility of stepping into a higher plane is quite real foreveryone. It requires no force or effort or sacrifice. It involves littlemore than changing our ideas about what is normal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Traditional nationalism cannot survive the fissioning of the atom. One world or none. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Traditional nationalism cannot survive the fissioning of the atom. One world or none.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hail, holy light! offspring of heaven firstborn! Or of th' eternal co-eternal beam,  May I express thee unblam'd? since ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25065]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hail, holy light! offspring of heaven firstborn! Or of th' eternal co-eternal beam,  May I express thee unblam'd? since God is light   And never but in unapproached light    Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee,     Bright effluence of bright essence increate!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fear o' hell's the hangman's whip To laud the wretch in order;  But where ye feel your honor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15499]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fear o' hell's the hangman's whip To laud the wretch in order;  But where ye feel your honor grip,   Let that aye be your border.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ridicule more often settles things more thoroughly and better than acrimony. [Lat., Ridiculum acri fortius ac melius magnas plerumque secat ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54217]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ridicule more often settles things more thoroughly and better than acrimony. [Lat., Ridiculum acri fortius ac melius magnas plerumque secat res.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, Concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for everydream precedes the goal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21271]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for everydream precedes the goal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nor deem the irrevocable Past, As wholly wasted, wholly vain,  If, rising on its wrecks, at last   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18388]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nor deem the irrevocable Past, As wholly wasted, wholly vain,  If, rising on its wrecks, at last   To something nobler we attain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10001]]></link><description><![CDATA[Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before every action ask yourself. Will this bring more monkeys on my back. Will the result of my action be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before every action ask yourself. Will this bring more monkeys on my back. Will the result of my action be a blessing or a heavy burden?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you believe that discrimination exists, it will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12465]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you believe that discrimination exists, it will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This was genuine fear - fear born of experience of a man that was mean and ugly, not crazy, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36920]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was genuine fear - fear born of experience of a man that was mean and ugly, not crazy, but mean and ugly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like all of us, as you grow old you need more maintenance and more fixing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like all of us, as you grow old you need more maintenance and more fixing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35897</guid></item></channel></rss>