<?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[There is first the literature of knowledge, and secondly, the literature of power. The function of the first is--to teach; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25260]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is first the literature of knowledge, and secondly, the literature of power. The function of the first is--to teach; the function of the second is--to move, the first is a rudder, the second an oar or a sail. The first speaks to the mere discursive understanding; the second speaks ultimately, it may happen, to the higher understanding or reason, but always through affections of pleasure and sympathy.   - Thomas De Quincey ("The Opium Eater"),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the young mind for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10867]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the young mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Between today and tomorrow are graves, and between promising and fulfilling are chasms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48404]]></link><description><![CDATA[Between today and tomorrow are graves, and between promising and fulfilling are chasms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes party loyalty asks too much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45589]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes party loyalty asks too much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all our possessions, wisdom alone is imortal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64390]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all our possessions, wisdom alone is imortal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because they are older, more mature players, they're playing with a little more reckless abandon. It's all about getting 11 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because they are older, more mature players, they're playing with a little more reckless abandon. It's all about getting 11 people swarming to the ball, gang tackling. We're doing a lot better job of that this year, a lot more like were accustomed to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Luxury and dissipation, soft and gentle as their approaches are, and silently as they throw their silken chains about the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26083]]></link><description><![CDATA[Luxury and dissipation, soft and gentle as their approaches are, and silently as they throw their silken chains about the heart, enslave it more than the most active and turbulent vices.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need to do what the Republican Congress didn't have the decency to do, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42286]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need to do what the Republican Congress didn't have the decency to do,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is what you want to take down to San Antonio. This team has shown so much character all season. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32700]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is what you want to take down to San Antonio. This team has shown so much character all season. And we're not done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just go out there and do what you have to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12728]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just go out there and do what you have to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That of all the floures in the mede, Thanne love I most these floures white and rede,  Suche as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10987]]></link><description><![CDATA[That of all the floures in the mede, Thanne love I most these floures white and rede,  Suche as men callen daysyes in her toune.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Christ and His work and His sacrifice do not result in Christlikeness in you and me, then for us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7486]]></link><description><![CDATA[If Christ and His work and His sacrifice do not result in Christlikeness in you and me, then for us it is quite valueless, and has entirely failed; and, insofar as you and I are concerned, Christ was thrown away in vain. How, then, is it with you and me? Be very sure that upon Calvary it was no strange, immoral favouritism that came into operation, whereby -- because of some beliefs that remain mere dead letters, that produce no change whatever in their characters -- some people living the same kind of life as others and following the same selfish ends and interests as they, are given a destiny entirely different. That is the vainest of vain dreams. Rather is this the supreme revelation of a new way of living life; and only those who -- blunderingly, it may be, but yet honestly -- seek to adopt and imitate it can be counted really Christian folk.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The block of granite which is an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53972]]></link><description><![CDATA[The block of granite which is an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou art the Mars of malcontents. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou art the Mars of malcontents. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See the gold sunshine patching, And streaming and streaking across  The gray-green oaks; and catching,   By its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58281]]></link><description><![CDATA[See the gold sunshine patching, And streaming and streaking across  The gray-green oaks; and catching,   By its soft brown beard, the moss.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Praising what is lost Makes the remembrance dear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25591]]></link><description><![CDATA[Praising what is lost Makes the remembrance dear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5979]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People will think they just dropped cash on us. I don't think so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36032]]></link><description><![CDATA[People will think they just dropped cash on us. I don't think so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has been hard to fit Scott in, but we are aware of his record and I'm sure he will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41904]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has been hard to fit Scott in, but we are aware of his record and I'm sure he will do very well for them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the throng'd levee bends the venal tribe: With fair but faithless smiles each varnish'd o'er,  Each smooth as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10456]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the throng'd levee bends the venal tribe: With fair but faithless smiles each varnish'd o'er,  Each smooth as those that mutually deceive,   And for their falsehood each despising each.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only way of setting the will free is to deliver it from wilfulness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61596]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only way of setting the will free is to deliver it from wilfulness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I consider it a mark of great prudence in a man to abstain from threats or any contemptuous expressions, for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51945]]></link><description><![CDATA[I consider it a mark of great prudence in a man to abstain from threats or any contemptuous expressions, for neither of these weaken the enemy, but threats make him more cautious, and the other excites his hatred, and a desire to revenge himself]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. the people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19256]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We just didn't hit well today. It's a big disappointment, but we still have a shot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39447]]></link><description><![CDATA[We just didn't hit well today. It's a big disappointment, but we still have a shot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have, thanks to my travels, added to my stock all the superstitions of other countries. I know them all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58360]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have, thanks to my travels, added to my stock all the superstitions of other countries. I know them all now, and in any critical moment of my life, they all rise up in armed legions for or against me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The risk to this new forecast is down, not up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37715]]></link><description><![CDATA[The risk to this new forecast is down, not up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out, which is the exact opposite. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4099]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out, which is the exact opposite.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moses Kiptanui - the 19 year old Kenyan, who turned 20 a few weeks ago... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57644]]></link><description><![CDATA[Moses Kiptanui - the 19 year old Kenyan, who turned 20 a few weeks ago...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We put a bite of food from every dish onto each plate and when they've gone through the line, their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42373]]></link><description><![CDATA[We put a bite of food from every dish onto each plate and when they've gone through the line, their plates are piled high. They were stuffed last year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've always tried to do my best on the ball field. I can't do any more than that. I always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21822]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've always tried to do my best on the ball field. I can't do any more than that. I always try to give one hundred percent; and if my team loses, I come back and give one hundred percent the next day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16798]]></link><description><![CDATA[I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would rather deal with it as I am, still have hope until we hear something definite. That's easier for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39241]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather deal with it as I am, still have hope until we hear something definite. That's easier for me to handle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None of our political writers . . . take notice of any more than three estates, namely, Kings, Lords and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23342]]></link><description><![CDATA[None of our political writers . . . take notice of any more than three estates, namely, Kings, Lords and Commons . . . passing by in silence that very large and powerful body which form the fourth estate in the community . . . the Mob.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28576]]></link><description><![CDATA[When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be supported or opposed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48150]]></link><description><![CDATA[The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to the nation as a whole. Therefore it is absolutely necessary that there should be full liberty to tell the truth about his acts, and this means that it is exactly as necessary to blame him when he does wrong as to praise him when he does right. Any other attitude in an American citizen is both base and servile. To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Running is a great way to relieve stress and clear the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37978]]></link><description><![CDATA[Running is a great way to relieve stress and clear the mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Barnabas the Apostle  It is obvious ... that there are many lay people who can counsel more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7404]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Barnabas the Apostle  It is obvious ... that there are many lay people who can counsel more effectively than the minister can in such areas as adjusting to widowhood, coming to terms with advancing age, bringing principle to bear upon business decisions, because they have experience in these fields which the minister does not personally have. At the very least, they can add a note of reality to what the minister offers. In many cases, the group takes up where the individual counseling left off, supplementing it or even eliminating it entirely. I have been repeatedly thankful that a group was available to give steady guidance who had made a fresh start in Christian living, but who still had a long way to go; this has been especially true in cases of loneliness, moderate emotional instability, inability to understand others, and need of continued guidance in the use of prayer and the Bible and the accepting and giving of love. In the nature of the case, no amount of individual counseling can fully deal with these needs. The "priesthood of all believers" becomes a recognized fact, with each person helping to open up for his neighbor the way to God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ingratitude! thou marble-hearted fiend, More hideous when thou show'st thee in a child  Than the sea-monster. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20900]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ingratitude! thou marble-hearted fiend, More hideous when thou show'st thee in a child  Than the sea-monster.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frank is definitely not a keeping-the-seat-warm kind of figure. I've known Frank fairly well for six years. I wouldn't use ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38499]]></link><description><![CDATA[Frank is definitely not a keeping-the-seat-warm kind of figure. I've known Frank fairly well for six years. I wouldn't use the term 'rising star,' but in the world of the Vatican he is very highly thought of ... he's someone who could be an archbishop someday.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It snowed last year too: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4932]]></link><description><![CDATA[It snowed last year too: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother down and then we had tea]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11277]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our transition game went well. We passed to the open man for the best shot possible. We also had 18 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37852]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our transition game went well. We passed to the open man for the best shot possible. We also had 18 assists.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He'll reach up and take one of those big old floppy ears and he'll say, 'I can't hear you,' and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42391]]></link><description><![CDATA[He'll reach up and take one of those big old floppy ears and he'll say, 'I can't hear you,' and they'll start that all over again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us. [It., Necessita c'induce, e non diletto.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44045]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us. [It., Necessita c'induce, e non diletto.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Form'd by thy converse, happily steer From grave to gay, from lively to severe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Form'd by thy converse, happily steer From grave to gay, from lively to severe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45623]]></link><description><![CDATA[I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All who (like him) have writ ill plays before, For they, like thieves, condemned, are hangman made,  To execute ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10747]]></link><description><![CDATA[All who (like him) have writ ill plays before, For they, like thieves, condemned, are hangman made,  To execute the members of their trade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst of me is known, and I can say that I am better than the reputation I bear. [Ger., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53890]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst of me is known, and I can say that I am better than the reputation I bear. [Ger., Das Aergste weiss die Welt von mir, und ich  Kann sagen, ich bin besser als mein Ruf.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25341]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford to neglect this part of his preparation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11652]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That's dedication.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11652</guid></item></channel></rss>