<?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[As I came down the Highgate Hill, The Highgate Hill, the Highgate Hill,  As I came down the Highgate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25449]]></link><description><![CDATA[As I came down the Highgate Hill, The Highgate Hill, the Highgate Hill,  As I came down the Highgate Hill   I met the sun's bravado,    And saw below me, fold on fold,     Grey to pearl and pearl to gold,      This London like a land of old,       The land of Eldorado.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another. -Jean Paul Richter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16536]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another. -Jean Paul Richter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have yet to achieve needed traction there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30310]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have yet to achieve needed traction there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43571]]></link><description><![CDATA[All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13401]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nursed by stern men with empires in their brains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nursed by stern men with empires in their brains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely-read man never quotes accurately, for the rather ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52871]]></link><description><![CDATA[Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely-read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pete Sessions now has a responsibility to explain why he became an advocate for Malaysia after this trip, whereas before ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42139]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pete Sessions now has a responsibility to explain why he became an advocate for Malaysia after this trip, whereas before he had shown no interest at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The minister's brain is often the "poor-box" of the church. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53612]]></link><description><![CDATA[The minister's brain is often the "poor-box" of the church.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63228]]></link><description><![CDATA[All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14293]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To stand on one leg and prove God's existence is a very different thing from going on one's knees and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8150]]></link><description><![CDATA[To stand on one leg and prove God's existence is a very different thing from going on one's knees and thanking Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I started just trying to make pars off the 10th hole because it was so windy. I was putting it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29593]]></link><description><![CDATA[I started just trying to make pars off the 10th hole because it was so windy. I was putting it pretty well,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's an ill councell that hath no escape. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49575]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's an ill councell that hath no escape.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a very balanced match. Milan played well and produced some good scoring chances that unfortunately we did not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31001]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a very balanced match. Milan played well and produced some good scoring chances that unfortunately we did not turn into goals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the light bulb is beginning to flicker, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29381]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the light bulb is beginning to flicker,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trinity Sunday  The doctrine of the Holy Trinity is wholly practical; it is revealed to us, to discover to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6971]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trinity Sunday  The doctrine of the Holy Trinity is wholly practical; it is revealed to us, to discover to us our high origin and the greatness of our fall, and to show us the deep and profound operation of the triune God in the recovery of the divine life in our souls: that by the means of this mystery thus discovered, our piety may be rightly directed, our faith and prayer have their proper objects, [and] the workings and aspiring of our own hearts may cooperate and correspond with that triune life in the Deity, which is always desiring to manifest itself in us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were hoping to get a better handle on it. We knew the plume was fairly widespread. I think the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40496]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were hoping to get a better handle on it. We knew the plume was fairly widespread. I think the testing changed our perspective from looking for one source to looking for multiple sources.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally long life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27735]]></link><description><![CDATA[A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally long life of decent living and good works followed by one outburst of taking the name of the Lord in vain—then have a heart attack at that moment and be damned for eternity. Is that the system?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Greek word euphuia, a finely tempered nature, gives exactly the notion of perfection as culture brings us to perceive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58483]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Greek word euphuia, a finely tempered nature, gives exactly the notion of perfection as culture brings us to perceive it; a harmonious perfection, a perfection in which the characters of beauty and intelligence are both present, which unites "the two noblest of things"--as Swift . . . most happily calls them in his Battle of the Books, "the two noblest of things, sweetness and light."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man. -Leon Trotsky. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1822]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man. -Leon Trotsky.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One swallowe proveth not that summer is neare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58436]]></link><description><![CDATA[One swallowe proveth not that summer is neare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42321]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58696]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking -- and since it cannot, in order ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4681]]></link><description><![CDATA[To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking -- and since it cannot, in order to become its echo I have, in a way, to silence it. I bring to this incessant speech the decisiveness, the authority of my own silence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rich adopt novelties and become accustomed to their use. This sets a fashion which others imitate. Once the richer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15738]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rich adopt novelties and become accustomed to their use. This sets a fashion which others imitate. Once the richer classes have adopted a certain way of living, producers have an incentive to improve the methods of manufacture so that soon it is possible for the poorer classes to follow suit. Thus luxury furthers progress. Innovation "is the whim of an elite before it becomes a need of the public. The luxury today is the necessity of tomorrow." Luxury is the roadmaker of progress: it develops latent needs and makes people discontented. In so far as they think consistently, moralists who condemn luxury must recommend the comparatively desireless existence of the wild life roaming in the woods as the ultimate ideal of civilized life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Promise is most given when the least is said. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Promise is most given when the least is said.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our wanton accidents take root, and grow To vaunt themselves God's laws. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/294]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our wanton accidents take root, and grow To vaunt themselves God's laws.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all the garden herbes none is of greater vertue than sage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18917]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all the garden herbes none is of greater vertue than sage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fact: Girls who are having a good sex thing stay in New York. The rest want to spend their summer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17480]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fact: Girls who are having a good sex thing stay in New York. The rest want to spend their summer vacations in Europe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7369]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64525]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61696]]></link><description><![CDATA[Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You learn to put your emotional luggage where it will do some good, instead of using it to shit on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2127]]></link><description><![CDATA[You learn to put your emotional luggage where it will do some good, instead of using it to shit on other people, or blow up aeroplanes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't talk to me about atrocities in war; all war is an atrocity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47260]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't talk to me about atrocities in war; all war is an atrocity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more. Modesty died when clothes were born. Modesty died ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42930]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more. Modesty died when clothes were born. Modesty died when false modesty was born.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44335]]></link><description><![CDATA[If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What one day gives us, another takes away from us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50057]]></link><description><![CDATA[What one day gives us, another takes away from us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is the leadership of the world-wide church in the hands of men and women who know how to lead others ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7028]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is the leadership of the world-wide church in the hands of men and women who know how to lead others one by one to Jesus Christ? We are so concerned with planning and administration that there is a danger lest we allow these things to serve as an excuse for not doing the one thing on which all else depends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone suffers wrongs for which there is no remedy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62443]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone suffers wrongs for which there is no remedy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59146]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Burnout is nature's way of telling you, you've been going through the motions your soul has departed; you're a zombie, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4996]]></link><description><![CDATA[Burnout is nature's way of telling you, you've been going through the motions your soul has departed; you're a zombie, a member of the walking dead, a sleepwalker. False optimism is like administrating stimulants to an exhausted nervous system.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first horror film I remember seeing in the theatre was Halloween and from the first scene when the kid ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33197]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first horror film I remember seeing in the theatre was Halloween and from the first scene when the kid puts on the mask and it is his POV, I was hooked.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His pitch count was good. We don't have another game until Thursday, so after the fifth inning I told him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32715]]></link><description><![CDATA[His pitch count was good. We don't have another game until Thursday, so after the fifth inning I told him I was going to give him a shot to go the full distance. I'm very proud of what we saw from him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truth is perilous never to the true, Nor knowledge to the wise; and to the fool,  And to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14149]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truth is perilous never to the true, Nor knowledge to the wise; and to the fool,  And to the false, error and truth alike,   Error is worse than ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loose his beard, and hoary hair Stream's, like a meteor, to the troubled air. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loose his beard, and hoary hair Stream's, like a meteor, to the troubled air.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pagan heart, a Christian soul had he. He followed Christ, yet for dead Pan he sighed,  As if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6126]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pagan heart, a Christian soul had he. He followed Christ, yet for dead Pan he sighed,  As if Theocritus in Sicily   Had come upon the Figure crucified,    And lost his gods in deep, Christ-given rest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talk is cheap. Words are plentiful. Deeds are precious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talk is cheap. Words are plentiful. Deeds are precious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11184]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11184</guid></item></channel></rss>