<?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 sorrow enough in the natural way From men and women to fill our day;  But when we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12660]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is sorrow enough in the natural way From men and women to fill our day;  But when we are certain of sorrow in store   Why do we always arrange for more?    Brothers and sisters I bid you beware     Of giving your heart to a dog to tear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we would not have subdued him when we did, the incident could have been much worse, or even fatal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41688]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we would not have subdued him when we did, the incident could have been much worse, or even fatal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31463]]></link><description><![CDATA[A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46127]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This animal is very malicious; when attacked it defends itself. [Fr., Cet animal est tres mechant;  Quand on l'attaque ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2645]]></link><description><![CDATA[This animal is very malicious; when attacked it defends itself. [Fr., Cet animal est tres mechant;  Quand on l'attaque il se defend.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be pointed out with the finger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53888]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be pointed out with the finger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I miss reading . . . how I'm situated, you can't read, you just can't, it's not conducive to reading. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36310]]></link><description><![CDATA[I miss reading . . . how I'm situated, you can't read, you just can't, it's not conducive to reading.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5824]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gentle sleep! Scatter thy drowsiest poppies from above;  And in new dreams not soon to vanish, bless   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47693]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gentle sleep! Scatter thy drowsiest poppies from above;  And in new dreams not soon to vanish, bless   My senses with the sight of her I love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57303]]></link><description><![CDATA[Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts to space.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The larger the state, the more callous it becomes... the colder its heart. It is also true that the bigger ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10176]]></link><description><![CDATA[The larger the state, the more callous it becomes... the colder its heart. It is also true that the bigger the corporation, the more callous its heart. But unlike the state, corporations have competition and have no police powers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is a much-threatened VVIP. We are fully geared. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41369]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is a much-threatened VVIP. We are fully geared.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The goal of war is peace, of business, leisure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24627]]></link><description><![CDATA[The goal of war is peace, of business, leisure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sound conviction should influence us rather than public opinion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sound conviction should influence us rather than public opinion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No adultery is bloodless. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20812]]></link><description><![CDATA[No adultery is bloodless.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9563]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had the wrong idea at first, and so on. So there isn't any place to publish, in a dignified manner, what you actually did in order to get to do the work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Less judgment than wit, is more sail than ballast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61842]]></link><description><![CDATA[Less judgment than wit, is more sail than ballast.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be prepared for War is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11831]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be prepared for War is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14425]]></link><description><![CDATA[Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a fatal error to enter any war without the will to win it. •Douglas MacArthur   All ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61165]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a fatal error to enter any war without the will to win it. •Douglas MacArthur   All great civilisations, in their early stages, are based on success in war. •Kenneth Clark  You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake. •Jeannette Rankin   War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10513]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth may sometimes hurt but delusion harms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11850]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth may sometimes hurt but delusion harms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[luck is what happens , when the preparation meets the opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/397]]></link><description><![CDATA[luck is what happens , when the preparation meets the opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet half the beast is the great god Pan, To laugh, as he sits by the river,  Making a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43439]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet half the beast is the great god Pan, To laugh, as he sits by the river,  Making a poet out of a man.   The true gods sigh for the cost and the pain--    For the reed that grows never more again     As a reed with the reeds of the river.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My long sickness Of health and living now begins to mend,  And nothing brings me all things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56243]]></link><description><![CDATA[My long sickness Of health and living now begins to mend,  And nothing brings me all things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on topics of Christian apologetics:  The philosopher [Immanuel] Kant was right long ago to notice ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6248]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on topics of Christian apologetics:  The philosopher [Immanuel] Kant was right long ago to notice that moral activity implies a religious dimension. The atheist [Friedrich] Nietzsche also saw the point and argued forcefully that the person who gives up belief in God must be consistent and give up Christian morals as well, because the former is the foundation of the latter. He had nothing but contempt for fellow humanists who refused to see that Christian morality cannot survive the loss of its theological moorings, except as habit or as lifeless tradition. As Ayn Rand also sees so clearly, love of the neighbor cannot be rationally justified within the framework of secular humanism. Love for one's neighbor is an ethical implication of the Christian position. This suggests to me that the world's deepest problem is not economic or technological, but spiritual and moral. What is missing is the vision of reality that can sustain the neighbor-oriented life style that is so urgently needed in our world today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns upon you as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24882]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns upon you as if it was to be your last; then super-added hours, to the enjoyment of which you had not looked forward, will prove an acceptable boon. -Horace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despair of ever being saved, "except thou be born again," or of seeing God "without holiness," or of having part ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12003]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despair of ever being saved, "except thou be born again," or of seeing God "without holiness," or of having part in Christ except thou "love him above father, mother, or thy own life." This kind of despair is one of the first steps to heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger heart, the kindlier hand;  Ring out the darkness of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4131]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger heart, the kindlier hand;  Ring out the darkness of the land;   Ring in the Christ that is to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11343]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart, or in the head?  How begot, how nourished?  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15289]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart, or in the head?  How begot, how nourished?   Reply, reply.    It is engend'red in the eyes,     With gazing fed, and fancy dies      In the cradle where it lies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not for the money this time. The one thing we can't live with is class size and composition. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30779]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not for the money this time. The one thing we can't live with is class size and composition. We know that in going out, we're going to harm students, but this time, staying in the class will harm students. Do we go out, or do we stay in the class and watch students being harmed?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it withinhimself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21190]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it withinhimself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bee and the serpent often sip from the selfsame flower. [It., L'ape e la serpe spesso  Suggon l'istesso ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9161]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bee and the serpent often sip from the selfsame flower. [It., L'ape e la serpe spesso  Suggon l'istesso umore.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66501]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23075]]></link><description><![CDATA[Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, if only I did nothing simply as a result of laziness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24388]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, if only I did nothing simply as a result of laziness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even though I never did an evil deed, yet, if I have the will to do evil, I have the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8408]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even though I never did an evil deed, yet, if I have the will to do evil, I have the sin as if I had done the deed; and I could, by a total will, do as great a sin as if I had killed the whole world, though I never actually did anything. Why, would the same not be possible to a good will? Yes, indeed, and even much more so. Surely, I can do all things with the will. I can bear the sorrow of all men and feed all the poor and do the work of all men and whatever else you may think of. If it be not the will that fails you, but only the power, then truly, before God, you have done it all, and no man can take it from you or even hinder you for a moment; for to will to do as soon as I can is the same before God as having done it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have always thought of Christmas as a good time; a kind, forgiving, generous, pleasant time; a time when men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62698]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have always thought of Christmas as a good time; a kind, forgiving, generous, pleasant time; a time when men and women seem to open their hearts freely, and so I say, God bless Christmas!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The strongest and the fiercest spirit That fought in heaven, now fiercer by despair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50657]]></link><description><![CDATA[The strongest and the fiercest spirit That fought in heaven, now fiercer by despair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obstinacy is ever most positive when it is most in the wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obstinacy is ever most positive when it is most in the wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth. -Peter Ustinov. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45520]]></link><description><![CDATA[Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth. -Peter Ustinov.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47543]]></link><description><![CDATA[The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime, and the punishment of his guilt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who can give law to lovers? Love is a greater law to itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65633]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who can give law to lovers? Love is a greater law to itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Next to a sincere compliment, I think I like a well-deserved and honest rebuke ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9263]]></link><description><![CDATA[Next to a sincere compliment, I think I like a well-deserved and honest rebuke]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23348]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above five-and-twenty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1722]]></link><description><![CDATA[By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above five-and-twenty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64770]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64770</guid></item></channel></rss>