<?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[A Mercury is not made out of any block of wood. [Lat., Ex quovis ligno non fit Mercurius.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54926]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Mercury is not made out of any block of wood. [Lat., Ex quovis ligno non fit Mercurius.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8946]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[October is a fine and dangerous season in America . . . a wonderful time to begin anything at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44900]]></link><description><![CDATA[October is a fine and dangerous season in America . . . a wonderful time to begin anything at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The declaration that our People are hostile to a government made by themselves, for themselves, and conducted by themselves, is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17972]]></link><description><![CDATA[The declaration that our People are hostile to a government made by themselves, for themselves, and conducted by themselves, is an insult.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18974]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How glad the heathens would have been, That worship idols, wood and stone,  If they the book God had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54920]]></link><description><![CDATA[How glad the heathens would have been, That worship idols, wood and stone,  If they the book God had seen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Holy Innocents  The Bible is the written word of God, and because it is written it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7218]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Holy Innocents  The Bible is the written word of God, and because it is written it is confined and limited by the necessities of ink and paper and leather. The Voice of God, however, is alive and free as the sovereign God is free. "The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit and they are life." The life is in the speaking words. God's word in the Bible can have power only because it corresponds to God's word in the universe. It is the present Voice which makes the written Word all-powerful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a writer admits that he has an affection for something which he has written, it is high time to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63957]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a writer admits that he has an affection for something which he has written, it is high time to pray for his soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/981]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our cities are saturated with fast-food purveyors. ... With the concentration of fast food even worse in school neighborhoods, our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our cities are saturated with fast-food purveyors. ... With the concentration of fast food even worse in school neighborhoods, our schools, parents, and policymakers need to take a serious look at this issue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original. They are rarely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21996]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original. They are rarely useful. The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He'd undertake to prove, by force Of argument, a man's no horse.  He'd prove a buzzard is no fowl, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3040]]></link><description><![CDATA[He'd undertake to prove, by force Of argument, a man's no horse.  He'd prove a buzzard is no fowl,   And that a Lord may be an owl,    A calf an Alderman, a goose a Justice,     And rooks, Committee-men or Trustees.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44876]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will not judge a person to be spiritually dead whom I have judged formerly to have had spiritual life, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7124]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will not judge a person to be spiritually dead whom I have judged formerly to have had spiritual life, though I see him at present in a swoon as to all evidences of the spiritual life. And the reason why I will not judge him so is this -- because if you judge a person dead, you neglect him, you leave him; but if you judge him in a swoon, though never so dangerous, you use all means for the retrieving of his life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19533]]></link><description><![CDATA[We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1944  Gambling challenges the view of life which the Christian Church ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7115]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1944  Gambling challenges the view of life which the Christian Church exists to uphold and extend. Its glorification of mere chance is a denial of the Divine order of nature. To risk money haphazard is to disregard the insistence of the Church in every age of living faith that possessions are a trust, and that men must account to God for their use. The persistent appeal to covetousness is fundamentally opposed to the unselfishness which was taught by Jesus Christ and by the New Testament as a whole. The attempt (which is inseparable from gambling) to make a profit out of the inevitable loss and possible suffering of others is the antithesis of that love of one's neighbour on which our Lord insisted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64234]]></link><description><![CDATA[To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the ladder of success: Some people are at the top of the ladder, someare in the middle, still more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21581]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the ladder of success: Some people are at the top of the ladder, someare in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot moredon't even know there is a ladder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No creature smarts so little as a fool. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50941]]></link><description><![CDATA[No creature smarts so little as a fool.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am really looking forward to returning to Dubai as always. The audiences are always receptive to my music and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30823]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am really looking forward to returning to Dubai as always. The audiences are always receptive to my music and Dubai as a city never ceases to amaze me ... it is constantly changing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, it's a good bird. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, it's a good bird.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They kept coming at us and giving us everything they had. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42282]]></link><description><![CDATA[They kept coming at us and giving us everything they had.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Defer not till to-morrow to be wise, To-morrow's sun to thee may never rise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48922]]></link><description><![CDATA[Defer not till to-morrow to be wise, To-morrow's sun to thee may never rise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18054]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old age come on apace to ravage all the clime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old age come on apace to ravage all the clime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow.
Don't walk behind me, I may not lead.
Just walk beside me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63089]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow.
Don't walk behind me, I may not lead.
Just walk beside me and be my friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy the poet who with ease can steer From grave to gay, from lively to severe.  [Lat., Heureux qui, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46840]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy the poet who with ease can steer From grave to gay, from lively to severe.  [Lat., Heureux qui, dans ses vers, sait d'une voix legere   Passer du grave au doux, du plaisant au severe.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guide to understanding a net.addict's day: Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet. Busy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guide to understanding a net.addict's day: Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet. Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet. Bad day: barely squeezed in three hours of usenet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hire tea by the tea bag. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41915]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hire tea by the tea bag.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Presents,' I often say, 'endear absents.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/173]]></link><description><![CDATA['Presents,' I often say, 'endear absents.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drama if I sing, drama if I don't sing. What do you do? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64566]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drama if I sing, drama if I don't sing. What do you do?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christians seeking social justice have a special responsibility. Much more is required than the bringing of aid to people who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7436]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christians seeking social justice have a special responsibility. Much more is required than the bringing of aid to people who are homeless and in need, and contributing to their support. There are real dangers to be faced. It must never be allowed to appear that charity is dispensed to the unfortunate by superior beings... Much greater care must be taken to identify the giver with those whom he comes to serve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63602]]></link><description><![CDATA[A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It could be a sea change, but I don't think so. I think it's more circumstances than anything else. Let's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38761]]></link><description><![CDATA[It could be a sea change, but I don't think so. I think it's more circumstances than anything else. Let's give it a couple of more years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah! on Thanksgiving day, when from East and from West, From North and South, come the pilgrim and guest,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58999]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah! on Thanksgiving day, when from East and from West, From North and South, come the pilgrim and guest,  When the gray-haired New Englander sees round his board   The old broken links of affection restored,    When the care-wearied man seeks his mother once more,     And the worn matron smiles where the girl smiled before.      What moistens the lips and what brightens the eye?       What calls back the past, like the rich pumpkin pie?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12367]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is going to be most expensive ballot in California history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40076]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is going to be most expensive ballot in California history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes begging. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58368]]></link><description><![CDATA[Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes begging.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The New Testament is an intensely personal document. It is not the effort of a group of men who are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6617]]></link><description><![CDATA[The New Testament is an intensely personal document. It is not the effort of a group of men who are out to prove something to us by the force of their rational arguments. But it is the testimony, or testament, of a group of witnesses... who are bent on simply reporting to us the experience of a love that overtook them and overwhelmed them, a peace that passed all their understanding, and a peace that they in turn would pass on to us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11617]]></link><description><![CDATA[All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51669]]></link><description><![CDATA[The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wouldn't do wood alone. But take some of those wood bangles, especially in darker colors, and mix them with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36161]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wouldn't do wood alone. But take some of those wood bangles, especially in darker colors, and mix them with gold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[George Allen has often been compared over the course of his career, dating back to his term as governor, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35089]]></link><description><![CDATA[George Allen has often been compared over the course of his career, dating back to his term as governor, to Ronald Reagan.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to be the first team in the state of North Carolina to win a national championship in football. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31874]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to be the first team in the state of North Carolina to win a national championship in football. People say I must be nuts. Well, maybe I am. ... We all have goals. Why wouldn't they be the highest?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry.  But were we burd'ned ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/702]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry.  But were we burd'ned with like weight of pain,   As much or more we should ourselves complain:    So thou, that hast no unkind mate to grieve thee,     With urging helpless patience wouldst relieve me;      But if thou live to see like right bereft,       This fool-begged patience in thee will be left.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A knave, a rascal, an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy worsted-stocking knave; a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23901]]></link><description><![CDATA[A knave, a rascal, an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-faking, whoreson, glass-gazing, superserviceable, finical rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a bawd in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pander, and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch; one whom I will beat into clamorous whining if thou deny'st the least syllable of thy addition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I got Jimmy Hall from Wet Willie and he also plays now with Hank Williams Jr. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36142]]></link><description><![CDATA[I got Jimmy Hall from Wet Willie and he also plays now with Hank Williams Jr.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strike, but hear me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18994]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strike, but hear me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18994</guid></item></channel></rss>