<?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 Universe forces those who live in it to understand it. Those creatures who find everyday experience a muddled jumble ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60194]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Universe forces those who live in it to understand it. Those creatures who find everyday experience a muddled jumble of events with no predictability, no regularity, are in grave peril. The Universe belongs to those who, at least to some degree,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58194]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The old mayor climbed the belfry tower, The ringers ran by two, by three;  "Pull, if ye never pulled ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4111]]></link><description><![CDATA[The old mayor climbed the belfry tower, The ringers ran by two, by three;  "Pull, if ye never pulled before;   Good ringers, pull your best," quoth he.    "Play uppe, play uppe, O Boston bells!     Ply all your changes, all your swells,      Play uppe The Brides of Enderby."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now men say, "I am in no wise prepared for this work, and therefore it cannot be wrought in me," ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7360]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now men say, "I am in no wise prepared for this work, and therefore it cannot be wrought in me," and thus they have an excuse, so that they neither are ready nor in the way to be so. And truly there is no one to blame for this but themselves. For if a man were looking and striving after nothing but to find a preparation in all things, and diligently gave his whole mind to see how he might become prepared; verily God would well prepare him, for God giveth as much care and earnestness and love to the preparing of a man, as to the pouring in of His Spirit when the man is prepared.  ... Theologia Germanica  December 16, 2002   Repentance is but a kind of table-talk, till we see so much of the deformity of our inward nature as to be in some degree frightened and terrified at the sight of it... A plausible form of an outward life, that has only learned rules and modes of religion by use and custom, often keeps the soul for some time at ease, though all its inward root and ground of sin has never been shaken or molested, though it has never tasted of the bitter waters of repentance and has only known the want of a Saviour by hearsay. But things cannot pass thus: sooner or later repentance must have a broken and a contrite heart; we must with our blessed Lord go over the brook Cedron, and with Him sweat great drops of sorrow before He can say for us, as He said for Himself: "It is finished.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old habits are strong and jealous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18553]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old habits are strong and jealous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will be hanged if some eternal villain, Some busy and insinuating rogue,  Some cogging, cozening slave, to get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56554]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will be hanged if some eternal villain, Some busy and insinuating rogue,  Some cogging, cozening slave, to get some office,   Have not devised this slander.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Business demands faith, compels earnestness, requires courage, is honestly selfish, is penalized for mistakes, and is the essence of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Business demands faith, compels earnestness, requires courage, is honestly selfish, is penalized for mistakes, and is the essence of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A feather in hand is better then a bird in the ayre. [A feather in hand is better than a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4233]]></link><description><![CDATA[A feather in hand is better then a bird in the ayre. [A feather in hand is better than a bird in the air.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46796]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are looking as fresh as paint. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27650]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are looking as fresh as paint.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58755]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fashion is merely a form of ugliness so unbearable that we are compelled to alter it every six months. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15359]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fashion is merely a form of ugliness so unbearable that we are compelled to alter it every six months.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Easter  Our imitation of God in this life -- that is, our willed imitation, as distinct from any likenesses ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8491]]></link><description><![CDATA[Easter  Our imitation of God in this life -- that is, our willed imitation, as distinct from any likenesses which He has impressed upon our natures or our states -- must be an imitation of God Incarnate. Our model is the Jesus, not only of Calvary, but of the workshop, the roads, the crowds, the clamorous demands and surly oppositions, the lack of all peace and privacy, the interruptions. For this, so strangely unlike anything we can attribute to the divine life in itself, is apparently not only like, but is, the divine life operating under human conditions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No history much? Perhaps. Only this ominous Dark beauty flowering under veils,  Trapped in the spectrum of a dying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8765]]></link><description><![CDATA[No history much? Perhaps. Only this ominous Dark beauty flowering under veils,  Trapped in the spectrum of a dying style:   A village like an instinct left to rust,    Composed around the echo of a pistol-shot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, you can rise above doubt and judgment. And you can see forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis sweet to listen as the night winds creep From leaf to leaf; 'tis sweet to view on high  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52944]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis sweet to listen as the night winds creep From leaf to leaf; 'tis sweet to view on high  The rainbow, based on ocean, span the sky.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is so swift as calumny; nothing is more easily uttered; nothing more readily received; nothing more widely dispersed. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5184]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is so swift as calumny; nothing is more easily uttered; nothing more readily received; nothing more widely dispersed. [Lat., Nihil est autem tam voluere, quam maledictum; nihil facilius emittitur; nihil citius excipitur, latius dissipatur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mercy among the virtues is like the moon among the stars ... It is the light that hovers above the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27372]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mercy among the virtues is like the moon among the stars ... It is the light that hovers above the judgment seat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody's going to fight for the mantle of Ariel Sharon. I think partly because he covered such a wide swath ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody's going to fight for the mantle of Ariel Sharon. I think partly because he covered such a wide swath of the middle of Israeli politics there are going to be innumerable theories of what he might have done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9570]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nearly a quarter of all bottled water crosses national borders to reach consumers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nearly a quarter of all bottled water crosses national borders to reach consumers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Royall Crowne cures not the head-ach. [The Royal Crown cures not the headache.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49910]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Royall Crowne cures not the head-ach. [The Royal Crown cures not the headache.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21435]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think we're going to see jobs collapse or disappear. There is a bit of fear in the air ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40342]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think we're going to see jobs collapse or disappear. There is a bit of fear in the air with what's been going on with oil prices and the hurricane that there's going to be some kind of collapse. But I think this economy is resilient.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thank you to all the people who helped us get this house. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39248]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thank you to all the people who helped us get this house.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important thing about motivation is goal setting. You should always have a goal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43248]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important thing about motivation is goal setting. You should always have a goal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he'll eat forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24542]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he'll eat forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64910]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55174]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are truths that are not for all men, nor for all times. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59864]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are truths that are not for all men, nor for all times.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wife is essential to great longevity; she is the receptacle of half a man's cares, and two-thirds of his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25518]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wife is essential to great longevity; she is the receptacle of half a man's cares, and two-thirds of his ill-humor]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47138]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53512]]></link><description><![CDATA[Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one and dethrone the other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before complaining that you are a slave to another, be sure that you are not a slave to self. Look ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56575]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before complaining that you are a slave to another, be sure that you are not a slave to self. Look within;...You will find there, perchance, slavish thoughts, slavish desires, and in your daily life and conduct slavish habits. Conquer these; cease to be a slave to self, and no man will have the power to enslave you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone carries his own inch-rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58649]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone carries his own inch-rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die: I think there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56026]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die: I think there be six Richmonds in the field. -King Richard III. Act v. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of success is constancy to purpose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52612]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of success is constancy to purpose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'll see what the (environmental impact statement) turns up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37879]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'll see what the (environmental impact statement) turns up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much madness is divinest sense To a discerning eye;  Much sense the starkest madness.   'Tis the majority ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much madness is divinest sense To a discerning eye;  Much sense the starkest madness.   'Tis the majority    In this, as all, prevails     Assent, and you are sane;      Demur,--you're straightway dangerous,       And handled with a chain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She's a very conservative person and has exceedingly good judgment. Usually, she's telling me, 'Don't do this! Mistake.' And this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37098]]></link><description><![CDATA[She's a very conservative person and has exceedingly good judgment. Usually, she's telling me, 'Don't do this! Mistake.' And this time, she said, 'I really think you should write this book, whether he wants you to or not.' To me, this was amazing. And she was right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The universe, they said, depended for its operation on the balance of four forces which they identified as charm, persuasion, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60177]]></link><description><![CDATA[The universe, they said, depended for its operation on the balance of four forces which they identified as charm, persuasion, uncertainty and bloody-mindedness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For me being depressed means you can spend all day in bed, and still not get a good night’s rest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11927]]></link><description><![CDATA[For me being depressed means you can spend all day in bed, and still not get a good night’s rest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An old Physitian, and a young Lawyer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49130]]></link><description><![CDATA[An old Physitian, and a young Lawyer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What wilt thou do to thyself, who hast added insult to injury? [Lat., Quid facies tibi,  Injuriae qui addideris ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22844]]></link><description><![CDATA[What wilt thou do to thyself, who hast added insult to injury? [Lat., Quid facies tibi,  Injuriae qui addideris contumeliam?]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most countries in the Gulf do not have to be persuaded that a nuclear Iran is a threat to them. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38945]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most countries in the Gulf do not have to be persuaded that a nuclear Iran is a threat to them. But they ask if the cure is worse than the disease.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Water trotted is as good as oates. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Water trotted is as good as oates.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59334]]></link><description><![CDATA[As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/88]]></link><description><![CDATA[Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/88</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The beautiful are never desolate; But some one alway loves them--God or man.  If man abandons, God himself takes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3834]]></link><description><![CDATA[The beautiful are never desolate; But some one alway loves them--God or man.  If man abandons, God himself takes them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3834</guid></item></channel></rss>