<?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[Art bids us touch and taste and hear and see the world, and shrinks from what Blake calls mathematic form, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3215]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art bids us touch and taste and hear and see the world, and shrinks from what Blake calls mathematic form, from every abstract form, from all that is of the brain only.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61741]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14134]]></link><description><![CDATA[If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The footsteps are terrifying, all coming towards you and none going back again. [Lat., Vestigia terrent  Omnia te adversum ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16411]]></link><description><![CDATA[The footsteps are terrifying, all coming towards you and none going back again. [Lat., Vestigia terrent  Omnia te adversum spectantia, nulla retrorsum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John Coleridge Patteson, First Bishop of Melanesia, & his Companions, Martyrs, 1871 For the power Thou hast given ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8171]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John Coleridge Patteson, First Bishop of Melanesia, & his Companions, Martyrs, 1871 For the power Thou hast given me to lay hold of things unseen: For the strong sense I have that this is not my home: For my restless heart which nothing finite can satisfy:  I give Thee thanks, O God. For the invasion of my soul by Thy Holy Spirit: For all human love and goodness that speak to me of Thee: For the fullness of Thy glory outpoured in Jesus Christ  I give Thee thanks, O God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever feels pain in hearing a good character of his neighbor, will feel a pleasure in the reverse. And those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever feels pain in hearing a good character of his neighbor, will feel a pleasure in the reverse. And those who despair to rise in distinction by their virtues, are happy if others can be depressed to a level of themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before I knew the best part of my life had come, it had gone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24949]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before I knew the best part of my life had come, it had gone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marry, by these special marks: first, you have learned, like Sir Proteus, to wreathe your arms like a malcontent, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marry, by these special marks: first, you have learned, like Sir Proteus, to wreathe your arms like a malcontent, to relish a love-song like a robin-redbreast, to walk alone like one that had the pestilence, to sigh like a schoolboy that had lost his A B C, to weep like a young wench that had buried her grandam, to fast like one that takes diet, to watch like one that fears robbing, to speak puling like a beggar at Hallowmas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Day of wrath that day of burning, Seer and Sibyl speak concerning,  All the world to ashes turning.  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11133]]></link><description><![CDATA[Day of wrath that day of burning, Seer and Sibyl speak concerning,  All the world to ashes turning.   [Lat., Dies irae, dies illa!    Solvet saeclum in favilla,     Teste David cum Sybilla.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can measure a man's character by the choices he makes underpressure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57670]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can measure a man's character by the choices he makes underpressure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In literature as in love we are astounded by what is chosen by others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25317]]></link><description><![CDATA[In literature as in love we are astounded by what is chosen by others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2295]]></link><description><![CDATA[The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I walk slowly, but I never walk backward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64753]]></link><description><![CDATA[I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have no riches but my thoughts Yet these are wealth enough for me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61443]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have no riches but my thoughts Yet these are wealth enough for me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Wilberforce, Social Reformer, 1833   All these several artifices, whatever they may be, to unhallow the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7286]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Wilberforce, Social Reformer, 1833   All these several artifices, whatever they may be, to unhallow the Sunday, and to change its character (it might be almost said, to mitigate its horrors,) prove but too plainly, however we may be glad to take refuge in religion, when driven to it by the loss of every other comfort, and to retain, as it were, a reversionary interest in an asylum, which may receive us when we are forced from the transitory enjoyments of our present state; that in itself wears to us a gloomy and forbidding aspect, and not a face of consolation and joy; that the worship of God is with us a constrained, not a willing, service, which we are glad therefore to abridge, though we dare not omit it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not turn back when you are just at the goal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not turn back when you are just at the goal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cult is a religion with no political power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21713]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cult is a religion with no political power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas. Only individuals can do this. A group of individuals may, however, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21885]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas. Only individuals can do this. A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our offense and defense struggled. We have put ourselves in a hole by losing our first two district games. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our offense and defense struggled. We have put ourselves in a hole by losing our first two district games.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do have aircraft in that area making drops, but with the coming of nightfall, we'll have to ground those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32334]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do have aircraft in that area making drops, but with the coming of nightfall, we'll have to ground those shortly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is still a risk that more dikes will fall as pressure remains very high with water two meters (six ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34378]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is still a risk that more dikes will fall as pressure remains very high with water two meters (six ft) above flooding levels at some places.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The part of me which wanders through my mind and never sees or feels actual objects, but which lives in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36824]]></link><description><![CDATA[The part of me which wanders through my mind and never sees or feels actual objects, but which lives in and moves through my passions and my emotions, experiences this world as a horrible nightmare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61229]]></link><description><![CDATA[War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is Hollywood the cruelest city in the world? Well, it can be. New York can be that, too. You can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19594]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is Hollywood the cruelest city in the world? Well, it can be. New York can be that, too. You can be a Broadway star here one night, and something happens, and out--nobody knows you on the street. They forget you ever lived. It happens in Hollywood, too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Similar problems are faced in every household, but this is on a much larger scale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38684]]></link><description><![CDATA[Similar problems are faced in every household, but this is on a much larger scale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Television commercial is the most efficient power-packed capsule of education that appears anywhere on TV. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58830]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Television commercial is the most efficient power-packed capsule of education that appears anywhere on TV.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus far into the bowels of the land Have we marched on without impediment. -King Richard III. Act v. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56016]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus far into the bowels of the land Have we marched on without impediment. -King Richard III. Act v. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Basically, ... he was telling the guys not to take things for granted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38172]]></link><description><![CDATA[Basically, ... he was telling the guys not to take things for granted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis an old tale, and often told; But did my fate and wish agree,  Ne'er had been read, in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54094]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis an old tale, and often told; But did my fate and wish agree,  Ne'er had been read, in story old,   Of maiden true betray'd for gold,    That loved, or was avenged, like me!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48432]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the heart of racism is the religious assertion that God made a creative mistake when He brought some people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52914]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the heart of racism is the religious assertion that God made a creative mistake when He brought some people into being]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can say Osama bin Laden, Mullah Omar, and Hekmatyar represent a threat to the world and we believe we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45312]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can say Osama bin Laden, Mullah Omar, and Hekmatyar represent a threat to the world and we believe we will catch them within the next year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We may not return the affection of those who like us, but we always respect their good judgment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1633]]></link><description><![CDATA[We may not return the affection of those who like us, but we always respect their good judgment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Negligence is the rust of the soul, that corrodes through all her best resolves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44350]]></link><description><![CDATA[Negligence is the rust of the soul, that corrodes through all her best resolves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate quotations. Tell me what you know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52863]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54865]]></link><description><![CDATA[What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66250]]></link><description><![CDATA[The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63740]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On a single winged word hath hung the destiny of nations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21725]]></link><description><![CDATA[On a single winged word hath hung the destiny of nations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The battle is over when the foe has fallen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50767]]></link><description><![CDATA[The battle is over when the foe has fallen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It will give us a chance to get better markets up here because there's more demand for the corn and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40448]]></link><description><![CDATA[It will give us a chance to get better markets up here because there's more demand for the corn and more uses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou have passed through. Forbearance is the root ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63815]]></link><description><![CDATA[When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou have passed through. Forbearance is the root of all quietness and assurance forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59888]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant. -Martin Luther King.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's what I'm shooting for, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35665]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's what I'm shooting for,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It defies understanding to say that if we're building only three or four new schools, we may not need buses. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38474]]></link><description><![CDATA[It defies understanding to say that if we're building only three or four new schools, we may not need buses. That's simply not realistic. Until that kind of projection is made, a table of this sort is not complete.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is singularly unequipped to beat these people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37557]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is singularly unequipped to beat these people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To live is nothing, unless to live be to know Him by whom we live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7021]]></link><description><![CDATA[To live is nothing, unless to live be to know Him by whom we live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is generally agreed that "Hello" is an appropriate greeting because if you entered a room and said "Goodbye," it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18314]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is generally agreed that "Hello" is an appropriate greeting because if you entered a room and said "Goodbye," it could confuse a lot of people]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's nothing that a tight forward likes more than a loosie right up his backside ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57661]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's nothing that a tight forward likes more than a loosie right up his backside]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of the rich. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of the rich.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14777</guid></item></channel></rss>