<?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 wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16365]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is not the best sermon which makes the hearers go away talking to one another, and praising the speaker, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55204]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is not the best sermon which makes the hearers go away talking to one another, and praising the speaker, but which makes them go away thoughtful and serious, and hastening to be alone]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21101]]></link><description><![CDATA[They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hail to the crown by Freedom shaped--to gird An English sovereign's brow! and to the throne  Whereon he sits! ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hail to the crown by Freedom shaped--to gird An English sovereign's brow! and to the throne  Whereon he sits! whose deep foundations lie   In veneration and the people's love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Find your horse. Discover the direction the horse is going. Ride thehorse in that direction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21481]]></link><description><![CDATA[Find your horse. Discover the direction the horse is going. Ride thehorse in that direction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For her, the lilies hang their heads and die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25089]]></link><description><![CDATA[For her, the lilies hang their heads and die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is essential for the public to know that aid is being handled in a non-arbitrary, non-discriminatory manner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30393]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is essential for the public to know that aid is being handled in a non-arbitrary, non-discriminatory manner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A spark can start a fire that burns the entire prairie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62812]]></link><description><![CDATA[A spark can start a fire that burns the entire prairie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To find a friend one must close one eye -- to keep him, two. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16779]]></link><description><![CDATA[To find a friend one must close one eye -- to keep him, two.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're looking at new places in that part of the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31677]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're looking at new places in that part of the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The vertue of a coward is suspition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49928]]></link><description><![CDATA[The vertue of a coward is suspition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This may truly be a teachable moment about the impact of poverty and race on health, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33213]]></link><description><![CDATA[This may truly be a teachable moment about the impact of poverty and race on health,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good, honest, wholesome, hungry breakfast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16352]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good, honest, wholesome, hungry breakfast.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62290]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57666]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66085]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9713]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The college idealists who fill the ranks of the environmental movement seem willing to do absolutely anything to save the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47206]]></link><description><![CDATA[The college idealists who fill the ranks of the environmental movement seem willing to do absolutely anything to save the biosphere, except take science courses and learn something about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop of Winchester, Spiritual Writer, 1626 Commemoration of Sergius of Radonezh, Russian Monastic Reformer, Teacher, 1392 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop of Winchester, Spiritual Writer, 1626 Commemoration of Sergius of Radonezh, Russian Monastic Reformer, Teacher, 1392  The characteristic of our modern Christianity, which correlates it with all apostolic times, is the substitution of loyalty to a person in place of belief in doctrines, as the essence and test of Christian life. This is the simplicity and unity by which the Gospel can become effective.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26356]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it's unfortunate that we are restricting members from leadership positions in community associations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39318]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it's unfortunate that we are restricting members from leadership positions in community associations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't do drugs. I am drugs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65320]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't do drugs. I am drugs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very tragic. You never think it could happen to you. It makes you more thankful for what you have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31624]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very tragic. You never think it could happen to you. It makes you more thankful for what you have and your family.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, tepid, vapid, insipid, stuffy, little ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46958]]></link><description><![CDATA[England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, tepid, vapid, insipid, stuffy, little country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47057]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's ironic, but until you can free those final monsters within the jungle of yourself, your life, your soul is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23577]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's ironic, but until you can free those final monsters within the jungle of yourself, your life, your soul is up for grabs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My fond affection thou hast seen, Then judge of my regret  To think more happy thou hadst been  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61863]]></link><description><![CDATA[My fond affection thou hast seen, Then judge of my regret  To think more happy thou hadst been   If we had never met!    And has that thought been shared by thee?     Ah, no! that smiling cheek      Proves more unchanging love for me       Than labor'd words could speak.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64747]]></link><description><![CDATA[I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let fancy still in my sense in Lethe steep; If it be thus to dream, still let me sleep! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let fancy still in my sense in Lethe steep; If it be thus to dream, still let me sleep!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clearness marks the sincerity of philosophers. [Fr., La clarte est la bonne foi des philosophes.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46500]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clearness marks the sincerity of philosophers. [Fr., La clarte est la bonne foi des philosophes.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This was Shakespeare's form; Who walked in every path of human life,  Felt every passion; and to all mankind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55306]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was Shakespeare's form; Who walked in every path of human life,  Felt every passion; and to all mankind   Doth now, will ever, that experience yield    Which his own genius only could acquire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26439]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We fear that the glittering generalities of the speaker have left an impression more delightful than permanent.   - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45231]]></link><description><![CDATA[We fear that the glittering generalities of the speaker have left an impression more delightful than permanent.   - Franklin J. Dickman,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you give food to the poor, they call you a saint. If you ask why the poor have no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4871]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you give food to the poor, they call you a saint. If you ask why the poor have no food, they call you a Communist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65940]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Swithun, Bishop of Winchester, c.862 Commemoration of Bonaventure, Franciscan Friar, Bishop, Peacemaker, 1274  We must frankly face ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8127]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Swithun, Bishop of Winchester, c.862 Commemoration of Bonaventure, Franciscan Friar, Bishop, Peacemaker, 1274  We must frankly face the fact that there is in this teaching a revolutionary element which could be dangerously subversive of our existing ways of thought. Let us admit that it is part of the fallen human nature of ecclesiastics, no less than of others in responsible positions, to desire always criteria of judgement which can be used without making too heavy demands upon the delicate faculty of spiritual discernment, clear-cut rules by which we may hope to be saved from making mistakes -- or rather, from being obviously and personally responsible for the mistakes. We are uncomfortable without definite principles by which we may guide our steps. We fear uncharted country, and the fanatics of all kinds who, upon the alleged authority of the Holy Spirit, summon us with strident cries in all directions simultaneously. Only those who have never borne the heavy burden of pastoral responsibility will mock at the cautious spirit of the ecclesiastic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man on the dubious waves of error toss'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14155]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man on the dubious waves of error toss'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64833]]></link><description><![CDATA[How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are the wronged party in this action, and on behalf of the 50,000 people who signed these petitions, we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41998]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are the wronged party in this action, and on behalf of the 50,000 people who signed these petitions, we need an answer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With books and money placed, for show Like nest eggs, to make clients lay,  And for his false opinion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44935]]></link><description><![CDATA[With books and money placed, for show Like nest eggs, to make clients lay,  And for his false opinion pay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The future is not a result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5584]]></link><description><![CDATA[The future is not a result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is created--created first in the mind and will, created next in activity. The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made, and the activity of making them, changes both the maker and the destination. -John Schaar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The purpose firm is equal to the deed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16041]]></link><description><![CDATA[The purpose firm is equal to the deed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My heart is ever at your service, my lord. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55225]]></link><description><![CDATA[My heart is ever at your service, my lord.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9275]]></link><description><![CDATA[Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Bible is literature, not dogma. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53531]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Bible is literature, not dogma.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like our shadows, Our wishes lengthen as our sun declines. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like our shadows, Our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ecstasy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13351]]></link><description><![CDATA[For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ecstasy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She sets an example in practice with her hard work, and just getting herself prepared every time she plays. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34439]]></link><description><![CDATA[She sets an example in practice with her hard work, and just getting herself prepared every time she plays.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She was our do-everything player. She was our best defender. She guarded the best players on the teams we played ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39754]]></link><description><![CDATA[She was our do-everything player. She was our best defender. She guarded the best players on the teams we played . . . and she did an outstanding job. She was our on-the-court leader.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22246]]></link><description><![CDATA[To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it -- who can say this is not greatness?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22246</guid></item></channel></rss>