<?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[We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64931]]></link><description><![CDATA[We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concealed sorrow bursts the heart, and rages within us as an internal fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50715]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concealed sorrow bursts the heart, and rages within us as an internal fire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We keep the day. With festal cheer, With books and music, surely we  Will drink to him, whate'er he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15595]]></link><description><![CDATA[We keep the day. With festal cheer, With books and music, surely we  Will drink to him, whate'er he be,   And sing the songs he loved to hear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16919]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At lovers' perjuries, They say Jove laughs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51469]]></link><description><![CDATA[At lovers' perjuries, They say Jove laughs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her feet along the dewy hills Are lighter than blown thistledown;  She bears the glamour of one star  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59934]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her feet along the dewy hills Are lighter than blown thistledown;  She bears the glamour of one star   Upon her violet crown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20884]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that principle is contempt prior to investigation]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enemies carry a report in form different from the original. [Lat., Nam inimici famam non ita ut nata est ferunt.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enemies carry a report in form different from the original. [Lat., Nam inimici famam non ita ut nata est ferunt.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Justice is the crowning glory of the virtues. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Justice is the crowning glory of the virtues.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11543]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us when possessing them and they make us despair in losing them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Batting for Vivian Richards is a matter of strokes, more strokes, and even more strokes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38677]]></link><description><![CDATA[Batting for Vivian Richards is a matter of strokes, more strokes, and even more strokes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith, enthusiasm, and passionate intensity in general are substitutes for the self-confidence born of experience and the possession of skill. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53656]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith, enthusiasm, and passionate intensity in general are substitutes for the self-confidence born of experience and the possession of skill. Where there is the necessary skill to move mountains there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2632]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's some are fou o' love divine, There's some are fou' o' brandy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12993]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's some are fou o' love divine, There's some are fou' o' brandy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is a journey...not a destination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22065]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is a journey...not a destination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Location, location, location. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Location, location, location.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At first we were rushing, putting up bad shots. Then we slowed it down and got into our offense, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36547]]></link><description><![CDATA[At first we were rushing, putting up bad shots. Then we slowed it down and got into our offense, and started running the fast break and playing our game pretty good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65241]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65033]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46178]]></link><description><![CDATA[Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45933]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This all happened pretty quickly. [Whittington] did not announce - which would be protocol - 'Hey, it's me, I'm coming ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39563]]></link><description><![CDATA[This all happened pretty quickly. [Whittington] did not announce - which would be protocol - 'Hey, it's me, I'm coming up.' He didn't do what he was supposed to do. So when a bird flushed and the vice president swung in to shoot it, Harry was where the bird was.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her hair tells us she is Marlene Dietrich meets maverick. She's a woman who carries red hair beautifully because she's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32069]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her hair tells us she is Marlene Dietrich meets maverick. She's a woman who carries red hair beautifully because she's bold in character, especially with that rocker-red. Her bedroom eyes give us a come-hither kind of look. But ... she wants you to know just when you have her figured out, she's gonna fool you!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a thin line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21032]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a thin line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We wanted to look at different combinations of players. We did achieve that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30792]]></link><description><![CDATA[We wanted to look at different combinations of players. We did achieve that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The principles applied in economic processes are general social principles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15805]]></link><description><![CDATA[The principles applied in economic processes are general social principles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46913]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[America is interested in re-arranging the region as it sees fit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29878]]></link><description><![CDATA[America is interested in re-arranging the region as it sees fit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brain him with his lady's fan. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brain him with his lady's fan. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hang sorrow, care 'll kill a cat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57254]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hang sorrow, care 'll kill a cat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The methods of the natural sciences cannot be applied to human behavior because this behavior...lacks the peculiarity that characterizes events ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56802]]></link><description><![CDATA[The methods of the natural sciences cannot be applied to human behavior because this behavior...lacks the peculiarity that characterizes events in the field of the natural sciences, viz., regularity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even in areas where tap water is safe to drink, demand for bottled water is increasing--producing unnecessary garbage and consuming ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even in areas where tap water is safe to drink, demand for bottled water is increasing--producing unnecessary garbage and consuming vast quantities of energy. Although in the industrial world bottled water is often no healthier than tap water, it can cost up to 10,000 times more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was on the last night of His life, when His enemies were all around Him, that He spoke to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7154]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was on the last night of His life, when His enemies were all around Him, that He spoke to His disciples of the joy that no man taketh away. Read again the story of His Passion: Jesus is seen throughout as calm, quiet, and confident. His last word is, "Father, into Thy hands I commit my spirit". Someone may say, "Yes, but He knew that He was going to rise from the dead." But have we not the same promise for ourselves? [Continued tomorrow].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22711]]></link><description><![CDATA[All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have too rashly charged the troops of error and remain as trophies unto the enemies of truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14150]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have too rashly charged the troops of error and remain as trophies unto the enemies of truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13739]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The unlived life is not worth examining. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27872]]></link><description><![CDATA[The unlived life is not worth examining.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The invisible thing called a Good Name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43620]]></link><description><![CDATA[The invisible thing called a Good Name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous State may, if its citizens ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57834]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning without thought is labor lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59232]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning without thought is labor lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You need to know how to ask the right questions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33171]]></link><description><![CDATA[You need to know how to ask the right questions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17256]]></link><description><![CDATA[The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except a desperate case. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10224]]></link><description><![CDATA["My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John and Charles Wesley, Priests, Poets, Teachers, 1791 & 1788   The cause of their decline was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John and Charles Wesley, Priests, Poets, Teachers, 1791 & 1788   The cause of their decline was not, as has been supposed, because there is no more need for [the charismatic gifts], "because all the world had become Christian". ... The real cause was: the love of many, of almost all Christians so called, was waxed cold; ... The real cause why the extraordinary gifts of the Holy Spirit were no longer to be found in the Christian Church [was that] the Christians were turned heathen again, and had only a dead form left.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't see it as a law of the Church but as a law of God, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34989]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't see it as a law of the Church but as a law of God,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh! think what anxious moments pass between The birth of plots, and their last fatal periods,  Oh! 'tis a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9786]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh! think what anxious moments pass between The birth of plots, and their last fatal periods,  Oh! 'tis a dreadful interval of time,   Filled up with horror all, and big with death!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They would talk of nothing but high life and high-lived company, with other fashionable topics, such as pictures, taste, Shakespeare, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10092]]></link><description><![CDATA[They would talk of nothing but high life and high-lived company, with other fashionable topics, such as pictures, taste, Shakespeare, and the musical glasses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3461]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52877]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52877</guid></item></channel></rss>