<?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 killers are still inside the National Penitentiary, and we have to be prepared for new incidents. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29677]]></link><description><![CDATA[The killers are still inside the National Penitentiary, and we have to be prepared for new incidents.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments. The state can be and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47167]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments. The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can only hate the person whom we love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25890]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can only hate the person whom we love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Anskar, Archbishop of Hamburg, Missionary to Denmark and Sweden, 865  Let a man but separate himself from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Anskar, Archbishop of Hamburg, Missionary to Denmark and Sweden, 865  Let a man but separate himself from all contingencies and from all works, and there will come over him in this state of emptiness a peace which is very great, lovely, and agreeable, and which is in itself no sin since it is part of our human nature. But when it is taken for a veritable possessing of God, or unity with God, then it is sin, for it is in reality nothing else than a state of thorough passivity and apathy untouched by the power from on high -- a purely negative state from which (if one in arrogance calls it divine) nothing follows but blindness, failure of understanding, and a disinclination to be governed by the rules of ordinary righteousness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Philip & James, Apostles Come Love, come Lord, and that long day For which I languish, come away. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6552]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Philip & James, Apostles Come Love, come Lord, and that long day For which I languish, come away. When this dry soul those eyes shall see And drink the unseal'd source of Thee, When glory's sun faith's shades shall chase, Then for Thy veil give me Thy face.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As she hearsthe confessionsof all riversthose on the shorehear the sea..accepting allshe calls no thingheresy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4014]]></link><description><![CDATA[As she hearsthe confessionsof all riversthose on the shorehear the sea..accepting allshe calls no thingheresy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then you yell, 'Fire! Fire! Fire in the hole!' and you're gonna hustle on out of there. In fact you've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then you yell, 'Fire! Fire! Fire in the hole!' and you're gonna hustle on out of there. In fact you've got very, very little time to get out. Most coal miners, they just take and fall down on their face right there because they're gonna end up that way anyhow, and then you're gonna have to go find your hat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even though I felt like crying, I did my very best to smile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65698]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even though I felt like crying, I did my very best to smile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16606]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27860]]></link><description><![CDATA[Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another. - "On the Cryptic and the Elliptic", 1908.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47941]]></link><description><![CDATA[To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it: the pains of power are real, its pleasure imaginary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19656]]></link><description><![CDATA[Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three year waiting list.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such is the way of all superstition, whether in astrology, dreams, omens, divine judgments, or the like; wherein men, having ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such is the way of all superstition, whether in astrology, dreams, omens, divine judgments, or the like; wherein men, having a delight in such vanities, mark the events where they are fulfilled, but where they fail, though this happen much oftener, n]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12890]]></link><description><![CDATA[The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27047]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't expect us to make an announcement here and now. But believe me, we are weeks away from an announcement, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36817]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't expect us to make an announcement here and now. But believe me, we are weeks away from an announcement, not months.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right now I can't believe it. I think we're a good team but something happened and I don't know what. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42304]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right now I can't believe it. I think we're a good team but something happened and I don't know what.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64506]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those are rules that should be followed at any time, but they are even more necessary right now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those are rules that should be followed at any time, but they are even more necessary right now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We know with our heads that the Bible and the Gospel have a bearing -- sooner or later -- upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6568]]></link><description><![CDATA[We know with our heads that the Bible and the Gospel have a bearing -- sooner or later -- upon every issue in life, every problem, every relationship, every practice. But is it not true that in our hearts we are afraid that the full-orbed, unfiltered revelation of God will disturb some custom, some privilege, some status by which we benefit in society, occupation, or government? And knowing that we are profiting by the blood, sweat, and tears of the many, we feel wrath rising in us whenever it is proposed that religion touches the thing in question.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Will you retire?''When they put me in the grave, I want to have a pen in my hand.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18731]]></link><description><![CDATA['Will you retire?''When they put me in the grave, I want to have a pen in my hand.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Criticks are like brushers of Noblemens cloaths. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49188]]></link><description><![CDATA[Criticks are like brushers of Noblemens cloaths.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty into an interesting opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty into an interesting opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And beauty, for confiding youth, Those shocks of passion can prepare  That kill the bloom before its time,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45622]]></link><description><![CDATA[And beauty, for confiding youth, Those shocks of passion can prepare  That kill the bloom before its time,   And blanch, without the owner's crime,    The most resplendent hair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want every peasant to have a chicken in his pot on Sundays. [Fr., Je veux que le dimanche chaque ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13198]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want every peasant to have a chicken in his pot on Sundays. [Fr., Je veux que le dimanche chaque paysan ait sa poule au pot.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This capable team will be entrusted with preparing the defense case when the trial begins and disputing its legality and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28226]]></link><description><![CDATA[This capable team will be entrusted with preparing the defense case when the trial begins and disputing its legality and procedures that deny the President justice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She makes her hand hard with labour, and her heart soft with pity: and when winter evenings fall early (sitting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57223]]></link><description><![CDATA[She makes her hand hard with labour, and her heart soft with pity: and when winter evenings fall early (sitting at her merry wheel), she sings a defiance to the giddy wheel of fortune . . . and fears no manner of ill because she means none.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66528]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess what is seen during ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46791]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess what is seen during a moment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Know thy opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50854]]></link><description><![CDATA[Know thy opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are told never to cross a bridge until we come to it, but this world is owned by men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21526]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are told never to cross a bridge until we come to it, but this world is owned by men who have 'crossed bridges' in their imagination far ahead of the crowd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alternate heating sources seems to be a hot item this year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alternate heating sources seems to be a hot item this year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought the safetys and the cornerbacks would be a lot quicker and I didn't think they'd let us get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39889]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought the safetys and the cornerbacks would be a lot quicker and I didn't think they'd let us get over the top.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52896]]></link><description><![CDATA[At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who would not, finding way, break loose from hell, . . . .  And boldly venture to whatever place ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who would not, finding way, break loose from hell, . . . .  And boldly venture to whatever place   Farthest from pain?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are punished by our sins, not for them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64731]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are punished by our sins, not for them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When God's green grows it's rarely in rowsAwry the rye rises .. unruly the rose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20770]]></link><description><![CDATA[When God's green grows it's rarely in rowsAwry the rye rises .. unruly the rose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Style is a simple way of saying complicated things ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Style is a simple way of saying complicated things]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That miscellaneous collection of a few wise and many foolish individuals, called the public. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52480]]></link><description><![CDATA[That miscellaneous collection of a few wise and many foolish individuals, called the public.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After that, we tried to figure out a way to get more voices with us and how to be heard ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28527]]></link><description><![CDATA[After that, we tried to figure out a way to get more voices with us and how to be heard and get respect here in Denmark.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tradition is an important help to history, but its statements should be carefully scrutinized before we rely on them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59519]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tradition is an important help to history, but its statements should be carefully scrutinized before we rely on them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65783]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26212]]></link><description><![CDATA[One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes were being counted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The god of victory is said to be one-handed, but peace gives victory on both sides. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60623]]></link><description><![CDATA[The god of victory is said to be one-handed, but peace gives victory on both sides.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hold, there is forty ducats. Let me have A dram of poison, such soon-speeding gear  As will disperse itself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hold, there is forty ducats. Let me have A dram of poison, such soon-speeding gear  As will disperse itself through all the veins   That the life-weary taker may fall dead,    And that the trunk may be discharged of breath     As violently as hasty powder fired      Doth hurry from the fatal cannon's womb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To create an improved new habitat in a remote area where the prairie dog can thrive without any human interference. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38594]]></link><description><![CDATA[To create an improved new habitat in a remote area where the prairie dog can thrive without any human interference.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is a dangerous place. Not because of the people who are evil; but because of the people who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62181]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is a dangerous place. Not because of the people who are evil; but because of the people who don't do anything about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's really, really great to be back. So let's get up there, show them what it's all about. Let's get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29624]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's really, really great to be back. So let's get up there, show them what it's all about. Let's get back, let's retake the CBC, make it what it can be - a great public broadcaster for all Canadians.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Up springs the lark, Shrill-voiced, and loud, the messenger of morn;  Ere yet the shadows fly, he mounted sings ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24111]]></link><description><![CDATA[Up springs the lark, Shrill-voiced, and loud, the messenger of morn;  Ere yet the shadows fly, he mounted sings   Amid the dawning clouds, and from their haunts    Calls up the tuneful nations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24111</guid></item></channel></rss>