<?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[Heir follows heir, as wave succeeds to wave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50255]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heir follows heir, as wave succeeds to wave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some nation states prohibit the police from collecting information on their own citizens. But they don't prohibit their own intelligence ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some nation states prohibit the police from collecting information on their own citizens. But they don't prohibit their own intelligence organizations from collecting information on their own citizens.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little nonsense now and then Is relished by the wisest men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44605]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little nonsense now and then Is relished by the wisest men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every theory of love, from Plato down teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27185]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every theory of love, from Plato down teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're happy to take monies to build this library in whatever form. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35647]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're happy to take monies to build this library in whatever form.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1711]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2343]]></link><description><![CDATA[The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I voted to recall. The things she's done can't be justified. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42670]]></link><description><![CDATA[I voted to recall. The things she's done can't be justified.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Peter & Paul, Apostles  No man can be without his god. If he have not the true ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6647]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Peter & Paul, Apostles  No man can be without his god. If he have not the true God to bless and sustain him, he will have some false god to delude and to betray him. The Psalmist knew this, and therefore he joined so closely forgetting the name of our God and holding up our hands to some strange god. For every man has something in which he hopes, on which he leans, to which he retreats and retires, with which he fills up his thoughts in empty spaces of time, when he is alone, when he lies sleepless on his bed, when he is not pressed with other thoughts; to which he betakes himself in sorrow or trouble, as that from which he shall draw comfort and strength -- his fortress, his citadel, his defence; and has not this a good right to be called his god? Man was made to lean on the Creator; but if not on Him, then he leans on the creature in one shape or another. The ivy cannot grow alone: it must twine round some support or other; if not the goodly oak, then the ragged thorn -- round any dead stick whatever, rather than have no stay or support at all. It is even so with the heart and affections of man; if they do not twine around God, they must twine around some meaner thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It doesn't matter if the weather has been the same for 364 days. It's just a gut-level, immediate concern that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32217]]></link><description><![CDATA[It doesn't matter if the weather has been the same for 364 days. It's just a gut-level, immediate concern that most people have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For there is a cloud on my horizon. A small dark cloud no bigger than my hand. Its name is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34286]]></link><description><![CDATA[For there is a cloud on my horizon. A small dark cloud no bigger than my hand. Its name is Progress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real theater of the sex war is the domestic hearth ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55279]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real theater of the sex war is the domestic hearth]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I decided that I would be one of the biggest new names; and I actually had some little fancy business ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43671]]></link><description><![CDATA[I decided that I would be one of the biggest new names; and I actually had some little fancy business cards printed up to announce it, "Count Basie. Beware, the Count is Here."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His faithful dog salutes the smiling guest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12654]]></link><description><![CDATA[His faithful dog salutes the smiling guest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone can see a forest fire. Skill lies in sniffing the first smoke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56971]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone can see a forest fire. Skill lies in sniffing the first smoke.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36455]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The woman cries before the wedding; the man afterward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61494]]></link><description><![CDATA[The woman cries before the wedding; the man afterward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Set up as an ideal the facing of reality as honestly and as cheerfully as possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53057]]></link><description><![CDATA[Set up as an ideal the facing of reality as honestly and as cheerfully as possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our industry has invested so much money in technology that perhaps it's time to invest in talent, in people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31751]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our industry has invested so much money in technology that perhaps it's time to invest in talent, in people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eating habits are evolving to meet the pace and structure of daily life. Consumers are responding to nutritional needs and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42185]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eating habits are evolving to meet the pace and structure of daily life. Consumers are responding to nutritional needs and the demands of daily life by missing meals, changing the times at which they eat and even changing the type of products they eat at each occasion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first and last frosts are the worst. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49848]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first and last frosts are the worst.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every day in thy life is a leaf in thy history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50981]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every day in thy life is a leaf in thy history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27107]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our wanton accidents take root, and grow To vaunt themselves God's laws. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/294]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our wanton accidents take root, and grow To vaunt themselves God's laws.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shear swine, all cry and no wool. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58496]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shear swine, all cry and no wool.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16196]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The show will lose $16 million this year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35285]]></link><description><![CDATA[The show will lose $16 million this year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All celebrated people lose dignity on a close view. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12288]]></link><description><![CDATA[All celebrated people lose dignity on a close view.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give an inch, he'll take an ell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17440]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give an inch, he'll take an ell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to repent of our blindness, our lukewarmness, and our disobedience, and turn back to the central truth of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6873]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to repent of our blindness, our lukewarmness, and our disobedience, and turn back to the central truth of Christ as Lord and Saviour; an ethical system will not save us here, nor a timid sentimentalism, nor an excited emotional return, nor a dilettante mysticism. We have to find that deep contrition which is the condition of His abiding. Repentance is not a mere feeling of sorrow or contrition for an act of wrongdoing. The regret I feel when I act impatiently or speak crossly is not repentance... Repentance is contrition for what we are in our fundamental beings, that we are wrong in our deepest roots because our internal government is by Self and not by God. And it is an activity of the whole person. Unless I will to be different, the mind will not follow. True repentance brings an urge to be different, because of the sense of the incessant movement of what I am, forming, forming, forming what I shall be in the years to come.   ... The Notebooks of Florence Allshorn  January 11, 1996 Commemoration of Mary Slessor, Missionary in West Africa, 1915   Every virtue is a form of obedience to God. Every evil word or act is a form of rebellion against Him. This may not be clear at first; but, if we think patiently, we shall find that it is true. Why were you angry? You will probably find that it was because you were not willing to accept the world as God has made it, or because you were not willing to leave it to God to deal with the people that He has made.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63223]]></link><description><![CDATA[The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meditation brings wisdom; lack of mediation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26783]]></link><description><![CDATA[Meditation brings wisdom; lack of mediation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46900]]></link><description><![CDATA[A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead! There's none of these so lonely and poor of old,  But, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead! There's none of these so lonely and poor of old,  But, dying, has made us rarer gifts than gold.   These laid the world away: poured out the red    Sweet wine of youth; gave up the years to be     Of work and joy, and that unhoped serene      That men call age, and those who would have been       Their sons, they gave their immortality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because the temperature is at 32 or just a little above, it is heavy snow to push off the roadway. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37580]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because the temperature is at 32 or just a little above, it is heavy snow to push off the roadway.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Church says that the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53617]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Church says that the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the Church.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Rock of Israel, Rock of Salvation, Rock struck and cleft for me, let those two streams of blood and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17688]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Rock of Israel, Rock of Salvation, Rock struck and cleft for me, let those two streams of blood and water which once gushed out of thy side . . . bring down with them salvation and holiness into my soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12946]]></link><description><![CDATA[Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All men will commence in their present rank and promotion will be open to all men alike, without any distinctions ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38535]]></link><description><![CDATA[All men will commence in their present rank and promotion will be open to all men alike, without any distinctions or qualifications, political or otherwise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His head, Not yet by time completely silver'd o'er,  Bespoke him past the bounds of freakish youth,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18582]]></link><description><![CDATA[His head, Not yet by time completely silver'd o'er,  Bespoke him past the bounds of freakish youth,   But strong for service still, and unimpair'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44133]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46031]]></link><description><![CDATA[We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The standard that a society should actually embody its own professed principles is a utopian one, in the sense that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60302]]></link><description><![CDATA[The standard that a society should actually embody its own professed principles is a utopian one, in the sense that moral principles contradict the way things really are --- and always will be. How things really are --- and always will be --- is neither all-evil nor all-good but deficient, inconsistent, inferior. Principles invite us to do something about the morass of contradictions in which we function morally. Principles invite us to clean up our act; to become intolerant of moral laxity and compromise and cowardice and the turning away from what is upsetting: that secret gnawing of the heart that tells us that what we are doing is not right, and so counsels us that we'd be better off just not thinking about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin' hell, but as long as they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66757]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin' hell, but as long as they ain't free, I ain't free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Simon & Jude, Apostles  Every man hath greater assurance that God is good and just than he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Simon & Jude, Apostles  Every man hath greater assurance that God is good and just than he can have of any subtle speculations about predestination and the decrees of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though the Fox run, the chicken hath wings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49976]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though the Fox run, the chicken hath wings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Distance is a great promoter of admiration! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/622]]></link><description><![CDATA[Distance is a great promoter of admiration!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where more is meant than meets the ear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18988]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where more is meant than meets the ear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't step twice into the same river. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14683]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't step twice into the same river.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14683</guid></item></channel></rss>