<?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://maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[What light is to the eyes--what air is to the lungs--what love is to the heart, liberty is to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24722]]></link><description><![CDATA[What light is to the eyes--what air is to the lungs--what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wages of sin are sables. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56415]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wages of sin are sables.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God does not treat us as our sins deserve, man treats us as our sins deserve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44323]]></link><description><![CDATA[God does not treat us as our sins deserve, man treats us as our sins deserve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh! thou who are greatly mad, deign to spare me who am less mad. [Lat., O major tandem parcas, insane, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21018]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh! thou who are greatly mad, deign to spare me who am less mad. [Lat., O major tandem parcas, insane, minori.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Goat and the GoatherdA goatherd had sought to bring back a stray goat to his flock. He whistled and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1541]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Goat and the GoatherdA goatherd had sought to bring back a stray goat to his flock. He whistled and sounded his horn in vain; the straggler paid no attention to the summons. At last the Goatherd threw a stone, and breaking its horn, begged the Goat not to tell his master. The Goat replied, Why, you silly fellow, the horn will speak though I be silent. Do not attempt to hide things which cannot be hid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My name may have buoyancy enough to float upon the sea of time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43652]]></link><description><![CDATA[My name may have buoyancy enough to float upon the sea of time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I used to store my anger and it affected my play. Now I get it out. I'm never rude to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36412]]></link><description><![CDATA[I used to store my anger and it affected my play. Now I get it out. I'm never rude to my playing partner. I'm very focused on the ball. Then it's over.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In competitive industries, patents become more valuable. People should pay more attention to patent issues because they can make or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36014]]></link><description><![CDATA[In competitive industries, patents become more valuable. People should pay more attention to patent issues because they can make or break a company.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27121]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61841]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conversation is an exercise of the mind; gossip is merely an exercise of the tongue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10080]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conversation is an exercise of the mind; gossip is merely an exercise of the tongue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some village Hampden, that, with dauntless breast, The little tyrant of his fields withstood,  Some mute inglorious Milton here ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18221]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some village Hampden, that, with dauntless breast, The little tyrant of his fields withstood,  Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest,   Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They can't give us any word ? alive, or what ? but we are hoping he is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40941]]></link><description><![CDATA[They can't give us any word ? alive, or what ? but we are hoping he is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're attractive, quality-of-life places and have a somewhat more diverse economic base. It's close to Chicago. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38872]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're attractive, quality-of-life places and have a somewhat more diverse economic base. It's close to Chicago.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mystery is another name for our ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mystery is another name for our ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19646]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cannot think that God would be content  To view unmoved the toiling and the strain,  The groaning ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6746]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cannot think that God would be content  To view unmoved the toiling and the strain,  The groaning of the ages, sick and spent,  The whole creation travailing in pain.  The suffering God is no vast cosmic force,  That by some blind, unthinking, loveless power  Keeps stars and atoms swinging in their course,  And reckons naught of men in this grim hour.  Nor is the suffering God a fair ideal  Engendered in the questioning hearts of men,  A figment of the mind to help me steel  My soul to rude realities I ken.  God suffers with a love that cleanses dross;  A God like that, I see upon a cross.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't worry, it's not loaded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't worry, it's not loaded.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60347]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty of our material blessings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes he caught himself listening to the sound of his own voice. He thought that in her eyes he would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes he caught himself listening to the sound of his own voice. He thought that in her eyes he would ascent to an angelical stature; and, as he attached the fervent nature of his companion more and more closely to him, he heard the strange impersonal voice which he recognised as his own, insisting on the soul's incurable lonliness. We cannot give ourselves, it said: we are our own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Euphemisms are not, as many young people think, useless verbiage for that which can and should be said bluntly; they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14240]]></link><description><![CDATA[Euphemisms are not, as many young people think, useless verbiage for that which can and should be said bluntly; they are like secret agents on a delicate mission, they must airily pass by a stinking mess with barely so much as a nod of the head]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Facts have a cruel way of substituting themselves for fancies. There is nothing more remorseless, just as there is nothing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Facts have a cruel way of substituting themselves for fancies. There is nothing more remorseless, just as there is nothing more helpful, than truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63901]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity - but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In every sorrowing soul I pour'd delight, And poverty stood smiling in my sight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46465]]></link><description><![CDATA[In every sorrowing soul I pour'd delight, And poverty stood smiling in my sight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22505]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men as a whole judge more with their eyes than with their hands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men as a whole judge more with their eyes than with their hands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Win or lose, do it fairly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9230]]></link><description><![CDATA[Win or lose, do it fairly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad. And that was all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27843]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad. And that was all his patrimony.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct,or more uncertain in its success, than to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21726]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct,or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in theintroduction of a new order of things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch, Martyr, c.107  Prayer is not so much the means whereby God's will is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7667]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch, Martyr, c.107  Prayer is not so much the means whereby God's will is bent to man's desires, as it is that whereby man's will is bent to God's desires. The real end of prayer is not so much to get this or that single desire granted, as to put human life into full and joyful conformity with the will of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will file a legal complaint against all of those people behind this conference, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39787]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will file a legal complaint against all of those people behind this conference,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15907]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3831]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a fantastic piece. The bidding was at $20,000 when we withdrew it, and I'm sure it would've gotten crazy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33927]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a fantastic piece. The bidding was at $20,000 when we withdrew it, and I'm sure it would've gotten crazy tonight but we wouldn't let it get to that point.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9287]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that asks me what heaven is, means not to hear me, but to silence me; He knows I cannot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8205]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that asks me what heaven is, means not to hear me, but to silence me; He knows I cannot tell him. When I meet him there, I shall be able to tell him, and then he will be as able to tell me; yet then we shall be but able to tell one another. This, this that we enjoy is heaven, but the tongues of Angels, the tongues of glorified Saints, shall not be able to express what that heaven is; for, even in heaven our faculties shall be finite.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When it was reported to General Washington that the army was frequently indulging in swearing, he immediately sent out the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60294]]></link><description><![CDATA[When it was reported to General Washington that the army was frequently indulging in swearing, he immediately sent out the following order: The general is sorry to be informed that the foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing — a vice little known heretofore in the American army — is growing into fashion. Let the men and officers reflect 'that we can not hope for the blessing of heaven on our army if we insult it by our impiety and folly.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The refusal to choose is a form of choice; disbelief is a form of belief. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11598]]></link><description><![CDATA[The refusal to choose is a form of choice; disbelief is a form of belief.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's for sure. That's a tough format. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37697]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's for sure. That's a tough format.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soldiers, forty centuries are looking down upon you from these pyramids. [Fr., Soldats, du haut ces Pyramide quarante siecles vous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Soldiers, forty centuries are looking down upon you from these pyramids. [Fr., Soldats, du haut ces Pyramide quarante siecles vous contemplent.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drugs are bad because if you do drugs you're a hippie and hippies suck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19289]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drugs are bad because if you do drugs you're a hippie and hippies suck.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate this "crime doesn't pay" stuff. Crime in the United States is perhaps one of the biggest businesses in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10642]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate this "crime doesn't pay" stuff. Crime in the United States is perhaps one of the biggest businesses in the world today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evil be to him who evil thinks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Evil be to him who evil thinks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Amy Carmichael, Founder of the Dohnavur Fellowship, 1951   Joy is not gush: joy is not jolliness. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8343]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Amy Carmichael, Founder of the Dohnavur Fellowship, 1951   Joy is not gush: joy is not jolliness. Joy is simply perfect acquiescence in God's will, because the soul delights itself in God himself... rejoice in the will of God, and in nothing else. Bow down your heads and your hearts before God, and let the will, the blessed will of God, be done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8663]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To act from pure benevolence is not possible for finite beings. Human benevolence is mingled with vanity, interest, or some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60393]]></link><description><![CDATA[To act from pure benevolence is not possible for finite beings. Human benevolence is mingled with vanity, interest, or some other motive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take time enough: all other graces Will soon fill up their proper places. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48072]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take time enough: all other graces Will soon fill up their proper places.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers; vanity can give  No hollow aid; alone--man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57167]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers; vanity can give  No hollow aid; alone--man with his God must strive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57167</guid></item></channel></rss>