<?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[This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59344]]></link><description><![CDATA[This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is something more horrible than hoodlums, churls and vipers, and that is knaves with moral justification for their cause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43107]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is something more horrible than hoodlums, churls and vipers, and that is knaves with moral justification for their cause.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never did a day's work in my life, it was all fun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56533]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never did a day's work in my life, it was all fun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brigid, Abbess of Kildare, c.525   We distrust the providence of God when, after we have used ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7381]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brigid, Abbess of Kildare, c.525   We distrust the providence of God when, after we have used all our best endeavors and begged His blessing upon them, we torment ourselves about the wise issue and event of them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3995]]></link><description><![CDATA[To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confidence is the bond of friendship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9682]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confidence is the bond of friendship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46267]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17595]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And we had thought that our hard climb out of that cruel valley led to some cool, green, and peaceful, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23572]]></link><description><![CDATA[And we had thought that our hard climb out of that cruel valley led to some cool, green, and peaceful, sunlit place but it's all jungle here, a wild and savage wilderness that's overrun with ruins.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59069]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is too much reality for a Friday. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53044]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is too much reality for a Friday.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pontius Pilate was the first great censor, and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pontius Pilate was the first great censor, and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The EU-Iran human rights dialogue enables the European Union to work to improve the human rights situation in Iran. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34028]]></link><description><![CDATA[The EU-Iran human rights dialogue enables the European Union to work to improve the human rights situation in Iran. We would like to see much greater commitment from Iran to the dialogue and to ensuring that the dialogue results in real progress achieved on the ground. We are frankly disappointed that Iran has not yet agreed dates for the next round, and [we] will continue to press them. Iran's attitude to human rights is damaging its reputation in the international community.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll take any trophy. I don't care what it says on it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3576]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll take any trophy. I don't care what it says on it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Easter Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631   God, who is Almighty, Alpha and Omega, First and Last, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Easter Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631   God, who is Almighty, Alpha and Omega, First and Last, that God is also Love it self; and therefore this Love is Alpha and Omega, First and Last too. Consider Christ's proceeding with Peter in the ship, in the storm: First he suffered him to be in some danger in the storm, but then he visits him with that strong assurance, "Be not afraid, It is I": any testimony of his presence rectifies all. This puts Peter into that spiritual confidence and courage, "Lord bid me come to thee"; he hath a desire to be with Christ, but yet stays his bidding: he puts not himself into an unnecessary danger, without commandment: Christ bids him, and Peter comes: but yet, though Christ were in his sight, and even in the actual exercise of his love to him, so soon as he saw a gust, a storm, "He was afraid"; and Christ lets him fear, and lets him sink, and lets him cry, but he directs his fear and his cry to the right end: "Lord, save me"; and thereupon he stretched forth his hand and saved him...   God puts his children into good ways, and he directs and protects them in those ways; for this is the constancy and perseverence of the love of Jesus Christ to us, as he is called in this text (Matt. 21:44), a stone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[According to these breathless reports and baseless hysteria, some have convinced the American Library Association that under the bipartisan Patriot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38747]]></link><description><![CDATA[According to these breathless reports and baseless hysteria, some have convinced the American Library Association that under the bipartisan Patriot Act, the FBI is not fighting terrorism. Instead agents are checking how far you have gotten on the latest Tom Clancy novel,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Russia wants to play mediator between the West and Islamic world. But that won't bring any good because Russia is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28850]]></link><description><![CDATA[Russia wants to play mediator between the West and Islamic world. But that won't bring any good because Russia is more vulnerable to Islam than the West.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like many American kids, he wants to stay in America. But he knows this is a business. If the opportunity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like many American kids, he wants to stay in America. But he knows this is a business. If the opportunity is in Europe, he's fine with that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15639]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In every living thing there is the desire for love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16462]]></link><description><![CDATA[In every living thing there is the desire for love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to work with the top people, because only they have the courage and the confidence and the risk- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2348]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to work with the top people, because only they have the courage and the confidence and the risk- seeking profile that you need.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66764]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wall must get the weather stain Before they grow the ivy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wall must get the weather stain Before they grow the ivy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are making changes that will increase the opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31975]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are making changes that will increase the opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that for the highest achievements nowadays... need to have the stable as a rock scientific base. And also ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28832]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that for the highest achievements nowadays... need to have the stable as a rock scientific base. And also need to own modesty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is a deliberate recreation of a new and special reality that grows from your response to life. It cannot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3212]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is a deliberate recreation of a new and special reality that grows from your response to life. It cannot be copied; it must be created.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smelling of the lamp. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Smelling of the lamp.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4838]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mind is the Master-power that molds and makes, and Man is Mind, andevermore he takes the Tool of Thought, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21072]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mind is the Master-power that molds and makes, and Man is Mind, andevermore he takes the Tool of Thought, and shaping what he wills, bringsforth a thousand joys, a thousand ills-He thinks in secret and it comes topass; Environment is but his looking-glass. As A Man Thinketh.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In life, the only certainty is uncertainty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12086]]></link><description><![CDATA[In life, the only certainty is uncertainty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12086</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[If you have a sword, we have a toasting-fork at home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50870]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have a sword, we have a toasting-fork at home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God never made His work for man to mend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17710]]></link><description><![CDATA[God never made His work for man to mend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But there are certain very practical things American Negro writers can do. And must do. There's a song that says, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1694]]></link><description><![CDATA[But there are certain very practical things American Negro writers can do. And must do. There's a song that says, "the time ain't long." That song is right. Something has got to change in America—and change soon. We must help that change to come.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19678]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be true to each other, let 'appen what maay Till the end o' the daay  An the last ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15634]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be true to each other, let 'appen what maay Till the end o' the daay  An the last load hoam.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The journey is difficult, immense. We will travel as far as we can, but we cannot in one lifetime see ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21893]]></link><description><![CDATA[The journey is difficult, immense. We will travel as far as we can, but we cannot in one lifetime see all that we would like to see or to learn all that we hunger to know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had no stratagems, no tricks. You are simply obliged to put up with it, you have no choice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34935]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had no stratagems, no tricks. You are simply obliged to put up with it, you have no choice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I gave food to the poor, they called me a saint. When I asked why the poor were hungry, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/990]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I gave food to the poor, they called me a saint. When I asked why the poor were hungry, they called me a communist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63750]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no such thing as truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57103]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no such thing as truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are confronted by a first danger, the destructiveness of applied atomic energy. And then we are confronted by a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11066]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are confronted by a first danger, the destructiveness of applied atomic energy. And then we are confronted by a second danger, that we do not enough appreciate the first danger.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ten poor men sleep in peace on one straw heap, as Saadi sings, But the immensest empire is too narrow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9930]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ten poor men sleep in peace on one straw heap, as Saadi sings, But the immensest empire is too narrow for two kings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The prosperous man is never sure that he is loved for himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48502]]></link><description><![CDATA[The prosperous man is never sure that he is loved for himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And were it not that they are loath to lay out money on a rope, they would be hanged forthwith, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42736]]></link><description><![CDATA[And were it not that they are loath to lay out money on a rope, they would be hanged forthwith, and sometimes die to save charges.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's up to Gary. He's not some spectacle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33388]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's up to Gary. He's not some spectacle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41053]]></link><description><![CDATA[O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have reached a point where those dreams are about to become fused with apparent realities: now there is only room here for myself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not all those who wander are lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65404]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not all those who wander are lost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65404</guid></item></channel></rss>