<?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[Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631  When all is done, the hell of hells, the torment of torments, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631  When all is done, the hell of hells, the torment of torments, is the everlasting absence of God, and the everlasting impossibility of returning to his presence; sayes the Apostle, it is a fearefull thing to fall into the hands of the living God. Yet there was a case, in which David found an ease, to fall into the hands of God, to scape the hands of men: When God's hand is bent to strike, it is a fearefull thing, to fall into the hands of the living God; but to fall out of the hands of the living God, is a horror beyond our expression, beyond our imagination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My minde to me a kingdome is, Such perfect joy therein I finde  As farre exceeds all earthly blisse ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27507]]></link><description><![CDATA[My minde to me a kingdome is, Such perfect joy therein I finde  As farre exceeds all earthly blisse   That God or Nature hath assignde    Though much I want that most would have     Yet still my minde forbids to crave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Energy and persistence conquer all things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Energy and persistence conquer all things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In my intellect, I may divide [faith and works], just as in the candle I know there is both light ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7800]]></link><description><![CDATA[In my intellect, I may divide [faith and works], just as in the candle I know there is both light and heat; yet put out the candle, and both are gone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some of us will smart for it. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55465]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some of us will smart for it. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20261]]></link><description><![CDATA[I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43415]]></link><description><![CDATA[I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst deluded are the self-deluded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11851]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst deluded are the self-deluded.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most expensive wedding usually ends with the quickest divorce. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27250]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most expensive wedding usually ends with the quickest divorce.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love worketh no ill to his neighbour; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25628]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love worketh no ill to his neighbour; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't need to hug Indonesians to death. But the U.S. does need to be more even-handed in its dealings ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33554]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't need to hug Indonesians to death. But the U.S. does need to be more even-handed in its dealings in the Middle East, [and] more sophisticated in its dealings with the Muslim world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25597]]></link><description><![CDATA[No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2146]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45794]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an interminable tedious sweetness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58490]]></link><description><![CDATA[To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an interminable tedious sweetness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius is an infinite capacity for taking life by the scruff of the neck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius is an infinite capacity for taking life by the scruff of the neck.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I err every one can see it, but not when I lie. [Ger., Wenn ich irre kann es jeder ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26121]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I err every one can see it, but not when I lie. [Ger., Wenn ich irre kann es jeder bemerken; wenn ich luge, nicht.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're a young Mafia gangster out on your first date, I bet it's real embarrassing if someone tries to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11720]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're a young Mafia gangster out on your first date, I bet it's real embarrassing if someone tries to kill you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That would not be acceptable for the German government. And it wouldn't be in line with the spirit of looking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29951]]></link><description><![CDATA[That would not be acceptable for the German government. And it wouldn't be in line with the spirit of looking to the future together and not into the past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A 'you can do it' when things are tough.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They simply enjoyed every day together. The most special times for them were in the morning, sitting in their den, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38817]]></link><description><![CDATA[They simply enjoyed every day together. The most special times for them were in the morning, sitting in their den, drinking coffee and enjoying the peace of the day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Artes, scientia, veritas [Arts, knowledge, truth] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Artes, scientia, veritas [Arts, knowledge, truth]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't really remember the names of the clubs that we went to.(on whether he had visited the Parthenon during ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57669]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't really remember the names of the clubs that we went to.(on whether he had visited the Parthenon during his visit to Greece)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Serenity is knowing that your worst shot is still pretty good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46328]]></link><description><![CDATA[Serenity is knowing that your worst shot is still pretty good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[... as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or we grow weak, and at last some crisis shows us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10714]]></link><description><![CDATA[... as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or we grow weak, and at last some crisis shows us what we have become.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Cuthbert, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 687  The desire for certitude is natural enough and explains the human ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7701]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Cuthbert, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 687  The desire for certitude is natural enough and explains the human tendency to mistake faith for certainty. This is not a specially religious mistake. We think of supernaturalism when faith is mentioned, but the naturalistic description of the world also operates on assumptions that require a faith as robust as does the most soaring mysticism. The usual efforts to skirt faith beg all the questions there are. A psychiatrist, for instance, who points out to you that you believe in God the Father because you need a father, or that you became a missionary to expiate your guilt feelings, may be quite correct, but he has not touched on the prior question as to whether there is, in fact, a cosmic father figure who is the archetype of all other fathers, or whether there is an evangel worth spending your life promulgating.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things start out as hopes and end up as habbits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18546]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things start out as hopes and end up as habbits.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These oil companies are making profit hand over fist as consumers are suffering. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29407]]></link><description><![CDATA[These oil companies are making profit hand over fist as consumers are suffering.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14484]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be at all is to be religious more or less ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53777]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be at all is to be religious more or less]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we desire to confine our words, we commonly say they are spoken under the rose.   - Sir ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54974]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we desire to confine our words, we commonly say they are spoken under the rose.   - Sir Thomas Browne,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65003]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23071]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Food there was none, Shelter there was none but love was there in plenty, Hence I was the richest man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Food there was none, Shelter there was none but love was there in plenty, Hence I was the richest man in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was young, I said to God, 'God, tell me the mystery of the universe.' But God answered, 'that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43562]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was young, I said to God, 'God, tell me the mystery of the universe.' But God answered, 'that knowledge is for me alone.' So I said, 'God, tell me the mystery of the peanut.' Then God said, 'Well, George, that's more nearly your size.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Early one morning I, Vadim Maslennikov, set off for school (I was going on seventeen at the time) having forgotten ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4628]]></link><description><![CDATA[Early one morning I, Vadim Maslennikov, set off for school (I was going on seventeen at the time) having forgotten the envelope with the first-semester fees Mother had left me in the dining room the day before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Overwhelmingly, they're male, and overwhelmingly, they're white. But they cross the societal spectrum. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34695]]></link><description><![CDATA[Overwhelmingly, they're male, and overwhelmingly, they're white. But they cross the societal spectrum.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It always seems impossible until its done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58026]]></link><description><![CDATA[It always seems impossible until its done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Other ropers get real heavy when they get wet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34478]]></link><description><![CDATA[Other ropers get real heavy when they get wet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is difficult to offend a New Yorker. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43116]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is difficult to offend a New Yorker.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11073]]></link><description><![CDATA[A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58131]]></link><description><![CDATA[One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63427]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That does not make us, or our clients, very happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37713]]></link><description><![CDATA[That does not make us, or our clients, very happy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the early 70s a lot of these (sites) were closed by the state and capped. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39678]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the early 70s a lot of these (sites) were closed by the state and capped.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64315]]></link><description><![CDATA[Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She really did her homework on this one and read the analysts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36570]]></link><description><![CDATA[She really did her homework on this one and read the analysts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never without a shilling in my purse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50301]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never without a shilling in my purse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A child enters your home and makes so much noise for twenty years that you can hardly stand it: then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38586]]></link><description><![CDATA[A child enters your home and makes so much noise for twenty years that you can hardly stand it: then departs leaving the house so silent that you think you will go mad]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38586</guid></item></channel></rss>