<?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[We must learn to tailor our concepts to fit reality, instead of trying to stuff reality into our concepts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14510]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must learn to tailor our concepts to fit reality, instead of trying to stuff reality into our concepts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like men condemned to thunderbolts, Who, ere the blow, become mere dolts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21007]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like men condemned to thunderbolts, Who, ere the blow, become mere dolts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing more hostile to a city that a tyrant, under whom in the first and chiefest place, there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59964]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing more hostile to a city that a tyrant, under whom in the first and chiefest place, there are not laws in common, but one man, keeping the law himself to himself, has the sway, and this is no longer equal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world does not pay for what a person knows, but it pays for what a person does with what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15791]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world does not pay for what a person knows, but it pays for what a person does with what he knows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Theology, not morality, is the first business on the church's agenda of reform, and the church, not society, is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59085]]></link><description><![CDATA[Theology, not morality, is the first business on the church's agenda of reform, and the church, not society, is the first target of divine criticism]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should compete with most anyone in the league. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39962]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should compete with most anyone in the league.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For emulation hath a thousand sons That one by one pursue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51275]]></link><description><![CDATA[For emulation hath a thousand sons That one by one pursue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64486]]></link><description><![CDATA[To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On a large enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58388]]></link><description><![CDATA[On a large enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They make a desert and they call it peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51671]]></link><description><![CDATA[They make a desert and they call it peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a dead-end street. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24902]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a dead-end street.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inflation is the senility of democracies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inflation is the senility of democracies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are pretty,--we know it; and young,--it is true; and rich,--who can deny it? But when you praise yourself extravagantly, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14063]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are pretty,--we know it; and young,--it is true; and rich,--who can deny it? But when you praise yourself extravagantly, Fabulla, you appear neither rich, nor pretty, nor young.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The moment of finding a fellow-creature is often as full of mingled doubt and exultation, as the moment of finding ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15538]]></link><description><![CDATA[The moment of finding a fellow-creature is often as full of mingled doubt and exultation, as the moment of finding an idea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9450]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve a particular goal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One's eyes are what one is, one's mouth is what one becomes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66238]]></link><description><![CDATA[One's eyes are what one is, one's mouth is what one becomes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet was he but a squire of low degree. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44770]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet was he but a squire of low degree.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh! 'tis a precious thing, when wives are dead, To find such numbers who will serve instead:  And in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61876]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh! 'tis a precious thing, when wives are dead, To find such numbers who will serve instead:  And in whatever state a man be thrown,   'Tis that precisely they would wish their own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The quality of mercy is not strain'd, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55604]]></link><description><![CDATA[The quality of mercy is not strain'd, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest: It blesseth him that gives and him that takes. 'T is mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown; His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings; But mercy is above this sceptred sway, It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God's, When mercy seasons justice. Therefore, Jew, Though justice be thy plea, consider this, That in the course of justice none of us Should see salvation: we do pray for mercy; And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Amy Carmichael, Founder of the Dohnavour Fellowship, 1951  To the dim and bewildered vision of humanity, God's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8149]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Amy Carmichael, Founder of the Dohnavour Fellowship, 1951  To the dim and bewildered vision of humanity, God's care is more evident in some instances than in others; and upon such instances men seize, and call them providences. It is well that they can; but it would be gloriously better if they could believe that the whole matter is one grand providence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Providence is a greater mystery than revelation. The state of our world is more humiliating to our reason than the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8394]]></link><description><![CDATA[Providence is a greater mystery than revelation. The state of our world is more humiliating to our reason than the doctrines of the Gospel. A reflecting Christian sees more to excite his astonishment, and to exercise his faith, in the state of things between Temple Bar [in Dublin] and St. Paul's [in London], than in what he reads from Genesis to Revelation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Satan; so call him now, his former name Is heard no more in heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12161]]></link><description><![CDATA[Satan; so call him now, his former name Is heard no more in heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's really focused. He knows what has to be done. He's focused on the task at hand. He wants to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38180]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's really focused. He knows what has to be done. He's focused on the task at hand. He wants to have a very big year, and I think that he is. He's a senior now. He's matured and he knows what has to be done. He has definitely stepped up and become the leader that we need on defense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17869]]></link><description><![CDATA[The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Business tomorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5013]]></link><description><![CDATA[Business tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/898]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask but enough, and you may lower the price as you list. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50967]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ask but enough, and you may lower the price as you list.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus unlamented pass the proud away, The gaze of fools and pageant of a day;  So perish all, whose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48200]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus unlamented pass the proud away, The gaze of fools and pageant of a day;  So perish all, whose breast ne'er learn'd to glow   For others' good, or melt at others' woe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best smell in the world is that man that you love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5396]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best smell in the world is that man that you love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would have been nice, but we took care of what we needed to take care of. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41348]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would have been nice, but we took care of what we needed to take care of.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15179]]></link><description><![CDATA[A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The puck hadn't been going in lately. I had to stick with it and stay positive. I'm glad I finally ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37381]]></link><description><![CDATA[The puck hadn't been going in lately. I had to stick with it and stay positive. I'm glad I finally got one in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11640]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever hath an interest in any one promise hath an interest in them all, and in the fountain-love from whence ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7068]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever hath an interest in any one promise hath an interest in them all, and in the fountain-love from whence they flow. He to whom any drop of their sweetness floweth may follow it up into the spring. Were we wise, each taste of mercy would lead us to the ocean of love. Have we any hold on a promise? We may get upon it, and it will bring us to the main, Christ Himself and the Spirit, and so into the bosom of the Father. It is our folly to abide upon a little, which is given us merely to make us press for more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our moral traditions developed concurrently with our reason, not as its product. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35199]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our moral traditions developed concurrently with our reason, not as its product.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your Excellency, I am aware of my responsibilities, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your Excellency, I am aware of my responsibilities,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66639]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I play [golf] with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57566]]></link><description><![CDATA[I play [golf] with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65914]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace is more important than all justice; and was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace is more important than all justice; and was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46024]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him. [Fr., Qu'on me donne six lignes ecrites de la main du plus honnete homme, j'y trouverai de quoi le faire pendre.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She didn't ask for this. It was a public safety issue and she just wanted to eliminate any perception of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36578]]></link><description><![CDATA[She didn't ask for this. It was a public safety issue and she just wanted to eliminate any perception of an ethical breach.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There will be no 'third-round' of reductions, but we recognize the need to reduce the duties on some goods based ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29370]]></link><description><![CDATA[There will be no 'third-round' of reductions, but we recognize the need to reduce the duties on some goods based on individual requests.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What are we when we are alone? Some, when they are alone, cease to exist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52325]]></link><description><![CDATA[What are we when we are alone? Some, when they are alone, cease to exist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This has given us confidence. Next year is going to be great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31057]]></link><description><![CDATA[This has given us confidence. Next year is going to be great.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sure we play rough, they said, but look what others do to us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sure we play rough, they said, but look what others do to us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are fagots and fagots. [Fr., Il y a fagots et fagots.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9162]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are fagots and fagots. [Fr., Il y a fagots et fagots.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She portrayed more knowledge and passion about drug control policy than I had ever imagined one person could know about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29140]]></link><description><![CDATA[She portrayed more knowledge and passion about drug control policy than I had ever imagined one person could know about any subject.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29140</guid></item></channel></rss>