<?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[A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9730]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Real knowledge is to know the extent of ones ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28149]]></link><description><![CDATA[Real knowledge is to know the extent of ones ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47499]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime can be prevented, which is almost as dubious as the notion that poverty can be prevented.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53339]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They kindly leave us, but not quite alone, But in good company, the gout or stone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48770]]></link><description><![CDATA[They kindly leave us, but not quite alone, But in good company, the gout or stone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That it should come to this, But two months dead, nay, not so much, not two,  So excellent a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43209]]></link><description><![CDATA[That it should come to this, But two months dead, nay, not so much, not two,  So excellent a king, that was to this   Hyperion to a satyr, so loving to my mother    That he might not beteem the winds of heaven     Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth,      Must I remember? Why, she would hang on him       As if increase of appetite had grown        By what it fed on, and yet within a month--         Let me not think on't; frailty, thy name is woman--          A little month, or ere those shoes were old           With which she followed my poor father's body            Like Niobe, all tears, why she, even she--             O God, a beast that wants discourse of reason              Would have mourned longer--married with my uncle,               My father's brother, but no more like my father                Than I to Hercules.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52610]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every year, it keeps getting better. They've smoothed out the learning curves. We have a great relationship with the city. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31681]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every year, it keeps getting better. They've smoothed out the learning curves. We have a great relationship with the city. We know how to keep building it every day. I'm thrilled Macon has come out. We've had four great years, and we're looking forward to coming back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The universe is made up of stories, not of atoms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25320]]></link><description><![CDATA[The universe is made up of stories, not of atoms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When women go wrong, men go right after them. -Mae West. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27206]]></link><description><![CDATA[When women go wrong, men go right after them. -Mae West.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Iranians were just jumping on the bandwagon. They want to galvanize people, keep them focused on an anti-Western agenda. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28952]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Iranians were just jumping on the bandwagon. They want to galvanize people, keep them focused on an anti-Western agenda.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If students needed a left-handed desk, he or she would just move a [lefty] desk from one classroom to another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30272]]></link><description><![CDATA[If students needed a left-handed desk, he or she would just move a [lefty] desk from one classroom to another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45009]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We look before and after, And pine for what is not,  Our sincerest laughter   With some pain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54625]]></link><description><![CDATA[We look before and after, And pine for what is not,  Our sincerest laughter   With some pain is fraught:    Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stop worrying. Hollywood won’t turn your daughter into a nymphomaniac or get her hooked on drugs... I will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19588]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stop worrying. Hollywood won’t turn your daughter into a nymphomaniac or get her hooked on drugs... I will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is there not A tongue in every star that talks with man,  And wooes him to be wise? nor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27449]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is there not A tongue in every star that talks with man,  And wooes him to be wise? nor wooes in vain;   This dead of midnight is the noon of thought,    And wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I did not expect to hear that it could be, in an assembly convened for the propagation of Christian knowledge, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7956]]></link><description><![CDATA[I did not expect to hear that it could be, in an assembly convened for the propagation of Christian knowledge, a question whether any nation uninstructed in religion should receive instruction; or whether that, instruction should be imparted to them by a translation of the holy-books into their own language. If obedience to the will of GOD be necessary to happiness, and knowledge of his will be necessary to obedience, I know not how he that withholds this knowledge, or delays it, can be said to love his neighbour as himself. He, that voluntarily continues ignorance, is guilty of all the crimes which ignorance produces; as to him that should extinguish the tapers of a light-house, might justly be imputed the calamities of shipwrecks. (Continued tomorrow)   ... a letter from Samuel Johnson to William Drummond of Edinburgh, 1766  July 13, 2002   Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity; and as no man is good but as he wishes the good of others, so no man can be good in the highest degree, who wishes not to others the largest measures of the greatest good. To omit for a year, or for a day, the most efficacious method of advancing Christianity [i.e., the Bible], in compliance with any purposes that terminate this side of the grave, is a crime [the like] of which I know not that the world has yet had an example.   ... a letter from Samuel Johnson to William Drummond of Edinburgh, 1766  July 14, 2002 Feast of John Keble, Priest, Poet, Tractarian, 1866   The "good" man, the man whose god is righteousness, has as his life's ambition the keeping of rules and commandments and the keeping of himself uncontaminated by the world. This sounds admirable; but, as the truth of Christ showed, the whole of such living, the whole drive and ambition, the whole edifice, is self-centered. That entire process of effort must be abandoned if a man is to give himself in love to God and his fellows. He must lose his life if he is ever going to find it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rebuild of No. 14, with a 20-year life expectancy, is a significant financial investment in Gary Works and a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38696]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rebuild of No. 14, with a 20-year life expectancy, is a significant financial investment in Gary Works and a demonstration of our commitment to our customers, work force and community.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feet that run on willing errands! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feet that run on willing errands!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that can make a fire well, can end a quarrell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49326]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that can make a fire well, can end a quarrell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4520]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We started out with a 'no.' This is not going to change. We had the burden of proving to them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30666]]></link><description><![CDATA[We started out with a 'no.' This is not going to change. We had the burden of proving to them this was a good decision to make.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43460]]></link><description><![CDATA[See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The evidence shows this is not true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32054]]></link><description><![CDATA[The evidence shows this is not true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Halloo your name to the reverberate hills, And make the babbling gossip of the air Cry out. -Twelfth Night. Act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55741]]></link><description><![CDATA[Halloo your name to the reverberate hills, And make the babbling gossip of the air Cry out. -Twelfth Night. Act i. Sc. 5.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A century or so since, they spoke of sharing our Lord with the heathen, and the world rocked with laughter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7939]]></link><description><![CDATA[A century or so since, they spoke of sharing our Lord with the heathen, and the world rocked with laughter at so crazy a scheme, with the Church joining loudly in the merriment. Yet today, who laughs now? We ought to be the gladdest and the most exultant people in the world; for we have found the key to our difficulties, and it turns; have come on a solution of life's problems, and it works.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the victors belong the spoils. (The spoils to the victors.) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60580]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the victors belong the spoils. (The spoils to the victors.)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour,  And gather honey all the day   From ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3914]]></link><description><![CDATA[How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour,  And gather honey all the day   From every opening flower.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought we showed a lot of poise as a team. We stayed together when Colorado State made their run ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41040]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought we showed a lot of poise as a team. We stayed together when Colorado State made their run at us. The guys hung in there and it's a great win for us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stones are hollowed out by the constant dropping of water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61297]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stones are hollowed out by the constant dropping of water.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, say! what is that thing call'd light, Which I must ne'er enjoy?  What are the blessings of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, say! what is that thing call'd light, Which I must ne'er enjoy?  What are the blessings of the sight?   Oh, tell your poor blind boy!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My new straw hat that's trimly lin'd with green, Let Peggy wear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18885]]></link><description><![CDATA[My new straw hat that's trimly lin'd with green, Let Peggy wear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody wanted to fight on prom night. We didn't want to risk it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody wanted to fight on prom night. We didn't want to risk it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not a shortage of money -- that's just an excuse. It's just a sloppy system. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30974]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not a shortage of money -- that's just an excuse. It's just a sloppy system.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of eachother everywhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16830]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of eachother everywhere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunity is a parade.  Even as one chance passes, the next is a fife and drum echoing in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunity is a parade.  Even as one chance passes, the next is a fife and drum echoing in the distance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64586]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63164]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43009]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41186]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the end of my trial, I was rather hoping the judge would send me to Australia for the rest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37724]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the end of my trial, I was rather hoping the judge would send me to Australia for the rest of my life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Daniel come to judgment! yea, a Daniel! -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55605]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Daniel come to judgment! yea, a Daniel! -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From you have I been absent in the spring, When proud-pied April, dressed in all his trim,  Hath put ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2992]]></link><description><![CDATA[From you have I been absent in the spring, When proud-pied April, dressed in all his trim,  Hath put a spirit of youth in everything,   That heavy Saturn laughed and leapt with him;    Yet nor the lays of birds, not the sweet smell     Of different flowers in odor and in hue,      Could make me any summer's story tell,       Or from their proud lap pluck them where they grew:        Nor did I wonder at the lily's white,         Nor praise the deep vermilion in the rose;          They were but sweet, but figures of delight,           Drawn after you, you pattern of all those.            Yet seemed it winter still, and you away,             As with your shadow I with these did play.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63602]]></link><description><![CDATA[A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend should bear a friend's infirmities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51291]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend should bear a friend's infirmities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we plan to do with that money is fund our state highway new-construction program for the next 10 years. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35291]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we plan to do with that money is fund our state highway new-construction program for the next 10 years. So, there's a lot of debate about the use of that money. And, of course, there's some debate about leasing the toll road itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are many victories worse than a defeat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60598]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are many victories worse than a defeat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60598</guid></item></channel></rss>