<?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[Few minds wear out; more rust out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27524]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few minds wear out; more rust out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Margaret, Queen of Scotland, Philanthropist, Reformer of the Church, 1093 Commemoration of Edmund Rich of Abingdon, Archbishop of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6671]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Margaret, Queen of Scotland, Philanthropist, Reformer of the Church, 1093 Commemoration of Edmund Rich of Abingdon, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1240  As a man increases in moral strength of character, so his conscience becomes more sensitive; he realizes more keenly the distance that separates him from the ideal, and hence the weight of the feeling of guiltiness oppresses him ever more heavily. Growth in goodness does not, therefore, necessarily imply increased happiness, on the contrary, it may mean greater unhappiness. And his unhappiness increasing in proportion to the elevation of his ethical standards, a man's end is either Buddha or suicide if he knows no God; while if he knows God, it is despair or that conversion which, having sobbed away its tears on the Father's breast, thence derives ever new strength to fight the battle of life, sure of the final victory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The one who overcomes egotism rids themselves of the most stubborn obstacle that blocks the way to all true greatness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13671]]></link><description><![CDATA[The one who overcomes egotism rids themselves of the most stubborn obstacle that blocks the way to all true greatness and all true happiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enemies carry a report in form different from the original. [Lat., Nam inimici famam non ita ut nata est ferunt.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enemies carry a report in form different from the original. [Lat., Nam inimici famam non ita ut nata est ferunt.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's definitely something to be proud of. Those other guys are not a bunch of pushovers. I think there were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41779]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's definitely something to be proud of. Those other guys are not a bunch of pushovers. I think there were four guys under 4:20. The other guys ran pretty good, I just try to push myself to an even higher level.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise man's heart is at his right hand; but a fool's heart at his left. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4180]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise man's heart is at his right hand; but a fool's heart at his left.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53593]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who among us has not, in moments of ambition, dreamt of the miracle of a form of poetic prose, musical ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who among us has not, in moments of ambition, dreamt of the miracle of a form of poetic prose, musical but without rhythm and rhyme, both supple and staccato enough to adapt itself to the lyrical movements of our souls, the undulating movements of ou]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consultants have credibility because they are not dumb enough to work at your company ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9130]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consultants have credibility because they are not dumb enough to work at your company]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am from Massachusetts, The land of the sacred cod,  There the Adamses snub the Abootts   And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59382]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am from Massachusetts, The land of the sacred cod,  There the Adamses snub the Abootts   And the Cabots walk with God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know the truth, ... I want to hear it from her lips. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38460]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know the truth, ... I want to hear it from her lips.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the same intent in terms of a general basis, but when you look at the very top box of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31178]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the same intent in terms of a general basis, but when you look at the very top box of those who are 'very likely' to buy a home, that's where you're seeing the decrease.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52574]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh! that we two were Maying Down the stream of the soft spring breeze;  Like children with violets playing, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh! that we two were Maying Down the stream of the soft spring breeze;  Like children with violets playing,   In the shade of the whispering trees.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is not anything so excellent, but some will carp at it. . . ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42068]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is not anything so excellent, but some will carp at it. . .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The effects of our actions may be postponed but they are never lost. There is an inevitable reward for good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22787]]></link><description><![CDATA[The effects of our actions may be postponed but they are never lost. There is an inevitable reward for good deeds and an inescapable punishment for bad. Meditate upon this truth, and seek always to earn good wages from Destiny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The poem is sad because it wants to be yours, and cannot be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38736]]></link><description><![CDATA[The poem is sad because it wants to be yours, and cannot be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just read this great science fiction story. It's about how machines take control of humans and turn them into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62674]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just read this great science fiction story. It's about how machines take control of humans and turn them into zombie slaves! ... HEY! What time is it?? My TV show is on!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Expecting a carjacker or rapist or drug pusher to care that his possession or use of a gun is unlawful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47221]]></link><description><![CDATA[Expecting a carjacker or rapist or drug pusher to care that his possession or use of a gun is unlawful is like expecting a terrorist to care that his car bomb is taking up two parking spaces. - "Usenet posting in talk.politics.guns".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None can love freedom but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license, which never hath more scope than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47554]]></link><description><![CDATA[None can love freedom but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license, which never hath more scope than under tyrants.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We think we will really be solid in the infield. Now in the outfield, we've got some new guys, we've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36124]]></link><description><![CDATA[We think we will really be solid in the infield. Now in the outfield, we've got some new guys, we've got some young guys and we'll see. But we're bringing back three guys (in the infield) who've played there for three years and a guy who's a junior-college transfer who has experience at the college level.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that makes a thing too fine, breakes it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49472]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that makes a thing too fine, breakes it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't let one bad moment spoil a bunch of good ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21903]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't let one bad moment spoil a bunch of good ones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate writing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28610]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate writing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frank and explicit--that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Frank and explicit--that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Princes are venison in Heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49720]]></link><description><![CDATA[Princes are venison in Heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great thought, another is born who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/605]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great thought, another is born who is able to understand and admire it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quotation... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4661]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quotation... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give it himself, or because they are beautiful or witty, or because he expects them to touch a cord of association in his reader, or because he wishes to show that he is learned and well read. Quotations due to the last motive are invariably ill-advised; the discerning reader detects it and is contemptuous; the undiscerning is perhaps impressed, but even then is at the same time repelled, pretentious quotations being the surest road to tedium.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even in the force and road of casualty. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 9. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55583]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even in the force and road of casualty. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 9.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, Teacher, 373  The Hebrew word, nabi, translated "prophet" in English Bibles, has the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8281]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, Teacher, 373  The Hebrew word, nabi, translated "prophet" in English Bibles, has the connotation of "message bearer". The prophets were men called by God to serve as His messengers to a stubborn and unheeding people. They were always careful to point out that they were not voicing their own wisdom. Their warnings, entreaties, and promises were always prefaced by the awesome proclamation: "Thus says the Lord..." When the prophets did engage in prognostication, they usually were concerned with events which were fairly close at hand, such as the Assyrian conquest of Israel and the Babylonian conquest of Judah (both of which they foretold with deadly accuracy). But occasionally a prophet's vision ranged farther into the future, to the day when God would enter into a new covenant with his rebellious children. The hope of reconciliation was often linked with the coming of a very particular person, a Messiah or Savior.  What made the prophets so sure that they had a right--nay, a duty, to speak in the name of God? It is clear from their writings that they were not megalomaniacs who confused their own thoughts with the voice of God. On the contrary, they were humble men, awe-stricken by the responsibilities thrust upon them... The prophets minced no words in their indictments of the sins of Israel and Judah, and they trod especially hard on the toes of the rich, the powerful, and the pious. The Establishment responded then as some church members are wont to respond now when a preacher speaks out on controversial public issues: "One should not preach of such things!" (Micah 2:6).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you are in Love you can’t fall asleep because reality is better than your dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65733]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are in Love you can’t fall asleep because reality is better than your dreams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Start doing the things you think should be done, and start being what you think society should become. Do you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10383]]></link><description><![CDATA[Start doing the things you think should be done, and start being what you think society should become. Do you believe in free speech? Then speak freely. Do you love the truth? Then tell it. Do you believe in an open society? Then act in the open. Do you believe in a decent and humane society? Then behave decently and humanely. -Adam Michnik.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All that accumulation of negative stuff really sunk into the minds of people. And these are the people who serve ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42058]]></link><description><![CDATA[All that accumulation of negative stuff really sunk into the minds of people. And these are the people who serve on juries.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fletcher has gone to South Africa to drop his wife who is sick. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fletcher has gone to South Africa to drop his wife who is sick.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A jest loses its point when the jester laughs himself. [Ger., Des Spass verliert Alles, wenn der Spassmacher selber lacht.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23240]]></link><description><![CDATA[A jest loses its point when the jester laughs himself. [Ger., Des Spass verliert Alles, wenn der Spassmacher selber lacht.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For mothers who must earn, there is indeed no leisure time problem. The long hours of earning are increased by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39549]]></link><description><![CDATA[For mothers who must earn, there is indeed no leisure time problem. The long hours of earning are increased by the hours of domestic labor, until no slightest margin for relaxation or change of thought remains.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the summit see, The seals of office glitter in his eyes;  He climbs, he pants, he grasps them! ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2318]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the summit see, The seals of office glitter in his eyes;  He climbs, he pants, he grasps them! At his heels,   Close at his heels, a demagogue ascends,    And with a dexterous jerk soon twists him down,     And wins them, but to lose them in his turn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't go near the water until you learn how to swim. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50978]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't go near the water until you learn how to swim.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's very quick and strong, a powerful defender who is also extremely comfortable on the ball. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35070]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's very quick and strong, a powerful defender who is also extremely comfortable on the ball.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The meaning of life is to find your gift, the purpose of life is to give it away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55057]]></link><description><![CDATA[The meaning of life is to find your gift, the purpose of life is to give it away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All night the thirsty beach has listening lain With patience dumb,  Counting the slow, said moments of her pain; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59263]]></link><description><![CDATA[All night the thirsty beach has listening lain With patience dumb,  Counting the slow, said moments of her pain;   Now morn has come,    And with the morn the punctual tide again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a lot different than my freshman year. I just had to play quarterback. This year I have to know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38777]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a lot different than my freshman year. I just had to play quarterback. This year I have to know the defensive and offensive plays, all the special teams; there's not room for error. I have to know a lot. It's kind of fun getting to play a lot of positions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Desire is the thing you want in incipiency. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21727]]></link><description><![CDATA[Desire is the thing you want in incipiency.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The net is not spread for the hawk or the kite. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51747]]></link><description><![CDATA[The net is not spread for the hawk or the kite.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It requires no banks, no safe-deposit boxes. It just needs communication. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38710]]></link><description><![CDATA[It requires no banks, no safe-deposit boxes. It just needs communication.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55133]]></link><description><![CDATA[The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In youth we learn; in age we understand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46269]]></link><description><![CDATA[In youth we learn; in age we understand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46269</guid></item></channel></rss>