<?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[If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21437]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My noble father, I do perceive here a divided duty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13073]]></link><description><![CDATA[My noble father, I do perceive here a divided duty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the ill effects of cruelty is that it makes the bystanders cruel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10799]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the ill effects of cruelty is that it makes the bystanders cruel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think you I bear the shears of destiny? Have I commandment on the pulse of life? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think you I bear the shears of destiny? Have I commandment on the pulse of life?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The past always looks better than it was because it isn't here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19545]]></link><description><![CDATA[The past always looks better than it was because it isn't here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old age needs so little but needs that little so much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old age needs so little but needs that little so much.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A breath, whence no man knows, Swaying the grating weeds, it blows;  It comes, it grieves, it goes.  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3555]]></link><description><![CDATA[A breath, whence no man knows, Swaying the grating weeds, it blows;  It comes, it grieves, it goes.   Once it rocked the summer rose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hours that make us happy make us wise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22362]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hours that make us happy make us wise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is, above all, the gift of oneself ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17405]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is, above all, the gift of oneself]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26850]]></link><description><![CDATA[Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna, Martyr, c.155  We may search so far, and reason so long of faith ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8179]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna, Martyr, c.155  We may search so far, and reason so long of faith and grace, as that we may lose not only them, but even our reason too, and sooner become mad than good. Not that we are bound to believe any thing against reason, that is, to believe, we know not why. It is but a slack opinion, it is not Belief, that is not grounded upon Reason. It is true, we have not a Demonstration; not such an Evidence as that one and two are three, to prove these to be Scriptures of God; God hath not proceeded in that manner, to drive our reason into a pound, and to force it by a peremptory necessity to accept these for Scriptures, for then, here had been no exercise of our Will, and our assent, if we could not have resisted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris. -- Orville Wright. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15205]]></link><description><![CDATA[No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris. -- Orville Wright.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet what are they, the learned and the great? Awhile of longer wonderment the theme!  Who shall presume to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15376]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet what are they, the learned and the great? Awhile of longer wonderment the theme!  Who shall presume to prophesy their date,   Where nought is certain save the uncertainty of fate?   - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/652]]></link><description><![CDATA[To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have a very superficial seeing. The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and heart of the child.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52060]]></link><description><![CDATA[The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful to truth must make himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable renascent errors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[There is an odd grammar in that sentence, which seems wrong, but is actually precise.] Close siblings were less common, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39538]]></link><description><![CDATA[[There is an odd grammar in that sentence, which seems wrong, but is actually precise.] Close siblings were less common, ... It seemed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ye diners out from whom we guard our spoons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13226]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ye diners out from whom we guard our spoons.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything in life is connected somehow. You may have to dig deep to find it but its there. Everything is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5494]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything in life is connected somehow. You may have to dig deep to find it but its there. Everything is the same even though its different. Somehow everything connects back with your life. The faces in certain places may be different, but the situation is the same. Irony is a hidden factor that creeps around us in life, letting its presence felt only after it has left. Picture back to a year ago and the situation you were in. Look at how things are different yet somehow everything it still in someway cognate. Everything connects together to form the balance of life, to maintain structure. Change is and always will be inevitable, but everything is relative, and all the moments and times in your life will come back around again, you just might find yourself on the other side of the coin. Things are always changing, as fast as everything stays the same.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Boniface (Wynfrith) of Crediton, Archbishop of Mainz, Apostle of Germany, Martyr, 754  The separate creaturely life, as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7251]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Boniface (Wynfrith) of Crediton, Archbishop of Mainz, Apostle of Germany, Martyr, 754  The separate creaturely life, as opposed to life in union with God, is only a life of various appetites, hungers, and wants, and cannot possibly be anything else. God Himself cannot make a creature to be in itself, or in its own nature, anything else but a state of emptiness. The highest life that is natural and creaturely can go no higher than this: it can only be a bare capacity for goodness and cannot possibly be a good and happy life but by the life of God dwelling in it and in union with it. And this is the two-fold life that, of all necessity, must be united in every good and happy and perfect creature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11076]]></link><description><![CDATA[...Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus this brook hath conveyed his ashes into Avon, Avon into Severn, Severn into the narrow seas, they into the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12636]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus this brook hath conveyed his ashes into Avon, Avon into Severn, Severn into the narrow seas, they into the main ocean. And thus the ashes of Wickliffe are the emblem of his doctrine, which now is dispersed all the world over.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When they told it unto David, he sent to meet them, because the men were greatly ashamed: and the king ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18571]]></link><description><![CDATA[When they told it unto David, he sent to meet them, because the men were greatly ashamed: and the king said, Tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown, and then return.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Masters, spread yourselves. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55513]]></link><description><![CDATA[Masters, spread yourselves. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Cat in Gloves catches no Mice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5315]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Cat in Gloves catches no Mice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be good and you will be lonesome. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be good and you will be lonesome.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus I set my printless feet O'er the cowslip's velvet head,  That bends not as I tread. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus I set my printless feet O'er the cowslip's velvet head,  That bends not as I tread.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That man is thought a dangerous knave, Or zealot plotting crime,  Who for advancement of his kind   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53886]]></link><description><![CDATA[That man is thought a dangerous knave, Or zealot plotting crime,  Who for advancement of his kind   Is wiser than his time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61696]]></link><description><![CDATA[Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no defeat except for those who give up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11793]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no defeat except for those who give up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not see how a barbarous community and a civilized community can constitute a state. I think we must ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56586]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not see how a barbarous community and a civilized community can constitute a state. I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64380]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You need to create waist definition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36165]]></link><description><![CDATA[You need to create waist definition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are really very happy to have them come back year after year. The public really enjoys them. They normally ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39302]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are really very happy to have them come back year after year. The public really enjoys them. They normally bring 20 to 30 paintings every year. It's become expected.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He misses playing. He prepared really hard for his senior year. It has been tough on him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32539]]></link><description><![CDATA[He misses playing. He prepared really hard for his senior year. It has been tough on him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64159]]></link><description><![CDATA[A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace is not the absence of war but the presence of justice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5395]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace is not the absence of war but the presence of justice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glossy, efficient prose, garnished with a pinch of irony and a dab of melodrama. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48470]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glossy, efficient prose, garnished with a pinch of irony and a dab of melodrama.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64638]]></link><description><![CDATA[Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dance is the hidden language of the soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11009]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dance is the hidden language of the soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66738]]></link><description><![CDATA[My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kind messages, that pass from land to land; Kind letters, that betray the heart's deep history,  In which we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kind messages, that pass from land to land; Kind letters, that betray the heart's deep history,  In which we feel the pressure of a hand,--   One touch of fire,--and all the rest is mystery!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No more slave States and no more slave territory.   - Salmon Portland Chase, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56579]]></link><description><![CDATA[No more slave States and no more slave territory.   - Salmon Portland Chase,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time goes, you say? Ah, no! Alas, Time stays, we go. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14514]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time goes, you say? Ah, no! Alas, Time stays, we go.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46454]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The commonest objection to birth control is that it is against nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4278]]></link><description><![CDATA[The commonest objection to birth control is that it is against nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reasoning of the strongest is always the best. [Fr., La raison du plus fort est toujours la meilleure.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53097]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reasoning of the strongest is always the best. [Fr., La raison du plus fort est toujours la meilleure.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66604]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each Bond-street buck conceits, unhappy elf; He shows his clothes! alas! he shows himself.  O that they knew, these ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each Bond-street buck conceits, unhappy elf; He shows his clothes! alas! he shows himself.  O that they knew, these overdrest self-lovers,   What hides the body oft the mind discovers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For today and its blessings, I owe the world an attitude of gratitude. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4304]]></link><description><![CDATA[For today and its blessings, I owe the world an attitude of gratitude.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life for me has been exactly what I thought it would be, a cake, which I have eaten and had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41503]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life for me has been exactly what I thought it would be, a cake, which I have eaten and had too]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41503</guid></item></channel></rss>