<?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[Experience is something you get too late to do anything about the mistakes you made while getting it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14739]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience is something you get too late to do anything about the mistakes you made while getting it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fire i' the flint Shows not till it be struck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51368]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fire i' the flint Shows not till it be struck.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reason teaching has to go on is that children are not born human; they are made so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57062]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reason teaching has to go on is that children are not born human; they are made so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28146]]></link><description><![CDATA[The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stand your ground. Don't fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stand your ground. Don't fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9590]]></link><description><![CDATA[A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to buy books than to read them, and easier to read them than to absorb them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4595]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to buy books than to read them, and easier to read them than to absorb them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never hold anyone by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never hold anyone by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling to hear you, you had better hold your tongue than them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It must be so--Plato, thou reasonest well!-- Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire,  This longing after immortality? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20594]]></link><description><![CDATA[It must be so--Plato, thou reasonest well!-- Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire,  This longing after immortality?   Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror,    O falling into nought? Why shrinks the soul     Back on herself, and startles at destruction?      'Tis the divinity that stirs within us;       'Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter,        And intimates eternity to man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65179]]></link><description><![CDATA[Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have this running quandary about Christmas. I get upset about it, because I feel that we American Christians make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7997]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have this running quandary about Christmas. I get upset about it, because I feel that we American Christians make too much of it, and too little. Too little of it, because we pile all sorts of other things onto it, including some that have only the feeblest connection with the Event it is supposed to commemorate. If God did become a man, in any real sense, it is the most important thing that ever happened. Surely we, who believe it, could well devote one day a year to uninterrupted contemplation of the fact, and let Saturnalia fall on the winter solstice, where it belongs.   On the other hand, we make so much of the actual birth, and forget the things that make it more than just the birth of a baby (though even that is, in Walt Whitman's phrase, "miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels") -- more, even, than the birth of the greatest man who ever lived. We forget the promise to Eve of a descendant who will solve the problem of Evil; the promise to Abraham of one by whom all mankind will be blessed; the promise to Moses of a greater prophet than he, to arise from his people; and the promise to David of a Son who would be his Master. We forget about the eternal Purpose behind it all: it's like telling a story and leaving out the point. Yes, it is true that God gave us His Son, and so maybe we ought also to give gifts -- but what, and to whom? It is also true that God gave us Himself, and the only sensible response to that is to give ourselves to Him. There is nothing else that He wants from us, or, if there is something, He can take it. Only I, my ego, my heart, is truly mine to give or to withhold -- and is therefore the appropriate gift to Him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In his old lunes again. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iv. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55371]]></link><description><![CDATA[In his old lunes again. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Globalization could be the answer to many of the world's seemingly intractable problems. But this requires strong democratic foundations based ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Globalization could be the answer to many of the world's seemingly intractable problems. But this requires strong democratic foundations based on a political will to ensure equity and justice".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before the injuries, we were a tight unit with the roles clearly defined. But once we lost players, all the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before the injuries, we were a tight unit with the roles clearly defined. But once we lost players, all the roles had to change.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65543]]></link><description><![CDATA[In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inflation: Everyone's illusion of wealth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20834]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inflation: Everyone's illusion of wealth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66883]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Waiting and hoping are the whole of life, and as soon as a dream is realized it is destroyed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61077]]></link><description><![CDATA[Waiting and hoping are the whole of life, and as soon as a dream is realized it is destroyed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only real power comes out of a long rifle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66634]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only real power comes out of a long rifle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live for yourself -- there's no one elseMore worth living forBegging hands and bleeding hearts will only cry out for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Live for yourself -- there's no one elseMore worth living forBegging hands and bleeding hearts will only cry out for more]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19179]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perplexed and troubled at his bad success The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply,  Discovered in his fraud, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16637]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perplexed and troubled at his bad success The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply,  Discovered in his fraud, thrown from his hope.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Believe that you're young enough, old enough, strong enough, and so on to accomplish everything you want to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65549]]></link><description><![CDATA[Believe that you're young enough, old enough, strong enough, and so on to accomplish everything you want to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58954]]></link><description><![CDATA[When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Taft's encouragement of McKenna's resignation illustrates how effective procedural pressure exerted by a chief justice can be. With the concurrence ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33223]]></link><description><![CDATA[Taft's encouragement of McKenna's resignation illustrates how effective procedural pressure exerted by a chief justice can be. With the concurrence of his colleagues, Taft was able to steer important opinions away from McKenna until he was able to persuade him to leave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cure for War? Furiously spending the same daily amount of money toward making friends. Being an indispensable source of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19151]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cure for War? Furiously spending the same daily amount of money toward making friends. Being an indispensable source of food, shelter, peace, and cultural support dedicatedly spending 9 billion dollars a month on helping people would be a formidable enemy of evil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've had a fantastic run. The fundamentals are improving, but maybe not at the right level for the valuations we're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30602]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've had a fantastic run. The fundamentals are improving, but maybe not at the right level for the valuations we're seeing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2671]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43377]]></link><description><![CDATA[A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despite the encouraging and wonderful gains and the changes for women which have occurred in my lifetime, there is still ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3685]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despite the encouraging and wonderful gains and the changes for women which have occurred in my lifetime, there is still room to advance and to promote correction of the remaining deficiencies and imbalances.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Try a thing you haven’t done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65798]]></link><description><![CDATA[Try a thing you haven’t done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time, to figure out whether you like it or no.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12246]]></link><description><![CDATA[Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. -Helen Keller.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now we have two anniversaries, and we celebrate them both. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31176]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now we have two anniversaries, and we celebrate them both.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight. . ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45185]]></link><description><![CDATA[An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight. . . The truly wise person is colorblind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is short, time is fast, no replay, no rewind so enjoy every single moment... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63148]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is short, time is fast, no replay, no rewind so enjoy every single moment...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O thou who passest through our valleys in Thy strength, curb thy fierce steeds, allay the heat  That flames ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58254]]></link><description><![CDATA[O thou who passest through our valleys in Thy strength, curb thy fierce steeds, allay the heat  That flames from their large nostrils! Thou, O Summer,   Oft pitchest here thy golden tent, and oft    Beneath our oaks hast slept, while we beheld     With joy thy ruddy limbs and flourishing hair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, A Death in the Family, Shorter Fiction ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36986]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, A Death in the Family, Shorter Fiction]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4677]]></link><description><![CDATA[The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It [Calvinism] established a religion without a prelate, a government without a king. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17978]]></link><description><![CDATA[It [Calvinism] established a religion without a prelate, a government without a king.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14310]]></link><description><![CDATA[May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifth - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62842]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifth - and endures all the rest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your pianos travel with you. So does your manager. You have no time for girls. Your manager sees to it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35585]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your pianos travel with you. So does your manager. You have no time for girls. Your manager sees to it that no young predatory females get very far.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The scarlet of the maples can shake me like a cry, Of bugles going by. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59676]]></link><description><![CDATA[The scarlet of the maples can shake me like a cry, Of bugles going by.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56021]]></link><description><![CDATA[My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a villain. -King Richard III. Act v. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45361]]></link><description><![CDATA[The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis thus we heed no instincts but our own, Believe no evil, till the evil's done.  [Fr., Nous n'ecoutons ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22825]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis thus we heed no instincts but our own, Believe no evil, till the evil's done.  [Fr., Nous n'ecoutons d'instincts que ceux qui sont les notres.   Et ne croyons le mal que quand il est venu.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intellects whose desires have outstripped their understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intellects whose desires have outstripped their understanding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we just royally confused some winter campers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29168]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we just royally confused some winter campers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one can keep a mask on long. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51173]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one can keep a mask on long.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51173</guid></item></channel></rss>