<?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[The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20534]]></link><description><![CDATA[The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy. - Paradoxes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy. - Paradoxes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the biographer all lives bar none are dramatic constructions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39554]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the biographer all lives bar none are dramatic constructions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23382]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self-respect permeates every aspect of your life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2272]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self-respect permeates every aspect of your life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flow on, lovely Dee, flow on, thou sweet river, Thy banks' purest stream shall be dear to me ever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flow on, lovely Dee, flow on, thou sweet river, Thy banks' purest stream shall be dear to me ever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The new constitution established a president with powers unheard of in the republican United States. Some even wanted him to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60291]]></link><description><![CDATA[The new constitution established a president with powers unheard of in the republican United States. Some even wanted him to be king, a thought that GW found ludicrous: What astonishing changes a few years are capable of producing! I am told that even respectable characters speak of a monarchical form of government without horror. From thinking proceeds speaking, thence to acting is often but a single step. But how irrevocable and tremendous! What a triumph for the advocates of despotism to find that we are incapable of governing ourselves, and that systems founded on the basis of equal liberty are merely ideal & fallacious!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apt Alliteration's artful aid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3524]]></link><description><![CDATA[Apt Alliteration's artful aid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11464]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The delta smelt last year was the lowest we'd ever seen, so this year is definitely the lowest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31906]]></link><description><![CDATA[The delta smelt last year was the lowest we'd ever seen, so this year is definitely the lowest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59980]]></link><description><![CDATA[The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2094]]></link><description><![CDATA[You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human heart feels things the eyes cannot see, and knows what the mind cannot understand ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19009]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human heart feels things the eyes cannot see, and knows what the mind cannot understand]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think what happens in this country is censorship, I should say that. It's something else. It's not banning. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39595]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think what happens in this country is censorship, I should say that. It's something else. It's not banning. It's something else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1173]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8848]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe has existed indefinitely, for an infinite time. It is only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36274]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe has existed indefinitely, for an infinite time. It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Crime oft recoils upon the author's head. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51136]]></link><description><![CDATA[Crime oft recoils upon the author's head.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1826]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You need three things in the theater - the play, the actors and the audience, - and each must give ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59036]]></link><description><![CDATA[You need three things in the theater - the play, the actors and the audience, - and each must give something]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is that which, knowing the Lord's will, goes and does it; or, not knowing it, stands and waits, content ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8252]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is that which, knowing the Lord's will, goes and does it; or, not knowing it, stands and waits, content in ignorance as in knowledge, because God wills -- neither pressing into the hidden future, nor careless of the knowledge which opens the path of action.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prince, give praise to our French ladies For the sweet sound their speaking carries;  'Twixt Rome and Cadiz many ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45539]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prince, give praise to our French ladies For the sweet sound their speaking carries;  'Twixt Rome and Cadiz many a maid is,   But no good girl's lip out of Paris.   - Algernon Charles Swinburne,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think when you're in a relationship where you really care for the other person, when they achieve their dreams ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66299]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think when you're in a relationship where you really care for the other person, when they achieve their dreams it's better than when you do yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A closed mouth catches no flies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12458]]></link><description><![CDATA[A closed mouth catches no flies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9886]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[College isn't the place to go for ideas. -Hellen Keller. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13574]]></link><description><![CDATA[College isn't the place to go for ideas. -Hellen Keller.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is like a movie, if you've sat through more than half of it and its sucked every second so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is like a movie, if you've sat through more than half of it and its sucked every second so far, it probably isn't gonna get great right at the end and make it all worthwhile. None should blame you for walking out early.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're not missing in the traditional sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34696]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're not missing in the traditional sense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The genius of the Methodist movement, which enabled it to conquer the raw lives of workingmen in industrial England, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6914]]></link><description><![CDATA[The genius of the Methodist movement, which enabled it to conquer the raw lives of workingmen in industrial England, and the raw lives of men and women on the American frontier, was the "class meeting" -- ten members and their leader, meeting regularly for mutual encouragement, rebuke, nurture, and prayer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Praise be to Nero's Neptune The Titanic sails at dawn  And everybody's shouting   "Which Side Are You ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16077]]></link><description><![CDATA[Praise be to Nero's Neptune The Titanic sails at dawn  And everybody's shouting   "Which Side Are You On?"    And Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot     Fighting in the captain's tower      While calypso singers laugh at them       And fishermen hold flowers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be England what she will, With all her faults, she is my country still. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13915]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be England what she will, With all her faults, she is my country still.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fate can bring two people together...but fate can also pull them apart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62886]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fate can bring two people together...but fate can also pull them apart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If music be the food of love, play on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66886]]></link><description><![CDATA[If music be the food of love, play on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can I tell what I think till I see what I say? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24066]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can I tell what I think till I see what I say?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4685]]></link><description><![CDATA[A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the worst of all superstitions to assume that the epistemological characteristics of one branch of knowledge must necessarily ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52025]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the worst of all superstitions to assume that the epistemological characteristics of one branch of knowledge must necessarily be applicable to any other branch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3806]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One by one the flowers close, Lily and dewy rose  Shutting their tender petals from the moon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14261]]></link><description><![CDATA[One by one the flowers close, Lily and dewy rose  Shutting their tender petals from the moon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Creeds were formulated gradually, as a result of a series of desperate controversies -- controversies which are now named ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6996]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Creeds were formulated gradually, as a result of a series of desperate controversies -- controversies which are now named sometimes after the supposed leaders and representatives of a particular interpretation of the Christian religion, and sometimes after the particular interpretation itself. I need not now attempt to make precise these heresies, as they came to be called. It is necessary only to point out that in various ways all these heresies were simplifications. By means of them the revelation of God to men was made, or appeared to be made, less scandalous. On the other hand, the various clauses of the Creed were not formulated as a new simplification, or as an alternative-ism. They were nothing more than emphatic statements of the Biblical scandal, statements which brought into sharp antagonism the new simplification and the old, Scriptural, many-sided and vigorous truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/742]]></link><description><![CDATA[As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56593]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apathy is the glove into which evil slips its hand ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2690]]></link><description><![CDATA[Apathy is the glove into which evil slips its hand]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man, wretched man, whene'er he stoops to sin, Feels, with the act, a strong remorse within. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53792]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man, wretched man, whene'er he stoops to sin, Feels, with the act, a strong remorse within.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13894]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22943]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shall I, like Curtius, desperate in my zeal, O'er head and ears plunge for the common weal?  Or rob ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17199]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shall I, like Curtius, desperate in my zeal, O'er head and ears plunge for the common weal?  Or rob Rome's ancient geese of all their glories,   And cackling save the monarchies of Tories?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54626]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Holy Saturday   If I ask to be delivered from trial rather than for deliverance out of it, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7930]]></link><description><![CDATA[Holy Saturday   If I ask to be delivered from trial rather than for deliverance out of it, to the praise of His glory; if I forget that the way of the Cross leads to the Cross and not to a bank of flowers; if I regulate my life on these lines, or even unconsciously my thinking, so that I am surprised when the way is rough and think it strange, "Think it not strange, Count it all joy," then I know nothing of Calvary love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is there chicken in chick peas? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is there chicken in chick peas?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36403</guid></item></channel></rss>