<?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[Press bravely onward!--not in vain Your generous trust in human kind;  The good which bloodshed could not gain  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62638]]></link><description><![CDATA[Press bravely onward!--not in vain Your generous trust in human kind;  The good which bloodshed could not gain   Your peaceful zeal shall find.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence on the public mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3516]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence on the public mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44102]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3606]]></link><description><![CDATA[A loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man was predestined to have free will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man was predestined to have free will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imitation is the sincerest of flattery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16159]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who finds the partridge in the puttock's nest But may imagine how the bird was dead,  Although the kite ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45583]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who finds the partridge in the puttock's nest But may imagine how the bird was dead,  Although the kite soar with unbloodied beak?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The inertia of the human mind and its resistance to innovation are most clearly demonstrated not, as one might expect, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52021]]></link><description><![CDATA[The inertia of the human mind and its resistance to innovation are most clearly demonstrated not, as one might expect, by the ignorant mass- which is easily swayed once its imagination is caught- but by professionals with a vested interest in tradition and in the monopoly of learning. Innovation is a twofold threat to academic mediocrities: it endangers their oracular authority, and it evokes the deeper fear that their whole, laboriously constructed intellectual edifice might collapse. The academic backwoodsmen have been the curse of genius from Aristarchus to Darwin and Freud; they stretch, a solid and hostile phalanx of pedantic mediocrities, across the centuries.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I still claim that Great Falls is the biggest league community in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38526]]></link><description><![CDATA[I still claim that Great Falls is the biggest league community in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has changed things. It takes more time to get ready to go somewhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40769]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has changed things. It takes more time to get ready to go somewhere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It used to be significantly less to go across the river (to Clark County), and that is not the case ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30622]]></link><description><![CDATA[It used to be significantly less to go across the river (to Clark County), and that is not the case anymore. It is quite obvious that the greater metropolitan area has started to equalize.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Other things may change us, but we start and end with family. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27252]]></link><description><![CDATA[Other things may change us, but we start and end with family.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't feel I made any sacrifices at all. I'm doing my best to juggle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28166]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't feel I made any sacrifices at all. I'm doing my best to juggle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54860]]></link><description><![CDATA[The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Christian should participate in social and political efforts in order to have an influence in the work, not with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8301]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Christian should participate in social and political efforts in order to have an influence in the work, not with the hope of making a paradise (of the earth), but simply to make it more tolerable -- not to diminish the opposition between this world and the Kingdom of God, but simply to modify the opposition between the disorder of this world and the order of preservation that God wants it to have -- not to bring in the Kingdom of God, but so that the Gospel might be proclaimed in order that all men might truly hear the good news.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one way to console a widow. But remember the risk. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61560]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one way to console a widow. But remember the risk.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh man. That picture was so beautiful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh man. That picture was so beautiful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65236]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.-. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2075]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.-.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16459]]></link><description><![CDATA[The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art for art's sake. [Lat., Ars gratia artis.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3175]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art for art's sake. [Lat., Ars gratia artis.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That in our proper motion we ascend Up to our native seat; descent and fall  To give us is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48373]]></link><description><![CDATA[That in our proper motion we ascend Up to our native seat; descent and fall  To give us is adverse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're certainly aiming for that but it's hard to crystal-ball it. At the moment it's very encouraging because he's not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34712]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're certainly aiming for that but it's hard to crystal-ball it. At the moment it's very encouraging because he's not feeling much [pain] at all in everyday activities, which he did before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The soul of man is larger than the sky, Deeper than ocean, or the abysmal dark  Of the unfathomed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57283]]></link><description><![CDATA[The soul of man is larger than the sky, Deeper than ocean, or the abysmal dark  Of the unfathomed centre.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that dines and leaves, layes the cloth twice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that dines and leaves, layes the cloth twice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The landscape should belong to the people who see it all the time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43907]]></link><description><![CDATA[The landscape should belong to the people who see it all the time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14380]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The builders have no right to construct any building without the approval of the layout plans by the authorities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28538]]></link><description><![CDATA[The builders have no right to construct any building without the approval of the layout plans by the authorities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay "in kind" somewhere else in life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18171]]></link><description><![CDATA[One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay "in kind" somewhere else in life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man can not be "friends with" God on any other terms than complete obedience to Him, and that includes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7618]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man can not be "friends with" God on any other terms than complete obedience to Him, and that includes being "friends with" his fellow man. Christ stated emphatically that it was quite impossible, in the nature of things, for a man to be at peace with God and at variance with his neighbor. This disquieting fact is often hushed up, but it is undeniable that Christ said it, and the truth of it is enshrined in the petition for forgiveness in the "Lord's Prayer.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The language I have learnt these forty years, My native English, now I must forgo;  And now my tongue's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59490]]></link><description><![CDATA[The language I have learnt these forty years, My native English, now I must forgo;  And now my tongue's use is to me no more   Than an unstringed viol or a harp,    Or like a cunning instrument cased up     Or, being open, put into his hands      That knows no touch to tune the harmony.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that doth what hee will, doth not what he ought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49443]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that doth what hee will, doth not what he ought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet discourse makes short daies and nights. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49773]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet discourse makes short daies and nights.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know who critics are?--the men who have failed in literature and art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10742]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know who critics are?--the men who have failed in literature and art.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men who ape the saint and play the sinner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50468]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men who ape the saint and play the sinner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He (Thomas Hobbes) walked much and contemplated, and he had in the head of his staff a pen and ink-horn, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38822]]></link><description><![CDATA[He (Thomas Hobbes) walked much and contemplated, and he had in the head of his staff a pen and ink-horn, carried always a notebook in his pocket, and as soon as a thought darted, he presently entered it into his book, or otherwise he might perhaps ha]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should remember that saying 'I love you' is only a beginning. We need to say it, we need to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66473]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should remember that saying 'I love you' is only a beginning. We need to say it, we need to mean it, and most importantly we need consistently to show it. We need to both express and demonstrate love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just as the felon condemn'd to die-- With a very natural loathing--  Leaving the sheriff to dream of ropes, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50161]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just as the felon condemn'd to die-- With a very natural loathing--  Leaving the sheriff to dream of ropes,   From his gloomy cell in a vision elopes,    To caper on sunny greens and slopes,     Instead of the dance upon nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It doesn't get any easier. It will be tough to repeat what we did today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39253]]></link><description><![CDATA[It doesn't get any easier. It will be tough to repeat what we did today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Christian Mission is thus anchored in dogma, is a result of what ordinary Christians believe. It is God's plan, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6612]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Christian Mission is thus anchored in dogma, is a result of what ordinary Christians believe. It is God's plan, God's activity; but because God became man and took up manhood into Himself, it is God's will embodied in active obedience on the part of the Christian individual, the Christian group within the Church, and the Christian Church as a whole -- we are all involved in it, all of us, in our various callings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People perceive the campaign to be close, so that should stimulate people to vote. And the media environment is unbelievable, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36489]]></link><description><![CDATA[People perceive the campaign to be close, so that should stimulate people to vote. And the media environment is unbelievable, in terms of focusing on the campaign.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60410]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity- but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe, with the addition of those additional Iraqi forces, with the gelling of the Iraqi chain of command, with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38362]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe, with the addition of those additional Iraqi forces, with the gelling of the Iraqi chain of command, with good leadership by Prime Minister Allawi and his ministers, that the elections will be able to be held,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a double beauty whenever a swan Swims on a lake with her double thereon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58453]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a double beauty whenever a swan Swims on a lake with her double thereon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After the house is finisht, leave it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49093]]></link><description><![CDATA[After the house is finisht, leave it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like I said earlier, the movie is metaphorical for the world. Today we're seeing so many instances of monumental duplicity, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like I said earlier, the movie is metaphorical for the world. Today we're seeing so many instances of monumental duplicity, ... I think that's the task, in a way, to show what an architect of duplicity this character is, in his simplicity, forthrightness and morality. It's a strange and wonderful study of how far a horrible lie can be taken in terms of a character.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all carry within us our places of exile, our crimes, and our ravages. But our task is not to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15062]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all carry within us our places of exile, our crimes, and our ravages. But our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to fight them in ourselves and in others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15062</guid></item></channel></rss>