<?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[Oh! Duty is an icy shadow. It will freeze you. It cannot fill the heart's sanctuary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47345]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh! Duty is an icy shadow. It will freeze you. It cannot fill the heart's sanctuary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[View the whole scene, with critic judgment scan, And then deny him merit if you can.  Where he falls ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27381]]></link><description><![CDATA[View the whole scene, with critic judgment scan, And then deny him merit if you can.  Where he falls short, 'tis Nature's fault alone   Where he succeeds, the merit's all his own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since love and fear can hardly coexist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15517]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since love and fear can hardly coexist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone is a master and servant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone is a master and servant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44622]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And wrinkles, the d--d democrats, won't flatter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11864]]></link><description><![CDATA[And wrinkles, the d--d democrats, won't flatter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I look at Liv Tyler and think "It's not fair," because I can't find a flaw on her. And on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16207]]></link><description><![CDATA[I look at Liv Tyler and think "It's not fair," because I can't find a flaw on her. And on top of that she seems nice, so it's really not fair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56923]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more productive people are, the more governments can tax and confiscate. So the more productive people are, the more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17356]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more productive people are, the more governments can tax and confiscate. So the more productive people are, the more costly it is for governments to kill them. Evidence indicates that governments respond to this economic incentive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wish that men were as resolute as women ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53955]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wish that men were as resolute as women]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O God! that one might read the book of fate, And see the revolution of the times  Make mountains ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54142]]></link><description><![CDATA[O God! that one might read the book of fate, And see the revolution of the times  Make mountains level. and the continent,   Weary of solid firmness, melt itself    Into the sea!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is to teach those who have never gone hunting how to respect farming traditions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40121]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is to teach those who have never gone hunting how to respect farming traditions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59801]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No price is set on the lavish summer; June may be had by the poorest comer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23567]]></link><description><![CDATA[No price is set on the lavish summer; June may be had by the poorest comer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a mind all logic is like a knife blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25439]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a mind all logic is like a knife blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58057]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2008]]></link><description><![CDATA[In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I reminded them they are not alone, ... The churches in Chicago are praying for them and they are taking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39162]]></link><description><![CDATA[I reminded them they are not alone, ... The churches in Chicago are praying for them and they are taking up collections for them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Publicity is a great purifier because it sets in action the forces of public opinion, and in this country public ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52516]]></link><description><![CDATA[Publicity is a great purifier because it sets in action the forces of public opinion, and in this country public opinion controls the courses of the nation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was nice for the girls to come back like that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37867]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was nice for the girls to come back like that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And quick his colour went and came, As fear and rage alternate rose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51079]]></link><description><![CDATA[And quick his colour went and came, As fear and rage alternate rose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Harken to reason or shee will bee heard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Harken to reason or shee will bee heard.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep your goals away from the trolls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21472]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep your goals away from the trolls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22016]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It could have been broken, but luckily it turned out to only be a sprain. I got the boot off ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37108]]></link><description><![CDATA[It could have been broken, but luckily it turned out to only be a sprain. I got the boot off and I've been riding a bike, lifting and doing treatment to get stronger. I have no clue when I'll be back but hopefully within the next two weeks. I just need time, then I need to get back into shape.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When law can stop the blades of grass from growing as they grow; And when the leaves in Summer-time their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23038]]></link><description><![CDATA[When law can stop the blades of grass from growing as they grow; And when the leaves in Summer-time their colour dare not show;  Then will I change the colour too, I wear in my caubeen;   But till that day, plaze God, I'll stick to wearin' o' the Green.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will be correspondent to command. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51492]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will be correspondent to command.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man forget not, though in rags he lies, And know the mortal through a crown's disguise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26244]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man forget not, though in rags he lies, And know the mortal through a crown's disguise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Boniface (Wynfrith) of Crediton, Archbishop of Mainz, Apostle of Germany, Martyr, 754   There are... few stronger ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6392]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Boniface (Wynfrith) of Crediton, Archbishop of Mainz, Apostle of Germany, Martyr, 754   There are... few stronger indications of ignorance of the power and evil of sin than the confident assertion of our ability to resist and subdue it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66082]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Slanders are like flies, that pass all over a man's good parts to light on his sores. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Slanders are like flies, that pass all over a man's good parts to light on his sores.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cinderella's lefts and rights To Geraldine's were frights,  And I trow   The damsel, deftly shod,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cinderella's lefts and rights To Geraldine's were frights,  And I trow   The damsel, deftly shod,    Has dutifully trod     Until now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dictators are rulers who always look good until the last ten minutes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24448]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dictators are rulers who always look good until the last ten minutes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything is in the hands of God. We know that if God wants, sooner or later Ahmed will be released. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28520]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything is in the hands of God. We know that if God wants, sooner or later Ahmed will be released.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57051]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/351]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They do not abuse the king that flatter him. For flattery is the bellows blows up sin;  The thing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16174]]></link><description><![CDATA[They do not abuse the king that flatter him. For flattery is the bellows blows up sin;  The thing the which is flattered, but a spark   To which that blast gives heat and stronger glowing;    Whereas reproof, obedient and in order,     Fits kings as they are men, for they may err.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man can deny that Chief the Honourable M.A. Nanga, M.P. was the most approachable politician in the country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4620]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man can deny that Chief the Honourable M.A. Nanga, M.P. was the most approachable politician in the country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self-righteousness is a manifestation of self-contempt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52363]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self-righteousness is a manifestation of self-contempt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brigid, Abbess of Kildare, c.525  We can all call to mind movements which have begun as pure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brigid, Abbess of Kildare, c.525  We can all call to mind movements which have begun as pure upsurges of fresh spiritual vitality, breaking through and revolting against the hardened structure of the older body, and claiming, in the name of the Spirit, liberty from outward forms and institutions. And we have seen how rapidly they develop their own forms, their own structures of thought, of language, and of organisation. It would surely be a very unbiblical view of human nature and history to think -- as we so often, in our pagan way, do -- that this is just an example of the tendency of all things to slide down from a golden age to an age of iron, to identify the spiritual with the disembodied, and to regard visible structure as equivalent to sin. We must rather recognise here a testimony to the fact that Christianity is, in its very heart and essence, not a disembodied spirituality, but life in a visible fellowship, a life which makes such total claim upon us, and so engages our total powers, that nothing less than the closest and most binding association of men with one another can serve its purpose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't have a measure of abundance or population density of a single snake in Africa. We need that information ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35948]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't have a measure of abundance or population density of a single snake in Africa. We need that information to make well-founded decisions about how threatened species are and we don't have it... it's a big conservation need.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win,  By fearing to attempt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win,  By fearing to attempt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Private patients, if they do not like me, can go elsewhere; but the poor devils in the hospital I am ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Private patients, if they do not like me, can go elsewhere; but the poor devils in the hospital I am bound to take care of.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66079]]></link><description><![CDATA[May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a different election. It is so much more important than any other time because our safety is at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39599]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a different election. It is so much more important than any other time because our safety is at stake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.  His ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19727]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.  His cares must still be double to his joys,   In any dignity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here's to the maiden of bashful fifteen; Here's to the widow of fifty;  Here's to the flaunting, extravagant quean; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here's to the maiden of bashful fifteen; Here's to the widow of fifty;  Here's to the flaunting, extravagant quean;   And here's to the housewife that's thrifty.    (Chorus:) Let the toast pass,--     Drink to the lass,      I'll warrant she'll prove an excuse for the glass.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Work while your strength and years permit you; crooked age will by-and-by come upon you with silent foot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50814]]></link><description><![CDATA[Work while your strength and years permit you; crooked age will by-and-by come upon you with silent foot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man remembers what is right at the sign of profit, is ready to lay down his life in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55170]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man remembers what is right at the sign of profit, is ready to lay down his life in the face of danger, and does not forget sentiments he has repeated all his life when he has been in straitened circumstances for a long time, he may be said to be a complete man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That remains an open question. Some people might argue that it cannibalizes new book sales. Some argue that it spurs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37564]]></link><description><![CDATA[That remains an open question. Some people might argue that it cannibalizes new book sales. Some argue that it spurs new book sales by making more books available and by bringing them to new locations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37564</guid></item></channel></rss>