<?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[Jesus died to forgive our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5296]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jesus died to forgive our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20784]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You need to know how to ask the right questions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33171]]></link><description><![CDATA[You need to know how to ask the right questions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing safe in religion, except in such a course of behaviour that leaves nothing for corrupt nature to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7008]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing safe in religion, except in such a course of behaviour that leaves nothing for corrupt nature to feed or live upon; which can only then be done when every degree of perfection we aim at is a degree of death to the passions of the natural man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it were not for hopes, the heart would break. He who has health has hope; and he who has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19812]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it were not for hopes, the heart would break. He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything. -Thomas Fuller.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The desire of businessmen for profits is what drives prices down unless forcibly prevented from engaging in price competition, usually ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15794]]></link><description><![CDATA[The desire of businessmen for profits is what drives prices down unless forcibly prevented from engaging in price competition, usually by governmental activity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And with unwearied fingers drawing out The lines of life, from living knowledge hid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58025]]></link><description><![CDATA[And with unwearied fingers drawing out The lines of life, from living knowledge hid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feedback is a pleasant thing. I get a lot of letters from unexpected people in unexpected places. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30582]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feedback is a pleasant thing. I get a lot of letters from unexpected people in unexpected places.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61075]]></link><description><![CDATA[The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25513]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A ball will always come to rest halfway down a hill, unless there is sand or water at the bottom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17813]]></link><description><![CDATA[A ball will always come to rest halfway down a hill, unless there is sand or water at the bottom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Slow let us trace the matchless vale of Thames; Fair winding up to where the Muses haunt  In Twit'nham ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Slow let us trace the matchless vale of Thames; Fair winding up to where the Muses haunt  In Twit'nham bowers, and for their Pope implore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hippies had in mind something that they wanted, and were calling it "freedom," but in the final analysis "freedom" ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19291]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hippies had in mind something that they wanted, and were calling it "freedom," but in the final analysis "freedom" is a purely negative goal. It just says something is bad. Hippies weren't really offering any alternatives other than colorful short-term ones, and some of these were looking more and more like pure degeneracy. Degeneracy can be fun but it's hard to keep up as a serious lifetime occupation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet May hath come to love us, Flowers, trees, their blossoms don;  And through the blue heavens above us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26610]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet May hath come to love us, Flowers, trees, their blossoms don;  And through the blue heavens above us   The very clouds move on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When an occasion of practicing some virtue offered, he addressed himself to God, saying, "Lord, I cannot do this unless ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6626]]></link><description><![CDATA[When an occasion of practicing some virtue offered, he addressed himself to God, saying, "Lord, I cannot do this unless Thou enablest me"; and... then he received strength more than sufficient. When he had failed in his duty, he simply confessed his fault, saying to God, "I shall never do otherwise if Thou leavest me to myself; it is Thou who must hinder my falling, and mend what is amiss." After this, he gave himself no further uneasiness about it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The object of art is to crystallize emotion into thought and then give it form. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44300]]></link><description><![CDATA[The object of art is to crystallize emotion into thought and then give it form.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two modes of acquiring knowledge, namely by reasoning and experience. Reasoning draws a conclusion and makes us grant ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52153]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two modes of acquiring knowledge, namely by reasoning and experience. Reasoning draws a conclusion and makes us grant the conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, nor does it remove doubt so that the mind may rest on the intuition of truth, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A simple rule, to be followed whether one is in the light or not, gives backbone to one's spiritual life, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6425]]></link><description><![CDATA[A simple rule, to be followed whether one is in the light or not, gives backbone to one's spiritual life, as nothing else can.  ... Evelyn Underhill November 30, 1996 Andrew the Apostle  With his continual doctrine [Bishop Hooper] adjoined due and discreet correction, not so much severe to any as to them which for abundance of riches and wealthy state thought they might do what they listed. And doubtless he spared no kind of people, but was indifferent to all men, as well rich as poor, to the great shame of no small number of men nowadays. Whereas many we see so addicted to the pleasing of great and rich men, that in the meantime they have no regard to the meaner sort of poor people, whom Christ hath bought as dearly as the other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christmas Eve Christmas Eve, and twelve of the clock. "Now they are all on their knees," An elder said as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christmas Eve Christmas Eve, and twelve of the clock. "Now they are all on their knees," An elder said as we sat in a flock By the embers in herath side ease. We pictured the meek mild creatures where They dwelt in their strawy pen, Nor did it occur to one of us there To doubt they were kneeling then. So fair a fancy few would weave In these years! yet, I feel If someone said on Christmas Eve, "Come; see the oxen kneel, In the lonely barton by yonder coomb Our childhood used to know," I should go with him in the gloom, Hoping it might be so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet shall you have to rectify your palate, An olive, capers, or some better salad  Ushering the mutton; with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet shall you have to rectify your palate, An olive, capers, or some better salad  Ushering the mutton; with a short-legged hen,   If we can get her, full of eggs, and then,    Limons, and wine for sauce: to these a coney     Is not to be despaired of for our money;      And though fowl now be scarce, yet there are clerks,       The sky not falling, think we may have larks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63724]]></link><description><![CDATA[All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble is not that players have sex the night before a game. It's that they stay out all night ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57685]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble is not that players have sex the night before a game. It's that they stay out all night looking for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47298]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rabble estimate few things according to their real value, most things according to their prejudices. [Lat., Vulgus ex veritate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52459]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rabble estimate few things according to their real value, most things according to their prejudices. [Lat., Vulgus ex veritate pauca, ex opinione multa aestimat.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience is the art of concealing your impatience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wish he had started a dialogue with scientists before going public with his theories, ... There is some evidence, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37041]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wish he had started a dialogue with scientists before going public with his theories, ... There is some evidence, under the current administration, that it is 'policy first, science second.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Understanding Religion is kind of like understanding a manual in German. I know it's important and I really need to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36914]]></link><description><![CDATA[Understanding Religion is kind of like understanding a manual in German. I know it's important and I really need to figure it out, but it's just not happening!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22728]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To understand the world one must not be worrying about one's self. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62215]]></link><description><![CDATA[To understand the world one must not be worrying about one's self.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weep no more, nor sigh, nor groan, Sorrow calls no time that's gone:  Violets plucked the sweetest rain  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58797]]></link><description><![CDATA[Weep no more, nor sigh, nor groan, Sorrow calls no time that's gone:  Violets plucked the sweetest rain   Makes not fresh nor grow again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a good effort by everyone. We're not the best team in the league, obviously, but we hung pretty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30667]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a good effort by everyone. We're not the best team in the league, obviously, but we hung pretty good. They just hung longer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart and soul of the question is whether they can charge us impact fees. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33439]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart and soul of the question is whether they can charge us impact fees.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our charity begins at home, And mostly ends where it begins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5712]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our charity begins at home, And mostly ends where it begins.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet,  Which once inflam'd my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet,  Which once inflam'd my soul, and still inspires my wit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think Brittany pitched a really good game. They had a couple good hitters. We know [Powell] is a good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34155]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think Brittany pitched a really good game. They had a couple good hitters. We know [Powell] is a good hitter. The first one I thought Emily might have a shot at, but the second one was a no-doubter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, don't put up with those who are reckless with yours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19013]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, don't put up with those who are reckless with yours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wicked acts are accustomed to be done with impunity for the mere desire of occupation. [Lat., Solent occupationis spe vel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14286]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wicked acts are accustomed to be done with impunity for the mere desire of occupation. [Lat., Solent occupationis spe vel impune quaedam scelesta committi.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I had to baptize a Jew, I would take him to the bridge of the Elbe, hang a stone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23454]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I had to baptize a Jew, I would take him to the bridge of the Elbe, hang a stone around his neck and push him over with the words "I baptize thee in the name of Abraham"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Delay is hateful, but it gives wisdom ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Delay is hateful, but it gives wisdom]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The burning of an author's books, imprisonment for opinion's sake, has always been the tribute that an ignorant age pays ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39158]]></link><description><![CDATA[The burning of an author's books, imprisonment for opinion's sake, has always been the tribute that an ignorant age pays to the genius of its time]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18690]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better a broken promise than none at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better a broken promise than none at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With the power of conviction, there is no sacrifice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53688]]></link><description><![CDATA[With the power of conviction, there is no sacrifice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good Margaret, run thee to the parlor. There shalt thou find my cousin Beatrice  Proposing with the Prince and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19694]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good Margaret, run thee to the parlor. There shalt thou find my cousin Beatrice  Proposing with the Prince and Claudio.   Whisper her ear and tell her, I and Ursley    Walk in the orchard, and our whole discourse     Is all of her. Say that thou overheard'st us;      And bid her steal into the pleached bower,       Where honeysuckles, ripened by the sun,        Forbid the sun to enter--like favorites,         Made proud by princes, that advance their pride          Against that power that bred it. There will she hide her           To listen our propose. This is thy office.            Bear thee well in it and leave us alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nate senses when we're in danger. He had some big drives and foul shots down the stretch and really takes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35472]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nate senses when we're in danger. He had some big drives and foul shots down the stretch and really takes it over.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pedantry consists in the use of words unsuitable to the time, place, and company. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23998]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pedantry consists in the use of words unsuitable to the time, place, and company.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61849]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wars begin in the minds of man, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9182]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wars begin in the minds of man, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9182</guid></item></channel></rss>