<?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[Feast of Cuthbert, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 687  The desire for certitude is natural enough and explains the human ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7701]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Cuthbert, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 687  The desire for certitude is natural enough and explains the human tendency to mistake faith for certainty. This is not a specially religious mistake. We think of supernaturalism when faith is mentioned, but the naturalistic description of the world also operates on assumptions that require a faith as robust as does the most soaring mysticism. The usual efforts to skirt faith beg all the questions there are. A psychiatrist, for instance, who points out to you that you believe in God the Father because you need a father, or that you became a missionary to expiate your guilt feelings, may be quite correct, but he has not touched on the prior question as to whether there is, in fact, a cosmic father figure who is the archetype of all other fathers, or whether there is an evangel worth spending your life promulgating.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This was our first time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38819]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was our first time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right -- shame on you! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56148]]></link><description><![CDATA[I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right -- shame on you!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37517]]></link><description><![CDATA[Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Naming & Circumcision of Jesus Why does He make our hearts so strangely still,  Why stands ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7772]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Naming & Circumcision of Jesus Why does He make our hearts so strangely still,  Why stands He forth so stately and so tall? Because He has no self to serve, no will  That does not seek the welfare of the All.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would I'd never leave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10915]]></link><description><![CDATA[Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would I'd never leave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patrons from around the world have always been gearing together for benefits--it's the serendipity effect, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32943]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patrons from around the world have always been gearing together for benefits--it's the serendipity effect,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's just been one of those years when so many dreams have come true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39714]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's just been one of those years when so many dreams have come true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gallantry of mind consists in saying flattering things in an agreeable manner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gallantry of mind consists in saying flattering things in an agreeable manner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weather impacts business across every segment, and this is the most innovative way to hedge that risk. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28505]]></link><description><![CDATA[Weather impacts business across every segment, and this is the most innovative way to hedge that risk.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only the stupidest calves choose their own butcher. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the stupidest calves choose their own butcher.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread,  And having once turned round, walks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15505]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread,  And having once turned round, walks on,   And turns no more his head;    Because he knows a frightful fiend     Doth close behind him tread.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45133]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, either side could win it, or it could be a draw. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57654]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, either side could win it, or it could be a draw.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Government is not the doctor. It is the disease. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17960]]></link><description><![CDATA[Government is not the doctor. It is the disease.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our native land charms us with inexpressible sweetness, and never never allows us to forget that we belong to it. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our native land charms us with inexpressible sweetness, and never never allows us to forget that we belong to it. [Lat., Nescio qua natale solum dulcedine captos  Ducit, et immemores non sinit esse sui.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Englishman thinks seated; a Frenchman, standing; an American, pacing; an irishman, afterward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59178]]></link><description><![CDATA[An Englishman thinks seated; a Frenchman, standing; an American, pacing; an irishman, afterward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not only is there no God, but trying getting a plumber on weekends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57098]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not only is there no God, but trying getting a plumber on weekends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some dreams we have are nothing else but dreams, Unnatural and full of contradictions;  Yet others of our most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12876]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some dreams we have are nothing else but dreams, Unnatural and full of contradictions;  Yet others of our most romantic schemes   Are something more than fictions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where it concerns himself, Who's angry at a slander, makes it true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where it concerns himself, Who's angry at a slander, makes it true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reasons of the poore weigh not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49905]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reasons of the poore weigh not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was fortunate to get something out over the plate that I could hit out of the park, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35256]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was fortunate to get something out over the plate that I could hit out of the park,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marxists are people whose insides are torn up day after day because they want to rule the world and no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marxists are people whose insides are torn up day after day because they want to rule the world and no one will even publish their letter to the editor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we call evil is simply ignorance bumping its head in the dark. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14308]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we call evil is simply ignorance bumping its head in the dark.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52169]]></link><description><![CDATA[All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all around him, will never have any other than an existence of mediocrity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To execute laws is a royal office; to execute orders is not to be a king. However, a political executive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52502]]></link><description><![CDATA[To execute laws is a royal office; to execute orders is not to be a king. However, a political executive magistracy, though merely such, is a great trust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst thing is always thinking of titles for records, with some reason behind them, and she just came out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34513]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst thing is always thinking of titles for records, with some reason behind them, and she just came out with the word, which she thought was a good word, a hard word, and since then we've sort of attached loads of meaning to it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will be content to begin ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14570]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes! -As You Like It. Act v. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55691]]></link><description><![CDATA[How bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes! -As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hope of escaping with impunity is the greatest incentive to vice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48877]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hope of escaping with impunity is the greatest incentive to vice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aggravate your choler. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act ii. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55927]]></link><description><![CDATA[Aggravate your choler. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is only going to continue. The FCC says there are 530 national satellite-deliverable cable networks. A year ago there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30412]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is only going to continue. The FCC says there are 530 national satellite-deliverable cable networks. A year ago there were 188.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The old Irish when immersing a babe at baptism left out the right arm so that it would remain pagan ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3602]]></link><description><![CDATA[The old Irish when immersing a babe at baptism left out the right arm so that it would remain pagan for good fighting]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'll come back next week, see if we can lower our scores. We need to have them all have low ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30421]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'll come back next week, see if we can lower our scores. We need to have them all have low scores on the same day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man always has two reasons for doing anything--a good reason and the real reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53133]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man always has two reasons for doing anything--a good reason and the real reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great Creator to revereMust sure become the creature;But still the preaching cant forbear,And ev'n the rigid feature:Yet ne'er with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25299]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great Creator to revereMust sure become the creature;But still the preaching cant forbear,And ev'n the rigid feature:Yet ne'er with wits profane to rangeBe complaisance extended;An atheist laugh's a poor exchangeFor deity offended. - Epistle to a Young Friend, An.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24461]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had seen the great, but I had not seen the small. [Fr., J'avais vu les grands, mais je n'avais ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5503]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had seen the great, but I had not seen the small. [Fr., J'avais vu les grands, mais je n'avais pas vu les petits.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34302]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The state is the great fiction by which everybody tries to live at the expense of everybody else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47142]]></link><description><![CDATA[The state is the great fiction by which everybody tries to live at the expense of everybody else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't wait for the last judgment - it takes place every day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't wait for the last judgment - it takes place every day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus when a barber and collier fight, The barber beats the luckless collier--white;  The dusty collier heaves his ponderous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus when a barber and collier fight, The barber beats the luckless collier--white;  The dusty collier heaves his ponderous sack,   And, big with vengeance, beats the barber--black.    In comes the brick-dust man, with grime o'er spread,     And beats the collier and the barber--red;      Black, red, and white, in various clouds are toss'd,       And in the dust they raise the combatants are lost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fire is next akin to smoke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50858]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fire is next akin to smoke.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accursed; Man is more than Constitutions; better rot beneath the sod,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59648]]></link><description><![CDATA[The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accursed; Man is more than Constitutions; better rot beneath the sod,  Than be true to Church and State while we are doubly false to God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why do the Yankees always win? The other team can't stop looking at the pinstripes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35012]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why do the Yankees always win? The other team can't stop looking at the pinstripes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sacrificing your happiness for the happiness of the one you love, is by far, the truest type of love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54597]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sacrificing your happiness for the happiness of the one you love, is by far, the truest type of love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An uncalled-for defence becomes a positive accusation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50547]]></link><description><![CDATA[An uncalled-for defence becomes a positive accusation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50547</guid></item></channel></rss>