<?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[Men are still men. The despot's wickedness Comes of ill teaching, and of power's excess,--  Comes of the purple ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59967]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are still men. The despot's wickedness Comes of ill teaching, and of power's excess,--  Comes of the purple he from childhood wears,   Slaves would be tyrants if the chance were theirs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sectarianism is limitation. Some truth taught in Scripture, some part of the divine revelation, is apprehended, and the heart responds ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7762]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sectarianism is limitation. Some truth taught in Scripture, some part of the divine revelation, is apprehended, and the heart responds to it and accepts it. As it is dwelt upon, expounded, defended; its power and beauty increasingly influence those affected by it. Another side of truth, another view of revelation, also contained in Scripture, seems to weaken, even to contradict, the truth that has been found to be so effectual. and in jealous fear for the doctrine accepted and taught, the balancing truth is minimized, explained away, and even denied. So on a portion of revelation, on a part of the Word, a sect is founded, good and useful because it preaches and practices Divine truth, but limited and unbalanced because it does not see all truth, nor frankly accept the whole of Scripture. Its members are not only deprived of the full use of all Scripture, but are cut off from the fellowship of many saints, who are less limited than they, or limited in another direction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9593]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16311]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wounded gladiator forswears all fighting, but soon forgetting his former wound resumes his arms. [Lat., Saucius ejurat pugnam gladiator, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62365]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wounded gladiator forswears all fighting, but soon forgetting his former wound resumes his arms. [Lat., Saucius ejurat pugnam gladiator, et idem  Immemor antiqui vulneris arma capit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There have been heavy rains in the area and as a result many rivers and streams have flooded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34825]]></link><description><![CDATA[There have been heavy rains in the area and as a result many rivers and streams have flooded.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4995]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reticence is a great gift. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51019]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reticence is a great gift.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["It wasn't the wine," murmured Mr. Snodgrass in a broken voice, "it was the salmon." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61680]]></link><description><![CDATA["It wasn't the wine," murmured Mr. Snodgrass in a broken voice, "it was the salmon."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He knows how to take over a game. He's not only a point guard, he's a scorer. Either he's going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36542]]></link><description><![CDATA[He knows how to take over a game. He's not only a point guard, he's a scorer. Either he's going to score, or he's going to get it to someone else to score.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His purity was too great, his aspiration too high for this poor, miserable world! His great soul is now only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20203]]></link><description><![CDATA[His purity was too great, his aspiration too high for this poor, miserable world! His great soul is now only enjoying that for which it was worthy!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16985]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It shows a weak mind not to bear prosperity as well as adversity with moderation. [Lat., Ut adversas res, secundas ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48484]]></link><description><![CDATA[It shows a weak mind not to bear prosperity as well as adversity with moderation. [Lat., Ut adversas res, secundas immoderate ferre, levitatis est.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11184]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5927]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all feel responsible to listen to the other three, ... We go by consensus. If we all agree, we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42110]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all feel responsible to listen to the other three, ... We go by consensus. If we all agree, we know it's good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take -- choose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4476]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take -- choose the bolder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, A Death in the Family, Shorter Fiction ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36986]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, A Death in the Family, Shorter Fiction]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61454]]></link><description><![CDATA[This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had 50 firefighters on the ground and 17 fire trucks. We fought the fire for five hours. The third ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33810]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had 50 firefighters on the ground and 17 fire trucks. We fought the fire for five hours. The third floor suffered extensive fire damage and is a total loss.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Justice is the means by which established injustices are sanctioned ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23607]]></link><description><![CDATA[Justice is the means by which established injustices are sanctioned]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we are in competition with ourselves, and match our todays against our yesterdays, we derive encouragement from past misfortunes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15799]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we are in competition with ourselves, and match our todays against our yesterdays, we derive encouragement from past misfortunes and blemishes. Moreover, the competition with ourselves leaves unimpaired our benevolence toward our fellow men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Broadly speaking, I learned to recognize sin as the refusal to live up to the enlightenment we possess: to know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Broadly speaking, I learned to recognize sin as the refusal to live up to the enlightenment we possess: to know the right order of values and deliberately to choose the lower ones: to know that, however much these values may differ with different people at different stages of spiritual growth, for one's self there must be no compromise with that which one knows to be the lower value.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre are bandits who do not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46413]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre are bandits who do not deserve to live; before killing other good, decent fellows like himself, his gun would fall from his hands]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A truly great man never puts away the simplicity of a child. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56338]]></link><description><![CDATA[A truly great man never puts away the simplicity of a child.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The team never quit, and three team members played an exceptional game, all over the field. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35226]]></link><description><![CDATA[The team never quit, and three team members played an exceptional game, all over the field.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I, whenever I see thee, thirst, and holding the cup, apply it to my lips more for thy sake than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59408]]></link><description><![CDATA[I, whenever I see thee, thirst, and holding the cup, apply it to my lips more for thy sake than for drinking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, how you wrong our friendship, valiant youth. With friends there is not such a word as debt:  Where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16866]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, how you wrong our friendship, valiant youth. With friends there is not such a word as debt:  Where amity is ty'd with band of truth,   All benefits are there in common set.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the gods are dead-- Ay, Zeus is dead, and all the gods but Doubt,  And doubt is brother ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12755]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the gods are dead-- Ay, Zeus is dead, and all the gods but Doubt,  And doubt is brother devil to Despair!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You progress not through what has been done, but reaching towards what has yet to be done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23550]]></link><description><![CDATA[You progress not through what has been done, but reaching towards what has yet to be done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26889]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66816]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it's really only my own approval ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2973]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it's really only my own approval or disapproval that means anything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all The fools who flock'd to swell or see the show  Who car'd about the corpse? The funeral ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18215]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all The fools who flock'd to swell or see the show  Who car'd about the corpse? The funeral   Made the attraction, and the black the woe;    There throbb'd not there a thought which pierc'd the pall.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He fashioneth their hearts alike; he considereth all their works. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19037]]></link><description><![CDATA[He fashioneth their hearts alike; he considereth all their works.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4047]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not a combative person. My long experience has taught me to resolve conflict by raising the issues before I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44177]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not a combative person. My long experience has taught me to resolve conflict by raising the issues before I or others burn their boats.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hungry stomach rarely despises rough food. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50176]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hungry stomach rarely despises rough food.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fair play with others is primarily the practice of not blaming them for anything that is wrong with us. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47594]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fair play with others is primarily the practice of not blaming them for anything that is wrong with us. We tend to rub our guilty conscience against others the way we wipe dirty fingers on a rag. This is as evil a misuse of others as the practice of exploitation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God's in His Heaven-- All's right with the world! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48680]]></link><description><![CDATA[God's in His Heaven-- All's right with the world!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52683]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wear the old coat and buy the new book. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4642]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wear the old coat and buy the new book.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a really classic Northwest way to ring in the New Year, that's for sure. If the weather is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32519]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a really classic Northwest way to ring in the New Year, that's for sure. If the weather is good, it's going to be great.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You see, dear, it is not true that woman was made from man's rib; she was really made from his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61927]]></link><description><![CDATA[You see, dear, it is not true that woman was made from man's rib; she was really made from his funny bone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus we find that people who fail in everyday affairs show a tendency to reach out for the impossible. They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus we find that people who fail in everyday affairs show a tendency to reach out for the impossible. They become responsive to grandiose schemes, and will display unequaled steadfastness, formidable energies and a special fitness in the performance of tasks which would stump superior people. It seems paradoxical that defeat in dealing with the possible should embolden people to attempt the impossible, but a familiarity with the mentality of the weak reveals that what seems a path of daring is actually an easy way out: It is to escape the responsibility for failure that the weak so eagerly throw themselves into grandiose undertakings. For when we fail in attaining the impossible we are justified in attributing it to the magnitude of the task.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And plenty makes us poor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47881]]></link><description><![CDATA[And plenty makes us poor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna, Martyr, c.155  There can be no end without means; and God furnishes no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6439]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna, Martyr, c.155  There can be no end without means; and God furnishes no means that exempt us from the task and duty of joining our own best endeavors. The original stock, or wild olive tree, of our natural powers, was not given to us to be burnt or blighted, but to be grafted on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is like living in a wilderness of mirrors. No fact goes unchallenged. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64684]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is like living in a wilderness of mirrors. No fact goes unchallenged.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64684</guid></item></channel></rss>