<?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[If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12228]]></link><description><![CDATA[If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You held out your hand, and I took it without stopping to make sense of what I was doing. For ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63143]]></link><description><![CDATA[You held out your hand, and I took it without stopping to make sense of what I was doing. For the first time in almost a century, I felt hope.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16597]]></link><description><![CDATA[Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36599]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other causes for prejudice by noon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquireit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21359]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquireit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One man thinks one thing best, another another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48861]]></link><description><![CDATA[One man thinks one thing best, another another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No well-informed person has declared a change of opinion to be inconstancy. [Lat., Nemo doctus unquam mutationem consilii inconstantiam dixit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9871]]></link><description><![CDATA[No well-informed person has declared a change of opinion to be inconstancy. [Lat., Nemo doctus unquam mutationem consilii inconstantiam dixit esse.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60163]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know you can't make that big play, get that turnover every time. We've got to do some basic things, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30521]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know you can't make that big play, get that turnover every time. We've got to do some basic things, some good, overall football things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since twelve honest men have decided the cause, And were judges of fact, tho' not judges of laws. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23512]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since twelve honest men have decided the cause, And were judges of fact, tho' not judges of laws.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught:  Our sweetest songs are those which tell of saddest thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught:  Our sweetest songs are those which tell of saddest thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't be afraid to fall flat on your face. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34241]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't be afraid to fall flat on your face.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fringed curtains of thine eye advance. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56092]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fringed curtains of thine eye advance. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Classical, Romantic, and Baroque music, that's what I really like. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37987]]></link><description><![CDATA[Classical, Romantic, and Baroque music, that's what I really like.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When every autumn people said it could not last through the winter, and when every spring there was still no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61141]]></link><description><![CDATA[When every autumn people said it could not last through the winter, and when every spring there was still no end in sight, only the hope that out of it all some good would accrue to mankind kept men and nations fighting. When at last it was over, the war had many diverse results and one dominant one transcending all others: disillusion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are invested in their treatment. They want to see it succeed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28675]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are invested in their treatment. They want to see it succeed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2593]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It beat us up a little bit to play at 95 degrees for three straight days. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37147]]></link><description><![CDATA[It beat us up a little bit to play at 95 degrees for three straight days.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25475]]></link><description><![CDATA[The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spritual writer, 1893   We feel that other churches must accept, as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7375]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spritual writer, 1893   We feel that other churches must accept, as the pre-conditions of fellowship, such changes as will bring them into conformity with ourselves in matters which we regard as essential, and that a failure to insist on this will involve compromise in regard to what is essential to the Church's being. But for precisely the same reason, we cannot admit a demand from others for any changes in ourselves which would seem to imply a denial that we already possess the esse of the Church.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40820]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is his own worst enemy. [Lat., Nihil inimicius quam sibi ipse.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is his own worst enemy. [Lat., Nihil inimicius quam sibi ipse.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I look at victory as milestones on a very long highway. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60606]]></link><description><![CDATA[I look at victory as milestones on a very long highway.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . all who joy would win Must share it.--Happiness was born a twin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18638]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . all who joy would win Must share it.--Happiness was born a twin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are raised on high that their fall may be the greater. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48908]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are raised on high that their fall may be the greater.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all the thirty-six alternatives, running away is best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5383]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all the thirty-six alternatives, running away is best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63842]]></link><description><![CDATA[All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be determined to handle any challenge in a way that will make you grow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65555]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be determined to handle any challenge in a way that will make you grow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14935]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The immortal could we cease to contemplate, The mortal part suggests its every trait.  God laid His fingers on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43176]]></link><description><![CDATA[The immortal could we cease to contemplate, The mortal part suggests its every trait.  God laid His fingers on the ivories   Of her pure members as on smoothed keys,    And there out-breathed her spirit's harmonies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I really haven't had much time for it to hit me hard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39752]]></link><description><![CDATA[I really haven't had much time for it to hit me hard.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52189]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is worst of all is to advocate Christianity, not because it is true, but because it might prove useful... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8416]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is worst of all is to advocate Christianity, not because it is true, but because it might prove useful... To justify Christianity because it provides a foundation of morality, instead of showing the necessity of Christian morality from the truth of Christianity, is a very dangerous inversion; and we may reflect that a good deal of the attention of totalitarian states has been devoted with a steadfastness of purpose not always found in democracies, to providing their national life with a foundation of morality -- the wrong kind, perhaps, but a good deal more of it. It is not enthusiasm, but dogma, that differentiates a Christian from a pagan society.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8416</guid></item><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[I think the entire state of Maryland and D.C. within the next two years will be smoke-free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39510]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the entire state of Maryland and D.C. within the next two years will be smoke-free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am at this moment thirty-seven years old. Since aged twelve I have been free the sum total of nine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36820]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am at this moment thirty-seven years old. Since aged twelve I have been free the sum total of nine and a half months.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15962]]></link><description><![CDATA[A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11364]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best actors do not let the wheels show. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/439]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best actors do not let the wheels show.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44317]]></link><description><![CDATA[Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavor, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eventually you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18900]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eventually you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1097]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven't grasped the situation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65043]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a better use of our resources to inform consumers what to do about fish than spending money and time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32907]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a better use of our resources to inform consumers what to do about fish than spending money and time testing more fish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only the suppressed word is dangerous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the suppressed word is dangerous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The privilege of absurdity, to which no living creature is subject but men only. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/210]]></link><description><![CDATA[The privilege of absurdity, to which no living creature is subject but men only.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abstinence makes the heart grow fonder for someone else ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/184]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abstinence makes the heart grow fonder for someone else]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Has death his fopperies? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16427]]></link><description><![CDATA[Has death his fopperies?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even the Germans did not succeed in doing the damage you propose to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19437]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even the Germans did not succeed in doing the damage you propose to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16464]]></link><description><![CDATA[Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16464</guid></item></channel></rss>