<?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[We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2929]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This does not produce the kind of people who can speak their mind about issues. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29109]]></link><description><![CDATA[This does not produce the kind of people who can speak their mind about issues.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is well that war is so terrible--we shouldn't grow too fond of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61205]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is well that war is so terrible--we shouldn't grow too fond of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1908]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42899]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5226]]></link><description><![CDATA[History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The finishing stroke of all sorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50496]]></link><description><![CDATA[The finishing stroke of all sorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sad part about airports is it is hard to build a new one. They are almost an endangered species. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30288]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sad part about airports is it is hard to build a new one. They are almost an endangered species. We can't just close these things willy-nilly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't beat somebody with nobody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36855]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't beat somebody with nobody.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10717]]></link><description><![CDATA[Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Objectivity is a false god. We are human beings and we screw up or have flaws that are hidden from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39846]]></link><description><![CDATA[Objectivity is a false god. We are human beings and we screw up or have flaws that are hidden from us. But fairness and balance are possible. Not stereotyping people we write about is possible. We can be skeptical without being cynical,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Christ the Lord is risen to-day," Sons of men and angels say.  Raise your joys and triumphs high;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13153]]></link><description><![CDATA["Christ the Lord is risen to-day," Sons of men and angels say.  Raise your joys and triumphs high;   Sing, ye heavens, and earth reply.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They, the holy ones and weakly, Who the cross of suffering bore,  Folded their pale hands so meekly,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58203]]></link><description><![CDATA[They, the holy ones and weakly, Who the cross of suffering bore,  Folded their pale hands so meekly,   Spake with us on earth no more!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Innocent as a dove you will harm no one, but wise as a serpent no one will harm you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20975]]></link><description><![CDATA[Innocent as a dove you will harm no one, but wise as a serpent no one will harm you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come close to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20517]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come close to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear those words I say to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46284]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear those words I say to myself, "That man is a Red, that man is a Communist." You never heard a real American talk in that manner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He carries well, to whom it waighes not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49312]]></link><description><![CDATA[He carries well, to whom it waighes not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once you begin to believe there is help "out there," you will know it to be true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53693]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once you begin to believe there is help "out there," you will know it to be true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evangelical faith without Christian ethics is a travesty on the gospel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43126]]></link><description><![CDATA[Evangelical faith without Christian ethics is a travesty on the gospel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9055]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give me someone who has been picked by the Democratic Party, and then all of us can put our dollars ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30905]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give me someone who has been picked by the Democratic Party, and then all of us can put our dollars into that one race,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We knew Bentonville would be tough and that it would take those three girls' best efforts for us to win. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40307]]></link><description><![CDATA[We knew Bentonville would be tough and that it would take those three girls' best efforts for us to win. Before the match, we talked about how it was important to play each shot as if the championship depended on it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56115]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the act of a bad man to deceive by falsehood. [Lat., Improbi hominis est mendacio fallere.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11523]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the act of a bad man to deceive by falsehood. [Lat., Improbi hominis est mendacio fallere.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[President Bush has made this declaration so Tennessee can get back on their feet and go on with their lives ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38111]]></link><description><![CDATA[President Bush has made this declaration so Tennessee can get back on their feet and go on with their lives as quickly as possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We twain have met like the ships upon the sea, Who behold an hour's converse, so short, so sweet:  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26818]]></link><description><![CDATA[We twain have met like the ships upon the sea, Who behold an hour's converse, so short, so sweet:  One little hour! and then, away they speed   On lonely paths, through mist, and cloud, and foam,    To meet no more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hast thou not learn'd what thou art often told, A truth still sacred, and believed of old,  That no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hast thou not learn'd what thou art often told, A truth still sacred, and believed of old,  That no success attends on spears and swords   Unblest, and that the battle is the Lord's?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We lack a clear statement where the newspaper apologizes for the offense and stand by it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28522]]></link><description><![CDATA[We lack a clear statement where the newspaper apologizes for the offense and stand by it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Staying up all night is a waste of sleeping, and a waste of sleepingis a waste of dreaming, and dreaming ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22241]]></link><description><![CDATA[Staying up all night is a waste of sleeping, and a waste of sleepingis a waste of dreaming, and dreaming is important because the moredreams you have, the better chance of one coming true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even in the force and road of casualty. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 9. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55583]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even in the force and road of casualty. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 9.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are all easily taught to imitate what is base and depraved. [Lat., Dociles imitandis  Turpibus ac pravis omnes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20571]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are all easily taught to imitate what is base and depraved. [Lat., Dociles imitandis  Turpibus ac pravis omnes sumus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here he tells us that the new birth is first of all "not of blood". You don't get it through ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here he tells us that the new birth is first of all "not of blood". You don't get it through the blood stream, through heredity. Your parents can give you much, but they cannot give you this. Being born in a Christian home does not make you a Christian.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bartolomè de las Casas, Apostle to the Indies, 1566  God hath work to do in this world; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7417]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bartolomè de las Casas, Apostle to the Indies, 1566  God hath work to do in this world; and to desert it because of its difficulties and entanglements, is to cast off His authority. It is not enough that we be just, that we be righteous, and walk with God in holiness; but we must also serve our generation, as David did before he fell asleep. God hath a work to do; and not to help Him is to oppose Him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25991]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sublime and ridiculous are often so nearly related that it is difficult to class them separately. One step below ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54220]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sublime and ridiculous are often so nearly related that it is difficult to class them separately. One step below the sublime makes the ridiculous and one step above the ridiculous makes the sublime again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Avarice, envy, pride. Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of all on Fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Avarice, envy, pride. Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of all on Fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25227</guid></item><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[God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8464]]></link><description><![CDATA[God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My children are the reason I laugh, smile and want to get up every morning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65873]]></link><description><![CDATA[My children are the reason I laugh, smile and want to get up every morning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not that life is so short, it's just that you're dead for so long. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11433]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not that life is so short, it's just that you're dead for so long.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We realized we were impacting these families more than we needed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39774]]></link><description><![CDATA[We realized we were impacting these families more than we needed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas! regardless of their doom, The little victims play;  No sense have they of ills to come,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5911]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas! regardless of their doom, The little victims play;  No sense have they of ills to come,   Nor care beyond to-day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1409]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The face of a child can say it all, especially the mouth part of the face. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11782]]></link><description><![CDATA[The face of a child can say it all, especially the mouth part of the face.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even one year is still excessive. In most employment contracts, trial periods are from one to six months. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35684]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even one year is still excessive. In most employment contracts, trial periods are from one to six months.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aim at heaven and you get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Aim at heaven and you get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22890]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's really very simple, Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20140]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's really very simple, Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what you need and how you're going to get it to these people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2140</guid></item></channel></rss>