<?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[Irony is the hygiene of the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20208]]></link><description><![CDATA[Irony is the hygiene of the mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14582]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23669]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When in reading we meet with any maxim that may be of use, we should take it for our own, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26594]]></link><description><![CDATA[When in reading we meet with any maxim that may be of use, we should take it for our own, and make an immediate application of it, as we would of the advice of a friend whom we have purposely consulted]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63615]]></link><description><![CDATA[Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now between '45 and '48, things would change enormously, 'cos we'd had credit in United States, credit from the Bank ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now between '45 and '48, things would change enormously, 'cos we'd had credit in United States, credit from the Bank of America, credit from the Import-Export Bank and people had started working again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature drawes more then ten teemes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49638]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature drawes more then ten teemes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As you sit on the hillside, or lie prone under the trees of the forest, or sprawl wet-legged by a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43869]]></link><description><![CDATA[As you sit on the hillside, or lie prone under the trees of the forest, or sprawl wet-legged by a mountain stream, the great door, that does not look like a door, opens.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone. -Coco Chanel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4034]]></link><description><![CDATA[How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone. -Coco Chanel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibility for ourselves and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10644]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibility for ourselves and an over-indulgence to our own desires]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The massive gates of circumstance Are turned upon the smallest hinge,  And thus some seeming pettiest chance   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8699]]></link><description><![CDATA[The massive gates of circumstance Are turned upon the smallest hinge,  And thus some seeming pettiest chance   Oft gives our life its after-tinge.    The trifles of our daily lives,     The common things, scarce worth recall,      Whereof no visible trace survives,       These are the mainsprings after all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17427]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the house of a Fidler, all fiddle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49545]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the house of a Fidler, all fiddle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some write their wrongs in marble: he more just, Stoop'd down serene and wrote them on the dust,  Trod ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44764]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some write their wrongs in marble: he more just, Stoop'd down serene and wrote them on the dust,  Trod under foot, the sport of every wind,   Swept from the earth and blotted from his mind,    There, secret in the grave, he bade them lie,     And grieved they could not 'scape the Almighty eye.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sidney Crosby is going to play where Sidney Crosby and his agent decide he's going to play. Any player who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32825]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sidney Crosby is going to play where Sidney Crosby and his agent decide he's going to play. Any player who has reached the age of 18 by Sept. 15 is eligible to play in our league if he is appropriately under contract.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1294]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3824]]></link><description><![CDATA[By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27681]]></link><description><![CDATA[A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our Adversary majors in three things: noise, hurry and crowds. If he can keep us engaged in "muchness" and "manyness," ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6724]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our Adversary majors in three things: noise, hurry and crowds. If he can keep us engaged in "muchness" and "manyness," he will rest satisfied.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zeal without knowledge is the sister of folly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/943]]></link><description><![CDATA[Zeal without knowledge is the sister of folly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58914]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you have spoken the word, it reigns over you. When it is unspoken you reign over it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57364]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you have spoken the word, it reigns over you. When it is unspoken you reign over it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blessed are the ears that hear the pulse of the divine whisperer, and give no heed to the many whisperings ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blessed are the ears that hear the pulse of the divine whisperer, and give no heed to the many whisperings of the world]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends up blocking his retreat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27052]]></link><description><![CDATA[Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends up blocking his retreat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46887]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we are honest, we freely admit that the Christian system involves difficulties; but so does every other system. No ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8363]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we are honest, we freely admit that the Christian system involves difficulties; but so does every other system. No thoughtful person gives up a position merely because he finds difficulties in it; he does not abandon it until he is able to find other and alternative systems with fewer difficulties... I learned from my professors of philosophy... that, while philosophy might not provide me with a watertight intellectual defense of the Christian faith, it would, if used aright, help me to reveal the weakness of its enemies. By careful analysis it is possible to see that there are glaring weaknesses and non-sequiturs in atheism, naturalism, positivism, scientism, and psychologism. The Christian must be a fighter, for he is always under attack. The Church will not be as strong as it ought to be until each local pastor uses his precious freedom from outside employment in order to become a scholarly participant in the intellectual struggle of our day and generation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The diamond's virtues well might grace The epigram, and both excel  In brilliancy in smallest space,   And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14057]]></link><description><![CDATA[The diamond's virtues well might grace The epigram, and both excel  In brilliancy in smallest space,   And power to cut as well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're beginning to come out of a recession. It's now a matter of just how meaningfully the economy can recover ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28654]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're beginning to come out of a recession. It's now a matter of just how meaningfully the economy can recover over the next quarter or two,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Must we then have strange music... unlike the world's music, and a special language with an imagery that illuminates the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Must we then have strange music... unlike the world's music, and a special language with an imagery that illuminates the minds only of the religious? Or dare we do what our Lord did, and see the Name hallowed in all life that is real and honest and good? Indeed, it was a scandal to the religious men of Jesus' day when they saw what He did with sacred things. With Jesus all life was sacred and nothing was profane until sin entered in. And so it was that the word "common," which used to mean profane and unclean, became the New-Testament word for the Communion of Saints and for the fellowship of the Holy Spirit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When God throws the dice are loaded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26029]]></link><description><![CDATA[When God throws the dice are loaded.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kindness is the beginning of cruelty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63498]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't run around a guy that's 355 pounds. There's no key to getting around 'Mean' Max. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36932]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't run around a guy that's 355 pounds. There's no key to getting around 'Mean' Max.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more you take responsibility for your past and present, the more you are able to create the future you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63177]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more you take responsibility for your past and present, the more you are able to create the future you seek.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mankind's struggle upwards, in which millions are trampled to death, that thousands may mount on their bodies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8828]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mankind's struggle upwards, in which millions are trampled to death, that thousands may mount on their bodies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11650]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8231]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43571]]></link><description><![CDATA[All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Businesses are successful because someone makes the sacrifices others are unwilling to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5052]]></link><description><![CDATA[Businesses are successful because someone makes the sacrifices others are unwilling to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exploitation and oppression is not a matter of race. It is the system, the apparatus of world-wide brigandage called imperialism, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14752]]></link><description><![CDATA[Exploitation and oppression is not a matter of race. It is the system, the apparatus of world-wide brigandage called imperialism, which made the Powers behave the way they did.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will chide no breather in the world but myself, against whom I know most faults. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15466]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will chide no breather in the world but myself, against whom I know most faults.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take heede of an oxe before, of an horse behind, of a monke on all sides. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49782]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take heede of an oxe before, of an horse behind, of a monke on all sides.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are three waies, the Vniversities, the Sea, the Court. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49948]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are three waies, the Vniversities, the Sea, the Court.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63792]]></link><description><![CDATA[Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45640]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pittifull looke askes enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49067]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pittifull looke askes enough.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that burnes most shines most. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49325]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that burnes most shines most.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Telling the future by looking at the past assumes that conditions remain constant. This is like driving a car by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17126]]></link><description><![CDATA[Telling the future by looking at the past assumes that conditions remain constant. This is like driving a car by looking in the rearview mirror.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Jesus'] life and utterance were the proclamation of this new order of things, of this new force by which man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6507]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Jesus'] life and utterance were the proclamation of this new order of things, of this new force by which man was to be ruled. When, unarmed and defenseless, He said to the Roman power, "My Kingdom is not of this world," He spoke the word of inauguration. Over the kingdom of the elemental forces, over the kingdom of the animal, over the kingdom of the intellect, He beheld rising, with Himself as prophet and embodiment, that kingdom of the spiritual whose forces should be those of purity and sacrifice, love and trust, obedience and service. It is the last of the kingdoms because it is the highest; it will be the most enduring for there is nothing that can take its place.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6507</guid></item></channel></rss>