<?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[When the will abandons what is above itself and turns to what is lower, it becomes evil -- not because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8459]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the will abandons what is above itself and turns to what is lower, it becomes evil -- not because that is evil to which it turns, but because the turning itself is wicked. Therefore it is not an inferior thing which has made the will evil, but it is itself which has become so by wickedly and inordinately desiring an inferior thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus we see, too, in the world that some persons assimilate only what is ugly and evil from the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus we see, too, in the world that some persons assimilate only what is ugly and evil from the same moral circumstances which supply good and beautiful results--the fragrance of celestial flowers--to the daily life of others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bells call others, but themselves enter not into the Church. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4108]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bells call others, but themselves enter not into the Church.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are a number of moderate Republicans around who are qualified for the court. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35079]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are a number of moderate Republicans around who are qualified for the court.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few realize how much injury the dogma that baptism is necessary for salvation, badly expounded, has entailed. As a consequence, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7995]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few realize how much injury the dogma that baptism is necessary for salvation, badly expounded, has entailed. As a consequence, they are less cautious. For, where the opinion has prevailed that all are lost who have not happened to be baptized with water, our condition is worse than that of God's ancient people -- as if the grace of God were now more restricted than under the Law!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behold the Sea, The opaline, the plentiful and strong,  Yet beautiful as is the rose in June,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44887]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behold the Sea, The opaline, the plentiful and strong,  Yet beautiful as is the rose in June,   Fresh as the trickling rainbow of July;    Sea full of food, the nourisher of kinds,     Purger of earth, and medicine of men;      Creating a sweet climate by my breath,       Washing out harms and griefs from memory,        And, in my mathematic ebb and flow,         Giving a hint of that which changes not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of George Augustus Selwyn, first Bishop of New Zealand, 1878   Come all crosses, welcome, welcome! so I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6374]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of George Augustus Selwyn, first Bishop of New Zealand, 1878   Come all crosses, welcome, welcome! so I may get my heart full of my Lord Jesus.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know who my grandfather was; I'm much more concerned to know what his grandson will be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9635]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know who my grandfather was; I'm much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good and not quite all the time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17860]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good and not quite all the time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47567]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today, our greatest public policy concerns know no borders, ... A global network of public policy schools offers the best ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today, our greatest public policy concerns know no borders, ... A global network of public policy schools offers the best opportunity for the academic community to work collectively on multiple intertwined challenges -- from sustainable development to trade to terrorism to public health crises to the protection of human rights worldwide -- and to prepare some of the world's most able graduate students to assume global leadership roles in the coming decades.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fair land! of chivalry the old domain, Land of the vine and olive, lovely Spain!  Though not for thee ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fair land! of chivalry the old domain, Land of the vine and olive, lovely Spain!  Though not for thee with classic shores to vie   In charms that fix th' enthusiast's pensive eye;    Yet hast thou scenes of beauty richly fraught     With all that wakes the glow of lofty thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26072]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ugliest word in our language. I stay in the game to fight it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27693]]></link><description><![CDATA[Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would be very hard for me to do things somebody else's way, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35797]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would be very hard for me to do things somebody else's way,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best, the most exquisite automobile is a walking stick; and one of the finest things in life is going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3542]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best, the most exquisite automobile is a walking stick; and one of the finest things in life is going on a journey with it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Albrecht Dürer, artist, 1528, and Michelangelo Buonarrotti, artist, spiritual writer, 1564  On the Brink of Death. Now ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Albrecht Dürer, artist, 1528, and Michelangelo Buonarrotti, artist, spiritual writer, 1564  On the Brink of Death. Now hath my life across a stormy sea  Like a frail bark reached that wide port where all  Are bidden, ere the final reckoning fall Of good and evil for eternity. Now know I well how that fond phantasy  Which made my soul the worshipper and thrall  Of earthly art, is vain; how criminal Is that which all men seek unwillingly. Those amorous thoughts which were so lightly dressed,  What are they when the double death is nigh?  The one I know for sure, the other dread. Painting nor sculpture now can lull to rest  My soul that turns to His great love on high,  Whose arms to clasp us on the cross were spread.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I found not Cassio's kisses on her lips. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51451]]></link><description><![CDATA[I found not Cassio's kisses on her lips.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64118]]></link><description><![CDATA[In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11402]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25183]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26336]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When all is said and done, what you'll probably see is some sort of negotiated settlement here, whether it's a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35053]]></link><description><![CDATA[When all is said and done, what you'll probably see is some sort of negotiated settlement here, whether it's a breakup fee, or lower purchase price.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you own your breath, nobody can steal your peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65715]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you own your breath, nobody can steal your peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hispanics tend to use radio very frequently. They spend longer listening to radio. The Hispanic population is very brand-loyal, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hispanics tend to use radio very frequently. They spend longer listening to radio. The Hispanic population is very brand-loyal, and once they identify with a radio station, they tend to stick with that station.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em. -Twelfth Night. Act ii. Sc. 5. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55755]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em. -Twelfth Night. Act ii. Sc. 5.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I really would have been stupid not to have done it. It was also a film that was actually happening, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28393]]></link><description><![CDATA[I really would have been stupid not to have done it. It was also a film that was actually happening, I mean, Miramax was doing it, and it had a kind of legitimacy to it. And once I read the script, I was there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By finishing out strong, we know that we have a good chance next season. We had to try to prove ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35267]]></link><description><![CDATA[By finishing out strong, we know that we have a good chance next season. We had to try to prove it the last month. If we get one or two guys, we're not looking that far ahead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46790]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No more of that, Hal, an thou lovest me! -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55864]]></link><description><![CDATA[No more of that, Hal, an thou lovest me! -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames, that there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46063]]></link><description><![CDATA[It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames, that there are people in the country besides politicians, entertainers, and criminals. -Charles Kuralt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one can really honestly be the very best, no one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65496]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one can really honestly be the very best, no one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Frenchman, easy, debonair, and brisk, Give him his lass, his fiddle, and his frisk,  Is always happy, reign ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16614]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Frenchman, easy, debonair, and brisk, Give him his lass, his fiddle, and his frisk,  Is always happy, reign whoever may,   And laughs the sense of mis'ry far away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lively, disinterested, persistent liking for truth is extraordinarily rare. Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36450]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lively, disinterested, persistent liking for truth is extraordinarily rare. Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not to be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism or doubt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the wolf had ever come to our back door, he'd have had to bring a picnic lunch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30189]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the wolf had ever come to our back door, he'd have had to bring a picnic lunch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not donut. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61620]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not donut.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14534]]></link><description><![CDATA[The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And Nathan said to David, Thou art the Man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26254]]></link><description><![CDATA[And Nathan said to David, Thou art the Man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The guy with the biggest stomach will be the first to take off his shirt at a baseball game. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57690]]></link><description><![CDATA[The guy with the biggest stomach will be the first to take off his shirt at a baseball game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conscience--the only incorruptible thing about us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9824]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conscience--the only incorruptible thing about us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a river in Macedon; and there is also moreover a river at Monmouth;… and there is salmons in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55968]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a river in Macedon; and there is also moreover a river at Monmouth;… and there is salmons in both. -King Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 7.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fairy stitching gleams On the sides and in the seams,  And it shows   That Pixies were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56216]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fairy stitching gleams On the sides and in the seams,  And it shows   That Pixies were the wags    Who tipped these funny tags     And these toes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not now That which I have been. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5509]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not now That which I have been.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10743]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Praise her but for this her without-door form-- Which on my faith deserves high speech--and straight  The shrug, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5192]]></link><description><![CDATA[Praise her but for this her without-door form-- Which on my faith deserves high speech--and straight  The shrug, the hum or ha, these pretty brands   That calumny doth use--O, I am out,    That mercy does, for calumny will sear     Virtue itself--these shrugs, these hums and ha's,      When you have said she's goodly, come between       Ere you can say she's honest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nonviolence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44621]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nonviolence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we've gotten way too lackadaisical, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29137]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we've gotten way too lackadaisical,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll be damned for never a king's son in Christendom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58477]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll be damned for never a king's son in Christendom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The maxims of men reveal their characters. [Fr., Les maximes des hommes decelent leur coeur.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51902]]></link><description><![CDATA[The maxims of men reveal their characters. [Fr., Les maximes des hommes decelent leur coeur.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45841]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45841</guid></item></channel></rss>