<?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[Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901  If ever we intend to take one step towards ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7089]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901  If ever we intend to take one step towards any agreement or unity, it must be by fixing this principle in the minds of all men -- that it is of no advantage to any man whatever church or way in Christian religion he be of, unless he personally believe the promises, and live in obedience unto all the precepts of Christ; and that for him who doth so, it is a trampling of the whole gospel under foot to say that his salvation could be endangered by his not being of this or that church or way, especially considering how much of the world hath inmixed itself into all the known ways that are in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They go swimming, canoeing, horseback riding, they make ice cream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31132]]></link><description><![CDATA[They go swimming, canoeing, horseback riding, they make ice cream.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one can drive us crazy unless we give them the keys. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10058]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one can drive us crazy unless we give them the keys.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63057]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's only so much we can do. We can send letters to these people and we can make them pick ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40679]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's only so much we can do. We can send letters to these people and we can make them pick the stuff up, but if you have a neighborhood association ... that goes much farther than what we can do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There comes a time in the seeker's life when he discovers that he is at once the lover and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2246]]></link><description><![CDATA[There comes a time in the seeker's life when he discovers that he is at once the lover and the beloved. The aspiring soul which he embodies is the lover in him. And the transcendental Self which he reveals from within is his Beloved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enough has... been said to show that the impoverished secularized versions of Christianity which are being urged upon us for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6558]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enough has... been said to show that the impoverished secularized versions of Christianity which are being urged upon us for our acceptance today rest not upon a serious application of the methods of scientific scholarship nor upon a serious intuitive appreciation of the Gospels as a whole in their natural context, but upon a radical distaste for the supernatural.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/352]]></link><description><![CDATA[That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were trying to take the middle away -- and the post -- and they just had too many guys ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37461]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were trying to take the middle away -- and the post -- and they just had too many guys that [could] go to the boards. We just didn't have enough size for them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47661]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We exported commodities to Somalia. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42601]]></link><description><![CDATA[We exported commodities to Somalia.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19968]]></link><description><![CDATA[My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Matthias the Apostle  Life is not long enough for a religion of inferences; we shall never have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Matthias the Apostle  Life is not long enough for a religion of inferences; we shall never have done beginning, if we determine to begin with proof. We shall ever be laying our foundations; we shall turn theology into evidences, and divines into textuaries... Life is for action. If we insist on proofs for everything, we shall never come to action: to act you must assume, and that assumption is faith.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children when they are little make parents fooles, when they are great they make them mad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49173]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children when they are little make parents fooles, when they are great they make them mad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If they had acted fast there was a chance to win our hearts and minds, but they are losing that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36727]]></link><description><![CDATA[If they had acted fast there was a chance to win our hearts and minds, but they are losing that chance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is right to be contented with what we have, but never with what we are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9991]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is right to be contented with what we have, but never with what we are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heart's ease of pansy, pleasure or thought, Which would the picture give us of these?  Surely the heart that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45448]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heart's ease of pansy, pleasure or thought, Which would the picture give us of these?  Surely the heart that conceived it sought   Heart's ease.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leave in concealment what has long been concealed. [Lat., Latere semper patere, quod latuit diu.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leave in concealment what has long been concealed. [Lat., Latere semper patere, quod latuit diu.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worlds can be found by a child and an adult bending down and looking together under the grass stems or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43863]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worlds can be found by a child and an adult bending down and looking together under the grass stems or at the skittering crabs in a tidal pool.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19646]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many, more rigourously, more vigourously, and more severely, than by one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47542]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many, more rigourously, more vigourously, and more severely, than by one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prettiness dies first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49719]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prettiness dies first.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25565]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I spent a year in that town, one Sunday. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4733]]></link><description><![CDATA[I spent a year in that town, one Sunday.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clever men are sometimes the dupes of their own cleverness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62827]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clever men are sometimes the dupes of their own cleverness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are raised on high that they may be dashed to pieces with a greater fall. [Lat., Tolluntur in altum ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15386]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are raised on high that they may be dashed to pieces with a greater fall. [Lat., Tolluntur in altum  Ut lapsu gaviore ruant.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3282]]></link><description><![CDATA[The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how horrible is it to be a mischievous and malignant hypocrite. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20240]]></link><description><![CDATA[How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how horrible is it to be a mischievous and malignant hypocrite.   - Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We live under a government of men and morning newspapers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44499]]></link><description><![CDATA[We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[life is the most common disease transmissible through sex ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66830]]></link><description><![CDATA[life is the most common disease transmissible through sex]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The second best times tend to be more difficult. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62826]]></link><description><![CDATA[The second best times tend to be more difficult.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed thecomfortable. on Eleanor Roosevelt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22704]]></link><description><![CDATA[No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed thecomfortable. on Eleanor Roosevelt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He posted up well and they went to a box-and-one on him. He was working too hard to get open ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38717]]></link><description><![CDATA[He posted up well and they went to a box-and-one on him. He was working too hard to get open and I told him, ?Settle down, we'll get you open off screens.' Then we started running our man offense and that was getting other people open so he didn't have to score. We got other people in the flow and exploded the middle of their box-and-one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're our biggest corporate donor and so of course we look forward to that funding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40106]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're our biggest corporate donor and so of course we look forward to that funding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[’I'd have you lot up in front of the University authorities first thing in the morning, if it wasn't for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60243]]></link><description><![CDATA[’I'd have you lot up in front of the University authorities first thing in the morning, if it wasn't for the fact that you are the University authorities . . .']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See yonder maker of the dead man's bed, The sexton, hoary-headed chronicle,  Of hard, unmeaning face, down which ne'er ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18207]]></link><description><![CDATA[See yonder maker of the dead man's bed, The sexton, hoary-headed chronicle,  Of hard, unmeaning face, down which ne'er stole   A gentle tear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Letters, from absent friends, extinguish fear, Unite division, and draw distance near;  Their magic force each silent wish conveys, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47817]]></link><description><![CDATA[Letters, from absent friends, extinguish fear, Unite division, and draw distance near;  Their magic force each silent wish conveys,   And wafts embodied though, a thousand ways:    Could souls to bodies write, death's pow'r were mean,     For minds could then meet minds with heav'n between.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54063]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64805]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64610]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2035]]></link><description><![CDATA[The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heaven sends us good meat, but the devil sends us cooks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heaven sends us good meat, but the devil sends us cooks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't have to have body guards yet, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40579]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't have to have body guards yet,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would be neat to get together old-time people who went to a small-town school. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33069]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would be neat to get together old-time people who went to a small-town school.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66510]]></link><description><![CDATA[It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66111]]></link><description><![CDATA[People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't teach a hunter it's wrong to kill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25371]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't teach a hunter it's wrong to kill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25371</guid></item></channel></rss>