<?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[I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60409]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Impartially their talents scan, Just education forms the man.   - John Gay, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13407]]></link><description><![CDATA[Impartially their talents scan, Just education forms the man.   - John Gay,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10792]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The International Brigades and the British volunteers were, numerically, only a small part of the Republican forces, but nearly all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30175]]></link><description><![CDATA[The International Brigades and the British volunteers were, numerically, only a small part of the Republican forces, but nearly all had accepted the need for organization and order in civilian life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patients may postpone getting needed effective treatment, because they are instead relying on alternative remedies that haven't been tested, ... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patients may postpone getting needed effective treatment, because they are instead relying on alternative remedies that haven't been tested, ... The second danger is that they may actually be harmful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57746]]></link><description><![CDATA[In life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concluding a series on the person of Jesus:  Jesus' good news, then, was that the Kingdom of God had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6967]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concluding a series on the person of Jesus:  Jesus' good news, then, was that the Kingdom of God had come, and that he, Jesus, was its herald and expounder to men. More than that, in some special and mysterious was, he was the kingdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.   - Ralph Waldo ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24002]]></link><description><![CDATA[Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.   - Ralph Waldo Emerson,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friends are the pillars on your porch. Sometimes they hold you up, sometimes they lean on you, and sometimes it's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friends are the pillars on your porch. Sometimes they hold you up, sometimes they lean on you, and sometimes it's just enough to know that they are standing by.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1473]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Simply duty hath no place for fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13077]]></link><description><![CDATA[Simply duty hath no place for fear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16522]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The end must justify the means. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13787]]></link><description><![CDATA[The end must justify the means.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Step after step the ladder is ascended. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49769]]></link><description><![CDATA[Step after step the ladder is ascended.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I stand on the sidewalk watching it because the responsibility is mine and I must, I take a very firm ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35933]]></link><description><![CDATA[I stand on the sidewalk watching it because the responsibility is mine and I must, I take a very firm hold on the handles of the baby carriage and I wheel it into the traffic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People know each other better on a journey. Plaatje ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28498]]></link><description><![CDATA[People know each other better on a journey. Plaatje]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was a queen, and you took away my crown, a wife, and you killed my huband, a mother, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41605]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was a queen, and you took away my crown, a wife, and you killed my huband, a mother, and you took my children away from me. All I have left is my blood. Take it. but do not make me suffer long.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48215]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wrong life cannot be lived rightly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You own a dog; you feed a cat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12699]]></link><description><![CDATA[You own a dog; you feed a cat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing could have saved the infant Church from melting away into one of those vague and ineffective schools of philosophic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7597]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing could have saved the infant Church from melting away into one of those vague and ineffective schools of philosophic ethics except the stern and strict rule that is laid down here [Rev. 2:15, 16] by St. John. An easy-going Christianity could never have survived; only the most convinced, resolute, almost bigoted adherence to the most uncompromising interepretation of its own principles could have given the Christians the courage and self-reliance that were needed. For them to hesitate or to doubt was to be lost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then hail! thou noble conqueror! That, when tyranny oppressed, hewed for our fathers from the wild. A land wherein to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22534]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then hail! thou noble conqueror! That, when tyranny oppressed, hewed for our fathers from the wild. A land wherein to rest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That, like an eagle in a dovecote, I Fluttered your Volscians in Corioles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51240]]></link><description><![CDATA[That, like an eagle in a dovecote, I Fluttered your Volscians in Corioles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are many ways to the life we live,none so right, or so profound, as the onethat is uniquely ours.We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34405]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are many ways to the life we live,none so right, or so profound, as the onethat is uniquely ours.We need to get to the place that isSeparate from what you've ever doneSeparate from what you'll ever doThe place you know isRIGHTFORYOU]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's why so many stars are making pictures in Europe today. The tax guys are making thieves out of everybody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30859]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's why so many stars are making pictures in Europe today. The tax guys are making thieves out of everybody.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9524]]></link><description><![CDATA[About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe there is a limit beyond which free speech cannot go, but it's a limit that's very seldom mentioned. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47507]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe there is a limit beyond which free speech cannot go, but it's a limit that's very seldom mentioned. It's the point where free speech begins to collide with the right to privacy. I don't think there are any other conditions to free speech. I've got a right to say and believe anything I please, but I haven't got a right to press it on anybody else. .... Nobody's got a right to be a nuisance to his neighbors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's only a thought, and a thought can be changed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59244]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's only a thought, and a thought can be changed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The generous heart Should scorn a pleasure which gives others pain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51770]]></link><description><![CDATA[The generous heart Should scorn a pleasure which gives others pain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of George Herbert, Priest, Poet, 1633 It's true we cannot reach Christ's forti'th day Yet to go part of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7920]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of George Herbert, Priest, Poet, 1633 It's true we cannot reach Christ's forti'th day Yet to go part of that religious way   Is better than to rest: We cannot reach our Savior's purity; Yet we are bid, 'Be holy ev'n as He':   In both let's do our best. Who goeth in the way which Christ hath gone Is much more sure to meet with Him than one   That traveleth by-ways; Perhaps my God, though He be far before,  May turn, and take me by the hand, and more,   May strengthen my decays. Yet, Lord, instruct us to improve our fast By starving sin, and taking such repast   As may our faults control; That ev'ry man may revel at his door, Not in his parlor -- banquetting the poor,   And among those, his soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7920</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[It is good To lengthen to the last a sunny mood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5842]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is good To lengthen to the last a sunny mood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it just shows the strength and popularity of the Derby at this point. A few weeks ago our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38760]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it just shows the strength and popularity of the Derby at this point. A few weeks ago our list of horses we thought were possible or probable seemed to be shrinking a bit. But when we got the last round of major preps, the list started growing again -- even though two horses (Brother Derek and Lawyer Ron) you'd regard as the favorites scored emphatic victories.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who reigns within himself, and rules Passions, desires, and fears, is more a king. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50662]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who reigns within himself, and rules Passions, desires, and fears, is more a king.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little pains In a due hour employ'd great profit yields. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17138]]></link><description><![CDATA[Little pains In a due hour employ'd great profit yields.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[it's not your client's obligation, or your obligation, to prove your client's innocence. It is the prosecution's obligation to -- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24226]]></link><description><![CDATA[it's not your client's obligation, or your obligation, to prove your client's innocence. It is the prosecution's obligation to -- to prove you're client's guilt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tomorrow do thy worst, I have lived today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59464]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tomorrow do thy worst, I have lived today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now these be the last words of David. David the son of Jesse said, and the man who was raised ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54902]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now these be the last words of David. David the son of Jesse said, and the man who was raised up on high, the anointed of the God of Jacob, and the sweet psalmist of Israel, said, The Spirit of the Lord spake by me, and his word was in my tongue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27865]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13433]]></link><description><![CDATA[The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Resignation is putting God between ourselves and our troubles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53948]]></link><description><![CDATA[Resignation is putting God between ourselves and our troubles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is a mistake every man should make. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is a mistake every man should make.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Investigations during the last few decades have brought hydrogen instead of carbon, and instead of CO2 water, the mother of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Investigations during the last few decades have brought hydrogen instead of carbon, and instead of CO2 water, the mother of all life, into the foreground.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64166]]></link><description><![CDATA[Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis Chastity, my brother, Chastity: She that has that, is clad in complete steel ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5784]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis Chastity, my brother, Chastity: She that has that, is clad in complete steel]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Economy is a way of spending money without getting any pleasure out of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13332]]></link><description><![CDATA[Economy is a way of spending money without getting any pleasure out of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430   None can become fit for the future life, who hath ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8466]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430   None can become fit for the future life, who hath not practiced himself for it now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only for the phony is commercialism-the bending of creativity to common utility-a naughty word. To the truly creative, it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8994]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only for the phony is commercialism-the bending of creativity to common utility-a naughty word. To the truly creative, it is a bridge to the great audience, a means of sharing rather than debasing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2697</guid></item></channel></rss>