<?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[A greedy person and a pauper are practically one and the same. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18295]]></link><description><![CDATA[A greedy person and a pauper are practically one and the same.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12824]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But thou, O hope, with eyes so fair, What was thy delighted measure?  Still it whisper'd promised pleasure,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19777]]></link><description><![CDATA[But thou, O hope, with eyes so fair, What was thy delighted measure?  Still it whisper'd promised pleasure,   And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I wish life had a fast-forward button. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I wish life had a fast-forward button.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every hard-boiled egg is yellow inside. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10478]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every hard-boiled egg is yellow inside.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The person who knows HOW will always have a job. The person who knows WHY will always be his boss. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4775]]></link><description><![CDATA[The person who knows HOW will always have a job. The person who knows WHY will always be his boss.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anything for a quiet life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50643]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anything for a quiet life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rock-bye-baby on the tree top, When the wind blows the cradle will rock.  When the bough bends the cradle ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3624]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rock-bye-baby on the tree top, When the wind blows the cradle will rock.  When the bough bends the cradle will fall,   Down comes the baby, cradle and all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A region of repose it seems, A place of slumber and of dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20995]]></link><description><![CDATA[A region of repose it seems, A place of slumber and of dreams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who so regardeth dreams is like him that catcheth at a shadow, and followeth after the wind. •Ecclesiasticus 34:2 ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who so regardeth dreams is like him that catcheth at a shadow, and followeth after the wind. •Ecclesiasticus 34:2]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20555]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Katherine of Alexandria, Martyr, 4th century  "The Law", he says, "was our 'pedagogue', until Christ should come." ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7120]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Katherine of Alexandria, Martyr, 4th century  "The Law", he says, "was our 'pedagogue', until Christ should come." Those words have been interpreted as though they described the Law as a preparatory education, continued at a higher stage by Christ. That, however, is not quite what Paul meant. The "pedagogue" in Greek society was not a schoolmaster, he did not give lessons. He was a slave who accompanied a boy to school, and both waited upon him and exercised a supervision which interfered with the boy's freedom of action. He is, in fact, a figure in the little allegory which Paul gives us to illustrate the position of the People of God before Christ came. There was a boy left heir to a great estate. He was a minor, and so must have guardians and trustees. He was as helpless in their hands as if he had been a slave. He must live on the allowance they gave him, and follow their wishes from day to day. They gave him a "pedagogue" to keep him out of mischief. He could not please himself, or realize his own purposes and ambitions. Yet all the time he was the heir; the estate was his, and no one else's. Just so the People of God, the Divine Commonwealth, was cramped and fettered by ignorance and evil times. It remained in uneasy expectation of one day coming into active existence. At last the heir came of age: guardians and trustees abdicated their powers, and the grown man possessed in full realization all that was his. So now the fettered life of the Divine Commonwealth bursts its bonds and comes into active existence... The intervention of law was not a reversal of God's original and eternal purpose of pure love and grace towards men, it only subserved that purpose, while it seemed to contradict it, just as the presence of the "pedagogus" might seem to the high-spirited young heir quite contrary to the rights secured to him by his father's will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need to guarantee equal rights and civil rights and say that, here in America, workers have the right to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8813]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need to guarantee equal rights and civil rights and say that, here in America, workers have the right to organize - women have the right to choose - and justice belongs to everyone regardless of race or gender or sexual orientation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apothegms to thinking minds are the seeds from which spring vast fields of new thought, that may be further cultivated, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Apothegms to thinking minds are the seeds from which spring vast fields of new thought, that may be further cultivated, beautified, and enlarged.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rebellion must be managed with many swords; treason to his prince's person may be with one knife. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59644]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rebellion must be managed with many swords; treason to his prince's person may be with one knife.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is the devil's scripture. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19389]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is the devil's scripture.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1009]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yes, and we've already taken all the classes and shots. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33701]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yes, and we've already taken all the classes and shots.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,  To the last syllable of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51387]]></link><description><![CDATA[To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,  To the last syllable of recorded time,   And all our yesterdays have lighted fools    The way to dusty death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957   When once a man begins to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957   When once a man begins to build a system, the very gifts and qualities which might serve in the investigation of truth, become the greatest hindrances to it. He must make the different parts of the scheme fit into each other; his dexterity is shown, not in detecting facts, but in cutting them square... I hope you will not forget that the Bible is the history of God's acts to men, not of men's thoughts about God. It begins from Him. He is acting and speaking in it throughout.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modesty is the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modesty is the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it's worth doing, it's worth doing badly.(on not perfectionismto put things off). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22341]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it's worth doing, it's worth doing badly.(on not perfectionismto put things off).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can tell you for an eternal truth that troubled souls are always safe. It is the untroubled that are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7095]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can tell you for an eternal truth that troubled souls are always safe. It is the untroubled that are in danger. Trouble in itself is always a claim on love, and God is love. He must deny Himself if He does not come to help the helpless. It is the prisoners, and the blind, and the leper, and the possessed, and the hungry, and the tempest-tossed, who are His special care. Therefore if you are lost and sick and bound, you are just in the place where He can meet you. Blessed are the mourners. They shall be comforted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26966]]></link><description><![CDATA[The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3232]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have steadily endeavored to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved (and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57091]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have steadily endeavored to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved (and I cannot resist forming one on every subject), as soon as the facts are shown to be opposed to it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hercules and the WagonerA CARTER was driving a wagon along a country lane, when the wheels sank down deep into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hercules and the WagonerA CARTER was driving a wagon along a country lane, when the wheels sank down deep into a rut. The rustic driver, stupefied and aghast, stood looking at the wagon, and did nothing but utter loud cries to Hercules to come and help him. Hercules, it is said, appeared and thus addressed him: Put your shoulders to the wheels, my man. Goad on your bullocks, and never more pray to me for help, until you have done your best to help yourself, or depend upon it you will henceforth pray in vain. Self-help is the best help.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In history the way of annihilation is invariably prepared by inward degeneration, by decrease of life. Only then can a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57005]]></link><description><![CDATA[In history the way of annihilation is invariably prepared by inward degeneration, by decrease of life. Only then can a shock from outside put an end to the whole.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, pensive scholar, what is fame? A fitful tongue of leaping flame;  A giddy whirlwind's fickle gust,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58021]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, pensive scholar, what is fame? A fitful tongue of leaping flame;  A giddy whirlwind's fickle gust,   That lifts a pinch of mortal dust;    A few swift years, and who can show     Which dust was Bill, and which was Joe?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63193]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13320]]></link><description><![CDATA[True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and to Apollos for your sakes; that ye ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5632]]></link><description><![CDATA[And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and to Apollos for your sakes; that ye might learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, that no one of you be puffed up for one against another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing isunchangeable or certain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21144]]></link><description><![CDATA[The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing isunchangeable or certain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fame is a fickle food Upon a shifting plate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15131]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fame is a fickle food Upon a shifting plate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24581]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20634]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2383]]></link><description><![CDATA[Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people in order to betray them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15351]]></link><description><![CDATA[The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21528]]></link><description><![CDATA[The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like his own ghost unlawfully tenanting a defunct carcass.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66787]]></link><description><![CDATA[The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The universe is made up of stories, not of atoms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25320]]></link><description><![CDATA[The universe is made up of stories, not of atoms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20216]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My dad was a pretty poor guy, he didn't have a whole lot of money. He always wanted something for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38826]]></link><description><![CDATA[My dad was a pretty poor guy, he didn't have a whole lot of money. He always wanted something for my brother and myself, some kind of business. He'd asked the owners of this course to call him if it ever came up for sale, and one day, they called. I had a scholarship offer to Ohio State and my dad said, 'Son, what do you want to do, cut grass or go to school?' I said, what do you want me to do, Dad? He said, 'Well, I can't afford any help.' I said, 'No problem, Dad, I'll help you cut grass.' Looking back, I think I made the right decision.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever you can lose, you should reckon of no account. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25585]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever you can lose, you should reckon of no account.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doesn't matter at all. All that matters is we got the victory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doesn't matter at all. All that matters is we got the victory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The love light in her eye. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14833]]></link><description><![CDATA[The love light in her eye.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61505]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2095]]></link><description><![CDATA[True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2095</guid></item></channel></rss>