<?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[Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement; then it becomes a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62422]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement; then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster, and fling him out to the public.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trifles make perfection--and perfection is no trifle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trifles make perfection--and perfection is no trifle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3786]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Son of God did not come from above to add an external form of worship to the several ways ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6978]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Son of God did not come from above to add an external form of worship to the several ways of life that are in the world, and so to leave people to live as they did before, in such tempers and enjoyments as the fashion and the spirit of the world approve; but as He came down from Heaven altogether Divine and heavenly in His own nature, so it was to call mankind to a Divine and heavenly life; to the highest change of their own nature and temper; to be born again of the Holy Spirit; to walk in the wisdom and light and love of God, and to be like Him to the utmost of their power, to renounce all the most plausible ways of the world, whether of greatness, business, or pleasure; to a mortification of their most agreeable passions; and to live in such wisdom, purity, and holiness as might fit them to be glorious in the enjoyment of God to all eternity. (Continued tomorrow).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a really hard decision. But he was really wanting me to come to Canada, and it just felt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39360]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a really hard decision. But he was really wanting me to come to Canada, and it just felt like the right idea. Everybody thought I was crazy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love humanity, it's the people I can't stand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22318]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love humanity, it's the people I can't stand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I walked a mile with Pleasure, She chattered all the way;  But left me none the wiser,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46703]]></link><description><![CDATA[I walked a mile with Pleasure, She chattered all the way;  But left me none the wiser,   For all she had to say.    I walked a mile with Sorrow     And ne'er a word said she;      But, oh, the things I learned from her       When Sorrow walked with me!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is clear, though, that the Genesis experience bolsters the previous conclusion that an MSR entry vehicle must be designed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41704]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is clear, though, that the Genesis experience bolsters the previous conclusion that an MSR entry vehicle must be designed to maintain containment of the samples in the event that a parachute or any other entry, descent, and landing deployment or actuation fails,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9512]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little lett lets an ill workeman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49049]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little lett lets an ill workeman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is still better. -Tryon Edwards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2608]]></link><description><![CDATA[To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is still better. -Tryon Edwards.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest glory never comes from winning, but from rising each time you fall. A person is defined by what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31995]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest glory never comes from winning, but from rising each time you fall. A person is defined by what he chooses to do with his life, not by what happens to him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one in the world can take the place of your mother. Right or wrong, from her viewpoint you are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63095]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one in the world can take the place of your mother. Right or wrong, from her viewpoint you are always right. She may scold you for little things, but never for the big ones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gluttony kills more than the sword, and is the kindler of all evils. [Lat., Gula plures occidit quam gladius, estque ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gluttony kills more than the sword, and is the kindler of all evils. [Lat., Gula plures occidit quam gladius, estque fomes omnium malorum.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9913]]></link><description><![CDATA[In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1491]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Richard Hooker, Priest, Anglican Apologist, Teacher, 1600 Commemoration of Martin of Porres, Dominican Friar, 1639  It is, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Richard Hooker, Priest, Anglican Apologist, Teacher, 1600 Commemoration of Martin of Porres, Dominican Friar, 1639  It is, of course, impossible to exaggerate the importance of the historicity of what is commonly known as the Resurrection. If, after all His claims and promises, Christ had died and merely lived on as a fragrant memory, He would only be revered as an extremely good but profoundly mistaken man. His claims to be God, His claims to be Himself the very principle of life, would be mere self-delusion. His authoritative pronouncements on the nature of God and Man and Life would be at once suspect. Why should He be right about the lesser things, if He was proved to be completely wrong in the greater?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not hate a proud man, as I do hate the engendering of toads. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48207]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not hate a proud man, as I do hate the engendering of toads.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The next morning, as I was preparing to go to work, I felt God saying he was going to make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30022]]></link><description><![CDATA[The next morning, as I was preparing to go to work, I felt God saying he was going to make it happen for us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Normally, the appeals process in a case like this takes a couple of months. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Normally, the appeals process in a case like this takes a couple of months.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think it hits you when you're in the audience how big a crowd actually is. When we look ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42665]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think it hits you when you're in the audience how big a crowd actually is. When we look out at Carnegie Hall, we will feel so small in comparison (to the audience). But then you realize you're there because you worked so hard for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good government implies two things: fidelity to the object of government, which is the happiness of the people; secondly, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15623]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good government implies two things: fidelity to the object of government, which is the happiness of the people; secondly, a knowledge of the means by which that object can be best attained]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My prophecy is but half his journey yet, For yonder walls, that pertly front your town,  Yon towers, whose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8920]]></link><description><![CDATA[My prophecy is but half his journey yet, For yonder walls, that pertly front your town,  Yon towers, whose wanton tops do buss the clouds,   Must kiss their own feet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nightingale appear'd the first, And as her melody she sang,  The apple into blossom burst,   To ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44545]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nightingale appear'd the first, And as her melody she sang,  The apple into blossom burst,   To life the grass and violets sprang.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't take it personally. The nation's Guardian readers all just arrived at our incredibly right-on jobs and are wondering if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33033]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't take it personally. The nation's Guardian readers all just arrived at our incredibly right-on jobs and are wondering if drinking seven fair trade coffees in a row will make us feel better about third world debt. It's hard to get involved in a game between a porcine American and small, dull looking Belgian.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fellow who says he'll meet you halfway usually thinks he's standing on the dividing line. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44357]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fellow who says he'll meet you halfway usually thinks he's standing on the dividing line.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with radicals is that they only read radical literature, and the trouble with conservatives is that they don't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46916]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with radicals is that they only read radical literature, and the trouble with conservatives is that they don't read anything]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He might have proved a useful adjunct, if not an ornament to society. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56773]]></link><description><![CDATA[He might have proved a useful adjunct, if not an ornament to society.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just go on . . . and faith will soon return. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14967]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just go on . . . and faith will soon return.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When your heart is in your dream, no request is too extreme. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12917]]></link><description><![CDATA[When your heart is in your dream, no request is too extreme.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11339]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64383]]></link><description><![CDATA[My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Basil the Great & Gregory Nazianzen, Bishops, Teachers, 379 & 389 Commemoration of Seraphim, Monk of Sarov, Mystic, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Basil the Great & Gregory Nazianzen, Bishops, Teachers, 379 & 389 Commemoration of Seraphim, Monk of Sarov, Mystic, Staretz, 1833   Do not, as is usually the case, thrust the care of the common weal upon your neighbor; then, as each one in his own thoughts makes light of the matter, all find to their surprise that they have drawn upon themselves by their neglect a personal misfortune.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29548]]></link><description><![CDATA[Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then we might even come to see that it is our veneration for what has already been created, however beautiful and valid it may be, that petrifies us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The further you go, the better chance there is that you're going to get your heart ripped out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32769]]></link><description><![CDATA[The further you go, the better chance there is that you're going to get your heart ripped out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33]]></link><description><![CDATA[Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laughter Leaves us doubly serious shortly after. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laughter Leaves us doubly serious shortly after.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4929]]></link><description><![CDATA[To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some self-confronting questions: "Where do I want to be at any given time?" "How am I going to get there? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9880]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some self-confronting questions: "Where do I want to be at any given time?" "How am I going to get there? "What do I have to do to get myself from where I am to where I want to be?"... "What's the first, small step I can take to get moving?".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When all's said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it's not so much which road you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12706]]></link><description><![CDATA[When all's said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it's not so much which road you take, as how you take it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea of embarrassing your opponent or messing up a press conference or even rattling your opponent always comes up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35634]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea of embarrassing your opponent or messing up a press conference or even rattling your opponent always comes up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes and pompous in the grave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26260]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes and pompous in the grave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things of today? Deeds which are harvest for Eternity! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11686]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things of today? Deeds which are harvest for Eternity!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Creation is a drug I can't do without. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10580]]></link><description><![CDATA[Creation is a drug I can't do without.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The superior man is firm in the right way, and not merely firm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1456]]></link><description><![CDATA[The superior man is firm in the right way, and not merely firm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All political theories assume, of course, that most individuals are very ignorant. Those who plead for liberty differ from the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47402]]></link><description><![CDATA[All political theories assume, of course, that most individuals are very ignorant. Those who plead for liberty differ from the rest in that they include among the ignorant themselves as well as the wisest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What point of morals, of manners, of economy, of philosophy, of religion, of taste, of the conduct of life, has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55318]]></link><description><![CDATA[What point of morals, of manners, of economy, of philosophy, of religion, of taste, of the conduct of life, has he not settled? What mystery has he not signified his knowledge of? What office, or function, or district of man's work, has he not remembered? What king has he not taught state, as Talma taught Napoleon? What maiden has not found him finer than her delicacy? What lover has he not outloved? What sage has he not outseen? What gentleman has he not instructed in the rudeness of his behavior?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not trust people who don't love themselves and yet tell me, 'I love you.' There is an African ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42327]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not trust people who don't love themselves and yet tell me, 'I love you.' There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66244</guid></item></channel></rss>