<?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[Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7296]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though "the commandments of God be not grievous", yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Young men are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and fitter for new projects ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62555]]></link><description><![CDATA[Young men are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and fitter for new projects than for settled business.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deep violets, you liken to The kindest eyes that look on you,  Without a thought disloyal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60701]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deep violets, you liken to The kindest eyes that look on you,  Without a thought disloyal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got to give it up to Evanston. They went into their trap and we stopped attacking and we played ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32374]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to give it up to Evanston. They went into their trap and we stopped attacking and we played timid. We were lucky we were able to hang on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[These others -- the overwhelming majority of Iraq's people -- have repeatedly given every indication of valuing their newfound freedom: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34949]]></link><description><![CDATA[[These others -- the overwhelming majority of Iraq's people -- have repeatedly given every indication of valuing their newfound freedom: voting in two elections at the risk of their lives, preparing for a third, writing and ratifying a constitution granting more freedoms than exist in any country in the entire Arab Middle East.] The secret is out, ... There is something decent unfolding in Iraq. It's unfolding in the shadow of a terrible insurgency, but a society is finding its way to constitutional politics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was never less alone than when by myself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25537]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was never less alone than when by myself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51218]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40935]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soft peace she brings, wherever she arrives: She builds our quiet, as she forms our lives:  Lays the rough ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Soft peace she brings, wherever she arrives: She builds our quiet, as she forms our lives:  Lays the rough paths of peevish Nature even,   And opens in each heart a little Heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unbeing dead isn't being alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unbeing dead isn't being alive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People like port because it's got a really interesting flavour - it's rich. There are quite a lot of liqueurs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39990]]></link><description><![CDATA[People like port because it's got a really interesting flavour - it's rich. There are quite a lot of liqueurs with fruit flavours but nothing quite like port.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But 'midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel, and to possess,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57163]]></link><description><![CDATA[But 'midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel, and to possess,  And roam along, the world's tired denizen,   With none who bless us, none whom we can bless.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was an infantry officer in the Army from 1969 to 1971. Men in my platoon who had served time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45956]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was an infantry officer in the Army from 1969 to 1971. Men in my platoon who had served time in Vietnam told me many stories—but none more chilling than the one from two helicopter pilots. They told me how they would shoot the friendlies on their way back from reconnaissance missions just so they could empty their ammunition before returning to base. The friendlies were South Vietnamese women and children, helpless victims in a war they did not understand. But to the American pilots, they were simply dots on the ground.Whitehead is a political conservative.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59121]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men often compete with one another until the day they die; comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders jocularly with a competitor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57488]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men often compete with one another until the day they die; comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders jocularly with a competitor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was very happy with the girls -they kept on the attack, ... We lost the third game, and in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40981]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was very happy with the girls -they kept on the attack, ... We lost the third game, and in Game 4, freshman Balee Cox served four consecutive points. That shifted the momentum, gave us back the lead and we finished it out from there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is now an act of reason, was but blind impulse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50804]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is now an act of reason, was but blind impulse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's high and low (culture), and we're casting a net wide. Almost everyone knows of these things; it's not like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40287]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's high and low (culture), and we're casting a net wide. Almost everyone knows of these things; it's not like we're bringing them some obscure things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever befalls the earth befalls the son of the earth. Man did not weavethe web of life; he is merely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22172]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever befalls the earth befalls the son of the earth. Man did not weavethe web of life; he is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web,he does to himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better is one Accipe, then twice to say, Dabo tibi. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49158]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better is one Accipe, then twice to say, Dabo tibi.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62426]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and get paid for it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was a shocking gasoline build...the crude build was bigger than expected and that should put down pressure on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28412]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was a shocking gasoline build...the crude build was bigger than expected and that should put down pressure on the market.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honourable peace becomes men, fierce anger should belong to beasts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50728]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honourable peace becomes men, fierce anger should belong to beasts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I count only the hours that are serene. [Lat., Horas non numero nisi serenas.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58316]]></link><description><![CDATA[I count only the hours that are serene. [Lat., Horas non numero nisi serenas.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sleep... Oh! how I loathe those little slices of death.... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sleep... Oh! how I loathe those little slices of death....]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 651 Commemoration of Cuthburga, Founding Abbess of Wimborne, c.725 Commemoration of John Bunyan, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6183]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 651 Commemoration of Cuthburga, Founding Abbess of Wimborne, c.725 Commemoration of John Bunyan, Spiritual Writer, 1688  [John Bunyan] had to live through that obscure night -- "wide, vast, and lonely" -- which fell upon St. John of the Cross before; like him, he knew that grace would enter "the dark caverns where the senses live". In the meantime, Bunyan tossed to and fro, as it were between heaven and hell. It has been said that he paints too dark a picture of his moral condition when a young man, that he exaggerates his wickedness at this period, and afterwards wrestles with phantoms of his vivid imagination. But spiritual sins, though not so obvious as those that are sensual, may be just as real; and Bunyan's intensity of feeling and expression arose from the intensity of his spiritual nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I gave Emmitt a hug after his last game [with Dallas] and told him I was proud to have played ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40546]]></link><description><![CDATA[I gave Emmitt a hug after his last game [with Dallas] and told him I was proud to have played against him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My husband and I just thought he needs to be in this one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33894]]></link><description><![CDATA[My husband and I just thought he needs to be in this one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind. [Lat., In animi securitate vitam beatam ponimus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18643]]></link><description><![CDATA[We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind. [Lat., In animi securitate vitam beatam ponimus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am disappointed a little because there was no concrete thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30895]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am disappointed a little because there was no concrete thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the little bits of things that fret and worry us; we can dodge an elephant, but we can't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59701]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the little bits of things that fret and worry us; we can dodge an elephant, but we can't dodge a fly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anybody who is 25 or 30 years old has physical scars from all sorts of things, from tuberculosis to polio. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anybody who is 25 or 30 years old has physical scars from all sorts of things, from tuberculosis to polio. It's the same with the mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14489]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The media is constantly redefining what luxury is. Luxury can be a dirty sock if dressed up in the right ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26086]]></link><description><![CDATA[The media is constantly redefining what luxury is. Luxury can be a dirty sock if dressed up in the right way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63446]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wrongs of a Husband or Master are not reproached. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49942]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wrongs of a Husband or Master are not reproached.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now for good lucke, cast an old shooe after mee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26012]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now for good lucke, cast an old shooe after mee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44105]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do something like this every year. Then this catastrophe hit, and it seemed like the obvious choice to help. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37556]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do something like this every year. Then this catastrophe hit, and it seemed like the obvious choice to help.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, stay, sweet warbling woodlark, stay, Nor quit for me the trembling spray,  A hapless lover courts thy lay, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24090]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, stay, sweet warbling woodlark, stay, Nor quit for me the trembling spray,  A hapless lover courts thy lay,   Thy soothing, fond complaining.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am treated as evil by people who claim that they are being oppressed because they are not allowed to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53677]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am treated as evil by people who claim that they are being oppressed because they are not allowed to force me to practice what they do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With what a deep devotedness of woe I wept thy absence--o'er and o'er again  Thinking of thee, still thee, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/153]]></link><description><![CDATA[With what a deep devotedness of woe I wept thy absence--o'er and o'er again  Thinking of thee, still thee, till thought grew pain,   And memory, like a drop that, night and day,    Falls cold and ceaseless, wore my heart away!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord, defend me from my friends; I can account for my enemies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16957]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord, defend me from my friends; I can account for my enemies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53340]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Again let us dream where the land lies sunny And live, like the bees, on our hearts' old honey,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12867]]></link><description><![CDATA[Again let us dream where the land lies sunny And live, like the bees, on our hearts' old honey,  Away from the world that slaves for money--   Come, journey the way with me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where the flag of truth waves unfurled, there you will find superstition waiting in ambush. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27627]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where the flag of truth waves unfurled, there you will find superstition waiting in ambush.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why don't the men propose, mamma? Why don't the men propose? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61995]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why don't the men propose, mamma? Why don't the men propose?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33237]]></link><description><![CDATA[An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33237</guid></item></channel></rss>