<?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[For we walk by faith, not by sight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14961]]></link><description><![CDATA[For we walk by faith, not by sight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Slight are the outward signs of evil thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48758]]></link><description><![CDATA[Slight are the outward signs of evil thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are wiser than we know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26299]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are wiser than we know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They [the English] amuse themselves sadly as in the custom of their country. [Fr., Ils s'amusaient tristement selon la contume ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13923]]></link><description><![CDATA[They [the English] amuse themselves sadly as in the custom of their country. [Fr., Ils s'amusaient tristement selon la contume de leur pays.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winds wanders, and dews drip earthward; Rains fall, suns rise and set;  Earth whirls, and all but to prosper ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60714]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winds wanders, and dews drip earthward; Rains fall, suns rise and set;  Earth whirls, and all but to prosper   A poor little violet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Repentance follows hasty counsels. [Lat., Velox consilium sequitur poenitentia.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51652]]></link><description><![CDATA[Repentance follows hasty counsels. [Lat., Velox consilium sequitur poenitentia.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56098]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone is different. Sometimes it's very exciting; sometimes very scary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone is different. Sometimes it's very exciting; sometimes very scary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stay the course, light a star,Change the world where'er you are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46156]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stay the course, light a star,Change the world where'er you are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64388]]></link><description><![CDATA[Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You shape your own destiny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31468]]></link><description><![CDATA[You shape your own destiny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our bodies are apt to be our autobiographies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4443]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our bodies are apt to be our autobiographies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The destroyer of weeds, thistles, and thorns is a benefactor whether he soweth grain or not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62355]]></link><description><![CDATA[The destroyer of weeds, thistles, and thorns is a benefactor whether he soweth grain or not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It reflects the very nature that we're changing directions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34895]]></link><description><![CDATA[It reflects the very nature that we're changing directions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go ahead, make my day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44275]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go ahead, make my day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The stroke of the whip maketh marks in the flesh: but the stroke of the tongue breaketh the bones. Many ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52498]]></link><description><![CDATA[The stroke of the whip maketh marks in the flesh: but the stroke of the tongue breaketh the bones. Many have fallen by the edge of the sword: but not so many as have fallen by the tongue. [Ecclesiasticus 28:17 --18].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I strove with none; for none was worth my strife. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52700]]></link><description><![CDATA[I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I got up to the Peacock--where I found everybody drinking hot punch in self-preservation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13003]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I got up to the Peacock--where I found everybody drinking hot punch in self-preservation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13027]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self esteem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17122]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Full many a gem of purest ray serene, The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44890]]></link><description><![CDATA[Full many a gem of purest ray serene, The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has been called a mediocre man; but this is unwarranted flattery. He was a politician of monumental littleness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47353]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has been called a mediocre man; but this is unwarranted flattery. He was a politician of monumental littleness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, where is loyalty? If it be banished from the frosty head,  Where shall it find a harbor in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15632]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, where is loyalty? If it be banished from the frosty head,  Where shall it find a harbor in the earth?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Necessity when threatening is more powerful than device of man. [Lat., Efficacior omni arte imminens necessitas.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44057]]></link><description><![CDATA[Necessity when threatening is more powerful than device of man. [Lat., Efficacior omni arte imminens necessitas.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're trying to tell our family: Shut up or this is going to happen again. The McCartney family opened a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37875]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're trying to tell our family: Shut up or this is going to happen again. The McCartney family opened a lot of eyes in Belfast.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I survived that trouble so likewise may I survive this one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59727]]></link><description><![CDATA[I survived that trouble so likewise may I survive this one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When he was talking, he was lying and if he wasn't lying, he was stealing. He was just a weird ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42543]]></link><description><![CDATA[When he was talking, he was lying and if he wasn't lying, he was stealing. He was just a weird and lonely guy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18062]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth - for your love is more delightful than wine ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth - for your love is more delightful than wine]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women need fair representation everywhere. Its not a matter of competition but of equality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women need fair representation everywhere. Its not a matter of competition but of equality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thank God for poverty That makes and keeps us free,  And lets us go our unobtrusive way,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47878]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thank God for poverty That makes and keeps us free,  And lets us go our unobtrusive way,   Glad of the sun and rain,    Upright, serene, humane,     Contented with the fortune of a day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Etheldreda, Abbess of Ely, c.678  The soul which gives itself wholly and without reserve to God is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Etheldreda, Abbess of Ely, c.678  The soul which gives itself wholly and without reserve to God is filled with His own Peace; and inasmuch as we are prone to grow like that to which we are closely united, the closer we draw to our God, so much the stronger and more steadfast and more tranquil shall we become.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en; In brief, sir, study what you most affect. -The Taming of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55703]]></link><description><![CDATA[No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en; In brief, sir, study what you most affect. -The Taming of the Shrew. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first half was almost like a boxing match, trying to see what the other guy was going to do. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31281]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first half was almost like a boxing match, trying to see what the other guy was going to do. In the second half, our conditioning allowed us to keep our intensity up and play at a pace that helped us extend the lead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou hast damnable iteration, and art indeed able to corrupt a saint. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55836]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou hast damnable iteration, and art indeed able to corrupt a saint. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The diseases of the mind are more and more destructive than those of the body. [Lat., Morbi perniciores pluresque animi ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27513]]></link><description><![CDATA[The diseases of the mind are more and more destructive than those of the body. [Lat., Morbi perniciores pluresque animi quam corporis.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5935]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action.If there's no action, you haven't truly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21407]]></link><description><![CDATA[A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action.If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12894]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just feel that I'm in tune with the right vibrations in the universe when I'm in the process of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3366]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just feel that I'm in tune with the right vibrations in the universe when I'm in the process of working.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2093]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have powers you never dreamed of. You can do things you never thought you could do. there are no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22596]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have powers you never dreamed of. You can do things you never thought you could do. there are no limitations in what you can do except the limitations of your own mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've written some poetry I don't understand myself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46816]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of George Augustus Selwyn, first Bishop of New Zealand, 1878  If there were a righteousness which a man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of George Augustus Selwyn, first Bishop of New Zealand, 1878  If there were a righteousness which a man could have of his own, then we should have to concern ourselves with the question of how it can be imparted to him. But there is not. The idea of a righteousness of one's own is the quintessence of sin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56637]]></link><description><![CDATA[To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alcoholism is a disease, but it's the only one you can get yelled at for having. Goddamn it Otto, you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alcoholism is a disease, but it's the only one you can get yelled at for having. Goddamn it Otto, you are an alcoholic. Goddamn it Otto, you have Lupis... one of those two doesn't sound right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wonder how many of the people who profess to believe in the leveling ideas of collectivism and egalitarianism really ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47205]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wonder how many of the people who profess to believe in the leveling ideas of collectivism and egalitarianism really just believe that they themselves are good for nothing. I mean, how many leftists are animated by a quite reasonable self-loathing? In their hearts they know that they are not going to become scholars or inventors or industrialists or even ordinary good kind people. So they need a way to achieve that smugness for which the left is so justifiably famous. They need a way to achieve self-esteem without merit. Well, there is politics. In an egalitarian world everything will be controlled by politics, and politics requires no merit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peacetime conscription is the greatest step toward regimentation and militarism ever undertaken by the Congress of the United States. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12814]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peacetime conscription is the greatest step toward regimentation and militarism ever undertaken by the Congress of the United States.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12814</guid></item></channel></rss>