<?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[What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12292]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't use a lot where a little will do ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12730]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't use a lot where a little will do]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45697]]></link><description><![CDATA[To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65956]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9301]]></link><description><![CDATA[Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf is better than a whole loaf.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63389]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lust of gold succeeds the rage of conquest; The lust of gold, unfeeling and remorseless!  The last corruption ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17776]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lust of gold succeeds the rage of conquest; The lust of gold, unfeeling and remorseless!  The last corruption of degenerate man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22647]]></link><description><![CDATA[What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is richest who is content with the least. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28153]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is richest who is content with the least.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In quite recent times we seem to have entered a particularly dangerous new phase of anthropological aberration, namely, a queer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6644]]></link><description><![CDATA[In quite recent times we seem to have entered a particularly dangerous new phase of anthropological aberration, namely, a queer combination of nihilism and deification. Theoretically, man is said to be nothing but an animal with a highly developed cerebrum. At the same time, it is believed of this man that he is capable by science and technical devices of achieving whatever he wants. The deification which might have been thought to be finally overcome, returns as it were from behind, in the form of a deification of technical creativity to which not much less than omnipotence is ascribed. After mankind has done away with the pseudo-religion of race and blood, it is faced with the even greater danger of a technocratical pseudo-religion. There is no room for human personality, freedom and justice in either of these new religions of divine man. But the most dangerous of all must be the one which makes man at the same time nothing and God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are you green and growing or ripe and rotting?. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Are you green and growing or ripe and rotting?.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civilized man has always had a great inclination to read his conceptions and feelings into the mind of primitive man; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56827]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civilized man has always had a great inclination to read his conceptions and feelings into the mind of primitive man; but he has only a limited capacity for understanding the latter's undeveloped mental life and for interpreting, as it were, his nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confidence is courage at ease. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9671]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confidence is courage at ease.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She knows omnipotence has heard her prayer And cries, "It shall be done--sometimes, somewhere." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48047]]></link><description><![CDATA[She knows omnipotence has heard her prayer And cries, "It shall be done--sometimes, somewhere."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret to a long life is to stay busy, get plenty of exercise and don't drink too much. Then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13010]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret to a long life is to stay busy, get plenty of exercise and don't drink too much. Then again, don't drink too little.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65640]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a common saying among the Puritans, "Brown bread and the Gospel is good fare." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54911]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a common saying among the Puritans, "Brown bread and the Gospel is good fare."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Agreements which, I hope, will be followed by other treaties that will give increasing force to cooperation. It is now ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28246]]></link><description><![CDATA[Agreements which, I hope, will be followed by other treaties that will give increasing force to cooperation. It is now up to our diplomats to work for them to be implemented.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom is a package deal - with it comes responsibilities and consequences. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9845]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom is a package deal - with it comes responsibilities and consequences.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Evelyn Underhill, Mystical Writer, 1941   Formal prayer is a practical device, not a spiritual necessity. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7949]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Evelyn Underhill, Mystical Writer, 1941   Formal prayer is a practical device, not a spiritual necessity. It makes direct suggestions to our souls: it reminds us of realities which we always tend to forget.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's important to give it all you have while you have the chance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17494]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's important to give it all you have while you have the chance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who wooed in haste, and means to wed at leisure. -The Taming of the Shrew. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who wooed in haste, and means to wed at leisure. -The Taming of the Shrew. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's a veteran guy, get his bat in the lineup. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34865]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's a veteran guy, get his bat in the lineup.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26513]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59350]]></link><description><![CDATA[The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We live in the world when we love it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65387]]></link><description><![CDATA[We live in the world when we love it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prithee, friend, Pour out the pack of matter to mine ear,  The good and the bad together: he's friends ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44464]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prithee, friend, Pour out the pack of matter to mine ear,  The good and the bad together: he's friends with Caesar,   In state of health, thou say'st, and thou say'st, free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must every one be a man of his own fancy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51220]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must every one be a man of his own fancy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is reason grown courageous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14990]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is reason grown courageous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows Like the wave;  Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5505]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows Like the wave;  Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men.   Love tends life a little grace,    A few sad smiles; and then,     Both are laid in one cold place,      In the grave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hark, the Herald Tribune sings, Advertising wondrous things! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hark, the Herald Tribune sings, Advertising wondrous things!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bottom line on this job is easy, ... If I do it right this Sunday, they'll let me come ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34741]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bottom line on this job is easy, ... If I do it right this Sunday, they'll let me come back and do it again next Sunday.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60064]]></link><description><![CDATA[A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got to save your own soul first, and then the souls of your neighbors if they will let you; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20869]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to save your own soul first, and then the souls of your neighbors if they will let you; and for that reason you must cultivate, not a spirit of criticism, but the talents that attract people to the hearing of the Word.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This confirms what we have long suspected that the government is involved in putting together a deal to sell out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42457]]></link><description><![CDATA[This confirms what we have long suspected that the government is involved in putting together a deal to sell out British sovereignty and try and bounce the people of Gibraltar into accepting such a deal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But since the world, which thou art to strive against, is not without thee, but within thee, it follows, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38315]]></link><description><![CDATA[But since the world, which thou art to strive against, is not without thee, but within thee, it follows, that it is also to be conquered not without, but within thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27682]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord, what fools these mortals be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord, what fools these mortals be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62993]]></link><description><![CDATA[A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soon as thy letters trembling I unclose, That well-known name awakens all my woes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47824]]></link><description><![CDATA[Soon as thy letters trembling I unclose, That well-known name awakens all my woes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With devotion's visage, And pious action, we do sugar o'er  The devil himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51265]]></link><description><![CDATA[With devotion's visage, And pious action, we do sugar o'er  The devil himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was nice being offered the role and not having to audition, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29124]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was nice being offered the role and not having to audition,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hear how the birds, on ev'ry blooming spray, With joyous musick wake the dawning day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4245]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hear how the birds, on ev'ry blooming spray, With joyous musick wake the dawning day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On Blur bassist Alex James: I used to punch Alex a lot. He used to say really annoying things. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32345]]></link><description><![CDATA[On Blur bassist Alex James: I used to punch Alex a lot. He used to say really annoying things. I think he liked being punched.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that blowes in the dust fills his eyes with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49437]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that blowes in the dust fills his eyes with it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25923]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12369]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12369</guid></item></channel></rss>