<?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[I think God made a woman to be strong and not to be trampled under the feet of men. I've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66713]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think God made a woman to be strong and not to be trampled under the feet of men. I've always felt this way because my mother was a very strong woman, without a husband.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cosmos is interesting rather than perfect, and everything is not part of some greater plan, nor is all necessarily ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10204]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cosmos is interesting rather than perfect, and everything is not part of some greater plan, nor is all necessarily under control]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was quite interesting but I didn't come for this. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28926]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was quite interesting but I didn't come for this.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is a deliberate recreation of a new and special reality that grows from your response to life. It cannot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3212]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is a deliberate recreation of a new and special reality that grows from your response to life. It cannot be copied; it must be created.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've been campaigning against controls on the Internet in China for many years now. We've been particularly concerned about the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41748]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've been campaigning against controls on the Internet in China for many years now. We've been particularly concerned about the number of people who have been put in prison just for expressing their opinion on the Internet, or for accessing certain information that the government finds threatening or embarrassing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47549]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54605]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sly old fish, too cunning for the hook. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16067]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sly old fish, too cunning for the hook.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26828]]></link><description><![CDATA[Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every act of creation is first an act of destruction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12108]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without duty, life is soft and boneless; it cannot hold itself together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without duty, life is soft and boneless; it cannot hold itself together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never buy shoes early in the day when your feet are their smallest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27653]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never buy shoes early in the day when your feet are their smallest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31492]]></link><description><![CDATA[People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there in front of them. This is what people have come to expect. It's not viewed as a serious continent. It's a place of strange, bizarre and illogical things, where people don't do what common sense demands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had a couple of train wrecks towards the end of the day. We were playing really well through eight ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30888]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had a couple of train wrecks towards the end of the day. We were playing really well through eight holes. These greens are fast and bent. We are not experienced in that area, so we had some experience to gain today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/814]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us from kindergarten in the age of perversions of Dewey-style education: everyone gets a ribbon, and praise becomes a meaningless narcotic to soothe egoistic distemper.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27617]]></link><description><![CDATA[Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O beautiful rainbow;--all woven of light! There's not in thy tissue one shadow of night;  Heaven surely is open ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52947]]></link><description><![CDATA[O beautiful rainbow;--all woven of light! There's not in thy tissue one shadow of night;  Heaven surely is open when thou dost appear.   And, bending thee above, the angels draw near,    And sing,--"The rainbow! the rainbow!     The smile of God is here."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any fool can say he is wise but only someone wise can admit he is a fool. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46511]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any fool can say he is wise but only someone wise can admit he is a fool.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Straight is the line of duty; Curved is the line of beauty;  Follow the straight line, thou shalt see ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13062]]></link><description><![CDATA[Straight is the line of duty; Curved is the line of beauty;  Follow the straight line, thou shalt see   The curved line ever follow thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Easter Feast of George, Martyr, Patron of England, c.304 Commemoration of Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1988 I greet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8538]]></link><description><![CDATA[Easter Feast of George, Martyr, Patron of England, c.304 Commemoration of Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1988 I greet Thy sepulchre, salute Thy grave,  That blest enclosure, where the angels gave  The first glad tidings of Thy early light,  And resurrection from the earth and night.  I see that morning in Thy convert's tears,  Fresh as the dew, which but this downing wears.  I smell her spices; and her ointment yields  As rich a scent as the now primrosed fields:  The Day-star smiles, and light, with Thee deceased,  Now shines in all the chambers of the East.  ... Henry Vaughan April 24, 2000 Commemoration of Mellitus, First Bishop of London, 624  The [Christian] "doctrines" are translations into our concepts and ideas of that which God has already expressed in language more adequate, namely the actual incarnation, crucifixion, and resurrection.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Dwarfe on a Gyants shoulder sees further of the two. [A dwarf on a giant's shoulder sees farther of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Dwarfe on a Gyants shoulder sees further of the two. [A dwarf on a giant's shoulder sees farther of the two.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet here's eglantine, Here's ivy!--take them as I used to do  Thy flowers, and keep them where they shall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet here's eglantine, Here's ivy!--take them as I used to do  Thy flowers, and keep them where they shall not pine.   Instruct thine eyes to keep their colours true,    And tell thy soul their roots are left in mine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Texas, years ago, almost all of the oil came from surface operations.Then someone got the idea that there were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21682]]></link><description><![CDATA[In Texas, years ago, almost all of the oil came from surface operations.Then someone got the idea that there were greater sources of supply deeperdown. A well was drilled five thousand feet deep. The result? A gusher.Too many of us operate on the surface. We never go deep enough to findsupernatural resources. The result is, we never operate at our best. Moretime and investment is involved to go deep but a gusher will pay off.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of those guys were supposed to come over here with him and I think that's one of the reasons ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41380]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of those guys were supposed to come over here with him and I think that's one of the reasons he doesn't want to come. It would remind him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A really patient servant of God is as ready to bear inglorious troubles as those which are honorable. A brave ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7234]]></link><description><![CDATA[A really patient servant of God is as ready to bear inglorious troubles as those which are honorable. A brave man can easily bear with contempt, slander, and false accusations from an evil world; but to bear such injustice at the hands of good men, of friends and relations, is a great test of patience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46024]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him. [Fr., Qu'on me donne six lignes ecrites de la main du plus honnete homme, j'y trouverai de quoi le faire pendre.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell,  And shook a dreadful dart; what seem'd ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12158]]></link><description><![CDATA[Black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell,  And shook a dreadful dart; what seem'd his head   The likeness of a kingly crown had on.    Satan was now at hand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a game in which one always cheats. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a game in which one always cheats.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50906]]></link><description><![CDATA[In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Odin, thou whirlwind, what a threat is this Thou threatenest what transcends thy might, even thine,  For of all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Odin, thou whirlwind, what a threat is this Thou threatenest what transcends thy might, even thine,  For of all powers the mightiest far art thou,   Lord over men on earth, and Gods in Heaven;    Yet even from thee thyself hath been withheld     One thing--to undo what thou thyself hast ruled.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've been on a smooth downward trend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29643]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've been on a smooth downward trend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership is the special quality which enables people to stand up and pull the rest of us over the horizon. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24449]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership is the special quality which enables people to stand up and pull the rest of us over the horizon. -James L. Fisher.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30.". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Youth dreams a bliss on this side of death. It dreams a rest, if not more deep,  More grateful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Youth dreams a bliss on this side of death. It dreams a rest, if not more deep,  More grateful than this marble sleep;   It hears a voice within it tell:    Calm's not life's crown, though calm is well.     'Tis all perhaps which man acquires,      But 'tis not what our youth desires.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no feeling more comforting and consoling than knowing you are right next to the one you love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8975]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no feeling more comforting and consoling than knowing you are right next to the one you love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our goal from the beginning is to be the Suffolk County small school champion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42150]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our goal from the beginning is to be the Suffolk County small school champion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48136]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every criticism, judgment, diagnosis, and expression of anger is the tragic expression of an unmet need. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62789]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every criticism, judgment, diagnosis, and expression of anger is the tragic expression of an unmet need.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57579]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is no more ignoble to attend a wrestled performance of suffering than a performance of the sorrows of Arnolphe or Andromaque.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21685]]></link><description><![CDATA[How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on the headstone might well be: "It seemed a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19990]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on the headstone might well be: "It seemed a good idea at the time.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18068]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18068</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[Feast of Saints & Martyrs of England   I could scarcely reconcile myself at first to this strange way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7037]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Saints & Martyrs of England   I could scarcely reconcile myself at first to this strange way of preaching in the fields, of which Whitfield set me an example on Sunday; having been all my life (till very lately) so tenacious of every point relating to decency and order, that I should have thought the saving of souls almost a sin, if it had not been done in a church.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let music sound while he doth make his choice; Then if he lose he makes a swanlike end,  Fading ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58460]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let music sound while he doth make his choice; Then if he lose he makes a swanlike end,  Fading in music.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolutions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolutions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63466]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The law must be stable and yet it must not stand still. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24286]]></link><description><![CDATA[The law must be stable and yet it must not stand still.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a business. Be smart. Choose wisely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38607]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a business. Be smart. Choose wisely.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For him in vain the envious seasons roll, Who bears eternal summer in his soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1899]]></link><description><![CDATA[For him in vain the envious seasons roll, Who bears eternal summer in his soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1899</guid></item></channel></rss>