<?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[True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4858]]></link><description><![CDATA[True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27719]]></link><description><![CDATA[The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them -which- we are missing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without a sign his sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen but his country's cause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4854]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without a sign his sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen but his country's cause.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wrote the story myself. It's about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53872]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wrote the story myself. It's about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A trip to the hospital is always a descent into the macabre. I have never trusted a place with shiny ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19887]]></link><description><![CDATA[A trip to the hospital is always a descent into the macabre. I have never trusted a place with shiny floors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A great poet has seldom sung of lawfully wedded happiness, but of free and secret love; and in this respect, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26440]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great poet has seldom sung of lawfully wedded happiness, but of free and secret love; and in this respect, too the time is coming when there will no longer be one standard of morality for poetry and another for life. To anyone tender of conscience, the ties formed by a free connection are stronger than the legal ones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We went to Connecticut and I met the cadets from the Coast Guard Academy because they read my book over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34802]]></link><description><![CDATA[We went to Connecticut and I met the cadets from the Coast Guard Academy because they read my book over the summer for class,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The emergency we face in the Horn today is the result of successive seasons of failed rains. Consequently, pastoralists living ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36569]]></link><description><![CDATA[The emergency we face in the Horn today is the result of successive seasons of failed rains. Consequently, pastoralists living in these arid, remote lands have very few survival strategies left and desperately require our assistance to make it through until the next rains.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Divorce is the psychological equivalent of a triple coronary by-pass. After such a monumental assault on the heart, it takes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12606]]></link><description><![CDATA[Divorce is the psychological equivalent of a triple coronary by-pass. After such a monumental assault on the heart, it takes years to amend all the habits and attitudes that led up to it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brandywine's a good team. They have a real good player in [5-foot-9 sophomore] Michelle Baker and it'll be a good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38692]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brandywine's a good team. They have a real good player in [5-foot-9 sophomore] Michelle Baker and it'll be a good test to see how we respond, and see if we can beat them for a third time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/516]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Felds hath eyen, and wode have eres. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48819]]></link><description><![CDATA[Felds hath eyen, and wode have eres.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership is an interactive conversation that pulls people toward becoming comfortable with the language of personal responsibility and commitment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38440]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership is an interactive conversation that pulls people toward becoming comfortable with the language of personal responsibility and commitment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18035]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Christianity is what Jesus taught and lived and died for, then nothing can be truly the Gospel which lays ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6577]]></link><description><![CDATA[If Christianity is what Jesus taught and lived and died for, then nothing can be truly the Gospel which lays less stress than he did upon every human being's need of forgiveness by God, and upon our human need to be perpetually forgiving each other. Sooner or later, the modern adult man, like all other men everywhere, must come to know his need to be forgiven, and that by God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a glorious throne ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51955]]></link><description><![CDATA[And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a glorious throne to his father's house.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53718]]></link><description><![CDATA[We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But Barry, to me, is head and shoulders above everybody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41468]]></link><description><![CDATA[But Barry, to me, is head and shoulders above everybody.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah! How neatly tied, in these people, is the umbilical cord of morality! Since they left their mothers they have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43137]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah! How neatly tied, in these people, is the umbilical cord of morality! Since they left their mothers they have never sinned, have they? They are apostles, they are the descendants of priests; one can only wonder from what source they draw their indignation, and above all how much they have pocketed to do this, and in any case what it has done for them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53485]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You get him. I don't care what you have to do - just gethim. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29441]]></link><description><![CDATA[You get him. I don't care what you have to do - just gethim.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Daniel come to judgment! yea, a Daniel! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51415]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Daniel come to judgment! yea, a Daniel!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are a man, not God; you are human, not an angel. How can you expect to remain always in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8027]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are a man, not God; you are human, not an angel. How can you expect to remain always in a constant state of virtue, when this was not possible even for an angel of heaven, nor for the first man in the Garden?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But those that understood him smiled at one another and shook their heads; but for mine own part, if was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25133]]></link><description><![CDATA[But those that understood him smiled at one another and shook their heads; but for mine own part, if was Greek to me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we had some good looks early. We just missed them. If we make those shots we might get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41928]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we had some good looks early. We just missed them. If we make those shots we might get off on a roll.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nine tenths of education is encouragement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13446]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nine tenths of education is encouragement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God has called us to shine, just as much as Daniel was sent into Babylon to shine. Let no one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7109]]></link><description><![CDATA[God has called us to shine, just as much as Daniel was sent into Babylon to shine. Let no one say that he cannot shine because he has not so much influence as some others may have. What God wants you to do is to use the influence you have. Daniel probably did not have much influence down in Babylon at first, but God soon gave him more because he was faithful and used what he had.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be humble, if thou would'st attain to Wisdom. Be humbler still, when Wisdom thou hast mastered. -Helena Petrova Blavatsky. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1172]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be humble, if thou would'st attain to Wisdom. Be humbler still, when Wisdom thou hast mastered. -Helena Petrova Blavatsky.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had rather be right than be President. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27672]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had rather be right than be President.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The safest words are always those which bring us most directly to facts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62017]]></link><description><![CDATA[The safest words are always those which bring us most directly to facts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To get rich never risk your health. For it is the truth that health is the wealth of wealth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1141]]></link><description><![CDATA[To get rich never risk your health. For it is the truth that health is the wealth of wealth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For rhyme the rudder is of verses, With which, like ships, they steer their courses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46744]]></link><description><![CDATA[For rhyme the rudder is of verses, With which, like ships, they steer their courses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder; God will take care of that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26398]]></link><description><![CDATA[What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder; God will take care of that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brian laughed at me in court, and said the money wasn't worth anything at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31844]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brian laughed at me in court, and said the money wasn't worth anything at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23644]]></link><description><![CDATA[So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men. - The Silence of the Sea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44175]]></link><description><![CDATA[All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men. - The Silence of the Sea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martin Luther, Teacher, Reformer, 1546  Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection, not in books ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8298]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martin Luther, Teacher, Reformer, 1546  Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection, not in books alone but in every leaf in springtime.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65675]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need a plumber to install showers; we want to expand the playground for the children; we also want to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41498]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need a plumber to install showers; we want to expand the playground for the children; we also want to incorporate classes that will benefit the mothers into our schedule.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/714]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66563]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is it: is man only a blunder of God, or God only a blunder of man? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17726]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is it: is man only a blunder of God, or God only a blunder of man?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All children have creative power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63954]]></link><description><![CDATA[All children have creative power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reunion after long separation is even better than one's wedding night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reunion after long separation is even better than one's wedding night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60165]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A miser and a liar bargain quickly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3727]]></link><description><![CDATA[A miser and a liar bargain quickly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A baby is God's opinion that life should go on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24991]]></link><description><![CDATA[A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Investors may want a premium on bonds, which may push the cost of borrowing up. But a downgrade will have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Investors may want a premium on bonds, which may push the cost of borrowing up. But a downgrade will have an immediate impact on the cost of debt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31335</guid></item></channel></rss>