<?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 would be angels, angels would be gods. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50935]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men would be angels, angels would be gods.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The really idle man gets nowhere. The perpetually busy mandoes not get much further. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22169]]></link><description><![CDATA[The really idle man gets nowhere. The perpetually busy mandoes not get much further.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19421]]></link><description><![CDATA[I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good friends are like stars...you don't always see them, but you know they're always there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good friends are like stars...you don't always see them, but you know they're always there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Literature is the immortality of speech. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Literature is the immortality of speech.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1646]]></link><description><![CDATA[The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennuis, vanish,--all duties even.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We may not understand how the spirit works; but the effect of the spirit on the lives of men is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7466]]></link><description><![CDATA[We may not understand how the spirit works; but the effect of the spirit on the lives of men is there for all to see; and the only unanswerable argument for Christianity is a Christian life. No man can disregard a religion and a faith and a power which is able to make bad men good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29861]]></link><description><![CDATA[What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In places like Ford County, Piatt, Douglas and DeWitt counties, (agriculture) is a large economic driver. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38098]]></link><description><![CDATA[In places like Ford County, Piatt, Douglas and DeWitt counties, (agriculture) is a large economic driver.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some mute, inglorious Milton here may rest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some mute, inglorious Milton here may rest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For many years the Christians met in homes and never possessed any special buildings for their gatherings. As religio illicita, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6503]]></link><description><![CDATA[For many years the Christians met in homes and never possessed any special buildings for their gatherings. As religio illicita, no thought could be had of a permanent structure for gatherings. This would only facilitate matters for the Roman government in its merciless persecutions. The early Church was very conscious of its pilgrim character in a world which was at enmity with God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike--and yet it is the most precious thing we have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54816]]></link><description><![CDATA[All our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike--and yet it is the most precious thing we have.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whereas wine disorders the mental faculties, opium introduces amongst them the most exquisite order, legislation and harmony. Wine robs a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45017]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whereas wine disorders the mental faculties, opium introduces amongst them the most exquisite order, legislation and harmony. Wine robs a man of self-possession; opium greatly invigorates it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But her voice is still living immortal, The same you have frequently heard,  In your rambles in valleys and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13300]]></link><description><![CDATA[But her voice is still living immortal, The same you have frequently heard,  In your rambles in valleys and forests,   Repeating your ultimate word.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26738]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in the service of prolonging life rather than diminishing human suffering.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As thou these ashes, little brook! will bear Into the Avon, Avon to the tide  Of Severn, Severn to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12641]]></link><description><![CDATA[As thou these ashes, little brook! will bear Into the Avon, Avon to the tide  Of Severn, Severn to the narrow seas,   Into main ocean they, this deed accurst,    An emblem yields to friends and enemies     How the bold teacher's doctrine, sanctified      By truth, shall spread throughout the world dispersed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The eyes have one language every where. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49842]]></link><description><![CDATA[The eyes have one language every where.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For my brethren and companions' sake, I will now ask, Peace be with thee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45869]]></link><description><![CDATA[For my brethren and companions' sake, I will now ask, Peace be with thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every moment of your life is infinitely creative and the universe is endlessly bountiful. Just put forth a clear enough ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every moment of your life is infinitely creative and the universe is endlessly bountiful. Just put forth a clear enough request, and everything your heart desires must come to you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In nature there's no blemish but the mind; None can be called deformed but the unkind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60268]]></link><description><![CDATA[In nature there's no blemish but the mind; None can be called deformed but the unkind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sad thing in life is that sometimes you meet someone who means a lot to you only to find ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53259]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sad thing in life is that sometimes you meet someone who means a lot to you only to find out in the end that it was never bound to be and you just have to let go.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57051]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3985]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And finally Winter, with its bitin', whinin' wind, and all the land will be mantled with snow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66731]]></link><description><![CDATA[And finally Winter, with its bitin', whinin' wind, and all the land will be mantled with snow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as possible, a kind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as possible, a kind of randomization. But chicken guts are hard to read and invite flights of fancy or corruption.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't know how to live, why wonder about death?. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11421]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't know how to live, why wonder about death?.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cheerfulness, sir, is the principle ingredient in the composition of health. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18941]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cheerfulness, sir, is the principle ingredient in the composition of health.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[FIRE HAS LEFT THE HEARTH Fire has left the hearth Nautilus climbed from shell Perfume flowed from bottle Prisoner gone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18359]]></link><description><![CDATA[FIRE HAS LEFT THE HEARTH Fire has left the hearth Nautilus climbed from shell Perfume flowed from bottle Prisoner gone from cell Butterfly flutterbied cocoon nor hand restrained by glove Jesus away from manger Cage left by Spirit Dove. Sparklings soared away from wand. Chick's egg become the bird. Omkar sung from out the throat Violin's notes now heard. Buddhist temple pine cone tabernacle'd godlet seed Shattered that it might manifest thousand forests of fir tree Eternal snow of mountain top now nurses meadow flowers. Shining never held by sun relentless melts ice towers. Love has left its spring the heart Is now a liquid pond Host stolen from the chalice consumed in mouth of God Starlight abandoned star a billion years ago Left that tonight you might have its sight and know Know Love is forever no drop of God ever dies Lover not bound by form of love God's bodies are not God's souls (to his wife and children on the death of Robert S) (Baba Hari Das: is the author of love is more powerful than lover for love is not bound by form).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Central depth of purple, Leaves more bright than rose,  Who shall tell what brightest thought   Out of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47682]]></link><description><![CDATA[Central depth of purple, Leaves more bright than rose,  Who shall tell what brightest thought   Out of darkness grows?    Who, through what funereal pain,     Souls to love and peace attain?   - Leigh Hunt (James Henry Leigh Hunt),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I give you Chicago. It is not London and Harvard. It is not Paris and buttermilk. It is American in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5876]]></link><description><![CDATA[I give you Chicago. It is not London and Harvard. It is not Paris and buttermilk. It is American in every chitling and sparerib. It is alive from snout to tail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idleness ruins the constitution. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50732]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idleness ruins the constitution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a one-way street, and we are not coming back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a one-way street, and we are not coming back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48433]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to a divine purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: That we are here for the sake of others...for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day, I realize how much my outer and inner life is built upon the labors of people, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4720]]></link><description><![CDATA[Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf, Witch's mummy, maw and gulf  Of the ravined salt-sea shark,   Root ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf, Witch's mummy, maw and gulf  Of the ravined salt-sea shark,   Root of hemlock digged i' th' dark,    Liver of blaspheming Jew,     Gall of goat, and slips of yew      Slivered in the moon's eclipse,       Nose of Turk, and Tartar's lips,        Finger of birth-strangled babe         Ditch-delivered by a drab          Make the gruel thick and slab.           Add there to a tiger's chaudron            For th' ingredience of our cauldron.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind! Brightest in dungeons, Liberty! thou art,  For there thy habitation is the heart-- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24684]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind! Brightest in dungeons, Liberty! thou art,  For there thy habitation is the heart--   The heart which love of thee alone can bind;    And when thy sons to fetters are consign'd--     To fetters and damp vault's dayless gloom,      Their country conquers with their martyrdom.   - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and ahalf. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21109]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and ahalf.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old muleskinners told how the mules were waiting at the shaft when they arrived each morning. They wanted relief from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36329]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old muleskinners told how the mules were waiting at the shaft when they arrived each morning. They wanted relief from the heat, deerflies and mosquitoes just like the men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25465]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just saw a big sign with the F-word. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32093]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just saw a big sign with the F-word.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He probably just collapsed and never got up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34902]]></link><description><![CDATA[He probably just collapsed and never got up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cheerful at morn he wakes from short repose, Breathes the keen air, and carols as he goes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cheerful at morn he wakes from short repose, Breathes the keen air, and carols as he goes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We wanted to look at different combinations of players. We did achieve that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30792]]></link><description><![CDATA[We wanted to look at different combinations of players. We did achieve that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God himself has no right to be a tyrant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47405]]></link><description><![CDATA[God himself has no right to be a tyrant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Holy Innocents  The whole being of any Christian is Faith and Love... Faith brings the man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8286]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Holy Innocents  The whole being of any Christian is Faith and Love... Faith brings the man to God, love brings him to men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To stay ahead, you must have your next idea waiting in the wings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61072]]></link><description><![CDATA[To stay ahead, you must have your next idea waiting in the wings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was a burning and shining light: and ye were willing for a season to rejoice in his light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25046]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was a burning and shining light: and ye were willing for a season to rejoice in his light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25046</guid></item></channel></rss>