<?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[The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances boldly to meet them head on. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44303]]></link><description><![CDATA[The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances boldly to meet them head on. The weak man grows agitated. But the superior man stands up to fate, endures resolutely in his inner certainty If ignorant both.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13970]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation . . . . ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17179]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation . . . . A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27616]]></link><description><![CDATA[The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have the ability to know where each other is gonna be. A lot of times, they'll make a pass, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37393]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have the ability to know where each other is gonna be. A lot of times, they'll make a pass, and someone else might not know where it's going. But they know where it's going.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A plague of all cowards, I say. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55855]]></link><description><![CDATA[A plague of all cowards, I say. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we have to do . . . is to find a way to celebrate our diversity and debate our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12593]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we have to do . . . is to find a way to celebrate our diversity and debate our differences without fracturing our communities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good Gertrude, set some watch over your son.-- This grave shall have a living monument.  An hour of quiet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43052]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good Gertrude, set some watch over your son.-- This grave shall have a living monument.  An hour of quiet shortly shall we see;   Till then in patience our proceeding be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29018]]></link><description><![CDATA[Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without justice, courage is weak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23617]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without justice, courage is weak.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every theory of love, from Plato down teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27185]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every theory of love, from Plato down teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements (as well as one's deepest failures) is a definite symptom of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1742]]></link><description><![CDATA[The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements (as well as one's deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have raised for myself a monument more durable than brass. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50262]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have raised for myself a monument more durable than brass.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22103]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  I have come to see that I do not limit my mind simply ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6196]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  I have come to see that I do not limit my mind simply enough to prayer that I always want to do something myself in it, wherein I do very wrong and wish most definitely to cut off and separate my mind from all that, and to hold it with all my strength, as much as I can, to the sole regard and simple unity. By allowing the fear of being ineffectual to enter into the state of prayer, and by wishing to accomplish something myself, I spoilt it all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether you boyle snow or pound it, you can have but water of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether you boyle snow or pound it, you can have but water of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, Martyr in Uganda, 1885  In America, it is hard to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6588]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, Martyr in Uganda, 1885  In America, it is hard to distinguish Christianity from its social and cultural setting. It blends into the scenery. Many people assume that we live in a "Christian society". Obviously, the Christian church has no strong witness against society. In [a communist country], the situation is exactly the opposite. Christians there live under a political regime which makes a point of distinguishing itself from all religion, and which is grounded philosophically on atheism and materialism. The Church lives in a hostile social order. The result is that the weak Christians are weeded out, and the strong Christians are tremendously strengthened by adversity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since truth and constancy are vain, Since neither love, nor sense of pain,  Nor force of reason, can persuade, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14394]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since truth and constancy are vain, Since neither love, nor sense of pain,  Nor force of reason, can persuade,   Then let example be obey'd.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43994]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The several sorts of religion in the world are little more than so many spiritual monopolies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56968]]></link><description><![CDATA[The several sorts of religion in the world are little more than so many spiritual monopolies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were inadvertently sending a message to the public that they were not welcome. We do want everyone in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34140]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were inadvertently sending a message to the public that they were not welcome. We do want everyone in the museum and we want to create a comfortable place.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no knowledge that is not power ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47917]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no knowledge that is not power]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can we believe that God ever really modifies His action in response to the suggestions of men? For infinite wisdom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8510]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can we believe that God ever really modifies His action in response to the suggestions of men? For infinite wisdom does not need telling what is best, and infinite goodness needs no urging to do it. But neither does God need any of those things that are done by finite agents, whether living or inanimate. He could, if He chose, repair our bodies miraculously without food; or give us food without the aid of farmers, bakers, and butchers, or knowledge without the aid of learned men; or convert the heathen without missionaries. Instead, He allows soils and weather and animals and the muscles, minds, and wills of men to cooperate in the execution of His will... It is not really stranger, nor less strange, that my prayers should affect the course of events than that my other actions should do so. They have not advised or changed God' s mind -- that is, His overall purpose. But that purpose will be realized in different ways according to the actions, including the prayers, of His creatures.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24216]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53925]]></link><description><![CDATA[I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature is never finished. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature is never finished.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the equivalent of putting on the brakes suddenly while driving uphill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17204]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the equivalent of putting on the brakes suddenly while driving uphill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace hath higher tests of manhood Than battle ever knew. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45978]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace hath higher tests of manhood Than battle ever knew.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't take life too seriously; you'll never get out of it alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't take life too seriously; you'll never get out of it alive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hell is paved with priests' skulls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hell is paved with priests' skulls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak... Non-violence is hard work. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44623]]></link><description><![CDATA[Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak... Non-violence is hard work. It is the willingness to sacrifice. It is the patience to win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't put equipment on your gravestone.*Ian Stewart's father about the risks he was taking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/670]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't put equipment on your gravestone.*Ian Stewart's father about the risks he was taking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This budget is like an Enron budget -- smoke the numbers, cook the books, hide the truth and hope no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12536]]></link><description><![CDATA[This budget is like an Enron budget -- smoke the numbers, cook the books, hide the truth and hope no one finds out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23771]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friday was not a question of what went wrong. Drexel has a very good team, and I thought we wrestled ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30963]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friday was not a question of what went wrong. Drexel has a very good team, and I thought we wrestled pretty well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We played well in the first half, but lost our composure in the second. We won the game, but we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41686]]></link><description><![CDATA[We played well in the first half, but lost our composure in the second. We won the game, but we still have a lot of work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very hard! Oh, Dick, my boy, It's very hard one can't enjoy  A little private spouting;   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/425]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very hard! Oh, Dick, my boy, It's very hard one can't enjoy  A little private spouting;   But sure as Lear or Hamlet lives,    Up comes our master, Bounce! and gives     The tragic Muse a routing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63268]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13652]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12371]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By outward show let's not be cheated; An ass should like an ass be treated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2822]]></link><description><![CDATA[By outward show let's not be cheated; An ass should like an ass be treated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1329]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Language, as symbol, determines much of the nature and quality of our experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Language, as symbol, determines much of the nature and quality of our experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the devil when he purports any evil against man, first perverts his mind. [Lat., At daemon, homini quum struit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21013]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the devil when he purports any evil against man, first perverts his mind. [Lat., At daemon, homini quum struit aliquid malum,  Pervertit illi primitus mentem suam.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48151]]></link><description><![CDATA[The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The beauteous pansies rise In purple, gold, and blue,  With tints of rainbow hue   Mocking the sunset ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45444]]></link><description><![CDATA[The beauteous pansies rise In purple, gold, and blue,  With tints of rainbow hue   Mocking the sunset skies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9275]]></link><description><![CDATA[Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9275</guid></item></channel></rss>