<?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[On April 30, 1789, George Washington, standing on the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York, took ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60293]]></link><description><![CDATA[On April 30, 1789, George Washington, standing on the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York, took his oath of office as the first President of the United States. Of this he wrote to James Madison: As the first of every thing, in our situation will serve to establish a Precedent, it is devoutly wished on my part, that these precedents may be fixed on true principles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56103]]></link><description><![CDATA[Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We gather strength from sadness and from pain Each time we die we learn to live again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54629]]></link><description><![CDATA[We gather strength from sadness and from pain Each time we die we learn to live again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh Martin Sometimes your voice was the thunder..Sometimes it was the falling rain. Always it burst our hearts asunderand made ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18356]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh Martin Sometimes your voice was the thunder..Sometimes it was the falling rain. Always it burst our hearts asunderand made them vibrate.. empathic in pain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John Keble, Priest, Poet, Tractarian, 1866  God's own work must be done by God's own ways. Otherwise, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7450]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John Keble, Priest, Poet, Tractarian, 1866  God's own work must be done by God's own ways. Otherwise, we can take no comfort in obtaining the end, if we cannot justify the means used thereunto.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This city, which has taken its place in the history of our century, is now being called upon to help ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41937]]></link><description><![CDATA[This city, which has taken its place in the history of our century, is now being called upon to help launch a new millennium,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They can always come in. We are willing to cooperate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31008]]></link><description><![CDATA[They can always come in. We are willing to cooperate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civium in moribus rei publicae salus [The welfare of the state (depends upon) the morals of its citizens] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43281]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civium in moribus rei publicae salus [The welfare of the state (depends upon) the morals of its citizens]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57377]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The things we hate about ourselves aren't more real than things we like about ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63314]]></link><description><![CDATA[The things we hate about ourselves aren't more real than things we like about ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one has no better method of enticement to offer, the cordial agreement seems to us to be the best ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57836]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one has no better method of enticement to offer, the cordial agreement seems to us to be the best compromise. [Fr., Si l'on n'a pas de meilleurs moyen de seduction a lui offrir, l'entente cordiale nous parait fort compromise.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is now possible for a flight attendant to get a pilot pregnant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44863]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is now possible for a flight attendant to get a pilot pregnant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21958]]></link><description><![CDATA[The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Crescat scientia, vita excolatur [Let knowledge grow, let life be enriched] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43282]]></link><description><![CDATA[Crescat scientia, vita excolatur [Let knowledge grow, let life be enriched]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've made all my money on my own without my family and I work very hard, ... Just listening to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13036]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've made all my money on my own without my family and I work very hard, ... Just listening to my father . . . So just basically following that and following my heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[already seething with social injustice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31999]]></link><description><![CDATA[already seething with social injustice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think he feels the door has been opened, and he's getting some shoves from behind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30466]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think he feels the door has been opened, and he's getting some shoves from behind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to repent of our blindness, our lukewarmness, and our disobedience, and turn back to the central truth of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6873]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to repent of our blindness, our lukewarmness, and our disobedience, and turn back to the central truth of Christ as Lord and Saviour; an ethical system will not save us here, nor a timid sentimentalism, nor an excited emotional return, nor a dilettante mysticism. We have to find that deep contrition which is the condition of His abiding. Repentance is not a mere feeling of sorrow or contrition for an act of wrongdoing. The regret I feel when I act impatiently or speak crossly is not repentance... Repentance is contrition for what we are in our fundamental beings, that we are wrong in our deepest roots because our internal government is by Self and not by God. And it is an activity of the whole person. Unless I will to be different, the mind will not follow. True repentance brings an urge to be different, because of the sense of the incessant movement of what I am, forming, forming, forming what I shall be in the years to come.   ... The Notebooks of Florence Allshorn  January 11, 1996 Commemoration of Mary Slessor, Missionary in West Africa, 1915   Every virtue is a form of obedience to God. Every evil word or act is a form of rebellion against Him. This may not be clear at first; but, if we think patiently, we shall find that it is true. Why were you angry? You will probably find that it was because you were not willing to accept the world as God has made it, or because you were not willing to leave it to God to deal with the people that He has made.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58655]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The swallow sweeps The slimy pool, to build his hanging house. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58441]]></link><description><![CDATA[The swallow sweeps The slimy pool, to build his hanging house.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who seeks for heaven alone to save his soul, May keep the path, but will not reach the goal; While ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7371]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who seeks for heaven alone to save his soul, May keep the path, but will not reach the goal; While he who walks in love may wander far, But God will bring him where the Blessed are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See and to be seen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56254]]></link><description><![CDATA[See and to be seen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While modern technology has given people powerful new communication tools, it apparently can do nothing to alter the fact that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56819]]></link><description><![CDATA[While modern technology has given people powerful new communication tools, it apparently can do nothing to alter the fact that many people have nothing useful to say.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ovid's a rake, as half his verses show him, Anacreon's morals are a still worse sample,  Catullus scarcely has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46849]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ovid's a rake, as half his verses show him, Anacreon's morals are a still worse sample,  Catullus scarcely has a decent poem,   I don't think Sappho's Ode a good example,    Although Longinus tells us there is no hymn     Where the sublime soars forth on wings more ample;      But Virgil's songs are pure, except that horrid one       Being with "Formosum Pastor Corydon."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Models work when they are appropriate for the particular circumstance, but some of the best investment judgments over time have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23029]]></link><description><![CDATA[Models work when they are appropriate for the particular circumstance, but some of the best investment judgments over time have come when people recognized that models derived in other periods were broken or not directly relevant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the immediate postwar years, the whole of Europe was in a recession. So first of all, it helped us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35802]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the immediate postwar years, the whole of Europe was in a recession. So first of all, it helped us step out of a recession; it gave a certain amount of speed to the economy. But that was the first step.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words learn'd by rote a parrot may rehearse, But talking is not always to converse,  Not more distinct from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58608]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words learn'd by rote a parrot may rehearse, But talking is not always to converse,  Not more distinct from harmony divine   The constant creaking of a country sign.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sooth'd with the sound, the king grew vain: Fought all his battles o'er again;  And thrice he routed all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60376]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sooth'd with the sound, the king grew vain: Fought all his battles o'er again;  And thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he slew the slain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We played good defense (all game) and ran our offense (in the second half). When we do that, we can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30608]]></link><description><![CDATA[We played good defense (all game) and ran our offense (in the second half). When we do that, we can win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14330]]></link><description><![CDATA[Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've signed up until 2008 and I am happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30996]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've signed up until 2008 and I am happy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All cruelty springs from hard-heartedness and weakness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10805]]></link><description><![CDATA[All cruelty springs from hard-heartedness and weakness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nonviolence doesn't always work -- but violence never does. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60665]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nonviolence doesn't always work -- but violence never does.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Given one well-trained physician of the highest type he will do better work for a thousand people than ten specialists. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Given one well-trained physician of the highest type he will do better work for a thousand people than ten specialists.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43946]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.Spech in March 1976. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7367]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.Spech in March 1976.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In doing we learne. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49536]]></link><description><![CDATA[In doing we learne.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You carry Caesar and Caesar's fortune. [Lat., Caesarem vehis, Caesarisque fortunam.]   - Julius Caesar (Caius Julius Caesar), ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16576]]></link><description><![CDATA[You carry Caesar and Caesar's fortune. [Lat., Caesarem vehis, Caesarisque fortunam.]   - Julius Caesar (Caius Julius Caesar),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Harriet Monsell of Clewer, Religious, 1883   There is no situation so chaotic that God cannot from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7928]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Harriet Monsell of Clewer, Religious, 1883   There is no situation so chaotic that God cannot from that situation create something that is surpassingly good. He did it at the creation. He did it at the cross. He is doing it today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Crescit eundo [It grows as it goes] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43283]]></link><description><![CDATA[Crescit eundo [It grows as it goes]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O monstrous! but one halfpennyworth of bread to this intolerable deal of sack! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22929]]></link><description><![CDATA[O monstrous! but one halfpennyworth of bread to this intolerable deal of sack!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know very much, but what I do know I know better than anybody, and I don't want to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36978]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know very much, but what I do know I know better than anybody, and I don't want to argue about it. I know what I think about an actor or an actress, and am not interested in what anybody else thinks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never yet heard man or woman much abused that I was not inclined to think the better of them, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/265]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never yet heard man or woman much abused that I was not inclined to think the better of them, and to transfer the suspicion or dislike to the one who found pleasure in pointing out the defects of another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee?  Fed with nourishment divine,   The dewy morning's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee?  Fed with nourishment divine,   The dewy morning's gentle wine!    Nature waits upon thee still,     And thy verdant cup does fill;      'Tis fill'd wherever thou dost tread,       Nature's self's thy Ganymede.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53859]]></link><description><![CDATA[Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no one thing that is true. They're all true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65891]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[English literature is a kind of training in social ethics. English trains you to handle a body of information in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25325]]></link><description><![CDATA[English literature is a kind of training in social ethics. English trains you to handle a body of information in a way that is conducive to action.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64286]]></link><description><![CDATA[When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds' cries; I never hear the west wind but tears are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61651]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds' cries; I never hear the west wind but tears are in my eyes.  For it comes from the west lands, the old brown hills,   And April's in the West wind, and daffodils.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61651</guid></item></channel></rss>