<?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[Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65734]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now I will show myself To have more of the serpent than the dove;  That is--more knave than fool. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23898]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now I will show myself To have more of the serpent than the dove;  That is--more knave than fool.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With good and gentle-humored hearts I choose to chat where'er I come  Whate'er the subject be that starts.  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10085]]></link><description><![CDATA[With good and gentle-humored hearts I choose to chat where'er I come  Whate'er the subject be that starts.   But if I get among the glum    I hold my tongue to tell the truth     And keep my breath to cool my broth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If thou hadst once entered into the mind of Jesus, and hadst tasted, yea, even a little of his tender ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7970]]></link><description><![CDATA[If thou hadst once entered into the mind of Jesus, and hadst tasted, yea, even a little of his tender love, then wouldst thou care nought for thine own convenience or inconvenience, but wouldst rather rejoice at trouble brought upon thee, because the love of Jesus maketh a man to despise himself. He that loveth Jesus and is inwardly true and free from inordinate affections, is able to turn himself readily unto God, and to rise above himself in spirit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9869]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For spirits when they please Can either sex assume, or both. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2783]]></link><description><![CDATA[For spirits when they please Can either sex assume, or both.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once in awhile, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25728]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once in awhile, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A perfect democracy is therefore the most shameless thing in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11863]]></link><description><![CDATA[A perfect democracy is therefore the most shameless thing in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[At the Old-Time Radio Convention, which expects 600 attendees this weekend, leaders have begun inviting television stars -- over the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29667]]></link><description><![CDATA[[At the Old-Time Radio Convention, which expects 600 attendees this weekend, leaders have begun inviting television stars -- over the objections of purists who argue that only radio performers should be welcome.] If it becomes 'Friends of Old-Time Television,' I'm out of there, ... Let's Pretend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are rednecks in our society and they can take law into their own hands, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29077]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are rednecks in our society and they can take law into their own hands,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/522]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Voting is the least arduous of a citizen's duties. He has the prior and harder duty of making up his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8794]]></link><description><![CDATA[Voting is the least arduous of a citizen's duties. He has the prior and harder duty of making up his mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63981]]></link><description><![CDATA[Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea of endless and limitless progress and development seems unsatisfying both philosophically and religiously; a process only finds its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6875]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea of endless and limitless progress and development seems unsatisfying both philosophically and religiously; a process only finds its meaning in its goal. However far off be the Beatific Vision, to see the King in His glory, "to know Thee and Jesus Christ whom Thou hast sent" -- this is heaven, and "it were a well-spent journey though seven deaths lay between".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/455]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56488]]></link><description><![CDATA[The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks that he has found]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gambling undermines the moral fiber of society. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17161]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gambling undermines the moral fiber of society.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet spirit immortal, the tomb cannot bind thee, But like thine own eagle that soars to the sun  Thou ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20611]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet spirit immortal, the tomb cannot bind thee, But like thine own eagle that soars to the sun  Thou springest from bondage and leavest behind thee   A name which before thee no mortal hath won.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do it no matter what. If you believe in it, it is something very honorable. If somebody around you or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do it no matter what. If you believe in it, it is something very honorable. If somebody around you or your family does not understand it, then that's their problem. But if you do have a passion, an honest passion, just do it . . .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's an old adage that the way to be safe is never to be secure. Each one of us requires ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55040]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's an old adage that the way to be safe is never to be secure. Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It hath been an antient custom among them [Hungarians] that none should wear a fether but he who had killed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19231]]></link><description><![CDATA[It hath been an antient custom among them [Hungarians] that none should wear a fether but he who had killed a Turk, to whom onlie yt was lawful to shew the number of his slaine enemys by the number of fethers in his cappe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were able to maintain our current prices in spite of increases in materials and shipping costs, ... In addition, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34746]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were able to maintain our current prices in spite of increases in materials and shipping costs, ... In addition, to meet the demand of strong sales, we were able to quickly increase capacity in our plants without affecting our margins.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who's to look after the keepers? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who's to look after the keepers?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The popularity comes from the fact that these radio stations play a real broad catalog of music, so they aren't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28904]]></link><description><![CDATA[The popularity comes from the fact that these radio stations play a real broad catalog of music, so they aren't as repetitive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A new broome sweepeth cleane. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50606]]></link><description><![CDATA[A new broome sweepeth cleane.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1185]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm very comfortable with that overall total reduction in risk, and I would not be able to say that there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36962]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm very comfortable with that overall total reduction in risk, and I would not be able to say that there is anything that I can tell that should stop them from going ahead and flying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66271]]></link><description><![CDATA[What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I myself spent hours in the Columbia library as intimidated and embarrassed as a famished gourmet invited to a dream ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10156]]></link><description><![CDATA[I myself spent hours in the Columbia library as intimidated and embarrassed as a famished gourmet invited to a dream restaurant where every dish from all the world's cuisines, past and present, was available on request.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Listen to the Water-Mill: Through the live-long day  How the clicking of its wheel   Wears the hours ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45671]]></link><description><![CDATA[Listen to the Water-Mill: Through the live-long day  How the clicking of its wheel   Wears the hours away!    Languidly the Autumn wind     Stirs the forest leaves,      From the field the reapers sing       Binding up their sheaves:        And a proverb haunts my mind         As a spell is cast,          "The mill cannot grind           With the water that is past."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25112]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43951]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14469]]></link><description><![CDATA[Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[THE PRESENTATION OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE   Has it ever occurred to you that one hundred pianos all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8005]]></link><description><![CDATA[THE PRESENTATION OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE   Has it ever occurred to you that one hundred pianos all tuned to the same fork are automatically tuned to each other? They are of one accord by being tuned, not to each other, but to another standard to which each one must individually bow. So one hundred worshippers meeting together, each one looking away to Christ, are in heart nearer to each other than they could possibly be were they to become 'unity' conscious and turn their eyes away from God to strive for closer fellowship. Social religion is perfected when private religion is purified. The body becomes stronger as its members become healthier. The whole church of God gains when the members that compose it begin to seek a better and a higher life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This was a big game for us after that loss when we didn't play well. We had a talk before ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41345]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was a big game for us after that loss when we didn't play well. We had a talk before the game about executing our game plan and trying to put some pressure on them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have the best site in Bellefonte. They have a wonderful tradition of success with Schnitzels and Daniels. To take ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31498]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have the best site in Bellefonte. They have a wonderful tradition of success with Schnitzels and Daniels. To take that gamble to rebuild, it will pay off. The community is behind them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By hooke or crooke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48548]]></link><description><![CDATA[By hooke or crooke.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We met--'twas a crowd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26808]]></link><description><![CDATA[We met--'twas a crowd.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Cause grace and virtue are within Prohibited degrees of kin;  And therefore no true saint allows,   They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26557]]></link><description><![CDATA['Cause grace and virtue are within Prohibited degrees of kin;  And therefore no true saint allows,   They shall be suffer'd to espouse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63768]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pessimist, they say, sees a glass of water as being half empty; an optimist sees the same glass as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60951]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pessimist, they say, sees a glass of water as being half empty; an optimist sees the same glass as half full. But a giving person sees a glass of water and starts looking for someone who might be thirsty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Wise (Minstrel or Sage,) out of their books are clay;  But in their books, as from their graves ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4545]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Wise (Minstrel or Sage,) out of their books are clay;  But in their books, as from their graves they rise.   Angels--that, side by side, upon our way,    Walk with and warn us!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All history, of course, is the history of wars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19358]]></link><description><![CDATA[All history, of course, is the history of wars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hast thou a charm to stay the morning-star In his steep course? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hast thou a charm to stay the morning-star In his steep course?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three brothers, three fortresses ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44783]]></link><description><![CDATA[Three brothers, three fortresses]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination is the air of mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20511]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination is the air of mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus the castle of each feudal chieftain became a school of chivalry, into which any noble youth, whose parents were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus the castle of each feudal chieftain became a school of chivalry, into which any noble youth, whose parents were from poverty unable to educate him to the art of war, was readily received.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36598</guid></item></channel></rss>