<?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[Commemoration of William Wilberforce, Social Reformer, 1833   A just pride, a proper and becoming pride, are terms which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6977]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Wilberforce, Social Reformer, 1833   A just pride, a proper and becoming pride, are terms which we daily hear from Christian lips. To possess a high spirit, to behave with proper spirit when used ill -- by which is meant, a quick feeling of injuries, and a promptness in resenting them -- entitles to commendation; and a meek-spirited disposition, the highest Scripture eulogium, expresses ideas of disapprobation and contempt. Vanity and vainglory are suffered without interruption to retain their natural possession of the heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No ear can hear nor tongue can tell the tortures of the inward hell! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9826]]></link><description><![CDATA[No ear can hear nor tongue can tell the tortures of the inward hell!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why should you be content with so little? Why shouldn't you reach out for something big? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31369]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why should you be content with so little? Why shouldn't you reach out for something big?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men's first thoughts in this matter are generally better than their second; their natural notions better than those refin'd by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59212]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men's first thoughts in this matter are generally better than their second; their natural notions better than those refin'd by study, or consultation with casuists.   - Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is indeed its own reward. [Lat., Ipsa quidem pretium virtus sibi.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60776]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is indeed its own reward. [Lat., Ipsa quidem pretium virtus sibi.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The severe schools shall never laugh me out of the philosophy of Hermes, that this visible world is but a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62204]]></link><description><![CDATA[The severe schools shall never laugh me out of the philosophy of Hermes, that this visible world is but a picture of the invisible, wherein as in a portrait, things are not truly, but in equivocal shapes, and as they counterfeit some real substance in that invisible fabric.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[one of the great journalists who never hesitated or was afraid to say the truth and defend Lebanon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42611]]></link><description><![CDATA[one of the great journalists who never hesitated or was afraid to say the truth and defend Lebanon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion constitutionality is no match with compassion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9190]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion constitutionality is no match with compassion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation. [Lat., Solent occupationis spe vel impune ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10651]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation. [Lat., Solent occupationis spe vel impune quaedam scelesta committi.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[THE PRESENTATION OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE  The church has severely under-estimated the fundamental antagonism between Christianity and contemporary ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6435]]></link><description><![CDATA[THE PRESENTATION OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE  The church has severely under-estimated the fundamental antagonism between Christianity and contemporary neo-pagan values.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get what they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2221]]></link><description><![CDATA[People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get what they want.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44955]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25627]]></link><description><![CDATA[Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The glacier was God's great plough set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41033]]></link><description><![CDATA[The glacier was God's great plough set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, the surface of the earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30718]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By banishing doubt and thinking in no-limit ways, you clear a space for the power of intention to flow through. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63331]]></link><description><![CDATA[By banishing doubt and thinking in no-limit ways, you clear a space for the power of intention to flow through. The power of intention is so deficient of doubt that when you're connected to it you see what you'd like to have as already being present.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A funny thing to do is, if you're out hiking and your friend gets bitten by a poisonous snake, tell ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11694]]></link><description><![CDATA[A funny thing to do is, if you're out hiking and your friend gets bitten by a poisonous snake, tell him you're going to go for help, then go about ten feet and pretend that *you* got bit by a snake. Then start an argument with him about who's going to go get help. A lot of guys will start crying. That's why it makes you feel good when you tell them it was just a joke.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What really affects us is the guys in front of us. When you have people on base it causes problems ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35252]]></link><description><![CDATA[What really affects us is the guys in front of us. When you have people on base it causes problems for them when we come up. If nobody is on base, they can be a little more fine with their pitches and not have to worry about leaving anything out over the plate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's tough, it's an interesting little play -- part comedy, part serious. Basically, it's a story about the trusting friendship ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35479]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's tough, it's an interesting little play -- part comedy, part serious. Basically, it's a story about the trusting friendship between women, but you lose a lot of that in the film. It's more clear throughout the play.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would be very hard for me to do things somebody else's way, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35797]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would be very hard for me to do things somebody else's way,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This problem with the President makes it even dimmer yet, ... He's hurt by this. No question. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40705]]></link><description><![CDATA[This problem with the President makes it even dimmer yet, ... He's hurt by this. No question.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Innovators are inevitably controversial. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Innovators are inevitably controversial.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stuff your eyes with wonder . . . live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61966]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stuff your eyes with wonder . . . live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a safety reminder, all motorists must constantly be aware of smaller vehicles, including motorcycles, on our roadways, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31871]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a safety reminder, all motorists must constantly be aware of smaller vehicles, including motorcycles, on our roadways,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here is the ghost Of a summer that lived for us,  Here is a promise   Of summer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58261]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here is the ghost Of a summer that lived for us,  Here is a promise   Of summer to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24647]]></link><description><![CDATA[Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once you begin to believe there is help "out there," you will know it to be true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53693]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once you begin to believe there is help "out there," you will know it to be true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This isn't only a boon for the county, it also now offers protection for those people who partake in gambling, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32390]]></link><description><![CDATA[This isn't only a boon for the county, it also now offers protection for those people who partake in gambling, whether it's regulated or not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the past two days we have probably gotten at least 10 bags of clothes, toys, shoes ... it's just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40577]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the past two days we have probably gotten at least 10 bags of clothes, toys, shoes ... it's just incredible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And there my little doves did sit With feathers softly brown  And glittering eyes that showed their right  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12801]]></link><description><![CDATA[And there my little doves did sit With feathers softly brown  And glittering eyes that showed their right   To general Nature's deep delight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know, the way I'm accepted, I almost feel like Judy Garland, truly. It makes no sense to me because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29923]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know, the way I'm accepted, I almost feel like Judy Garland, truly. It makes no sense to me because I don't think that I've been any more outspoken... Or maybe I have, I don't know. But everyone I know supports anything that has to do with raising money or with AIDS.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I still don't know why I fish or why other men fish, except we like it and it makes us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16118]]></link><description><![CDATA[I still don't know why I fish or why other men fish, except we like it and it makes us think and feel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All covet, all lose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49099]]></link><description><![CDATA[All covet, all lose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In New York -- whose subway trains in particular have been ''tattooed'' with an energy to put our own rude ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35765]]></link><description><![CDATA[In New York -- whose subway trains in particular have been ''tattooed'' with an energy to put our own rude practitioners to shame -- not an inch of free space is spared except that of advertisements . Even the most chronically dispossessed appear prepared to endorse the legitimacy of the ''haves.'']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Riches are deservedly despised by a man of honor, because a well-stored chest intercepts the truth. [Lat., Opes invisae merito ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Riches are deservedly despised by a man of honor, because a well-stored chest intercepts the truth. [Lat., Opes invisae merito sunt forti viro,  Quia dives arca veram laudem intercipit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55256]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And touch'd their golden harps, and hymning praised God and his works. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48017]]></link><description><![CDATA[And touch'd their golden harps, and hymning praised God and his works.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This restless world Is full of chances, which by habit's power  To learn to bear is easier than to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62189]]></link><description><![CDATA[This restless world Is full of chances, which by habit's power  To learn to bear is easier than to shun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world has lost its quintessential romantic icon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33116]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world has lost its quintessential romantic icon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing to cling to the patterns you know inhibits your ability to discover what you don't know ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34570]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing to cling to the patterns you know inhibits your ability to discover what you don't know]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the fireflies, Wah-wah-taysee, Waved their torches to mislead him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16030]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the fireflies, Wah-wah-taysee, Waved their torches to mislead him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When facism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43693]]></link><description><![CDATA[When facism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today, our greatest public policy concerns know no borders, ... A global network of public policy schools offers the best ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today, our greatest public policy concerns know no borders, ... A global network of public policy schools offers the best opportunity for the academic community to work collectively on multiple intertwined challenges -- from sustainable development to trade to terrorism to public health crises to the protection of human rights worldwide -- and to prepare some of the world's most able graduate students to assume global leadership roles in the coming decades.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rising world of waters dark and deep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61295]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rising world of waters dark and deep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing shall be lost that is done for God or in obedience to Him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing shall be lost that is done for God or in obedience to Him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though you rise early, yet the day comes at his time, and not till then. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49978]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though you rise early, yet the day comes at his time, and not till then.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O how quickly passes away the glory of the earth. [Lat., O quam cito transit gloria mundi.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17548]]></link><description><![CDATA[O how quickly passes away the glory of the earth. [Lat., O quam cito transit gloria mundi.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Earth, with her thousand voices, praises God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Earth, with her thousand voices, praises God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48004</guid></item></channel></rss>