<?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[I could see what God was doing. I had a captive audience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29432]]></link><description><![CDATA[I could see what God was doing. I had a captive audience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not aw'd to duty by superior sway. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13048]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not aw'd to duty by superior sway.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't even know about it until I saw it in the paper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42369]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't even know about it until I saw it in the paper.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1900]]></link><description><![CDATA[At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he knows he can't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43013]]></link><description><![CDATA[The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What loss feels he that wots not what he loses? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48679]]></link><description><![CDATA[What loss feels he that wots not what he loses?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not actual suffering but a taste of better things which excites people to revolt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47603]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not actual suffering but a taste of better things which excites people to revolt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[to be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else means ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28126]]></link><description><![CDATA[to be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Steve eats, sleeps, breathes the facts of the case. I was just glad to see him back in the courtroom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31449]]></link><description><![CDATA[Steve eats, sleeps, breathes the facts of the case. I was just glad to see him back in the courtroom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47044]]></link><description><![CDATA[No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People under 60, raised on television, they remember by what they see. The churches that are using a great deal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33908]]></link><description><![CDATA[People under 60, raised on television, they remember by what they see. The churches that are using a great deal of the arts in their worship and drama and visual film are doing it in part because they realize film and television are really the language of today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Surely, sir, There's in him stuff that puts him to these ends;  For, being not propped by ancestry, whose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Surely, sir, There's in him stuff that puts him to these ends;  For, being not propped by ancestry, whose grace   Chalks successors their way, nor called upon    For high feats done to th' crown, neither allied     To eminent assistants, but spiderlike      Out of his self-drawing web, 'a gives us note,       The force of his own merit makes his way,        A gift that heaven gives for him, which buys         A place next to the king.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I couldn't use the public restrooms because they weren't working. The food tasted awful. Everything was disgusting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36176]]></link><description><![CDATA[I couldn't use the public restrooms because they weren't working. The food tasted awful. Everything was disgusting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For it is most true that a natural and secret hatred and aversation towards society in any man, hath somewhat ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56757]]></link><description><![CDATA[For it is most true that a natural and secret hatred and aversation towards society in any man, hath somewhat of the savage beast.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1030]]></link><description><![CDATA[It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13463]]></link><description><![CDATA[To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As creeping ivy clings to wood or stone, And hides the ruin that it feeds upon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23108]]></link><description><![CDATA[As creeping ivy clings to wood or stone, And hides the ruin that it feeds upon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Merton, Monk, Spiritual Writer, 1968   We must remember that our experience of union with God, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8337]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Merton, Monk, Spiritual Writer, 1968   We must remember that our experience of union with God, our feeling of His presence, is altogether accidental and secondary. It is only a side effect of His actual presence in our souls, and gives no sure indication of that presence in any case. For God Himself is above all apprehensions and ideas and sensations, however spiritual, that can ever be experienced by the spirit of man in this life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The guy with the biggest stomach will be the first to take off his shirt at a baseball game. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57690]]></link><description><![CDATA[The guy with the biggest stomach will be the first to take off his shirt at a baseball game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who has begun to think places some portion of the world in jeopardy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who has begun to think places some portion of the world in jeopardy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Charisma is the transference of enthusiasm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Charisma is the transference of enthusiasm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forget the grand plan. Forget the master scheme. Forget control. That is the bleak but true basis of independent cinema. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forget the grand plan. Forget the master scheme. Forget control. That is the bleak but true basis of independent cinema. Inch by motherfuking inch we must, because we have no other choice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only a kind person is able to judge another justly and to make allowances for his weaknesses. A kind eye, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only a kind person is able to judge another justly and to make allowances for his weaknesses. A kind eye, while recognizing defects, sees beyond them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You kind of get frustrated a little bit, but I think everything happens for reason. I just kept doing everything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39143]]></link><description><![CDATA[You kind of get frustrated a little bit, but I think everything happens for reason. I just kept doing everything I needed to do to get better. I kept working on the little things. And I think that helped me out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39143</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[The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13461]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12350]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell me not of joy: there's none Now my little sparrow's gone;  He, just as you,   Would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57315]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tell me not of joy: there's none Now my little sparrow's gone;  He, just as you,   Would toy and woo,    He would chirp and flatter me,     He would hang the wing awhile,      Till at length he saw me smile,       Lord! how sullen he would be!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65729]]></link><description><![CDATA[A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A tranquil city of good laws, fine architecture, and clean streets is like a classroom of obedient dullards, or a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8757]]></link><description><![CDATA[A tranquil city of good laws, fine architecture, and clean streets is like a classroom of obedient dullards, or a field of gelded bulls - whereas a city of anarchy is a city of promise]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9267]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to make his own inquiries, to come to conclusions that are right for him, whether or not they coincide with your own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EARN as much as you can. SAVE as much as you can. INVEST as muchas you can. GIVE as much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21307]]></link><description><![CDATA[EARN as much as you can. SAVE as much as you can. INVEST as muchas you can. GIVE as much as you can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Linda was a very private person. The accolades she received were not something she sought out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40075]]></link><description><![CDATA[Linda was a very private person. The accolades she received were not something she sought out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which, if it were available in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12826]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which, if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our target donor pool is individuals, families, businesses and organizations in Woodford County. 4-H really touches more people than just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34130]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our target donor pool is individuals, families, businesses and organizations in Woodford County. 4-H really touches more people than just the current members.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My definition [of a philosopher] is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41088]]></link><description><![CDATA[My definition [of a philosopher] is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which confine him to earth and trying to haul him down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43352]]></link><description><![CDATA[Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Historians are prophets with their face turned backward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19302]]></link><description><![CDATA[Historians are prophets with their face turned backward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13489]]></link><description><![CDATA[My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Messenger of sympathy and love, Servant of parted friends,  Consoler of the lonely,   Bond of the scattered ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47813]]></link><description><![CDATA[Messenger of sympathy and love, Servant of parted friends,  Consoler of the lonely,   Bond of the scattered family,    Enlarger of the common life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Land of my sires! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band  That knits me to thy rugged ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25968]]></link><description><![CDATA[Land of my sires! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band  That knits me to thy rugged strand!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was the most unglamorous picture of war I've ever read. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40067]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was the most unglamorous picture of war I've ever read.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24789]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was kind of sloppy, but we played good. They hit the ball well on us, but we went up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42118]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was kind of sloppy, but we played good. They hit the ball well on us, but we went up big early and kept fighting them off.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is happening right now is that there are thousands and thousands of people all over the world sending their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29217]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is happening right now is that there are thousands and thousands of people all over the world sending their prayers for Daniel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Call things by their right names . . . Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Call things by their right names . . . Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate name; ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So spake the Fiend, and with necessity, The tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44052]]></link><description><![CDATA[So spake the Fiend, and with necessity, The tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence  Wielded at will that fierce democratie,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45240]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence  Wielded at will that fierce democratie,   Shook the Arsenal, and fulmined over Greece,    To Macedon, and Artaxerxes' throne.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who covereth thyself with light as a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain: Who layeth the beams ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8902]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who covereth thyself with light as a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain: Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters: who maketh the clouds his chariot: who walketh upon the wings of the wind:  Who maketh his angels spirits: his ministers a flaming fire:   Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed for ever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/337]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/337</guid></item></channel></rss>