<?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[Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44724]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44724</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[War should neither be feared nor provoked. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50911]]></link><description><![CDATA[War should neither be feared nor provoked.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60193]]></link><description><![CDATA[The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56818]]></link><description><![CDATA[When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The point is plain as a pike staff. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48716]]></link><description><![CDATA[The point is plain as a pike staff.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let him who has granted a favour speak not of it; let him who has received one, proclaim it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let him who has granted a favour speak not of it; let him who has received one, proclaim it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Ken, Bishop of Bath & Wells, Hymnographer, 1711  [The] doctrine of [inevitable] progress sustained our fathers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6477]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Ken, Bishop of Bath & Wells, Hymnographer, 1711  [The] doctrine of [inevitable] progress sustained our fathers in the carrying of capitalistic democratic culture to most parts of the globe. Its core was the conviction that, in thus extending the range of western liberal culture and developing its assumptions, they were in effect establishing on earth that which would grow into the kingdom of God. Some put it sharply but un-Biblically: "building the kingdom"; others, of a more secular turn of mind, echoed J. A. Symonds' hymn, "These Things Shall Be". That whole view exists today only as debris, for it has foundered on the rocks, not so much of human sin, as of the contradictions and complexities of the very western culture that was the substance of its belief.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unexplained joy is always so keen that... it seems to hold enough to reconcile one to the inevitable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unexplained joy is always so keen that... it seems to hold enough to reconcile one to the inevitable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; ere long she shall appear to vindicate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; ere long she shall appear to vindicate thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no need to hide the reality from the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34832]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no need to hide the reality from the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are never very wise and select in the exercise of a new power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47939]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are never very wise and select in the exercise of a new power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is not in our circumstance but in ourselves. It is not something we see, like a rainbow, or feel, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is not in our circumstance but in ourselves. It is not something we see, like a rainbow, or feel, like the heat of a fire. Happiness is something we are]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortunate, indeed, is the man who takes exactly the right measure of himself and holds a just balance between what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3676]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortunate, indeed, is the man who takes exactly the right measure of himself and holds a just balance between what he can acquire and what he can use.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45348]]></link><description><![CDATA[She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talent works, genius creates. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58585]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talent works, genius creates.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our wanton accidents take root, and grow To vaunt themselves God's laws. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/294]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our wanton accidents take root, and grow To vaunt themselves God's laws.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To live peaceably with all breedes good blood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50009]]></link><description><![CDATA[To live peaceably with all breedes good blood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27110]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it is true that the violin is the most perfect of musical instruments, then Greek is the violin of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24059]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it is true that the violin is the most perfect of musical instruments, then Greek is the violin of humn thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With what a deep devotedness of woe I wept thy absence--o'er and o'er again  Thinking of thee, still thee, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/153]]></link><description><![CDATA[With what a deep devotedness of woe I wept thy absence--o'er and o'er again  Thinking of thee, still thee, till thought grew pain,   And memory, like a drop that, night and day,    Falls cold and ceaseless, wore my heart away!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now blooms the lily by the bank, The primrose down the brae;  The hawthorn's budding in the glen,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16255]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now blooms the lily by the bank, The primrose down the brae;  The hawthorn's budding in the glen,   The milkwhite is the slae.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're going to have to buy machines for 335 precincts. But before we do, our goal was to get as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37259]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're going to have to buy machines for 335 precincts. But before we do, our goal was to get as many people (with disabilities) here as possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselvesagainst the law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21945]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselvesagainst the law.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guilt is anything you did and fear others to know about ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guilt is anything you did and fear others to know about]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two hundred million Americans, and there ain't two good catchers among 'em. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57686]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two hundred million Americans, and there ain't two good catchers among 'em.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When it's time to die, let us not discover that we have never lived. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12434]]></link><description><![CDATA[When it's time to die, let us not discover that we have never lived.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11126]]></link><description><![CDATA[Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25389]]></link><description><![CDATA[This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We could have and should have beaten them. I think we'll give them a run for their money. Our kids ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36102]]></link><description><![CDATA[We could have and should have beaten them. I think we'll give them a run for their money. Our kids have a lot of heart, and our goalkeeper (Patch Skinner) is playing with a lot of heart at the goal. He's going to give it his all if the players in front of him do. We have just one shot to shock the Silver Division, and we want to do that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want every peasant to have a chicken in his pot on Sundays. [Fr., Je veux que le dimanche chaque ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13198]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want every peasant to have a chicken in his pot on Sundays. [Fr., Je veux que le dimanche chaque paysan ait sa poule au pot.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He burns us by his brightness. [We are vexed at his manifest superiority.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50240]]></link><description><![CDATA[He burns us by his brightness. [We are vexed at his manifest superiority.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I definitely can see him playing in the big leagues. It's not a matter of if, it's a matter of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35900]]></link><description><![CDATA[I definitely can see him playing in the big leagues. It's not a matter of if, it's a matter of when.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54126]]></link><description><![CDATA[Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52642]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...this is precisely the purpose of censorship- not only to block unwanted views, but to keep people who are unhappy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47643]]></link><description><![CDATA[...this is precisely the purpose of censorship- not only to block unwanted views, but to keep people who are unhappy from knowing how many millions of others share their unhappiness; to keep the dormant opposition from awakening to its own developing strength.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48180]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58126]]></link><description><![CDATA[For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The time is always right to do what is right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59280]]></link><description><![CDATA[The time is always right to do what is right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16094]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16992]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My favorite review described me as the cinematic equivalent of junk mail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/408]]></link><description><![CDATA[My favorite review described me as the cinematic equivalent of junk mail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Dormer, how can I behold thy fate, And not the wonders of thy youth relate;  How can I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57128]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Dormer, how can I behold thy fate, And not the wonders of thy youth relate;  How can I see the gay, the brave, the young,   Fall in the cloud of war, and lie unsung!    In joys of conquest he resigns his breath,     And, filled with England's glory, smiles in death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Were it not for the bone in the legge, all the world would turne Carpenters (to make them crutches). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50054]]></link><description><![CDATA[Were it not for the bone in the legge, all the world would turne Carpenters (to make them crutches).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who meditates a crime secretly within himself has all the guilt of the act. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50450]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who meditates a crime secretly within himself has all the guilt of the act.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rebuild of No. 14, with a 20-year life expectancy, is a significant financial investment in Gary Works and a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38696]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rebuild of No. 14, with a 20-year life expectancy, is a significant financial investment in Gary Works and a demonstration of our commitment to our customers, work force and community.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing on earth divine except humanity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19980]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man's greatness lies in his power of thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18245]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18245</guid></item></channel></rss>