<?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[The child of trial, to mortality And all its changeful influences given;  On the green earth decreed to move ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59689]]></link><description><![CDATA[The child of trial, to mortality And all its changeful influences given;  On the green earth decreed to move and die,   And yet by such a fate prepared for heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Necessity is the last and strongest weapon. [Lat., Necessitas ultimum et maximum telum est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44050]]></link><description><![CDATA[Necessity is the last and strongest weapon. [Lat., Necessitas ultimum et maximum telum est.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cheerfulness removes the rust from the mind, lubricates our inward machinery, and enables us to do our work with fewer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5856]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cheerfulness removes the rust from the mind, lubricates our inward machinery, and enables us to do our work with fewer creaks and ;groans. If people were universally cheerful, probably there wouldn't be half the quarreling or a tenth part of the wickedness ;there is. Cheerfulness, too, promotes health and immortality. Cheerful people live longest here on earth, afterward in our hearts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To rankling poison hast thou turned in me the milk of human kindness. [Ger., In gahrend Drachengift hast du  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46870]]></link><description><![CDATA[To rankling poison hast thou turned in me the milk of human kindness. [Ger., In gahrend Drachengift hast du  Die Milch der frommen Denkart mir verwandelt.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think what happens in this country is censorship, I should say that. It's something else. It's not banning. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39595]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think what happens in this country is censorship, I should say that. It's something else. It's not banning. It's something else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/480]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16330]]></link><description><![CDATA[Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16330</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[You've got to love what's loveable and hate what's hateable. It takes brains to see the difference. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25814]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to love what's loveable and hate what's hateable. It takes brains to see the difference.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A genius is one who can do anything except make a living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21219]]></link><description><![CDATA[A genius is one who can do anything except make a living.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son. -Ralph Waldo Emerson. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13570]]></link><description><![CDATA[I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're a horse, and someone gets on you, and falls off, and then gets right back on you, I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11736]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're a horse, and someone gets on you, and falls off, and then gets right back on you, I think you should buck him off right away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God help you if you are an ugly girl, 'course too pretty is also your doom, 'cause everyone harbors a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48182]]></link><description><![CDATA[God help you if you are an ugly girl, 'course too pretty is also your doom, 'cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gamaun is a dainty steed, Strong, black, and of a noble breed,  Full of fire, and full of bone, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19836]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gamaun is a dainty steed, Strong, black, and of a noble breed,  Full of fire, and full of bone,   With all his line of fathers known;    Fine his nose, his nostrils thin,     But blown abroad by the pride within;      His mane is like a river flowing,       And his eyes like embers glowing        In the darkness of the night,         And his pace as swift as light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1977]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was doing spying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men,  Dropped from an Angel's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46028]]></link><description><![CDATA[The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men,  Dropped from an Angel's wing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They were more than double what I expected. It's exciting science, but sobering. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36178]]></link><description><![CDATA[They were more than double what I expected. It's exciting science, but sobering.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hence the fool's paradise, the statesman's scheme, The air-built castle, and the golden dream,  The maid's romantic wish, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60884]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hence the fool's paradise, the statesman's scheme, The air-built castle, and the golden dream,  The maid's romantic wish, the chemist's flame,   And poet's vision of eternal fame.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8848]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13211]]></link><description><![CDATA[For I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here's to old Adam's crystal ale, Clear sparkling and divine,  Fair H2O, long may you flow,   We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here's to old Adam's crystal ale, Clear sparkling and divine,  Fair H2O, long may you flow,   We think your health (in wine).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They just had that one inning. That was a high school baseball inning. They got walks and errors and one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32481]]></link><description><![CDATA[They just had that one inning. That was a high school baseball inning. They got walks and errors and one hit. You don't see a lot of teams stringing six and seven hits together to score runs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many of our troubles in the world today arise from an over-emphasis of the masculine, and a neglect of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many of our troubles in the world today arise from an over-emphasis of the masculine, and a neglect of the feminine. This modern world is an aggressive, hyperactive, competitive, masculine world, and it needs the woman's touch as never before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In climes beyond the solar road. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58290]]></link><description><![CDATA[In climes beyond the solar road.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I add this also, that natural ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31]]></link><description><![CDATA[I add this also, that natural ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability. [Lat., Etiam illud adjungo, saepius ad laudem atque virtutem naturam sine doctrina, quam sine natura valisse doctrinam.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We love orthodoxy. It is good. It is the best. It is the clean, clear cut teaching of God's Word, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8381]]></link><description><![CDATA[We love orthodoxy. It is good. It is the best. It is the clean, clear cut teaching of God's Word, the trophies won by truth in its conflict with error, the levees which faith has raised against the desolating floods of honest or reckless misbelief or unbelief; but orthodoxy, clear and hard as crystal, suspicious and militant, may be but the letter well shaped, well named, and well learned, the letter which kills. Nothing is so dead as a dead orthodoxy -- too dead to speculate, too dead to think, to study, or to pray.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cure for anger is delay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21226]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cure for anger is delay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Bear and the Two TravelersTwo men were traveling together, when a Bear suddenly met them on their path. One ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1537]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Bear and the Two TravelersTwo men were traveling together, when a Bear suddenly met them on their path. One of them climbed up quickly into a tree and concealed himself in the branches. The other, seeing that he must be attacked, fell flat on the ground, and when the Bear came up and felt him with his snout, and smelt him all over, he held his breath, and feigned the appearance of death as much as he could. The Bear soon left him, for it is said he will not touch a dead body. When he was quite gone, the other Traveler descended from the tree, and jocularly inquired of his friend what it was the Bear had whispered in his ear. He gave me this advice, his companion replied. Never travel with a friend who deserts you at the approach of danger. Misfortune tests the sincerity of friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frederick Buechner,'Whistling in the Dark' When a child is born, a father is born. A mother is born, too of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45524]]></link><description><![CDATA[Frederick Buechner,'Whistling in the Dark' When a child is born, a father is born. A mother is born, too of course, but at least for her it's a gradual process. Body and soul, she has nine months to get used to what's happening. She becomes what's happening. But for even the best-prepared father, it happens all at once. On the other side of a plate-glass window, a nurse is holding up something roughly the size of a loaf of bread for him to see for the first time. Even if he should decide to abandon it forever ten minutes later, the memory will nag him to the grave. He has seen the creation of the world. It has his mark on it. He has its mark on him. Both marks are, for better or for worse, indelible. All sons, like all daughters, are prodigals if they're smart. Assuming the Old Man doesn't run out on them first, they will run out on him if they are to survive, and if he's smart he won't put up too much of a fuss. A wise father sees all this coming, and maybe that's why he keeps his distance from the start. He must survive too. Whether they ever find their way home again, none can say for sure, but it's the risk he must take if they're ever to find their way at all. In the meantime, the world tends to have a soft spot in its heart for lost children. Lost fathers have to fend for themselves. Even as the father lays down the law, he knows that someday his children will break it as they need to break it if ever they're to find something better than law to replace it. Until and unless that happens, there's no telling the scrapes they will get into trying to lose him and find themselves. Terrible blnders will be made-dissapointments and failures, hurts and losses of every kind. And they'll keep making them even after they've found themselves too, of course, because growing up is a process that goes on and on. And every hard knock they ever get, knocks the father even harder still, if that's possible, and if and when they finally come through more or less in one piece at the end, there's maybe no rejoicing greater than his in all creation. -Fatherhood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45524</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><item><title><![CDATA[Only a few industrious Scots perhaps, who indeed are dispersed over the face of the whole earth. But as for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54889]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only a few industrious Scots perhaps, who indeed are dispersed over the face of the whole earth. But as for them, there are no greater friends to Englishmen and England, when they are out on't, in the world, than they are. And for my own part, I would a hundred thousand of them were there [Virginia] for we are all one countrymen now, ye know, and we should find ten times more comfort of them there than we do here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despite our agreement on Monday, we felt it was essential to add a factor that safeguarded the employees' pension scheme. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39717]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despite our agreement on Monday, we felt it was essential to add a factor that safeguarded the employees' pension scheme. This was rejected by the trade union which prevented them from endorsing or accepting the rest of the offer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I ran there and when I got there, there were four or five boats looking in the water. I didn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37653]]></link><description><![CDATA[I ran there and when I got there, there were four or five boats looking in the water. I didn't see anybody that looked like survivors. I didn't see anybody at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And a good south wind sprung up behind, The Albatross did follow,  And every day, for food or play, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1979]]></link><description><![CDATA[And a good south wind sprung up behind, The Albatross did follow,  And every day, for food or play,   Came to the mariner's hollo!    "God save thee, ancient Mariner!     From the fiends that plague thus thee!--      Why look'st thou so?"--"With my cross-bow       I shot the Albatross."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20725]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know that I'd really want to do this full time, ... I enjoy my family and cutting the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38828]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know that I'd really want to do this full time, ... I enjoy my family and cutting the grass at home. There's more in life than golf. I enjoy the game but I don't know if I could do it every day. If I go practice, I practice for an hour. The guys out here practice for six hours. I couldn't do that. I've never had the length, I'm not that strong of a guy. I hit it 250, 260, I hit it very straight and I'm not a bad putter. You have to do this all the time to get the nerves. I don't know if I have the nerves for the next three days.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can control a man’s thinking, you don’t have to worry about his actions. If you can determine what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3584]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can control a man’s thinking, you don’t have to worry about his actions. If you can determine what a man thinks you do not have worry about what he will do. If you can make a man believe that he is inferior, you don’t have to compel him to seek an inferior status, he will do so without being told and if you can make a man believe that he is justly an outcast, you don’t have to order him to the back door, he will go to the back door on his own and if there is no back door, the very nature of the man will demand that you build one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm trying to help him build his confidence. He can do a lot of things. He can field. He can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28915]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm trying to help him build his confidence. He can do a lot of things. He can field. He can hit. He can run. He has everything. All he needs in experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Successful people aren't born that way. They become successful by establishing the habit of doing things unsuccessful people don't like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12707]]></link><description><![CDATA[Successful people aren't born that way. They become successful by establishing the habit of doing things unsuccessful people don't like to do. The successful people don't always like these things themselves; they just get on and do them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; but if we begin withdoubts, and are patient in them, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21255]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; but if we begin withdoubts, and are patient in them, we shall end in certainties.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows  To beauty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54927]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows  To beauty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deeper than did ever plummet sound I 'll drown my book. -The Tempest. Act v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deeper than did ever plummet sound I 'll drown my book. -The Tempest. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is really like a lab experiment in the real world. This is an attempt to understand how hydrogen-power vehicles ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37325]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is really like a lab experiment in the real world. This is an attempt to understand how hydrogen-power vehicles refuel and work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[North Korea has a strong feeling to defend itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32996]]></link><description><![CDATA[North Korea has a strong feeling to defend itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has been the providence of Nature to give this creature [the cat] nine lives instead of one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5311]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has been the providence of Nature to give this creature [the cat] nine lives instead of one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who Let The Dogs Out? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who Let The Dogs Out?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now the good gods forbid That our renowned Rome, whose gratitude  Towards her deserved children is enrolled   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18164]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now the good gods forbid That our renowned Rome, whose gratitude  Towards her deserved children is enrolled   In Jove's own book, like an unnatural dam    Should now eat up her own!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17531</guid></item></channel></rss>