<?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[Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is our illusions that create the world ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20468]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is our illusions that create the world]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad artists always admire each others work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3148]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bad artists always admire each others work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27889]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though this be madness, yet there is method in't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21028]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us. [It., Necessita c'induce, e non diletto.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44045]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us. [It., Necessita c'induce, e non diletto.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no more beautiful life than that of a student. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1113]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no more beautiful life than that of a student.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it tolife. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22348]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it tolife.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32007]]></link><description><![CDATA[My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need of something better than local lore and weather proverbs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words of affection, howsoe'er express'd, The latest spoken still are deem'd the best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words of affection, howsoe'er express'd, The latest spoken still are deem'd the best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One positive command he gave us: You shall love and honor your emperor. In every congregation a prayer must be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42048]]></link><description><![CDATA[One positive command he gave us: You shall love and honor your emperor. In every congregation a prayer must be said for the czar's health, or the chief of police would close the synagogue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, my lord, You said that idle weeds are fast in growth:  The prince my brother hath outgrown me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18402]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, my lord, You said that idle weeds are fast in growth:  The prince my brother hath outgrown me far.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once the implicit aim of biography was to uplift now it is to unveil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4220]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once the implicit aim of biography was to uplift now it is to unveil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36269]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite in tune with the oldest traditions of the country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not the fruit of experience but experience itself, is theend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22381]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not the fruit of experience but experience itself, is theend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22381</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[One must be truthful with oneself about one's own motives, especially if one is to survive in the world. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2255]]></link><description><![CDATA[One must be truthful with oneself about one's own motives, especially if one is to survive in the world. It takes rigor, and it takes courage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O God of earth and altar,  Bow down and hear our cry; Our earthly rulers falter,  Our people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7854]]></link><description><![CDATA[O God of earth and altar,  Bow down and hear our cry; Our earthly rulers falter,  Our people drift and die; The walls of gold entomb us,  The swords of scorn divide; Take not Thy thunder from us,  But take away our pride. From all that terror teaches,  From lies of tongue and pen; From all the easy speeches  That comfort cruel men; From sale and profanation  Of honor and the sword; From sleep and from damnation,  Deliver us, good Lord! Tie in a living tether  The prince and priest and thrall; Bind all our lives together,  Smite us and save us all; In ire and exultation  Aflame with faith, and free, Lift up a living nation,  A single sword to Thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As you get bigger and your customer base gets as older, you're forced to become stodgy and conservative. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42163]]></link><description><![CDATA[As you get bigger and your customer base gets as older, you're forced to become stodgy and conservative.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is horrible. Because you have to get here two hours early just to find a place to park. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42368]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is horrible. Because you have to get here two hours early just to find a place to park.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65703]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not expect the world to look bright, if you habitually wear gray-brown glasses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not expect the world to look bright, if you habitually wear gray-brown glasses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twas a jolly old pedagogue, long ago, Tall and slender, and sallow and dry;  His form was bent, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18629]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twas a jolly old pedagogue, long ago, Tall and slender, and sallow and dry;  His form was bent, and his gait was slow,   His long thin hair was white as snow,    But a wonderful twinkle shone in his eye.     And he sang every night as he went to bed,      "Let us be happy down here below:       The living should live, though the dead be dead."        Said the jolly old pedagogue long ago.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If temptation were really what natural man and moral man understand by it, namely, testing of their own strength -- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8614]]></link><description><![CDATA[If temptation were really what natural man and moral man understand by it, namely, testing of their own strength -- whether their vital or their moral or even their Christian strength -- in resistance, on the enemy, then it is true that Christ's prayer would be incomprehensible. For that life is won only from death and the good only from the evil is a piece of thoroughly worldly knowledge which is not strange to the Christian. But all this has nothing to do with the temptation of which Christ speaks. It simply does not touch the reality which is meant here. The temptation of which the whole Bible speaks does not have to do with the testing of my strength, for it is of the very essence of temptation in the Bible that all my strength -- to my horror, and without my being able to do anything about it -- is turned against me; really all my powers, including my good and pious powers (the strength of my faith), fall into the hands of the enemy power and are now led into the field against me. Before there can be any testing of my powers, I have been robbed of them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man's dog turns against him it is time for a wife to pack her trunk and go home ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10807]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man's dog turns against him it is time for a wife to pack her trunk and go home to mama.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The superior man thinks only of virtue; the common man thinks only ofcomfort. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22736]]></link><description><![CDATA[The superior man thinks only of virtue; the common man thinks only ofcomfort.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The stream of tendency in which all things seek to fulfill the law of their being. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14345]]></link><description><![CDATA[The stream of tendency in which all things seek to fulfill the law of their being.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yes, this is obviously a relief for us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yes, this is obviously a relief for us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62512]]></link><description><![CDATA[We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[St. Leon raised his kindling eye, And lifts the sparkling cup on high;  "I drink to one," he said, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59413]]></link><description><![CDATA[St. Leon raised his kindling eye, And lifts the sparkling cup on high;  "I drink to one," he said,   "Whose image never may depart,    Deep graven on this grateful heart,     Till memory be dead."      . . . .       St. Leon paused, as if he would        Not breathe her name in careless mood         Thus lightly to another;          Then bent his noble head, as though           To give the word the reverence due,            And gently said, "My mother!"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55271]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to learn to be a lady is to see how other ladies do it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4045]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to learn to be a lady is to see how other ladies do it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What are the wild waves saying, Sister, the whole day long,  That ever amid our playing   I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44884]]></link><description><![CDATA[What are the wild waves saying, Sister, the whole day long,  That ever amid our playing   I hear but their low, lone song?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God complaines not, but doth what is fitting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49268]]></link><description><![CDATA[God complaines not, but doth what is fitting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money dishonestly acquired is never worth its cost, while a good conscience never costs as much as it is worth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money dishonestly acquired is never worth its cost, while a good conscience never costs as much as it is worth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lion Beer needs to increase its export business to maintain viable growth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lion Beer needs to increase its export business to maintain viable growth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, 988   In coming to know Jesus, you have come to know yourself, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7020]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, 988   In coming to know Jesus, you have come to know yourself, too: naturally, this is more pleasant for some than for others, but to see yourself as you really are can never be entirely pleasant. And when a Christian fails at something he ought to have done, it isn't just the failure that hurts -- there is also the knowledge that he has let Jesus down. And those little shortcomings of ours, that used to matter so little, compared with the glaring faults of others: we know now that our temper, or our gloom, or our selfishness, reflects on Jesus; and knowing that people are judging your Lord by you is not always a joyous thought to live with. Even the growing up to His measure is hard on a man: we have so little aptitude for such a transformation that it always means conflict, and often rebellion. And temptations hurt as they never did before: not just in the conscience, but in the heart. The assaults of temptation are not on our prudence now, or even on our morals, but on the love for Jesus. His love for us has made Him quite defenseless against our hurting Him, and so temptation is no longer an urge to do a bad thing but an urge to hurt a loving Person.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The standard of living has risen along with the size of the world's population since the beginning of recorded time. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15735]]></link><description><![CDATA[The standard of living has risen along with the size of the world's population since the beginning of recorded time. There is no convincing economic reason why these trends toward a better life should not continue indefinitely.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When it grows dark, we always need someone. This thought, the product of anxiety, only comes to me in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65369]]></link><description><![CDATA[When it grows dark, we always need someone. This thought, the product of anxiety, only comes to me in the evenings, just when I'm about to end my writerly explorations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9003]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity, since the tastes, knowledge, and principles of the majority form ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47091]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity, since the tastes, knowledge, and principles of the majority form the tribunal of appeal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every one is witty for his owne purpose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49221]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every one is witty for his owne purpose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57479]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Showing that if a good face is a letter of recommendation, a good heart is a letter of credit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14849]]></link><description><![CDATA[Showing that if a good face is a letter of recommendation, a good heart is a letter of credit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59215]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rabbi Zusya said that on the Day of Judgment, God would ask him, not why he had not been Moses, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rabbi Zusya said that on the Day of Judgment, God would ask him, not why he had not been Moses, but why he had not been Zusya.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'll have to step up our game, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37506]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'll have to step up our game,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66410]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And what is more melancholy than the old apple-trees that linger about the spot where once stood a homestead, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2944]]></link><description><![CDATA[And what is more melancholy than the old apple-trees that linger about the spot where once stood a homestead, but where there is now only a ruined chimney rising our of a grassy and weed-grown cellar? They offer their fruit to every wayfarer--apples that are bitter-sweet with the moral of times vicissitude.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2944</guid></item></channel></rss>