<?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 first time you see Winston Churchill you see all his faults and the rest of your life you spend ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60794]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first time you see Winston Churchill you see all his faults and the rest of your life you spend discovering his virtues.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mediocrity obtains more with application than superiority without it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26768]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mediocrity obtains more with application than superiority without it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wit, now and then, struck smartly, shows a spark. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wit, now and then, struck smartly, shows a spark.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any fool can say he is wise but only someone wise can admit he is a fool. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46511]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any fool can say he is wise but only someone wise can admit he is a fool.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A line runs from the meditations of the heart to the words of the mouth. The meditations are not clear ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52183]]></link><description><![CDATA[A line runs from the meditations of the heart to the words of the mouth. The meditations are not clear to us until the mouth utters its words. If what the mouth utters is unclear or foolish or mendacious, it must be that the meditations are the same. But the line runs both ways. The words of the mouth will become the meditations of the heart, and the habit of loose talk loosens the fastenings of our understanding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40930]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's interesting to have been on the one side a chaplain, intern in the prison system and now fighting to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40384]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's interesting to have been on the one side a chaplain, intern in the prison system and now fighting to keep people out of prison.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cultures are rubbing against each other more than ever before in history. We need to be sensitive to ... respect, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28571]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cultures are rubbing against each other more than ever before in history. We need to be sensitive to ... respect, honor, dignity, and how they are viewed in different societies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don't make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42939]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don't make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and then do them so well that people can't take their eyes off you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. The principal benefit acting has afforded me is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1334]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They who are not induced to believe and live as they ought by those discoveries which God hath made in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34997]]></link><description><![CDATA[They who are not induced to believe and live as they ought by those discoveries which God hath made in Scriptures would stand out against any evidence whatever, even that of a messenger sent express from the other world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am in earnest--I will not equivocate--I will not excuse--I will not retreat a single inch and I will be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53958]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am in earnest--I will not equivocate--I will not excuse--I will not retreat a single inch and I will be heard.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The possibility of stepping into a higher plane is quite real foreveryone. It requires no force or effort or sacrifice. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22454]]></link><description><![CDATA[The possibility of stepping into a higher plane is quite real foreveryone. It requires no force or effort or sacrifice. It involves littlemore than changing our ideas about what is normal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be charitable and indulgent to everyone but thyself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17281]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be charitable and indulgent to everyone but thyself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist, he is neither a strategist, nor is he schooled in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27479]]></link><description><![CDATA[As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist, he is neither a strategist, nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general, nor is he as a soldier. Other than that, he's a great military man, I want you to know that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The big thieves hang the little ones ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59072]]></link><description><![CDATA[The big thieves hang the little ones]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that preaches war is the devil's chaplain ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48065]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that preaches war is the devil's chaplain]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expense, and my expense is equal to my wishes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15699]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expense, and my expense is equal to my wishes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have made decisions that turned out to be wrong, and went back and did it another way, and still ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53279]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have made decisions that turned out to be wrong, and went back and did it another way, and still took less time than many who procrastinated over the original decision. Your brain is capable of handling 140, 000 million bits of information in one second, and if you take hours or days or weeks to reach a vital decision, you are short-circuiting your most valuable property.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace is a natural effect of trade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57033]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace is a natural effect of trade.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bless the Lord, O my soul. O Lord my God, thou art very great; thou art clothed with honour and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61633]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bless the Lord, O my soul. O Lord my God, thou art very great; thou art clothed with honour and majesty. Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretches 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/61633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26996]]></link><description><![CDATA[I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you reach the top, keep climbing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12710]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you reach the top, keep climbing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For example, if a car rental company charges $100 a day for a mid-sized rental car to a family in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35982]]></link><description><![CDATA[For example, if a car rental company charges $100 a day for a mid-sized rental car to a family in need, this amounts to exorbitant pricing and that company will answer for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Build me straight. O worthy Master! Staunch and strong, a goodly vessel  That shall laugh at all disaster,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56179]]></link><description><![CDATA[Build me straight. O worthy Master! Staunch and strong, a goodly vessel  That shall laugh at all disaster,   And with wave and whirlwind wrestle!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I went to the copy machine, the medal went to the copy machine, too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35436]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I went to the copy machine, the medal went to the copy machine, too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He likes the poor things of the world the best, I would not, therefore, if I could be rich.  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5140]]></link><description><![CDATA[He likes the poor things of the world the best, I would not, therefore, if I could be rich.  It pleases him t stoop for buttercups.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am two fools, I know, for loving and saying so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25813]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am two fools, I know, for loving and saying so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48645]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Treason is like diamonds; there is nothing to be made by the small trader ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Treason is like diamonds; there is nothing to be made by the small trader]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3251]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As you make your bed, so you must lie in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47235]]></link><description><![CDATA[As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The test of a preacher is that his congregation goes away saying, not, 'What a lovely sermon!' but 'I will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48059]]></link><description><![CDATA[The test of a preacher is that his congregation goes away saying, not, 'What a lovely sermon!' but 'I will do something.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure. When you conquer negative ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30820]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure. When you conquer negative attitudes of doubt and fear you conquer failure. Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think they're all really, really coming around beautifully. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40066]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think they're all really, really coming around beautifully.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was one of those precision plays that unveil themselves about once a match. It all came together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35225]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was one of those precision plays that unveil themselves about once a match. It all came together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absence makes the heart grow fonder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/138]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absence makes the heart grow fonder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11171]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They made and recorded a sort of institute and digest of anarchy, called the rights of man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54264]]></link><description><![CDATA[They made and recorded a sort of institute and digest of anarchy, called the rights of man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men need rule books. Women want men to intuit what they want. And only about 2% of men can do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men need rule books. Women want men to intuit what they want. And only about 2% of men can do that, and most of them are not heterosexual.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To all proportioned terms he must dispense And make the sound a picture of the sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57296]]></link><description><![CDATA[To all proportioned terms he must dispense And make the sound a picture of the sense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool.\r\n ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66906]]></link><description><![CDATA[I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool.\r\n]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Charles de Foucauld, Hermit, Servant of the Poor, 1916   Whilst you are divided betwixt God and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7305]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Charles de Foucauld, Hermit, Servant of the Poor, 1916   Whilst you are divided betwixt God and the world, you have neither the pleasures of Religion, nor the pleasures of the world, but are always in the uneasiness of a divided state of heart. You have only so much Religion as serves to disquiet you, to show you a handwriting on the wall, to interrupt your pleasures, and to appear as a death's-head at all your feasts, but not Religion enough to give you a taste and feeling of its pleasures. You dare not wholly neglect Religion, but then you take no more than is just sufficient to keep you from being a terror to yourself, and you are as loth to be very good as you are fearful to be very bad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Long on the wave reflected lustres play. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Long on the wave reflected lustres play.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the privilege of genius that to it life never grows commonplace as to the rest of us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17346]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the privilege of genius that to it life never grows commonplace as to the rest of us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easy to recognize, in the relational rigidities of many chapel-going people, the "negative reflex actions" of a character ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6712]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easy to recognize, in the relational rigidities of many chapel-going people, the "negative reflex actions" of a character structure which has survived the destruction of its intellectual and moral foundations. But equally, no one can go far in the Free Churches without lighting upon the new or newish cult of "sincerity as an end in itself" -- the first refuge of minds too lazy to rebuild their intellectual foundations -- and the sentimental distrust of "orthodoxy" and "authority", in theological contexts at least.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acquaintance: a degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16946]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acquaintance: a degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every time a newspaper dies, even a bad one, the country moves a little closer to authoritarianism; when a great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every time a newspaper dies, even a bad one, the country moves a little closer to authoritarianism; when a great one goes, like the New York Herald Tribune, history itself is denied a devoted witness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44483</guid></item></channel></rss>