<?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[A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59182]]></link><description><![CDATA[A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the man, who would be grateful, think of repaying a kindness, even while receiving it. [Lat., Qui gratus futurus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the man, who would be grateful, think of repaying a kindness, even while receiving it. [Lat., Qui gratus futurus est statim dum accipit de reddendo cogitet.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever science makes a discovery, the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12184]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever science makes a discovery, the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let who will boast their courage in the field, I find but little safety from my shield,  Nature's, not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61126]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let who will boast their courage in the field, I find but little safety from my shield,  Nature's, not honour's law we must obey:   This made me cast my useless shield away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54807]]></link><description><![CDATA[The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48575]]></link><description><![CDATA[And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To tolerant everything is too teach nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59429]]></link><description><![CDATA[To tolerant everything is too teach nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't recall ever sending anybody out to fight, especially at the drop of the puck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35323]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't recall ever sending anybody out to fight, especially at the drop of the puck.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52337]]></link><description><![CDATA[The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people.  The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The inevitableness, the idealism, and the blessing of war, as an indispensable and stimulating law of development, must be repeatedly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61136]]></link><description><![CDATA[The inevitableness, the idealism, and the blessing of war, as an indispensable and stimulating law of development, must be repeatedly emphasized.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every second. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27569]]></link><description><![CDATA[All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every second.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Get the hell out of my way! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46481]]></link><description><![CDATA[Get the hell out of my way!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us; it creates in us a capacity for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/820]]></link><description><![CDATA[What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us; it creates in us a capacity for the closest possible intimacy with God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart is forever inexperienced. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13747]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart is forever inexperienced.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43823]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16949]]></link><description><![CDATA[Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need to make sure that we are prepared when and if something does happen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42353]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need to make sure that we are prepared when and if something does happen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45845]]></link><description><![CDATA[Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53389]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53389</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[The will to be totally rational is the will to be made out of glass and steel: and to use ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61612]]></link><description><![CDATA[The will to be totally rational is the will to be made out of glass and steel: and to use others as if they were glass and steel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/872]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In my soul rages a battle without victor. Between faith without proof and reason without charm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15036]]></link><description><![CDATA[In my soul rages a battle without victor. Between faith without proof and reason without charm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[a lady who couldn't keep her legs together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37954]]></link><description><![CDATA[a lady who couldn't keep her legs together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1782]]></link><description><![CDATA[If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the short and the long of it. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55358]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the short and the long of it. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em, And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em, And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum,  And the great fleas themselves, in turn, have greater fleas to go on,   While these again have greater still, and greater still, and so on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll publish, right or wrong: / Fools are my theme, let satire be my song. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16357]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll publish, right or wrong: / Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We may not return the affection of those who like us, but we always respect their good judgment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1633]]></link><description><![CDATA[We may not return the affection of those who like us, but we always respect their good judgment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64804]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's in the preparation -- in those dreary pedestrian virtues they taught you in seventh grade and you didn't believe. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5274]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's in the preparation -- in those dreary pedestrian virtues they taught you in seventh grade and you didn't believe. It's making the extra call and caring a lot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[High prices may not be enough of an incentive for risky developments in conventional oil, let alone oil shale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29515]]></link><description><![CDATA[High prices may not be enough of an incentive for risky developments in conventional oil, let alone oil shale.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The effect of having other interests beyond those domestic works well. The more one does and sees and feels, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11349]]></link><description><![CDATA[The effect of having other interests beyond those domestic works well. The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The law of heaven and earth is life for life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24255]]></link><description><![CDATA[The law of heaven and earth is life for life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An art book is a museum without walls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66652]]></link><description><![CDATA[An art book is a museum without walls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10020]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Christina Rossetti, Poet, 1894  A Better Resurrection I have no wit, no words, no tears; My heart ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Christina Rossetti, Poet, 1894  A Better Resurrection I have no wit, no words, no tears; My heart within me like a stone Is numbed too much for hopes or fears. Look right, look left, I dwell alone; I lift mine eyes, but dimmed with grief No everlasting hills I see; My life is in the falling leaf: O Jesus, quicken me. My life is like a faded leaf, My harvest dwindled to a husk: Truly my life is void and brief And tedious in the barren dusk; My life is like a frozen thing, No bud nor greenness can I see: Yet rise it shall--the sap of spring; O Jesus, rise in me. My life is like a broken bowl, A broken bowl that cannot hold One drop of water for my soul Or cordial in the searching cold; Cast in the fire the perished thing; Melt and remould it, till it be A royal cup for Him, my King: O Jesus, drink of me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Helpless, unknown, and unremembered, most human beings, however sensitive, idealistic, intelligent, go through life as passengers rather than chauffeurs. Although ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14054]]></link><description><![CDATA[Helpless, unknown, and unremembered, most human beings, however sensitive, idealistic, intelligent, go through life as passengers rather than chauffeurs. Although we may pretend that it is the chauffeur who is the social inferior, most of us, like Toad of Toad Hall, would not mind a turn at the wheel ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43971]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who lives by himself and for himself is likely to be corrupted by the company he keeps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55091]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who lives by himself and for himself is likely to be corrupted by the company he keeps.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58149]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man of a great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle, and no staffe to spin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49054]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man of a great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle, and no staffe to spin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When our vices leave us, we flatter ourselves that we are leaving them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60553]]></link><description><![CDATA[When our vices leave us, we flatter ourselves that we are leaving them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem on others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52576]]></link><description><![CDATA[One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem on others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4695]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever, is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1382]]></link><description><![CDATA[Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever, is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, let your mind dwell on these things. [Philippians 4:8].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deo et Patriae [For God and country] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43285]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deo et Patriae [For God and country]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here, or nowhere, is the thing we seek. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50256]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here, or nowhere, is the thing we seek.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65741]]></link><description><![CDATA[The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65741</guid></item></channel></rss>