<?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[Nobody reads a mystery to get to the middle. They read it to get to the end. If it's a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43584]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody reads a mystery to get to the middle. They read it to get to the end. If it's a letdown, they won't buy anymore. The first page sells that book. The last page sells your next book.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51950]]></link><description><![CDATA[The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Among mortals second thoughts are wisest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5384]]></link><description><![CDATA[Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12047]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest pleasure of a dog is that you may -make a fool of yourself with him and not only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12674]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest pleasure of a dog is that you may -make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only the man who crosses the river at night knows the value of the light of day ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60326]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the man who crosses the river at night knows the value of the light of day]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13380]]></link><description><![CDATA[The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honor and glory are indeed due to God and to Him alone, but He will accept neither of them if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8075]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honor and glory are indeed due to God and to Him alone, but He will accept neither of them if they be not preserved in the honey of love. Love is sufficient of itself; it pleases by itself and on its own account. Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit. It is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love that I may love. Love is a great thing provided it recurs to its beginning, returns to its origin, and draws always from that Fountain which is perpetually in flood. Of all the feelings and affections of the soul, love is the only one by which the creature, though not on equal terms, is able to respond to the Creator and to repay what it has received from Him. For when God loves us He desires nothing but to be loved. He loves for no other reason, indeed, than that He may be loved, knowing that by their love itself those who love Him are blessed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're going to win games you aren't supposed to win and lose games you aren't supposed to lose. We weren't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32705]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're going to win games you aren't supposed to win and lose games you aren't supposed to lose. We weren't supposed to lose this game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant. - Conceits and Caprices. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2274]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant. - Conceits and Caprices.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He'll never change. He thinks he's invincible. I feel sorry for his girlfriend because he will always stray. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40512]]></link><description><![CDATA[He'll never change. He thinks he's invincible. I feel sorry for his girlfriend because he will always stray.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42771]]></link><description><![CDATA[Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59066]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think, therefore I am - I think. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27675]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think, therefore I am - I think.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[''I do have sort of a spiritual center now that I didn't havebefore,'' says Earle. ''But my spirituality is real ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17696]]></link><description><![CDATA[''I do have sort of a spiritual center now that I didn't havebefore,'' says Earle. ''But my spirituality is real retarded. Itbasically consists of `I believe there is a God, and it ain't me.'It's simple, but it works.''source: Boston Globe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If yet not lost to all the sense of shame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56129]]></link><description><![CDATA[If yet not lost to all the sense of shame.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56129</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[A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20049]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The character, the counsels, and example of our Washington . . . they will guide us through the doubts and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61241]]></link><description><![CDATA[The character, the counsels, and example of our Washington . . . they will guide us through the doubts and difficulties that beset us; they will guide our children and our children's children in the paths of prosperity and peace, while America shall hold her place in the family of nations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63672]]></link><description><![CDATA[All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Personality is a mask you believe in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46217]]></link><description><![CDATA[Personality is a mask you believe in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When their city was occupied by the Gauls, and the Romans, who were besieged in the Capitol, had made military ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64884]]></link><description><![CDATA[When their city was occupied by the Gauls, and the Romans, who were besieged in the Capitol, had made military engines from the hair of the women, they dedicated a temple to the Bald Venus.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That rich celestial music thrilled the air From hosts on hosts shining ones, who thronged  Eastward and westward, making ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43426]]></link><description><![CDATA[That rich celestial music thrilled the air From hosts on hosts shining ones, who thronged  Eastward and westward, making bright the night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our defense sparks us. When we make a good defensive play, when we come in to bat, it carries over. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37472]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our defense sparks us. When we make a good defensive play, when we come in to bat, it carries over. We don't strike out much. We do a good job of putting the bat on the ball.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man in this world without learning is as a beast of the field. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24545]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man in this world without learning is as a beast of the field.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men give advice; God gives guidance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18452]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men give advice; God gives guidance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I fear God, and next to God I chiefly fear him who fears Him not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17714]]></link><description><![CDATA[I fear God, and next to God I chiefly fear him who fears Him not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All authority must be out of a man's self, turned . . . either upon an art, or upon a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3485]]></link><description><![CDATA[All authority must be out of a man's self, turned . . . either upon an art, or upon a man.   - Francis Bacon,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With various readings stored his empty skull, Learn'd without sense, and venerably dull. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58066]]></link><description><![CDATA[With various readings stored his empty skull, Learn'd without sense, and venerably dull.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57964]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11246]]></link><description><![CDATA[A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the gloamin' o' the wood The throssil whusslit sweet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59253]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the gloamin' o' the wood The throssil whusslit sweet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Literature is mostly about sex and not much about having children; and life is the other way around. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25315]]></link><description><![CDATA[Literature is mostly about sex and not much about having children; and life is the other way around.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The government doesn't really want to win this case because the government wants to curry favor with the Cuban community. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32901]]></link><description><![CDATA[The government doesn't really want to win this case because the government wants to curry favor with the Cuban community.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As is the mother, so is her daughter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48567]]></link><description><![CDATA[As is the mother, so is her daughter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not now in fortune's power, He that is down can fall no lower. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48712]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not now in fortune's power, He that is down can fall no lower.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25932]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The apples that grew on the fruit-tree of knowledge By woman were pluck'd, and she still wears the prize  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2949]]></link><description><![CDATA[The apples that grew on the fruit-tree of knowledge By woman were pluck'd, and she still wears the prize  To tempt us in theatre, senate, or college--   I mean the love-apples that bloom in the eyes.   - Horace Smith and James Smith,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27616]]></link><description><![CDATA[The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not looking to exclude people, I'm looking to include them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64786]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not looking to exclude people, I'm looking to include them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential, and unalienable rights. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54262]]></link><description><![CDATA[All men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential, and unalienable rights.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Sundar Singh of India, Sadhu, Evangelist, Teacher, 1929   The breadth and depth of [William] Carey's missionary ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Sundar Singh of India, Sadhu, Evangelist, Teacher, 1929   The breadth and depth of [William] Carey's missionary service [in India] is well illustrated in the principles laid down for themselves by the Serampore Brotherhood to be read three times a year in each station in their charge. Here is a summary:  To set an infinite value on men's souls. To abstain from whatever deepens India's prejudice against the Gospel. To watch for every chance of doing the people good. To preach Christ crucified as the grand means of conversions. To esteem and treat Indians always as equals. To be instant in the nurture of personal religion. To cultivate the spiritual gifts of the Indian brethren, ever pressing upon them their missionary obligation, since only Indians can win India for Christ.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53918]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As long as our culture continues to fawn over its downward-aspiring lowest common denominators, the United States will remain a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60119]]></link><description><![CDATA[As long as our culture continues to fawn over its downward-aspiring lowest common denominators, the United States will remain a social and political punch line. As long as we continue tracking the every deed and fart of the Paris Hiltons and Kevin Federlines among us, we will continue to come out sixteenth best with regard to producing and introducing to the human race things of true substance worth appreciating for their aesthetic ingenuity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66683]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, c.326  We cannot understand the depth of the Christian doctrine of sin if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6513]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, c.326  We cannot understand the depth of the Christian doctrine of sin if we give it only a moral connotation. To break the basic laws of justice and decency is sin indeed. Man's freedom to honor principles is the moral dimension in his nature, and sin often appears as lawlessness. But sin has its root in something which is more than the will to break the law. The core of sin is our making ourselves the center of life, rather than accepting the holy God as the center. Lack of trust, self-love, pride, these are three ways in which Christians have expressed the real meaning of sin. But what sin does is to make the struggle with evil meaningless. When we refuse to hold our freedom in trust and reverence for God's will, there is nothing which can make the risk of life worth the pain of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now, by St. Paul, the work goes bravely on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58133]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now, by St. Paul, the work goes bravely on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53653]]></link><description><![CDATA[The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We would not listen to those who were wont to say the voice of the people is the voice of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52450]]></link><description><![CDATA[We would not listen to those who were wont to say the voice of the people is the voice of God, for the voice of the mob is near akin to madness. [Lat., Nec audiendi sunt qui solent dicere vox populi, vox dei; cum tumultus vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We took our time to examine all the alternatives. We tried to make the best deal we could. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31648]]></link><description><![CDATA[We took our time to examine all the alternatives. We tried to make the best deal we could.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31648</guid></item></channel></rss>