<?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[it is much safer to obey than to rule. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24483]]></link><description><![CDATA[it is much safer to obey than to rule.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cord breaketh at last by the weakest pull. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61330]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cord breaketh at last by the weakest pull.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Surely the stars are images of love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Surely the stars are images of love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some of us have not much time to lose [to begin loving]. Remember, once more, that this is a matter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6947]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some of us have not much time to lose [to begin loving]. Remember, once more, that this is a matter of life and death. I cannot help speaking urgently, for myself, for yourselves. "Whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea." That is to say, it is the deliberate verdict of the Lord Jesus that it is better not to have lived than not to love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is so little to be so large! Why, a train of cars, or a whale-back barge  Couldn't carry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3631]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is so little to be so large! Why, a train of cars, or a whale-back barge  Couldn't carry the freight   Of the monstrous weight    Of all of his qualities, good and great.     And tho' one view is as good as another      Don't take my word for it. Ask his mother!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Contemporaries appreciate the man rather than his merit; posterity will regard the merit rather than the man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27402]]></link><description><![CDATA[Contemporaries appreciate the man rather than his merit; posterity will regard the merit rather than the man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55019]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most confused we ever get is when we're trying to convince our heads of something our heart knows is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65526]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most confused we ever get is when we're trying to convince our heads of something our heart knows is a lie.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no easy way to bathe a hummingbird. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39643]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no easy way to bathe a hummingbird.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First thing I killed was no kind of thing at all. It was an enemy soldier. Which is a hell ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60631]]></link><description><![CDATA[First thing I killed was no kind of thing at all. It was an enemy soldier. Which is a hell of a lot easier to say, than the first thing I ever killed was a man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is something to that old saying that hate injures the hater, notthe hated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21159]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is something to that old saying that hate injures the hater, notthe hated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9719]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplike passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Very obviously, they've pitched well - not making mistakes, living on the corners. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Very obviously, they've pitched well - not making mistakes, living on the corners.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps we will drink a drop of champagne. This is an undeniable victory for a social movement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps we will drink a drop of champagne. This is an undeniable victory for a social movement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65029]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've done lots of research, and we've found sources for everything but the 70-foot poles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32726]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've done lots of research, and we've found sources for everything but the 70-foot poles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much converse do I find in thee, Historian of my infancy!  Float near me; do not yet depart!  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much converse do I find in thee, Historian of my infancy!  Float near me; do not yet depart!   Dead times revive in thee:    Thou bring'st, gay creature as thou art!     A solemn image to my heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23189]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't give advice. I can't tell anybody what to do. Instead I say, this is what we know about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/806]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't give advice. I can't tell anybody what to do. Instead I say, this is what we know about this problem at this time. And here are the consequences of these actions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now this is the ground and original of the Spirit of Love in the creature, it is and must be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now this is the ground and original of the Spirit of Love in the creature, it is and must be a will to all goodness; and you have not the Spirit of Love in you till you have this will to all goodness at all times and on all occasions. You may indeed do many works of love and delight in them -- especially at such times as they are not inconvenient to your state or temper or occurrences in life. But the Spirit of Love is not in you till it is the spirit of your life, till you live freely, willingly, and universally according to it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Creation is a drug I can't do without. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10580]]></link><description><![CDATA[Creation is a drug I can't do without.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious. [Lat., Nam ut quisque ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60772]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious. [Lat., Nam ut quisque est vir optimus, ita difficillime esse alios improbos suspicatur.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've got a living to make, to put it plainly; there's more money in shocking and terrifying than in edifying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15917]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've got a living to make, to put it plainly; there's more money in shocking and terrifying than in edifying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing to be found in a beehive that is not submerged in a bee. And yet you can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56984]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing to be found in a beehive that is not submerged in a bee. And yet you can search a bee forever with cyclotron and fluoroscope, and you will never find the hive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48436]]></link><description><![CDATA[Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54251]]></link><description><![CDATA[It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show me a frigid women and, nine times out of ten, I'll show you a little man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17005]]></link><description><![CDATA[Show me a frigid women and, nine times out of ten, I'll show you a little man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are countless ways of attaining greatness, but any road to reaching one's maximum potential must be built on a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18243]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are countless ways of attaining greatness, but any road to reaching one's maximum potential must be built on a bedrock of respect for the individual, a commitment to excellence, and a rejection of mediocrity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22277]]></link><description><![CDATA[The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is troubled not by events, but by the meaning he gives them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14277]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is troubled not by events, but by the meaning he gives them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three things a wise man will not trust, The wind, the sunshine of an April day,  And woman's plighted ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12577]]></link><description><![CDATA[Three things a wise man will not trust, The wind, the sunshine of an April day,  And woman's plighted faith.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[World trade means competition from anywhere; advancing technology encourages cross-industry competition. Consequently, strategic planning must consider who our future competitors ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57541]]></link><description><![CDATA[World trade means competition from anywhere; advancing technology encourages cross-industry competition. Consequently, strategic planning must consider who our future competitors will be, not only who is here today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All I know is what I read in the papers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44488]]></link><description><![CDATA[All I know is what I read in the papers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prettiness dies first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49719]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prettiness dies first.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He hadn't a single redeeming vice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60484]]></link><description><![CDATA[He hadn't a single redeeming vice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not a black and white issue - it's not a question of whether we care or don't. It's not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38477]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not a black and white issue - it's not a question of whether we care or don't. It's not an either/or issue and does us no good to set this example for our kids or community-at-large, to reduce our concerns to simplistic clichÃƒÂ…Ã‚Â½s. Just because something has been declared legal doesn't mean that it is right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5978]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear is that little darkroom where negatives aredeveloped. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear is that little darkroom where negatives aredeveloped.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people think that meditation takes time away from physicalaccomplishment. Taken to extremes, of course, that's true. Most people,however, find ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21476]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people think that meditation takes time away from physicalaccomplishment. Taken to extremes, of course, that's true. Most people,however, find that meditation creates more time than it takes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is good to have some friends both in heaven and hell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49562]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is good to have some friends both in heaven and hell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot find in the Old Testament the fondly drawn distinction of our latter days between the natural and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6338]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot find in the Old Testament the fondly drawn distinction of our latter days between the natural and the supernatural, for the whole of the natural order is so directly linked with God that its conservation must be regarded as a kind of continuous creation, quite as dependent on God's creative Word as when first the heavens and the earth were made.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He needn't reach the stars..stars' light reaches him..He needn't climb to God.Inside him .. Elohim. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13650]]></link><description><![CDATA[He needn't reach the stars..stars' light reaches him..He needn't climb to God.Inside him .. Elohim.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have tried so hard to do right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15225]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have tried so hard to do right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself Till by broad spreading it disperse ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself Till by broad spreading it disperse to naught]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wind puffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51553]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wind puffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come. -Rabindranath Tagore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nowadays, anyone who cannot speak English and is incapable of using the Internet is regarded as backward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nowadays, anyone who cannot speak English and is incapable of using the Internet is regarded as backward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60601]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men die, but sorrow never dies; The crowding years divide in vain,  And the wide world is knit with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men die, but sorrow never dies; The crowding years divide in vain,  And the wide world is knit with ties   Of common brotherhood in pain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is a fool who lets slip a bird in the hand for a bird in the bush. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4243]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is a fool who lets slip a bird in the hand for a bird in the bush.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4243</guid></item></channel></rss>