<?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[There is a vibrancy in Africa. We are offering that gift back to America. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28559]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a vibrancy in Africa. We are offering that gift back to America.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even ministers of good things are like torches, a light to others, waste and destruction to themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even ministers of good things are like torches, a light to others, waste and destruction to themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disappointment to a noble soul is what cold water is to burning metal; it strengthens, tempers, intensifies, but never destroys ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12361]]></link><description><![CDATA[Disappointment to a noble soul is what cold water is to burning metal; it strengthens, tempers, intensifies, but never destroys it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11061]]></link><description><![CDATA[In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12454]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24935]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3069]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success has made failures of many men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success has made failures of many men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since the life of Christ is every way most bitter to nature and the Self and the Me (for in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6781]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since the life of Christ is every way most bitter to nature and the Self and the Me (for in the true life of Christ, the Self and the Me and nature must be forsaken and lost and die altogether), therefore in each of us, nature hath a deep horror of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22343]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52027]]></link><description><![CDATA[The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart must be kept tender and pliable; otherwise agnosticism converts to skepticism. In such a case, the value of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6510]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart must be kept tender and pliable; otherwise agnosticism converts to skepticism. In such a case, the value of apologetics is voided, for apologetics is aimed at persuading doubters, not at refuting the defiant. He who demands a kind of proof that the nature of the case renders impossible, is determined that no possible evidence shall convince him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65032]]></link><description><![CDATA[Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come on. I got drunk when I was like 5. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come on. I got drunk when I was like 5.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When an individual fear or apathy passes by the unfortunate, life is of no account. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2027]]></link><description><![CDATA[When an individual fear or apathy passes by the unfortunate, life is of no account.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Birth of John the Baptist  Keep clear of concealment -- keep clear of the need of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7822]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Birth of John the Baptist  Keep clear of concealment -- keep clear of the need of concealment. It is an awful hour when the first necessity of hiding something comes. The whole life is different thenceforth. When there are questions to be feared and eyes to be avoided and subjects which must not be touched, the bloom of life is gone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What mighty contests rise from trivial things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50933]]></link><description><![CDATA[What mighty contests rise from trivial things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These two teams match up well. I expected this type of game all the way through. We were just a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31280]]></link><description><![CDATA[These two teams match up well. I expected this type of game all the way through. We were just a couple of possessions away. We just couldn't get that one basket. They hit their free throws at the end, which did it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66649]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Safe in a ditch he bides, With twenty trenched gashes on his head,  The least a death to nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62368]]></link><description><![CDATA[Safe in a ditch he bides, With twenty trenched gashes on his head,  The least a death to nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so changes of studies a dull brain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58039]]></link><description><![CDATA[As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so changes of studies a dull brain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Oh! what a vile and abject thing is man unless he can erect himself above humanity." Here is a bon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18392]]></link><description><![CDATA["Oh! what a vile and abject thing is man unless he can erect himself above humanity." Here is a bon mot and a useful desire, but equally absurd. For to make the handful bigger than the hand, the armful bigger then the arm, and to hope to stride further than the stretch of our legs, is impossible and monstrous. . . . He may lift himself if God lend him His hand of special grace; he may lift himself . . . by means wholly celestial. It is for our Christian religion, and not for his Stoic virtue, to pretend to this divine and miraculous metamorphosis.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're as likely to get through to him if you burble mindlessly at him whilst tossing geraniums standing on a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17598]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're as likely to get through to him if you burble mindlessly at him whilst tossing geraniums standing on a garden gnome.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14601]]></link><description><![CDATA[One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One learns little more about a man from his feats of literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25287]]></link><description><![CDATA[One learns little more about a man from his feats of literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63679]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not going to be mad, and I'm not going to dwell on it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28420]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not going to be mad, and I'm not going to dwell on it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A grownup is a child with layers on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18375]]></link><description><![CDATA[A grownup is a child with layers on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People use not just personal computers, but telephones, televisions, wireless and other devices with this technology so that minutes will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42512]]></link><description><![CDATA[People use not just personal computers, but telephones, televisions, wireless and other devices with this technology so that minutes will migrate over time, ... We really don't see a mass substitution or a great big cliff ahead of us, but rather that people will use this [Net2Phone applications] in conjunction with activities that they are performing in the Internet portal space.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember, son, many a good story has been ruined by over-verification. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23365]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember, son, many a good story has been ruined by over-verification.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are very few persons who pursue science with true dignity.   - Sir Humphrey Davy, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54814]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are very few persons who pursue science with true dignity.   - Sir Humphrey Davy,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the sun sets, shadows, that showed at noon But small, appear most long and terrible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58295]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the sun sets, shadows, that showed at noon But small, appear most long and terrible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He started doing walking tours that were hysterical and offered a lot of fascinating history. Now his company has grown ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40533]]></link><description><![CDATA[He started doing walking tours that were hysterical and offered a lot of fascinating history. Now his company has grown and all the employees also are comedians.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It must be of the spirit if we are to save the flesh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57392]]></link><description><![CDATA[It must be of the spirit if we are to save the flesh.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The words of the world want to make sentences. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4707]]></link><description><![CDATA[The words of the world want to make sentences.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What can innocence hope for, When such as sit her judges are corrupted! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20956]]></link><description><![CDATA[What can innocence hope for, When such as sit her judges are corrupted!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy - the smile that accepts a lover before words are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3608]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy - the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother's love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9899]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government - lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63892]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is never finished, only abandoned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3131]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is never finished, only abandoned.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those families, you know, are our upper crust, not upper ten thousand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those families, you know, are our upper crust, not upper ten thousand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall see God, for only the pure in heart ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8492]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall see God, for only the pure in heart want to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being wrong should not be associated with failure. It should instead be celebrated, for it brings someone to a new ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32969]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being wrong should not be associated with failure. It should instead be celebrated, for it brings someone to a new level of understanding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65870]]></link><description><![CDATA[What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13683]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People see the world not as it is, but as they are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14529]]></link><description><![CDATA[People see the world not as it is, but as they are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A flea in his ear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48513]]></link><description><![CDATA[A flea in his ear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To vanish nonsense with the charms of sound. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44609]]></link><description><![CDATA[To vanish nonsense with the charms of sound.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know. [Lat., Non me pudet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20404]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know. [Lat., Non me pudet fateri nescire quod nesciam.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The feller that calls you "brother" generally wants something that don't belong to him ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4950]]></link><description><![CDATA[The feller that calls you "brother" generally wants something that don't belong to him]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4950</guid></item></channel></rss>