<?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[As many servants so many enemies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51130]]></link><description><![CDATA[As many servants so many enemies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And force them, though it was in spite Of Nature and their stars, to write. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3517]]></link><description><![CDATA[And force them, though it was in spite Of Nature and their stars, to write.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination rules the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20498]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination rules the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole town laughed at my great-grandfather, just because he worked hard and saved his money. True, working at the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11698]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole town laughed at my great-grandfather, just because he worked hard and saved his money. True, working at the hardware store didn't pay much, but he felt it was better than what everybody else did, which was go up to the volcano and collect the gold nuggets it shot out every day. It turned out he was right. After forty years, the volcano petered out. Everybody left town, and the hardware store went broke. Finally he decided to collect gold nuggets too, but there weren't many left by then. Plus, he broke his leg and the doctor's bills were real high.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hold these truths to be self evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26316]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hold these truths to be self evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone is gifted - but some people never open their package ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17407]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone is gifted - but some people never open their package]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Called me wessel, Sammy--a wessel of wrath. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43645]]></link><description><![CDATA[Called me wessel, Sammy--a wessel of wrath.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This was genuine fear - fear born of experience of a man that was mean and ugly, not crazy, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36920]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was genuine fear - fear born of experience of a man that was mean and ugly, not crazy, but mean and ugly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I'm going to Hell, I'm going there playing the piano. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11310]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I'm going to Hell, I'm going there playing the piano.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever there is a hard job to be done I assign it to a lazy man; he is sure to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13609]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever there is a hard job to be done I assign it to a lazy man; he is sure to find an easy way of doing it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We would get within two or three, then turn the ball over. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37890]]></link><description><![CDATA[We would get within two or three, then turn the ball over.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...we, the goths, do know how death, depression, despair, grief, misery and sorrow feels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17930]]></link><description><![CDATA[...we, the goths, do know how death, depression, despair, grief, misery and sorrow feels.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can only cure retail but you can prevent wholesale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56962]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can only cure retail but you can prevent wholesale.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This isn't right, this isn't even wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54874]]></link><description><![CDATA[This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What exile from his country is able to escape from himself? [Lat., Patriae quis exul se quoque fugit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25963]]></link><description><![CDATA[What exile from his country is able to escape from himself? [Lat., Patriae quis exul se quoque fugit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54010]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46046]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I tell you that which you yourselves do know, Show you sweet Caesar's wounds, poor poor dumb mouths,  And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62367]]></link><description><![CDATA[I tell you that which you yourselves do know, Show you sweet Caesar's wounds, poor poor dumb mouths,  And bid them speak for me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we know what God is, we shall be gods ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17713]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we know what God is, we shall be gods ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rejection as unhistorical of all passages which narrate miracles is sensible if we start by knowing that the miraculous... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8532]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rejection as unhistorical of all passages which narrate miracles is sensible if we start by knowing that the miraculous... never occurs. Now, I do not want here to discuss whether the miraculous is possible: I only want to point out that this is a purely philosophical question. Scholars, as scholars, speak on it with no more authority than anyone else. The canon, "If miraculous, unhistorical", is one they bring to their study of the texts, not one they have learned from it. If one is speaking of authority, the united authority of all the Biblical critics in the world counts for nothing. On this they speak simply as men -- men obviously influenced by, and perhaps insufficiently critical of, the spirit of the age they grew up in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great collections of books are subject to certain accidents besides the damp, the worms, and the rats; one not less ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4740]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great collections of books are subject to certain accidents besides the damp, the worms, and the rats; one not less common is that of the borrowers, not to say a word of the purloiners.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can fool too many of the people too much of the time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59179]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not a solution people are wanting to buy into. The main objection is to using public funds for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33245]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not a solution people are wanting to buy into. The main objection is to using public funds for private institutions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And now, I am dying beyond my means. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24142]]></link><description><![CDATA[And now, I am dying beyond my means.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A word of optimism and hope. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45204]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A word of optimism and hope. A "you can do it" when things are tough.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39489]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26887]]></link><description><![CDATA[People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Matthew, Apostle & Evangelist  Continuing a series on God and the human condition:  If we are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6653]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Matthew, Apostle & Evangelist  Continuing a series on God and the human condition:  If we are directed only by our particular natures, and regulate our inclinations by no higher rule than that of our reasons, we are but moralists; divinity will still call us heathens. Therefore this great work of charity must have other motives, ends, and impulsions. I give no alms to satisfy the hunger of my brother, but to fulfil and accomplish the will and command of my God; I draw not my purse for his sake that demands it, but his that enjoined it; I relieve no man upon the rhetoric of his miseries, nor to content mine own commiserating disposition, for this is still but moral charity, and an act that oweth more to passion than reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The water is just too bad. The salvage company hired by the insurance is going to take over now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37726]]></link><description><![CDATA[The water is just too bad. The salvage company hired by the insurance is going to take over now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jesus lived His life in complete dependence upon God, as we all ought to live our lives. But such dependence ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jesus lived His life in complete dependence upon God, as we all ought to live our lives. But such dependence does not destroy human personality. Man is never so fully and so truly personal as when he is living in complete dependence upon God. This is how personality comes into its own. This is humanity at its most personal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If health insurance was working properly, the sicker you are, the more protection you would have. It seems to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34066]]></link><description><![CDATA[If health insurance was working properly, the sicker you are, the more protection you would have. It seems to be working backwards, the sicker you are, the more trouble you have paying bills.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/986]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was given -- all these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will play the swan, And die in music. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58461]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will play the swan, And die in music.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All animals except man know that the ultimate point of life is to enjoy it. -Samuel Butler. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24994]]></link><description><![CDATA[All animals except man know that the ultimate point of life is to enjoy it. -Samuel Butler.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles, and kindnesses, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13037]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles, and kindnesses, and small obligations, given habitually, are what win and preserve the heart and secure comfort]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47148]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game and dumb enough to think it's important.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54199]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oscar Wilde: 'Do you mind if I smoke?' Sarah Bernhardt: 'I don't care if you burn' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56698]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oscar Wilde: 'Do you mind if I smoke?' Sarah Bernhardt: 'I don't care if you burn']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When his heart is glad Of the full harvest, I will speak to him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51724]]></link><description><![CDATA[When his heart is glad Of the full harvest, I will speak to him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25341]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford to neglect this part of his preparation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ini Kopuria, Founder of the Melanesian Brotherhood, 1945   The very strength and facility of the pessimists' ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ini Kopuria, Founder of the Melanesian Brotherhood, 1945   The very strength and facility of the pessimists' case at once poses us a problem. If the universe is so bad, or even half so bad, how on earth did human beings ever come to attribute it to the activity of a wise and good Creator? Men are fools, perhaps; but hardly so foolish as that. The direct inference from black to white, from evil flower to virtuous root, from senseless work to a workman infinitely wise, staggers belief. The spectacle of the universe as revealed by experience can never have been the ground of religion: it must have always been something in spite of which religion, acquired from a different source, was held.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12476]]></link><description><![CDATA[The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first king was a successful soldier; He who serves well his country has no need of ancestors.  [Fr., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54527]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first king was a successful soldier; He who serves well his country has no need of ancestors.  [Fr., Le premier qui fut roi, fut un soldat heureux;   Qui sert bien son pays, n'a pas besoin d'aleux.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63273]]></link><description><![CDATA[We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They best can judge a poet's worth, Who oft themselves have known  The pangs of a poetic birth  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46859]]></link><description><![CDATA[They best can judge a poet's worth, Who oft themselves have known  The pangs of a poetic birth   By labours of their own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through tattered clothes small vices do appear; Robes and furred gowns hide all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51340]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through tattered clothes small vices do appear; Robes and furred gowns hide all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The logic of the heart is absurd ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19025]]></link><description><![CDATA[The logic of the heart is absurd]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou whoreson zed, thou unnecessary letter! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24013]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou whoreson zed, thou unnecessary letter!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24013</guid></item></channel></rss>