<?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[Iran is striving to take a dominant position in the region, and its nuclear program is the most suitable means ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Iran is striving to take a dominant position in the region, and its nuclear program is the most suitable means of achieving this.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26565]]></link><description><![CDATA[My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16166]]></link><description><![CDATA[By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've had the first ascents on most of the waterfalls in the Rocky Mountain Front. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34480]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've had the first ascents on most of the waterfalls in the Rocky Mountain Front.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sacred burden is this life ye bear: Look on it, lift it, bear it solemnly, Stand up and walk ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4976]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sacred burden is this life ye bear: Look on it, lift it, bear it solemnly, Stand up and walk beneath it steadfastly. Fail not for sorrow, falter not for sin, But onward, upward, till the goal ye win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give me someone who has been picked by the Democratic Party, and then all of us can put our dollars ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30905]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give me someone who has been picked by the Democratic Party, and then all of us can put our dollars into that one race,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Raise the urinals. (on how management could keep the Braves on their toes) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57623]]></link><description><![CDATA[Raise the urinals. (on how management could keep the Braves on their toes)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you candream it, you can become it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22692]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you candream it, you can become it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zeal then, not charity, became the guide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62629]]></link><description><![CDATA[Zeal then, not charity, became the guide.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Situations in low-rated schools like Jasper are very frustrating, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29424]]></link><description><![CDATA[Situations in low-rated schools like Jasper are very frustrating,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61603]]></link><description><![CDATA[And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Caesarism is democracy without liberty. [Fr., Le Cesarisme, c'est la democratie sans la liberte.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11867]]></link><description><![CDATA[Caesarism is democracy without liberty. [Fr., Le Cesarisme, c'est la democratie sans la liberte.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jesus once declared that God is "good to the ungrateful and the wicked" (St. Luke 6:35), and I remember preaching ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7389]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jesus once declared that God is "good to the ungrateful and the wicked" (St. Luke 6:35), and I remember preaching a sermon on this text to a horrified and even astonished congregation who simply refused to believe (so I gathered afterwards) in this astounding liberality of God. That God should be in a state of constant fury with the wicked seemed to them only right and proper, but that God should be kind towards those who were defying or disobeying His laws seemed to them a monstrous injustice. Yet I was but quoting the Son of God Himself, and I only comment here that the terrifying risks that God takes are part of His Nature. We do not need to explain or modify His unremitting love towards mankind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thread breakes, where it is weakest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49921]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thread breakes, where it is weakest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal. Prepare yourself in every way you can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8734]]></link><description><![CDATA[Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal. Prepare yourself in every way you can by increasing your knowledge and adding to your experience, so that you can make the most of opportunity when it occurs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They say be parted well and paid his score, And so, God be with him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45574]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say be parted well and paid his score, And so, God be with him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47719]]></link><description><![CDATA[To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. the foundation of such a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2114]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65534]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15178]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O God, keep me innocent; make others great! [Fr., O mon Dieu, conserve-moi innocente, donne la grandeur aux autres.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20957]]></link><description><![CDATA[O God, keep me innocent; make others great! [Fr., O mon Dieu, conserve-moi innocente, donne la grandeur aux autres.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good orator is pointed and impassioned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52499]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good orator is pointed and impassioned.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great unwashed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52453]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great unwashed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This principle is old, but true as fate, Kings may love treason, but the traitor hate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59640]]></link><description><![CDATA[This principle is old, but true as fate, Kings may love treason, but the traitor hate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without a goal, you cannot survive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32323]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without a goal, you cannot survive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting the generations ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25366]]></link><description><![CDATA[Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting the generations to come.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All wealth is the product of labor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23916]]></link><description><![CDATA[All wealth is the product of labor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25002]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The quality of mercy is not strained; It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven  Upon the place beneath. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27350]]></link><description><![CDATA[The quality of mercy is not strained; It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven  Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest;   It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.    'Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes     The throned monarch better than his crown.      His sceptre shows the force of temporal power,       The attribute to awe and majesty,        Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings;         But mercy is above this scept'red sway;          It is enthroned in the hearts of kings;           It is an attribute to God himself,            And earthly power doth then show likest God's             When mercy seasons justice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45386]]></link><description><![CDATA[When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The religious desire and effort of the soul to relate itself and all its interest to God and his will, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6574]]></link><description><![CDATA[The religious desire and effort of the soul to relate itself and all its interest to God and his will, is prayer in the deepest sense. This is essential prayer: uttered or unexpressed, it is equally prayer. It is the soul's desire after God going forth in a manifestation, ... the soul striving after God. This is a prayer that may exist without ceasing, consisting, as it does, not in doing or saying this or that, but in temper and attitude of the spirit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5410]]></link><description><![CDATA[If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more new ideas for more wise men reading more good books in more public libraries. These libraries should be open to all—except the censor. We must know all the facts and hear all the alternatives and listen to all the criticisms. Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors. For the Bill of Rights is the guardian of our security as well as our liberty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Queen, who sat With lips severely placid felt the knot  Climb in her throat, and with her feet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51716]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Queen, who sat With lips severely placid felt the knot  Climb in her throat, and with her feet unseen   Crushed the wild passion out against the floor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All night the thirsty beach has listening lain With patience dumb,  Counting the slow, said moments of her pain; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59263]]></link><description><![CDATA[All night the thirsty beach has listening lain With patience dumb,  Counting the slow, said moments of her pain;   Now morn has come,    And with the morn the punctual tide again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That?s what we?re trying to build. Two more groups to go. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33320]]></link><description><![CDATA[That?s what we?re trying to build. Two more groups to go.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You taught me language, and my profit on't Is, I know how to curse. The red plague rid you  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24015]]></link><description><![CDATA[You taught me language, and my profit on't Is, I know how to curse. The red plague rid you  For learning me your language!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A host in himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19870]]></link><description><![CDATA[A host in himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58923]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not enough to be compassionate. You must act also. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21162]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not enough to be compassionate. You must act also.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21850]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66587]]></link><description><![CDATA[My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apothegms to thinking minds are the seeds from which spring vast fields of new thought, that may be further cultivated, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Apothegms to thinking minds are the seeds from which spring vast fields of new thought, that may be further cultivated, beautified, and enlarged.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Insults should be written in sand, compliments should be carved in stone ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Insults should be written in sand, compliments should be carved in stone]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury--to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26105]]></link><description><![CDATA[Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury--to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for every one, best for both the body and the mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each year, it seems, larger and more daunting mountains of text rise from the lush lowlands of visual reproduction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54863]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each year, it seems, larger and more daunting mountains of text rise from the lush lowlands of visual reproduction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guilt is a sure sign your thinking is unnatural.*HS was the amanuensis for the Course In Miracles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18510]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guilt is a sure sign your thinking is unnatural.*HS was the amanuensis for the Course In Miracles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Put none but Americans on guard tonight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45822]]></link><description><![CDATA[Put none but Americans on guard tonight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45822</guid></item></channel></rss>