<?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 are strings," said Mr. Tappertit, ". . . in the human heart that had better not be wibrated." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19045]]></link><description><![CDATA["There are strings," said Mr. Tappertit, ". . . in the human heart that had better not be wibrated."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...the integrative tendencies of the individual are incomparably more dangerous than his self-assertive tendencies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52031]]></link><description><![CDATA[...the integrative tendencies of the individual are incomparably more dangerous than his self-assertive tendencies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revenge is sweeter than life itself. So think fools. [Lat., At vindicta bonum vita jucundius ipsa nempe hoc indocti.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54086]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revenge is sweeter than life itself. So think fools. [Lat., At vindicta bonum vita jucundius ipsa nempe hoc indocti.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is a verb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22294]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is a verb.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the lark that sings so out of tune, Straining harsh discords and unpleasing sharps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24106]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the lark that sings so out of tune, Straining harsh discords and unpleasing sharps.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lucky man is rarer than a white crow. [Lat., Felix ille tamen corvo quoque rarior albo.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26016]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lucky man is rarer than a white crow. [Lat., Felix ille tamen corvo quoque rarior albo.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tithe, and be rich. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tithe, and be rich.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is so far from being needless pains, that it may bring considerable profit, to carry Charcoals to Newcastle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23933]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is so far from being needless pains, that it may bring considerable profit, to carry Charcoals to Newcastle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If this provision became law, it could literally lead to the privatization of millions of acres of public land, including ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32773]]></link><description><![CDATA[If this provision became law, it could literally lead to the privatization of millions of acres of public land, including national park and national forest land.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We played our best game of the year tonight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31309]]></link><description><![CDATA[We played our best game of the year tonight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're in a much better position to talk with people when they approachyou than when you approach them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21176]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're in a much better position to talk with people when they approachyou than when you approach them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12790]]></link><description><![CDATA[In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Until one has loved an animal a part of one\'s soul remains unawakened. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Until one has loved an animal a part of one\'s soul remains unawakened.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Amy Carmichael, Founder of the Dohnavur Fellowship, 1951   Joy is not gush: joy is not jolliness. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8343]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Amy Carmichael, Founder of the Dohnavur Fellowship, 1951   Joy is not gush: joy is not jolliness. Joy is simply perfect acquiescence in God's will, because the soul delights itself in God himself... rejoice in the will of God, and in nothing else. Bow down your heads and your hearts before God, and let the will, the blessed will of God, be done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5959]]></link><description><![CDATA[A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favour. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5590]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favour. Andrea Ayvazian -Robert Frost (1874-1963).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21462]]></link><description><![CDATA[I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If someone says can't, that shows you what to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22481]]></link><description><![CDATA[If someone says can't, that shows you what to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kind messages, that pass from land to land; Kind letters, that betray the heart's deep history,  In which we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kind messages, that pass from land to land; Kind letters, that betray the heart's deep history,  In which we feel the pressure of a hand,--   One touch of fire,--and all the rest is mystery!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasure is often the introduction to pain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasure is often the introduction to pain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Open rebuke is better than secret love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48668]]></link><description><![CDATA[Open rebuke is better than secret love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2295]]></link><description><![CDATA[The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27095]]></link><description><![CDATA[The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65004]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've had some recovery but nothing to breathe a sigh of relief over. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37829]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've had some recovery but nothing to breathe a sigh of relief over.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quality is not an act, it is a habit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18515]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quality is not an act, it is a habit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I remember a mass of things, but nothing distinctly; a quarrel, but nothing wherefore. O God, that men should put ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22933]]></link><description><![CDATA[I remember a mass of things, but nothing distinctly; a quarrel, but nothing wherefore. O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! that we should with joy, pleasance, revel, and applause transform ourselves into beasts!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea that media is there to educate us, or to inform us, is ridiculous because that's about tenth or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23362]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea that media is there to educate us, or to inform us, is ridiculous because that's about tenth or eleventh on their list.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such hath it been--shall be--beneath the sun The many still must labour for the one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23922]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such hath it been--shall be--beneath the sun The many still must labour for the one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11895]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some photographers take reality...and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29461]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some photographers take reality...and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But genius must be born, and never can be taught. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17309]]></link><description><![CDATA[But genius must be born, and never can be taught.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gilbert of Sempringham, Founder of the Gilbertine Order, 1189   Some there are who presume so far ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8473]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gilbert of Sempringham, Founder of the Gilbertine Order, 1189   Some there are who presume so far on their wits that they think themselves capable of measuring the whole nature of things by their intellect, in that they esteem all things true which they see, and false which they see not. Accordingly, in order that man's mind might be freed from this presumption, and seek the truth humbly, it was necessary that certain things far surpassing his intellect should be proposed to man by God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Matthias the Apostle   I shall not value his prayers at all, be he never so earnest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7329]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Matthias the Apostle   I shall not value his prayers at all, be he never so earnest and frequent in them, who gives not alms according to his ability.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Value is not intrinsic; it is not in things. It is within us; it is the way in which man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15816]]></link><description><![CDATA[Value is not intrinsic; it is not in things. It is within us; it is the way in which man reacts to the conditions of his environment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16686]]></link><description><![CDATA[A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The framers gave us the Second Amendment not so we could go deer or duck hunting but to give us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47388]]></link><description><![CDATA[The framers gave us the Second Amendment not so we could go deer or duck hunting but to give us a modicum of protection against congressional tyranny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hell is the wrath of God--His hate of sin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hell is the wrath of God--His hate of sin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every sin is the result of a collaboration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14326]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every sin is the result of a collaboration.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As you know, God is generally on the side of the big squadrons against the small ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53698]]></link><description><![CDATA[As you know, God is generally on the side of the big squadrons against the small ones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True popularity is not the popularity which is followed after, but the popularity which follows after. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47714]]></link><description><![CDATA[True popularity is not the popularity which is followed after, but the popularity which follows after.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many people not only lose the benefit, but are even the worse for their mortifications [i.e., sacrifices, abstensions], ... because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7141]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many people not only lose the benefit, but are even the worse for their mortifications [i.e., sacrifices, abstensions], ... because they mistake the whole nature and worth of them: they practice them for their own sakes, as things good in themselves, they think them to be real parts of holiness, and so rest in them and look no further, but grow full of a self-esteem and self-admiration for their own progress in them. This makes them self-sufficient, morose, severe judges of all those that fall short of their mortifications. And thus their self-denials do only that for them which indulgences do for other people: they withstand and hinder the operation of God upon their souls, and instead of being really self-denials, they strengthen and keep up the kingdom of self.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism.... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2379]]></link><description><![CDATA["The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism.... It should be the highest ambition of every American to extend his views beyond himself, and to bear in mind that his conduct will not only affect himself, his country, and his immediate posterity; but that its influence may be co-extensive with the world, and stamp political happiness or misery on ages yet unborn." --George Washington]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love that we can not have is the one that lasts the longest, hurts the deepest and feels the strongest... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love that we can not have is the one that lasts the longest, hurts the deepest and feels the strongest...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2108]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not fair to treat as serious that which is only said in joke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50879]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not fair to treat as serious that which is only said in joke.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I look forward to seeing (the festival) with great enthusiasm and with fingers crossed that it can really make a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37244]]></link><description><![CDATA[I look forward to seeing (the festival) with great enthusiasm and with fingers crossed that it can really make a positive difference here by bringing people into a greater awareness that all different kinds of theater can be made and presented here,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still like muffled drums are beating ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still like muffled drums are beating Funeral marches to the grave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What conditions of work, what kinds of work, what kinds of management, and what kinds of reward or pay will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54163]]></link><description><![CDATA[What conditions of work, what kinds of work, what kinds of management, and what kinds of reward or pay will help human stature to grow healthy, to its fuller and fullest stature ? Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of hum]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54163</guid></item></channel></rss>