<?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[To be listened to is, generally speaking, a nearly unique experience for most people. It is enormously stimulating. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25193]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be listened to is, generally speaking, a nearly unique experience for most people. It is enormously stimulating. It is small wonder that people who have been demanding all their lives to be heard so often fall speechless when confronted with one who gravely agrees to lend an ear. Man clamors for the freedom to express himself and for knowing that he counts. But once offered these conditions, he becomes frigthened. -Robert C. Murphy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So soon as ever thou seest him, draw; and as thou draw'st, swear horrible; for it comes to pass oft ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58479]]></link><description><![CDATA[So soon as ever thou seest him, draw; and as thou draw'st, swear horrible; for it comes to pass oft that a terrible oath, with a swaggering accent sharply twanged off, gives manhood more approbation than ever proof itself would have earned him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beare with evill, and expect good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beare with evill, and expect good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Off to her bed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41607]]></link><description><![CDATA[Off to her bed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Etheldreda, Abbess of Ely, c.678  The soul which gives itself wholly and without reserve to God is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Etheldreda, Abbess of Ely, c.678  The soul which gives itself wholly and without reserve to God is filled with His own Peace; and inasmuch as we are prone to grow like that to which we are closely united, the closer we draw to our God, so much the stronger and more steadfast and more tranquil shall we become.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I speak of the gifted listener, I am thinking of the nonmusician primarily, of the listener who intends to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43512]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I speak of the gifted listener, I am thinking of the nonmusician primarily, of the listener who intends to retain his amateur status. It is the thought of just such a listener that excites the composer in me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We . . . are no petty people. We are one of the great stocks of Burke; we are the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23059]]></link><description><![CDATA[We . . . are no petty people. We are one of the great stocks of Burke; we are the people of Swift, the people of Emmet, the people of Parnell. We have created most of the modern literature of this country. We have created the best of its political intelligence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59533]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon-instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most aggravating thing about the younger generation is that I no longer belong to it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62575]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most aggravating thing about the younger generation is that I no longer belong to it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In deciding which passages he will accept, [the "rational skeptic"] proceeds on the a priori assumption that miracles can't happen. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8272]]></link><description><![CDATA[In deciding which passages he will accept, [the "rational skeptic"] proceeds on the a priori assumption that miracles can't happen. So he automatically writes off any Biblical account of a wondrous happening which suggests that there is an order of reality transcending the observable regularities of nature and occasionally breaking in upon them. Nor is rational skepticism content with jettisoning the Bible's miracle stories. It also dismisses other passages on the grounds that they reflect the ignorance and prejudice of a particular age, or the propaganda interests of the Church at a particular stage of its development. Its basic rule of Biblical interpretation is: "When in doubt, throw it out." And the highest scores in the game of radical reductionism are awarded to pedagogues who find the most novel and far-fetched reasons for doubting that any part of the Bible really means what it says.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Extreme remedies are never the first to be resorted to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Extreme remedies are never the first to be resorted to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65458]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11854]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our national debt, after all, is an internal debt, owed not only by the nation but to the nation. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11494]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our national debt, after all, is an internal debt, owed not only by the nation but to the nation. If our children have to pay the interest they will pay that interest to themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who like sour fruit to stir their veins' salt tides. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48785]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who like sour fruit to stir their veins' salt tides.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23642]]></link><description><![CDATA[Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To God I speak Spanish, to women Italian, to men French, and to my horse--German. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23997]]></link><description><![CDATA[To God I speak Spanish, to women Italian, to men French, and to my horse--German.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who hates children and dogs can't be all bad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28042]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who hates children and dogs can't be all bad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As that the walls worn thin, permit the mind To look out through, and his Frailty find. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27519]]></link><description><![CDATA[As that the walls worn thin, permit the mind To look out through, and his Frailty find.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No, truly, 'tis more than manners will; And I have heard it said, unbidden guests  Are often welcomest when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18431]]></link><description><![CDATA[No, truly, 'tis more than manners will; And I have heard it said, unbidden guests  Are often welcomest when they are gone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Texas does not need Big Brother watching over us; this is America, not Soviet Russia. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40074]]></link><description><![CDATA[Texas does not need Big Brother watching over us; this is America, not Soviet Russia.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2915]]></link><description><![CDATA[Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have learned to whittle the Eden Tree to the shape of a surplice peg, We have learned to bottle ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3191]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have learned to whittle the Eden Tree to the shape of a surplice peg, We have learned to bottle our parent twain in the yelk of an addled egg.  We know that the tail must wag the dog, for the horse is drawn by the cart,   But the devil never whoops, as he of old; It's clever, but is it art?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45271]]></link><description><![CDATA[In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John and Charles Wesley, Priests, Poets, Teachers, 1791 & 1788 I know Thee, Saviour, Who Thou art: Jesus, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6636]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John and Charles Wesley, Priests, Poets, Teachers, 1791 & 1788 I know Thee, Saviour, Who Thou art: Jesus, the feeble sinner's friend! Nor wilt Thou with the night depart, But stay and love me to the end. Thy mercies never shall remove; Thy nature and Thy name is Love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's our savior. He was phenomenal out there. He's been that way for awhile now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37378]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's our savior. He was phenomenal out there. He's been that way for awhile now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47563]]></link><description><![CDATA[The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58662]]></link><description><![CDATA[have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Mark the Evangelist   But if the holy prophets had scruples against separating themselves from the church ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7570]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Mark the Evangelist   But if the holy prophets had scruples against separating themselves from the church because of many great misdeeds, not of one man or another but of almost all the people, we claim too much for ourselves if we dare withdraw at once from the communion of the church just because the morals of all do not meet our standard, or even square with the profession of Christian faith.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who won't be ruled by the rudder must be ruled by the rock. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50988]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who won't be ruled by the rudder must be ruled by the rock.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From lower to the higher next, Not to the top, is Nature's text;  And embryo good, to reach full ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48370]]></link><description><![CDATA[From lower to the higher next, Not to the top, is Nature's text;  And embryo good, to reach full stature,   Absorbs the evil in its nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Universe forces those who live in it to understand it. Those creatures who find everyday experience a muddled jumble ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60194]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Universe forces those who live in it to understand it. Those creatures who find everyday experience a muddled jumble of events with no predictability, no regularity, are in grave peril. The Universe belongs to those who, at least to some degree,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52728]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is difficult to whistle and drink at the same time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50877]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is difficult to whistle and drink at the same time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3806]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just felt like reflecting on my junior year, when I didn't know what I was doing, I left a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41472]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just felt like reflecting on my junior year, when I didn't know what I was doing, I left a lot of stuff out there. Actually, I gained close to 700 yards more and I took myself out of a lot of games.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blindness Hatred is blind, as well as love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4325]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blindness Hatred is blind, as well as love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A perfect democracy is therefore the most shameless thing in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11863]]></link><description><![CDATA[A perfect democracy is therefore the most shameless thing in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5747]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19517]]></link><description><![CDATA[The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, where is loyalty? If it be banished from the frosty head,  Where shall it find a harbor in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15632]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, where is loyalty? If it be banished from the frosty head,  Where shall it find a harbor in the earth?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, yet never had a thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24563]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, yet never had a thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fundamentalists believe Jesus was God becoming man. I believe that Jesus was man becoming God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53729]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fundamentalists believe Jesus was God becoming man. I believe that Jesus was man becoming God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never utter these words: 'I do not know this, therefore it is false.' One must study to know; know to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23482]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never utter these words: 'I do not know this, therefore it is false.' One must study to know; know to understand; understand to judge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's an adorable dog. He obviously belonged to someone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35245]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's an adorable dog. He obviously belonged to someone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're getting 184 million a year, and they are only spending about 6 million a year for maintenance. More of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37882]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're getting 184 million a year, and they are only spending about 6 million a year for maintenance. More of that should be spent to maintain the buildings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Caroline Chisholm, Social Reformer, 1877  The truth of Christ's supremacy over all the powers in the universe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Caroline Chisholm, Social Reformer, 1877  The truth of Christ's supremacy over all the powers in the universe is one which modern man sorely needs to learn. He is oppressed by a sense of impotence in the grasp of merciless forces which he can neither overcome nor escape. These forces may be Frankenstein monsters of man's own creation, or they may be horrors outside his conscious control; either way, he is intimidated by the vastness of those fateful currents which threaten to sweep him on to destruction, whether he will or no. And to modern man in his frustration and despair, the full-orbed gospel of Christ, as Paul presents it to the Colossians, is the one message of hope. Christ crucified and risen is Lord of all; all the forces in the universe, well-disposed and ill-disposed, are subject to Him. To be united to Christ by faith is to throw off the thraldom of hostile powers, to enjoy perfect freedom, to gain the mastery over the dominion of evil -- because Christ's victory is ours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2195]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad men excuse their faults, good men will leave them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bad men excuse their faults, good men will leave them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15456</guid></item></channel></rss>