<?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[Quemadmodum gladius neminem occidit, occidentis telum est."Latin: "A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer's hand. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47368]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quemadmodum gladius neminem occidit, occidentis telum est."Latin: "A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer's hand. - Letters to Lucilius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4813]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At this day... the earth sustains on her bosom many monster minds, minds which are not afraid to employ the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8059]]></link><description><![CDATA[At this day... the earth sustains on her bosom many monster minds, minds which are not afraid to employ the seed of Deity deposited in human nature as a means of suppressing the name of God. Can anything be more detestable than this madness in man, who, finding God a hundred times both in his body and his soul, makes his excellence in this respect a pretext for denying that there is a God? He will not say that chance has made him different from the brutes; ... but, substituting Nature as the architect of the universe, he suppresses the name of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's something for everybody at Picnic Day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40867]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's something for everybody at Picnic Day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47187]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what has worked with what sounded good. In area after area- crime, education, housing, race relations- the situation has gotten worse after the bright new theories were put into operation. The amazing thing is that this history of failure and disaster has neither discouraged the social engineers nor discredited them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blood hath been shed ere now, i' th' olden time, Ere humane stature purged the gentle weal;  Ay, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43402]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blood hath been shed ere now, i' th' olden time, Ere humane stature purged the gentle weal;  Ay, and since too, murders have been performed   Too terrible for the ear. The time has been    That, when the brains were out, the man would die,     And there an end. But now they rise again,      With twenty mortal murders on their crowns,       And push us from our stools. This is more strange        Than such a murder is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zeal without knowledge is like fire without light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28009]]></link><description><![CDATA[Zeal without knowledge is like fire without light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[During our lives we're faced with so many elements as well, we experience so many setbacks, and fight such a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12251]]></link><description><![CDATA[During our lives we're faced with so many elements as well, we experience so many setbacks, and fight such a hand-to-hand battle with failure, head down in the rain, just trying to stay upright and have a little hope. The Tour isn't just a bike race, it tests you mentally, physically, and even morally. -Lance Armstrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good instincts usually tell you what to do before your head has figured it out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1273]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good instincts usually tell you what to do before your head has figured it out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The profoundest truth of war is that the issue of battle is usually decided in the minds of the opposing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47338]]></link><description><![CDATA[The profoundest truth of war is that the issue of battle is usually decided in the minds of the opposing commanders, not in the bodies of their men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we dream so we don't have to be away from one another. If we're in each other's dreams, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54387]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we dream so we don't have to be away from one another. If we're in each other's dreams, we'll always be together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't find people of integrity who operate in that zone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35955]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't find people of integrity who operate in that zone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20587]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9491]]></link><description><![CDATA[Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Age--that period of life in which we compound for the vices that we still cherish by reviling those that we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Age--that period of life in which we compound for the vices that we still cherish by reviling those that we no longer have the enterprise to commit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Actually, I'm pretty happy. I wasn't as fast as I wanted to be, but I'm still getting over a broken ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Actually, I'm pretty happy. I wasn't as fast as I wanted to be, but I'm still getting over a broken foot. I think I did well on my passing drills and in the interviews.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/937]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too slowly makes one lose one's balance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patriotism is in political life what faith is in religion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45842]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patriotism is in political life what faith is in religion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But civlyzation doos git forrid Sometimes upon a powder-cart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50583]]></link><description><![CDATA[But civlyzation doos git forrid Sometimes upon a powder-cart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/208]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust no future, howe'er pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead!  Act,--act in the living Present!   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17099]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust no future, howe'er pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead!  Act,--act in the living Present!   Heart within and God o'erhead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fighting Words: The Origins of Religious Violence ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fighting Words: The Origins of Religious Violence]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let me tell you the secret that has led to my goal: My strength liessolely in my tenacity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let me tell you the secret that has led to my goal: My strength liessolely in my tenacity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[George and Mary Stewart became my unofficial Houston parents and the most wonderful, entertaining, hard-working garden enthusiasts that I could ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30159]]></link><description><![CDATA[George and Mary Stewart became my unofficial Houston parents and the most wonderful, entertaining, hard-working garden enthusiasts that I could ever hope to know. They were, in fact, not just Houston's Premier Gardeners; they were first-class entertainment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/516]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52144]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27478]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The solitary side of our nature demands leisure for reflection upon subjects on which the dash and whirl of daily ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53190]]></link><description><![CDATA[The solitary side of our nature demands leisure for reflection upon subjects on which the dash and whirl of daily business, so long as its clouds rise thick about us, forbid the intellect to fasten itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever the results of the referendum are ... it is a civilized step that aims to put Iraq on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34842]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever the results of the referendum are ... it is a civilized step that aims to put Iraq on the path of true democracy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is low-wage workers who are being hurt the most by the steady drip, drip, drip of coverage draining out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34063]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is low-wage workers who are being hurt the most by the steady drip, drip, drip of coverage draining out of the employer-based health insurance system.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58755]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are a lot of corporations that aren't paying their share at all. We need a more comprehensive mix of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41579]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are a lot of corporations that aren't paying their share at all. We need a more comprehensive mix of taxes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius without education is like silver in the mine. -Ben Franklin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13579]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius without education is like silver in the mine. -Ben Franklin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be and not seem. A man is related to all nature. The less government we have the better. Every man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27696]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be and not seem. A man is related to all nature. The less government we have the better. Every man has his own vocation, talent is the call. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. To be great is to be misunderstood. Every man is in some way my superior. A man is a god in ruins. Life is a festival only to the wise. Knowledge is the only elegance. We boil at different degrees. Infancy conforms to nobody; all conform to it. We learn geology the morning after the earthquake. What is the hardest thing in the world? To think. Accept your genius and say what you think. Make yourself necessary to somebody. The only way to have a friend is to be one. Insist on yourself; never imitate. Music causes us to think eloquently. To live without duties is obscene. It is not length of life, but depth of life. The greatest homage to truth is to use it. The only reward of virtue is virtue. Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path. We become what we think about all day long. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. There is no knowledge that is not power. Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies. Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul. Who so would be a man must be a nonconformist. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before. Heroism feels and never reasons and is therefore always right. A good indignation brings out all one's powers. A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect. Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you. Beauty rests on necessities. The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy. People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. My chief want in life is someone who shall make me do what I can. Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind. We walk alone in the world. Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables. This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. The only sin we never forgive each other is difference of opinion. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before. Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams. What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right. The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. The only sin we never forgive each other is difference of opinion. Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others. A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist. Let us treat men and women well; treat them as if they were real. Perhaps they are. The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. Our faith comes in moments, yet there is a depth in those brief moments which constrains us to ascribe more reality to them than to all other experiences. We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is merely through a transfer of idolatry. What lies beyond us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. When I was praised I lost my time, for instantly I turned around to look at the work I had thought slightly of, and that day I made nothing new. To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. We cannot see things that stare us in the face until the hour comes that the mind is ripened. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles. Be true to your own act and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant to break the monotony of a decorous age. Why should we be cowed by the name of Action?. The rich mind lies in the sun and sleeps, and is Nature. To think is to act. We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it. Every great and commanding moment in the annals of the world is the triumph of somebody's enthusiasm. It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances. If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him. He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind he has descended into the secrets of all minds. There is no beautifier of complexion or form of behavior like the wish to scatter joy, and not pain, around us. This gives force to the strong - that the multitude have no habit of self-reliance or original action. -U.S. Poet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We knew they were going to play desperate with the way they had been playing. It was a tight game ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32042]]></link><description><![CDATA[We knew they were going to play desperate with the way they had been playing. It was a tight game and we broke down a little in the second. We played right into their hands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41123]]></link><description><![CDATA[Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As far as the facility, they have more grass at Bowie because we're land-locked over here. There's more room in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30356]]></link><description><![CDATA[As far as the facility, they have more grass at Bowie because we're land-locked over here. There's more room in the two portables over there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's important to come prepared. Particularly during night digs, we also ask people to keep a close eye on young ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32515]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's important to come prepared. Particularly during night digs, we also ask people to keep a close eye on young children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is singular how soon we lose the impression of what ceases to be constantly before us. A year impairs, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26949]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is singular how soon we lose the impression of what ceases to be constantly before us. A year impairs, a luster obliterates. There is little distinct left without an effort of memory, then indeed the lights are rekindled for a moment -- but who can be sure that the Imagination is not the torch-bearer?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men fear Death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11172]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men fear Death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our calling is not primarily to be holy women, but to work for God and for others with Him. Our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6889]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our calling is not primarily to be holy women, but to work for God and for others with Him. Our holiness is an effect, not a cause; as long as our eyes are on our own personal whiteness as an end in itself, the thing breaks down. God can do nothing while my interest is in my personal character--He will take care of this if I obey His call. In learning to love God and people as He commanded us to do, obviously your sanctification cannot but come, but not as an end in itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just sent some information about him to a student last week, ... I get inquiries on and off throughout ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33102]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just sent some information about him to a student last week, ... I get inquiries on and off throughout the year. It seems like more and more people are catching on that he came here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[..one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65761]]></link><description><![CDATA[..one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64830]]></link><description><![CDATA[I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This Bible is for the government of the people, by the people and for the people ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53454]]></link><description><![CDATA[This Bible is for the government of the people, by the people and for the people]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond: it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3511]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond: it is graven upon the table of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars; Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rest strengthens the body, the mind too is thus supported; but unremitting toil destroys both. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rest strengthens the body, the mind too is thus supported; but unremitting toil destroys both.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the sounds of the earth are like music. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43485]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the sounds of the earth are like music.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43485</guid></item></channel></rss>