<?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[Society is like air; very high up, it is sublimated--too low down, a perfect choke-damp. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Society is like air; very high up, it is sublimated--too low down, a perfect choke-damp.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Handsome is that handsome does. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2820]]></link><description><![CDATA[Handsome is that handsome does.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12841]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love, and abundance. Then, whenever doubt, anxiety, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52136]]></link><description><![CDATA[I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love, and abundance. Then, whenever doubt, anxiety, or fear try to call me, they will keep getting a busy signal and soon they'll forget my number.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My free drift Halts not particularly, but moves itself  In a wide sea of wax; no levelled malice  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13101]]></link><description><![CDATA[My free drift Halts not particularly, but moves itself  In a wide sea of wax; no levelled malice   Infects one comma in the course I hold,    But flies an eagle flight, bold and forth on,     Leaving no tract behind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is best known in not knowing him. [Ger., Deus scitur melius nesciendo.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17675]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is best known in not knowing him. [Ger., Deus scitur melius nesciendo.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can teach from our experience, but we cannot teach experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14664]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can teach from our experience, but we cannot teach experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. -The Merchant of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55617]]></link><description><![CDATA[How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. -The Merchant of Venice. Act. v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61700]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Assumptions based on faith are apparently an ever-present component in any system of belief -- whether these assumptions include the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7179]]></link><description><![CDATA[Assumptions based on faith are apparently an ever-present component in any system of belief -- whether these assumptions include the existence of a personal God, or whether they begin with non-rational directionally-emergent forces governed by statistical probabilities. Our argument does not claim that evidences are so clear that faith is not needed. We do intend to imply, however, that the choice of a set of assumptions is a moral choice. Adherence to an epistemology is not something which merely "happens to" a person, but instead it reflects a component of his moral development. In some sense he is, in my judgment, morally responsible for adopting an epistemology even though it can be neither proved nor disproved to the satisfaction of those who oppose it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that followes the Lord hopes to goe before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49338]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that followes the Lord hopes to goe before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is long, and Time is fleeting, And out hearts, though stout and brave,  Still, like muffled drums, are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50582]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is long, and Time is fleeting, And out hearts, though stout and brave,  Still, like muffled drums, are beating   Funeral marches to the grave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality. -Nikos Kazantzakis. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality. -Nikos Kazantzakis.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever limits us, we call Fate ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever limits us, we call Fate]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neglected by Congress below, distressed with the small-pox; want of Generals and discipline in our Army, which may rather be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30041]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neglected by Congress below, distressed with the small-pox; want of Generals and discipline in our Army, which may rather be called a great rabble, our credit and reputation lost, and great part of the country; and a powerful foreign enemy advancing upon us, are so many difficulties we cannot surmount them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wilfrid, Abbot of Ripon, Bishop of York, Missionary, 709 Commemoration of Elizabeth Fry, Prison Reformer, 1845  Accustom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6410]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wilfrid, Abbot of Ripon, Bishop of York, Missionary, 709 Commemoration of Elizabeth Fry, Prison Reformer, 1845  Accustom yourself gradually to carry Prayer into all your daily occupation -- speak, act, work in peace, as if you were in prayer, as indeed you ought to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can do nothing, we say sometimes, we can only pray. That, we feel, is a terribly precarious second-best. So ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7994]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can do nothing, we say sometimes, we can only pray. That, we feel, is a terribly precarious second-best. So long as we can fuss and work and rush about, so long as we can lend a hand, we have some hope; but if we have to fall back upon God -- ah, then things must be critical indeed!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little does the sick man consult his own interests, who makes his physician his heir. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51623]]></link><description><![CDATA[Little does the sick man consult his own interests, who makes his physician his heir.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The main goal is to find out what's going on out there in rural Iowa. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39920]]></link><description><![CDATA[The main goal is to find out what's going on out there in rural Iowa.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume;  And we are weeds without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24688]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume;  And we are weeds without it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Put himself upon his good behavior. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48525]]></link><description><![CDATA[Put himself upon his good behavior.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66542]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was a little country hick boy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40628]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was a little country hick boy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12716]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm just another old ski racer to them. If they weren't so tunnel vision right now, they might be interested ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33352]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm just another old ski racer to them. If they weren't so tunnel vision right now, they might be interested or have the time to ask questions. But I understand where they are at this moment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60600]]></link><description><![CDATA[The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead! There's none of these so lonely and poor of old,  But, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead! There's none of these so lonely and poor of old,  But, dying, has made us rarer gifts than gold.   These laid the world away: poured out the red    Sweet wine of youth; gave up the years to be     Of work and joy, and that unhoped serene      That men call age, and those who would have been       Their sons, they gave their immortality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who loveth God with all his heart feareth not death, nor punishment, nor judgment, nor hell, because perfect love ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7764]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who loveth God with all his heart feareth not death, nor punishment, nor judgment, nor hell, because perfect love giveth sure access to God. But he who still delighteth in sin, no marvel if he is afraid of death and judgment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Foreign Ministry guys don't become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to volunteer to Western intelligence agencies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28755]]></link><description><![CDATA[Foreign Ministry guys don't become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to volunteer to Western intelligence agencies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success breeds confidence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9683]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success breeds confidence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mutation is random; natural selection is the very opposite of random. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56831]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mutation is random; natural selection is the very opposite of random.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous State may, if its citizens ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57834]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kind reader! take your choice to cry or laugh; Here Harod lies--but where's his Epitaph?  If such you seek, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14090]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kind reader! take your choice to cry or laugh; Here Harod lies--but where's his Epitaph?  If such you seek, try Westminister, and view   Ten thousand, just as fit for him as you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The irony is that the person not taking risks feels the same amount offear as the person who regularly takes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21453]]></link><description><![CDATA[The irony is that the person not taking risks feels the same amount offear as the person who regularly takes risks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[According to the state of a man's conscience, so do hope and fear on account of his deeds arise in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9810]]></link><description><![CDATA[According to the state of a man's conscience, so do hope and fear on account of his deeds arise in his mind. [Lat., Conscia mens ut cuique sua est, ita concipit intra  Pectora pro facto spemque metumque suo.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Between the penis and the mathematical one . . . there exists nothing. Nothing! It is a vacuum. [Fr., Entre ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26529]]></link><description><![CDATA[Between the penis and the mathematical one . . . there exists nothing. Nothing! It is a vacuum. [Fr., Entre le penis et les mathematiques . . . il n'existe rien. Rien! C'est le vide.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are now in the third stage of the industrial revolution. The first involved machines which extended human muscle; the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15773]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are now in the third stage of the industrial revolution. The first involved machines which extended human muscle; the second used machines to extend the human nervous system (radio, television, telephones); the third is now utilizing machines which extend the human mind-computers. About half of all service workers (43 percent of the labor force by 2000) will be involved in collecting, analyzing, synthesizing, structuring, storing, or retrieving information... By 1995, 80 percent of all management will be "knowledge workers.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never ignore a gut feeling, but never believe that it's enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21775]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never ignore a gut feeling, but never believe that it's enough.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, something must be done for May, The time is drawing nigh--  To figure in the Catalogue,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, something must be done for May, The time is drawing nigh--  To figure in the Catalogue,   And woo the public eye.    Something I must invent and paint;     But oh my wit is not      Like one of those kind substantives       That answer Who and What?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And think of the appeal Christ made to men and women! He had many, but His favourite was to their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7449]]></link><description><![CDATA[And think of the appeal Christ made to men and women! He had many, but His favourite was to their chivalry and valour. Often He underlines the difficulties of discipleship, warns us what it will cost, that it means risk and loss and sacrifice, and pulling hard against fierce currents; and then He turns and looks at us, with that honouring trust of His in us that sets the blood tingling and makes the cheeks flush with pride. That, He says quietly, is why I am so sure that you will come: you are too big to keep out of it! And, indeed, in His own day, it was only daring and adventurous spirits who would risk declaring for Him, as it is only daring and adventurous spirits still who have the pluck to try to follow so original and unpopular a Master in the real living-out of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They call me mad, while they are all mad themselves. [Lat., Hei mihi, insanire me ajunt, ultro cum ipsi insaniunt.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21024]]></link><description><![CDATA[They call me mad, while they are all mad themselves. [Lat., Hei mihi, insanire me ajunt, ultro cum ipsi insaniunt.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes adversity impels a person to greater heights, and sometimes it provides the opportunity for that person to be a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/719]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes adversity impels a person to greater heights, and sometimes it provides the opportunity for that person to be a blessing in the lives of others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I value the privacy of my home and personal life extremely highly and am prepared to take appropriate measures to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42049]]></link><description><![CDATA[I value the privacy of my home and personal life extremely highly and am prepared to take appropriate measures to protect it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not fear going forward slowly; fear only to stand still. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not fear going forward slowly; fear only to stand still.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Retirement requires the invention of a new hedonism, not a return to the hedonism of youth ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19107]]></link><description><![CDATA[Retirement requires the invention of a new hedonism, not a return to the hedonism of youth]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45542]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57936]]></link><description><![CDATA[And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This grief is crowned with consolation, you old smock brings forth a new petticoat, and indeed the tears live in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18347]]></link><description><![CDATA[This grief is crowned with consolation, you old smock brings forth a new petticoat, and indeed the tears live in an onion that should water this sorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28133]]></link><description><![CDATA[Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28133</guid></item></channel></rss>