<?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[Suffering is the ancient law of love; there is not quest without pain; there is no lover who is not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58212]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suffering is the ancient law of love; there is not quest without pain; there is no lover who is not also a martyr.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A decision is what a man makes when he can't find anybody to serve on a committee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11597]]></link><description><![CDATA[A decision is what a man makes when he can't find anybody to serve on a committee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The spirit that I have seen May be a devil, and the devil hath power  T' assume a pleasing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12166]]></link><description><![CDATA[The spirit that I have seen May be a devil, and the devil hath power  T' assume a pleasing shape, yea, and perhaps   Out of my weakness and my melancholy,    As he is very potent with such spirits,     Abuses me to damn me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57992]]></link><description><![CDATA[Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science may have found a cure for most evils, but it has found no remedy for the worst of them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54786]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science may have found a cure for most evils, but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all--the apathy of human beings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But peace does not rest in the charters and covenants alone. It lies in the hearts and minds of all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45985]]></link><description><![CDATA[But peace does not rest in the charters and covenants alone. It lies in the hearts and minds of all people. So let us not rest all our hopes on parchment and on paper, let us strive to build peace, a desire for peace, a willingness to work for peace in the hearts and minds of all of our people. I believe that we can. I believe the problems of human destiny are not beyond the reach of human beings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can\'t ride you unless your back is bent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know, it would have been harder on me had those guys been 10-year vets, ... But they are so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34742]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know, it would have been harder on me had those guys been 10-year vets, ... But they are so young, I just told them that, 'Here's how I snap it and that's where I'm going to keep snapping it.' I pulled rank on them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all things to get himself envied. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14051]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all things to get himself envied.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bank of Canada is operating textbook econ 101 here in hiking rates in anticipation of inflation going higher 12-16 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38557]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bank of Canada is operating textbook econ 101 here in hiking rates in anticipation of inflation going higher 12-16 months in the future, because we're operating at full capacity right now in Canada and it looks like we're going to continue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One goes to the right, the other to the left; both are wrong, but in different directions. [Lat., Ille sinistrorsum ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14160]]></link><description><![CDATA[One goes to the right, the other to the left; both are wrong, but in different directions. [Lat., Ille sinistrorsum hic dexrorsum abit, unus utrique  Error, sed variis illudit partibus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if you throw your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if you throw your heart over, the horse will go along, too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You really have to experience the feeling of being with the president in the oval office. . . . It's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48146]]></link><description><![CDATA[You really have to experience the feeling of being with the president in the oval office. . . . It's a disease I came to call Ovalitis.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I call not that virginity a virtue, which resideth only in the bodies integrity; much less if it be with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5786]]></link><description><![CDATA[I call not that virginity a virtue, which resideth only in the bodies integrity; much less if it be with a purpose of perpetually keeping it: for then it is a most inhumane vice. - But I call that Virginity a virtue which is willing and desirous to yield itself upon honest and lawful terms, when just reason requireth; and until then, is kept with a modest chastity of body and mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[General wisdom is not a threat to the gospel, because everything good traces to God. God is merciful and kind; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6547]]></link><description><![CDATA[General wisdom is not a threat to the gospel, because everything good traces to God. God is merciful and kind; he bestows truth, as well as rain and sunshine, upon the just and the unjust. Christ is the "true light that enlightens every man". This bestowal should inspire feelings of joy, not resentment, in the heart of a Christian. Aristotle said many wise things about logic, Confucius many wise things about morals. When a Christian attacks general wisdom in the name of the gospel, the natural man will attack the gospel in the name of general wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See Christians, Jews, one heavy sabbath keep, And all the western world believe and sleep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54594]]></link><description><![CDATA[See Christians, Jews, one heavy sabbath keep, And all the western world believe and sleep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...Some of reports have called for increases of 10,000; others between 20,000 and 40,000. So there are a number of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31976]]></link><description><![CDATA[...Some of reports have called for increases of 10,000; others between 20,000 and 40,000. So there are a number of options on the table to be considered. But we'll work with Congress on that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They had kicked the door in. Evidently they had set the pulpit on fire and went out the front door. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38914]]></link><description><![CDATA[They had kicked the door in. Evidently they had set the pulpit on fire and went out the front door.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47078]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scarce one tall frigate walks the sea Or skirts the safer shores  Of all that bore to victory  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44022]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scarce one tall frigate walks the sea Or skirts the safer shores  Of all that bore to victory   Our stout old Commodores.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20209]]></link><description><![CDATA[The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people's prayer, the glad diviner's theme! The young men's vision, and the old men's dream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60875]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people's prayer, the glad diviner's theme! The young men's vision, and the old men's dream.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus shadow owes its birth to light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55293]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus shadow owes its birth to light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24021]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63842]]></link><description><![CDATA[All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A criminal trial is like a Russian novel: it starts with exasperating slowness as the characters are introduced to a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47047]]></link><description><![CDATA[A criminal trial is like a Russian novel: it starts with exasperating slowness as the characters are introduced to a jury, then there are complications in the form of minor witnesses, the protagonist finally appears and contradictions arise to produce drama, and finally as both jury and spectators grow weary and confused the pace quickens, reaching its climax in passionate final argument.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in a person. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9569]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in a person.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills, and proclamations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19420]]></link><description><![CDATA[More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills, and proclamations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it's only in a crisis that Americans see other people. It has to be an American crisis, of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44292]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it's only in a crisis that Americans see other people. It has to be an American crisis, of course. If two countries fight that do not supply the Americans with some precious commodity, then the education of the public does not take place. But when the dictator falls, when the oil is threatened, then you turn on the television and they tell you where the country is, what the language is, how to pronounce the names of the leaders, what the religion is all about, and maybe you can cut out recipes in the newspaper of Persian dishes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61858]]></link><description><![CDATA[Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each night the Tree of Nutout of naught knits neat nuts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each night the Tree of Nutout of naught knits neat nuts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2708]]></link><description><![CDATA[An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liar: One who tells an unpleasant truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liar: One who tells an unpleasant truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm an average girl, and sometimes I wish I could be more than that: to exceed excellence. As the days ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48390]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm an average girl, and sometimes I wish I could be more than that: to exceed excellence. As the days seem to go on endlessly, I await the 'someday' I've always been promised. That 'someday' when things are supposed to be perfect... the 'someday' when I find my place in this unforgiving world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Say that cricket has nothing to do with politics and you say that cricket has nothing to do with life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38675]]></link><description><![CDATA[Say that cricket has nothing to do with politics and you say that cricket has nothing to do with life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou whoreson zed, thou unnecessary letter! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24013]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou whoreson zed, thou unnecessary letter!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The emergency we face in the Horn today is the result of successive seasons of failed rains. Consequently, pastoralists living ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36565]]></link><description><![CDATA[The emergency we face in the Horn today is the result of successive seasons of failed rains. Consequently, pastoralists living in these arid, remote lands have very few survival strategies left and require our assistance to make it through until the next rains.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll be with you in the squeezing of a lemon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18774]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll be with you in the squeezing of a lemon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I sit here and think, with more than a little astonishment, that I have been writing and publishing Science Fiction ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36752]]></link><description><![CDATA[I sit here and think, with more than a little astonishment, that I have been writing and publishing Science Fiction now for just three-eighths of a century. This isn't bad for someone who only admits to being in his late youth- or a little over thirty, if pinned down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47728]]></link><description><![CDATA[Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They may the better fish in the water when it is troubled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16114]]></link><description><![CDATA[They may the better fish in the water when it is troubled.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I try to approach each game the same, just with a blue-collar mentality, and sometimes I get into foul trouble. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37030]]></link><description><![CDATA[I try to approach each game the same, just with a blue-collar mentality, and sometimes I get into foul trouble. Sometimes I don't [get into foul trouble], and tonight I didn't, and I was able to stay on the floor. I was able to do what I do, which is grab boards.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And God made two great lights, great for their use To man, the greater to have rule by day,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3400]]></link><description><![CDATA[And God made two great lights, great for their use To man, the greater to have rule by day,  The less by night, altern.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science is built up of facts, as a house is built of stones; but an accumulation of facts is no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54796]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science is built up of facts, as a house is built of stones; but an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a good effort by everyone. We're not the best team in the league, obviously, but we hung pretty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30667]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a good effort by everyone. We're not the best team in the league, obviously, but we hung pretty good. They just hung longer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know one of the reasons God gave me kids was to test my patience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66556]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know one of the reasons God gave me kids was to test my patience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a sense, the U.S. is no longer leading the scenario. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28439]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a sense, the U.S. is no longer leading the scenario.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4083]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47026]]></link><description><![CDATA[A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47026</guid></item></channel></rss>