<?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[O Richard! O my king! The universe forsakes thee! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54499]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Richard! O my king! The universe forsakes thee!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The swan, with arched neck Between her white wings mantling proudly, rows  Her state with oary feet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58455]]></link><description><![CDATA[The swan, with arched neck Between her white wings mantling proudly, rows  Her state with oary feet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45309]]></link><description><![CDATA[What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then purg'd with euphrasy and rue The visual nerve, for he had much to see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56256]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then purg'd with euphrasy and rue The visual nerve, for he had much to see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The moment you say, 'Please, give me a reason for this', then you are being impossible and temperamental. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64567]]></link><description><![CDATA[The moment you say, 'Please, give me a reason for this', then you are being impossible and temperamental.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...economic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47168]]></link><description><![CDATA[...economic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think of this award as being what we call 'The Year of the Complete Ballplayer,' ... The player that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36247]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think of this award as being what we call 'The Year of the Complete Ballplayer,' ... The player that has done the most not only for his team, but has done most to help his team win baseball games. Not only for home runs, runs batted in and batting average, but also in the clubhouse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a woman rebels against high-heeled shoes, she should take care to do it in a very smart hat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12973]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a woman rebels against high-heeled shoes, she should take care to do it in a very smart hat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have tied me to a stake. I cannot fly, But bear-like I must fight the course. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12014]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have tied me to a stake. I cannot fly, But bear-like I must fight the course.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It used to be significantly less to go across the river (to Clark County), and that is not the case ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30622]]></link><description><![CDATA[It used to be significantly less to go across the river (to Clark County), and that is not the case anymore. It is quite obvious that the greater metropolitan area has started to equalize.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56662]]></link><description><![CDATA[A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24069]]></link><description><![CDATA[To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am only one. But still, I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21282]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am only one. But still, I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great men have reaching hands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great men have reaching hands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is it unfair to suggest that, in some of us at least, [Christianity] hasn't fully worked so far simply because, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7825]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is it unfair to suggest that, in some of us at least, [Christianity] hasn't fully worked so far simply because, at the pinch, at the decisive moment, we don't want it to work or ourselves to be lifted up above the failings and disloyalties we find so alluring, but rather to be enabled to continue them without the ugly consequences of so doing, to have the inexorable laws of life bent aside in our favour, so that we can squeeze through and escape, without reaping what we have sown; because, as we misunderstand it, the whole point of the good news our Lord brings is the (to us) gladsome announcement that God is happily much more morally indifferent than our consciences had thought, and is not going to make a fuss about our sins and such-like trivial peccadilloes, but will surely let us off -- because, in fact, we have not grasped that the core and essence of the Gospel... is its tremendous and glorious revelation of how deadly is God's hatred of sin, so that He cannot stand having it in the same universe as Himself, and will go any length, and will pay any price, and will make any sacrifice, to master and abolish it, is set upon so doing in our hearts, thank God, as elsewhere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But he got away. He's a hero. He should be back here with us, too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29415]]></link><description><![CDATA[But he got away. He's a hero. He should be back here with us, too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9464]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A living dog is better than a dead lion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48562]]></link><description><![CDATA[A living dog is better than a dead lion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a peculiar part of the good photographer's adventure to know where luck is most likely to lie in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36989]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a peculiar part of the good photographer's adventure to know where luck is most likely to lie in the stream, to hook it, and to bring it in without unfair play and without too much subduing it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom comes by disillusionment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12548]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom comes by disillusionment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62272]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd Than that which withering on the virgin thorn Grows, lives, and dies in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55508]]></link><description><![CDATA[But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd Than that which withering on the virgin thorn Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11460]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no bad feelings from him and no bad feelings from me. He said 'I'm sorry. It's just one of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33150]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no bad feelings from him and no bad feelings from me. He said 'I'm sorry. It's just one of those deals.' I said I understand. We've been good friends for a lot of years. I think he's a quality individual.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Relativity applies to physics, not ethics ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Relativity applies to physics, not ethics]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The circumstances changed when I heard the other proposals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40436]]></link><description><![CDATA[The circumstances changed when I heard the other proposals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only tyrannies from which men, women and children are suffering in real life are the tyrannies of minorities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27542]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only tyrannies from which men, women and children are suffering in real life are the tyrannies of minorities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't you realize that as long as you have to sit down to pee, you'll never be a dominant force ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't you realize that as long as you have to sit down to pee, you'll never be a dominant force in the world? You'll never be a convincing technocrat or middle manager. Because people will know. She's in there sitting down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52648]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winter is the season in which people try to keep the house as warm as it was in the summer, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62717]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winter is the season in which people try to keep the house as warm as it was in the summer, when they complained about the heat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest man in history was the poorest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47885]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest man in history was the poorest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rock and roll stars have it much better than writers when they're on a tour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rock and roll stars have it much better than writers when they're on a tour.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60670]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good fathers make good sons ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15411]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good fathers make good sons]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1782]]></link><description><![CDATA[If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17029]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it creates.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15833]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Annunciation of our Lord to the Virgin Mary  The Old Testament does not occupy itself with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7238]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Annunciation of our Lord to the Virgin Mary  The Old Testament does not occupy itself with how Israel thought of God. Its concern is with how Israel ought to think of God. To it, the existence of God is not an open question, nor His nature, nor the accessibility of knowledge of Him. God Himself has taken care of that He has made Himself known to His people, and their business is not to feel after Him if haply they may fumblingly find Him, but to hearken to Him as He declares to them what and who He is. [Continued].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tongue of a man is his sword and effective speech is stronger than all fighting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62032]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tongue of a man is his sword and effective speech is stronger than all fighting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Birthdays don't really matter much anymore ... for me, I sort of have a new birthday and that's October 2nd, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40378]]></link><description><![CDATA[Birthdays don't really matter much anymore ... for me, I sort of have a new birthday and that's October 2nd, the day I was diagnosed, ... the day we all sort of look to and mark these milestones by one year, two year, five year, 10 year. Hopefully, I have a 50 year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63054]]></link><description><![CDATA[The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kabira wept when he beheld the millstone roll, Of that which passes 'twixt the stones, nought goes forth whole.  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15392]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kabira wept when he beheld the millstone roll, Of that which passes 'twixt the stones, nought goes forth whole.   - Edward B. Eastwick,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No doubt. Those corners played their fannies off against the best wide receiver in the country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31880]]></link><description><![CDATA[No doubt. Those corners played their fannies off against the best wide receiver in the country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59176]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sorrow concealed, like an oven stopp'd, Doth burn the heart to cinders, where it is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sorrow concealed, like an oven stopp'd, Doth burn the heart to cinders, where it is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3757]]></link><description><![CDATA[You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58930]]></link><description><![CDATA[Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twas the night before Christman, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring,--not even a mouse:  The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8642]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twas the night before Christman, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring,--not even a mouse:  The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,   In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And you pretend it doesn't bother you, When you just want to explode... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28007]]></link><description><![CDATA[And you pretend it doesn't bother you, When you just want to explode...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28007</guid></item></channel></rss>