<?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[Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19385]]></link><description><![CDATA[The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11857]]></link><description><![CDATA[A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Innocence is always unsuspicious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20948]]></link><description><![CDATA[Innocence is always unsuspicious.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was something. As opposed to nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40018]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was something. As opposed to nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The miserable have no other medicine, But only hope. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42776]]></link><description><![CDATA[The miserable have no other medicine, But only hope.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord, grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28158]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord, grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to hide the bodies of those I had to kill because they pissed me off.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48238]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all the worldly passions, lust is the most intense. All other worldly passions seem to follow in its train. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26061]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all the worldly passions, lust is the most intense. All other worldly passions seem to follow in its train.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He went for the shoot and the guy responded with the same thing, but the referee didn't stop the fight ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32266]]></link><description><![CDATA[He went for the shoot and the guy responded with the same thing, but the referee didn't stop the fight because Cliff was still active and defending himself and was well aware of everything despite the brutal punishment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His speech was a fine sample, on the whole, Of rhetoric, which the learn'd call "rigmarole." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57346]]></link><description><![CDATA[His speech was a fine sample, on the whole, Of rhetoric, which the learn'd call "rigmarole."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honor sinks where commerce long prevails. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15866]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the grace grows nearer my theology is growing strangely simple, and it begins and ends with Christ as the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59090]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the grace grows nearer my theology is growing strangely simple, and it begins and ends with Christ as the only Savior of the lost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is troubled not by events, but by the meaning he gives them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14277]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is troubled not by events, but by the meaning he gives them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46249]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of William Tyndale, Translator of the Scriptures, Martyr, 1536   Christ had given the apostles a world-wide commission, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7540]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of William Tyndale, Translator of the Scriptures, Martyr, 1536   Christ had given the apostles a world-wide commission, embracing all the nations; but intellectually they did not understand what He meant. They found that out as they followed the impulse of the Spirit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without love, deeds, even the most brilliant, count as nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53771]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without love, deeds, even the most brilliant, count as nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People demand freedom only when they have no power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64915]]></link><description><![CDATA[People demand freedom only when they have no power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[While her actor dad, John Aniston, was in Los Angeles taping his soap opera, Days of Our Lives, Aniston was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38608]]></link><description><![CDATA[[While her actor dad, John Aniston, was in Los Angeles taping his soap opera, Days of Our Lives, Aniston was living in New York with her mom, a sometime actress-model, and attending the performing arts high school made famous by Fame. Dad did his best to dissuade her from going into show business.] Why trust your kid into that? You try to protect them from all the bad people out there, ... you get chewed up and spit out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace with a club in hand is war. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace with a club in hand is war.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jobling, there are chords in the human mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jobling, there are chords in the human mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much of what they do there is discharge planning, trying to get patients back out in the community. Patients do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33723]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much of what they do there is discharge planning, trying to get patients back out in the community. Patients do leave the facility and go out on discharge sorts of activities. That's when many of those have occurred.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14025]]></link><description><![CDATA[Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness; but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28575]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness; but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise; be wise and thou art happy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will be hanged if some eternal villain, Some busy and insinuating rogue,  Some cogging, cozening slave, to get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56554]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will be hanged if some eternal villain, Some busy and insinuating rogue,  Some cogging, cozening slave, to get some office,   Have not devised this slander.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Charles Williams, Spiritual Writer, 1945  Although we have different ways of worshipping and doing things, we have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6466]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Charles Williams, Spiritual Writer, 1945  Although we have different ways of worshipping and doing things, we have only one God. So how can we claim to have... "Good News" unless people can see in us that Jesus Christ is breaking down barriers and bringing us together?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of course we all have our limits, but how can you possibly find your boundaries unless you explore as far ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22597]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of course we all have our limits, but how can you possibly find your boundaries unless you explore as far and as wide as you possibly can? I would rather fail in an attempt at something new and uncharted than safely succeed in a repeat of something I have done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then should some cloud pass over The brow of sire or lover,  Think 'tis the shade   By ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then should some cloud pass over The brow of sire or lover,  Think 'tis the shade   By Victory made    Whose wings right o'er us hover!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great as the preparations were for the dinner, everything was so contrived that not a soul in the house should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great as the preparations were for the dinner, everything was so contrived that not a soul in the house should be kept from the morning service of Thanksgiving in the church.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Raven's house is built with reeds,-- Sing woe, and alas is me!  And the Raven's couch is spread ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52980]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Raven's house is built with reeds,-- Sing woe, and alas is me!  And the Raven's couch is spread with weeds,   High on the hollow tree;    And the Raven himself, telling his beads     In penance for his past misdeeds,      Upon the top I see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Naked I seek the camp of those who desire nothing. [Lat., Nil cupientium  Nudus castra peti.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11953]]></link><description><![CDATA[Naked I seek the camp of those who desire nothing. [Lat., Nil cupientium  Nudus castra peti.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be sure you are right, then go ahead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be sure you are right, then go ahead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Cecilia, Martyr at Rome, c.230 Commemoration of Clive Staples Lewis, Spiritual Writer, 1963  What we have been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8519]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Cecilia, Martyr at Rome, c.230 Commemoration of Clive Staples Lewis, Spiritual Writer, 1963  What we have been told is how we men can be drawn into Christ -- can become part of that wonderful present which the young Prince of the universe wants to offer to His Father -- that present which is Himself and therefore us in Him. It is the only thing we were made for. And there are strange, exciting hints in the Bible that when we are drawn in, a great many other things in Nature will begin to come right. The bad dream will be over: it will be morning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a part of growth, unfortunately. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29142]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a part of growth, unfortunately.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A house is made of walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19597]]></link><description><![CDATA[A house is made of walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where billows never break, not tempests roar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where billows never break, not tempests roar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm able to work with guys who are able to do what they want with a baseball and understand pitching ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32653]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm able to work with guys who are able to do what they want with a baseball and understand pitching concepts and the approach they need to take, it is a relief in a sense because I'm able to communicate with them on a better level to understand pitching. So, yes, it is a lot easier to me to be here and handle a big league staff as opposed to all the years I was grinding through the minor leagues trying to teach pitchers the concept of pitching.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The punctual tide draws up the bay, With ripple of wave and hiss of spray. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59264]]></link><description><![CDATA[The punctual tide draws up the bay, With ripple of wave and hiss of spray.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11294]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, and the skillful direct it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45014]]></link><description><![CDATA[The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, and the skillful direct it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no past or future. Using tenses to divide time is like making chalk marks on water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65981]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no past or future. Using tenses to divide time is like making chalk marks on water.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He hath a fair sepulchre in the grateful stomach of the judicious epicure--and for such a tomb might be content ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13220]]></link><description><![CDATA[He hath a fair sepulchre in the grateful stomach of the judicious epicure--and for such a tomb might be content to die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a Child ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62699]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a Child himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52360]]></link><description><![CDATA[The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will try to be as tolerant of his neighbor's shortcomings as he is of his own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14177]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who say they "sleep like a baby" haven't got one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3609]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who say they "sleep like a baby" haven't got one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15962]]></link><description><![CDATA[A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Johann Sebastian Bach, musician, 1750   Let us go and wake up the universe... and sing His ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6926]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Johann Sebastian Bach, musician, 1750   Let us go and wake up the universe... and sing His praises.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48930]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48930</guid></item></channel></rss>