<?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[Genius is intensity. The man who gets anything worth having is the man who goes after his object as a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17323]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius is intensity. The man who gets anything worth having is the man who goes after his object as a bulldog goes after a cat - with every fiber in him tense with eagerness and determination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you write it down, you have a better chance of making your dreams come true. And it's finally here, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31947]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you write it down, you have a better chance of making your dreams come true. And it's finally here, right in front of me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I really loved my daughter, I loved her so much. I thanked God every day I had her. She was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29450]]></link><description><![CDATA[I really loved my daughter, I loved her so much. I thanked God every day I had her. She was my life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56372]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have the ability to know where each other is gonna be. A lot of times, they'll make a pass, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37393]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have the ability to know where each other is gonna be. A lot of times, they'll make a pass, and someone else might not know where it's going. But they know where it's going.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But what is your duty? What the day demands. [Ger., Was aber ist deine Pflicht? Die Forderung des Tages.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13055]]></link><description><![CDATA[But what is your duty? What the day demands. [Ger., Was aber ist deine Pflicht? Die Forderung des Tages.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12649]]></link><description><![CDATA[For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women need fair representation everywhere. Its not a matter of competition but of equality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women need fair representation everywhere. Its not a matter of competition but of equality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16825]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that everyone would feel that a renegotiation that allows for a percentage of revenue would be the optimal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28801]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that everyone would feel that a renegotiation that allows for a percentage of revenue would be the optimal outcome.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think most historians will agree that the part played by impulses of selfish, individual aggression in the holocausts of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47194]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think most historians will agree that the part played by impulses of selfish, individual aggression in the holocausts of history was small; first and foremost, the slaughter was meant as an offering to the gods, to king and country, or the future happiness of mankind. The crimes of Caligula shrink to insignificance compared to the havoc wrought by Torquemada. The number of victims of robbers, highwaymen, rapists, gangsters and other criminals at any period of history is negligible compared to the massive numbers of those cheerfully slain in the name of the true religion, just policy, or correct ideology.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's three inches thick, so it's going to keep all the heat inside your water heater that otherwise would be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31355]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's three inches thick, so it's going to keep all the heat inside your water heater that otherwise would be radiating out into your room.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, "Where? What?" and turn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14883]]></link><description><![CDATA[I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, "Where? What?" and turn away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10154]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But men are men; the best sometimes forget. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51438]]></link><description><![CDATA[But men are men; the best sometimes forget.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When rats leave a sinking ship, where exactly do they think they're going? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56170]]></link><description><![CDATA[When rats leave a sinking ship, where exactly do they think they're going?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I’ve learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58369]]></link><description><![CDATA[I’ve learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All women are inferior to men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5863]]></link><description><![CDATA[All women are inferior to men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But I do hate him as I hate the devil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18856]]></link><description><![CDATA[But I do hate him as I hate the devil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53942]]></link><description><![CDATA[Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're basically looking at a 21st-century fence, not a 19th-century fence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37279]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're basically looking at a 21st-century fence, not a 19th-century fence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64282]]></link><description><![CDATA[People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gay motes that people the sunbeams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58300]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gay motes that people the sunbeams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62848]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, & his sister Macrina, Teachers, c.394 & c.379   Love is careful of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7283]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, & his sister Macrina, Teachers, c.394 & c.379   Love is careful of little things, of circumstances and measures, and of little accidents; not allowing to itself any infirmity which it strives not to master, aiming at what it cannot yet reach, desiring to be of an angelic purity, and of a perfect innocence, and a seraphical fervor, and fears every image of offense; is as much afflicted at an idle word as some at an act of adultery, and will not allow to itself so much anger as will disturb a child, nor endure the impurity of a dream. And this is the curiosity and niceness of divine love: this is the fear of God, and is the daughter and production of love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do all the appropriating. They do not do any of it down at the White House. They send a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40349]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do all the appropriating. They do not do any of it down at the White House. They send a budget up here, and we don't have to pay any attention it to at all. We do what we want to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So liv'd our sires, ere doctors learn'd to kill, And multiplied with theirs the weekly bill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26690]]></link><description><![CDATA[So liv'd our sires, ere doctors learn'd to kill, And multiplied with theirs the weekly bill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deeds are males, words females are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11681]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deeds are males, words females are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2847]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've written what and when I want to. It's been about expressing myself. But with the degree, I had to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37993]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've written what and when I want to. It's been about expressing myself. But with the degree, I had to learn to do everything in a very specific, disciplined way. I am very disciplined, but this demanded a totally different kind of discipline. A real challenge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I write-down to speak-up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/553]]></link><description><![CDATA[I write-down to speak-up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46352]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which make it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62685]]></link><description><![CDATA[Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Frier preached against stealing, and had a goose in his sleeve. [The Friar preached against stealing, and had a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49857]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Frier preached against stealing, and had a goose in his sleeve. [The Friar preached against stealing, and had a goose in his sleeve.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character...Would you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11149]]></link><description><![CDATA[If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character...Would you slow down? Or speed up?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21791]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good thing to remember is somebody's got it a lot worse than we do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63423]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good thing to remember is somebody's got it a lot worse than we do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know that when I hate you, it is because I love you to a point of passion that unhinges ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18869]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know that when I hate you, it is because I love you to a point of passion that unhinges my soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In all matters, before beginning, a diligent preparation should be made. [Lat., In omnibus negotiis prius quam aggrediare, adhibenda est ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3949]]></link><description><![CDATA[In all matters, before beginning, a diligent preparation should be made. [Lat., In omnibus negotiis prius quam aggrediare, adhibenda est praeparatio diligens.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Domestic Happiness, thou only bliss Of Paradise that hast survived the Fall! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18647]]></link><description><![CDATA[Domestic Happiness, thou only bliss Of Paradise that hast survived the Fall!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances boldly to meet them head on. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44303]]></link><description><![CDATA[The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances boldly to meet them head on. The weak man grows agitated. But the superior man stands up to fate, endures resolutely in his inner certainty If ignorant both.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1135]]></link><description><![CDATA[To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who work for plant rights don't parse parsleynor bomb poppiesnor purchase antipeople papers.They plant papayas,and peppers.Their pulpit is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24723]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who work for plant rights don't parse parsleynor bomb poppiesnor purchase antipeople papers.They plant papayas,and peppers.Their pulpit is the popular*not the papal but poplars.* not in the sense of ephemeral famebut what the people want.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66566]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Clement, Bishop of Rome, Martyr, c.100  When we say that the Scriptures are plain to all capacities ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7210]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Clement, Bishop of Rome, Martyr, c.100  When we say that the Scriptures are plain to all capacities in all things necessary, we mean that any man of ordinary capacity, by his own diligence and care, in conjunction with the helps and advantages which God hath appointed, and in the due use of them, may attain to the knowledge of everything necessary to his salvation; and that there is no book in the world more plain and better fitted to teach a man any art or science than the Bible is to direct and instruct men in the way to heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tendency to turn human judgments into divine commands makes religion one of the most dangerous forces in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11047]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tendency to turn human judgments into divine commands makes religion one of the most dangerous forces in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One might equate growing up with a mistrust of words. A mature person trusts his eyes more than his ears. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52265]]></link><description><![CDATA[One might equate growing up with a mistrust of words. A mature person trusts his eyes more than his ears. Irrationality often manifests itself in upholding the word against the evidence of the eyes.Children, savages, and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I gave food to the poor, they called me a saint. When I asked why the poor were hungry, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/990]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I gave food to the poor, they called me a saint. When I asked why the poor were hungry, they called me a communist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A foot more light, a step more true, Ne'er from the heath-flower dashed the dew. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16414]]></link><description><![CDATA[A foot more light, a step more true, Ne'er from the heath-flower dashed the dew.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16414</guid></item></channel></rss>