<?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[For the first two years we'll probably take 10 because we want to build a nice foundation. After that, we'll ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38780]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the first two years we'll probably take 10 because we want to build a nice foundation. After that, we'll probably do it more like the major league hall where there is no guaranteed amount.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66590]]></link><description><![CDATA[For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An intellectual is someone who has found something more interesting than sex. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65905]]></link><description><![CDATA[An intellectual is someone who has found something more interesting than sex.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things well fitted abide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49967]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things well fitted abide.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23355]]></link><description><![CDATA[I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Change starts when someone sees the next step. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5498]]></link><description><![CDATA[Change starts when someone sees the next step.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was the guy I looked up to, that I wanted to be like, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30254]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was the guy I looked up to, that I wanted to be like,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disapproval is a very important factor in all progress. There has really never been any progress without it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Disapproval is a very important factor in all progress. There has really never been any progress without it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43086]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grace is savage and must be savage in order to be perfect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grace is savage and must be savage in order to be perfect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In avoiding one vice fools rush into the opposite extreme. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50271]]></link><description><![CDATA[In avoiding one vice fools rush into the opposite extreme.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can say any fool thing to a dog, and the dog will give you this look that says, `My ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46445]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can say any fool thing to a dog, and the dog will give you this look that says, `My God, you're RIGHT! I NEVER would've thought of that!']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only method by which people can be supported is out of the effort of those who are earning their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13648]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only method by which people can be supported is out of the effort of those who are earning their own way. We must not create a deterrent to hard work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Woe to the vanquished! [Lat., Vae victis.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60590]]></link><description><![CDATA[Woe to the vanquished! [Lat., Vae victis.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am told that he rejected the request ... because of the sensitivity of the material for a political reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42194]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am told that he rejected the request ... because of the sensitivity of the material for a political reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want an open society, you have to put up with the chaos. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26862]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want an open society, you have to put up with the chaos.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Food is an important part of a balanced diet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3678]]></link><description><![CDATA[Food is an important part of a balanced diet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are only as wise as others perceive you to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46095]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are only as wise as others perceive you to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After I left that, I wanted to continue programming films, so I started the Jewish film festival. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39226]]></link><description><![CDATA[After I left that, I wanted to continue programming films, so I started the Jewish film festival.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is a passionate intuition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is a passionate intuition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9422]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9422</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[Relationships are like a dance, with visible energy racing back andforth between partners. Some relationships are the slow, dark dance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22626]]></link><description><![CDATA[Relationships are like a dance, with visible energy racing back andforth between partners. Some relationships are the slow, dark dance ofdeath.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That means no new national production of highly enriched uranium from which a bomb could be made, and that's the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35950]]></link><description><![CDATA[That means no new national production of highly enriched uranium from which a bomb could be made, and that's the issue over Iran.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18193]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All night the thirsty beach has listening lain With patience dumb,  Counting the slow, said moments of her pain; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59263]]></link><description><![CDATA[All night the thirsty beach has listening lain With patience dumb,  Counting the slow, said moments of her pain;   Now morn has come,    And with the morn the punctual tide again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65974]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cobbler, . . . produced several new grins of his own invention, having been used to cut faces for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56200]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cobbler, . . . produced several new grins of his own invention, having been used to cut faces for many years together over his last.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the waves are round me breaking,As I pace the deck alone,And my eye in vain is seekingSome green leaf ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25305]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the waves are round me breaking,As I pace the deck alone,And my eye in vain is seekingSome green leaf to rest upon;What would not I give to wanderWhere my old companions dwell?Absence makes the heart grow fonder,Isle of Beauty, fare thee well! - Paradise Lost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58696]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20670]]></link><description><![CDATA[Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone can rat, but it takes a certain amount of ingenuity to re-rat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone can rat, but it takes a certain amount of ingenuity to re-rat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26071]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The good ole days weren't always good, and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47740]]></link><description><![CDATA[The good ole days weren't always good, and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cut and come again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48536]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cut and come again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66894]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Philosophy is an unusually ingenious attempt to think fallaciously. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46507]]></link><description><![CDATA[Philosophy is an unusually ingenious attempt to think fallaciously.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguisedas insoluble problems. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21655]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguisedas insoluble problems.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To many people holidays are not voyages of discovery, but a ritual of reassurance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19569]]></link><description><![CDATA[To many people holidays are not voyages of discovery, but a ritual of reassurance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John & Henry Venn, Priests, Evangelical Divines, 1813, 1873  This is the age of the conference and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8449]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John & Henry Venn, Priests, Evangelical Divines, 1813, 1873  This is the age of the conference and study group -- people talking about what they know they should be doing. In a subtle way, talking about something becomes an excuse for not doing it. This new bolt-hole of the conference and study group is not confined to the local congregation. It is a painful fact of life in the central structures of the churches. We have a welter of reports, commissions, surveys, liaison bodies, and so on. They have the appearance of progressive thinking and readiness to face change, combined with the function of being delaying devices. They are the sacraments of current Christianity, and its dilemma. Outreach is a move from power structures to meekness structures, and, in spite of the fact that Christians believe that it is the meek who shall inherit the earth, they show (as in the ecumenical movement) a distinct reluctance to relinquish power-structure thinking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Necessity when threatening is more powerful than device of man. [Lat., Efficacior omni arte imminens necessitas.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44057]]></link><description><![CDATA[Necessity when threatening is more powerful than device of man. [Lat., Efficacior omni arte imminens necessitas.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings. [The wearer knows best where the shoe pinches.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49931]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings. [The wearer knows best where the shoe pinches.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is so unlike theory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59111]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is so unlike theory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't take life seriously because you can't come out of it alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1254]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't take life seriously because you can't come out of it alive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The darkest hour of a man's life is when he sits down to plan how toget money without earning it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22047]]></link><description><![CDATA[The darkest hour of a man's life is when he sits down to plan how toget money without earning it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was a place in childhood that I remember well, And there a voice of sweetest tone bright fairy tales ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43204]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was a place in childhood that I remember well, And there a voice of sweetest tone bright fairy tales did tell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The value of compassion cannot be over-emphasized. Anyone can criticize. It takes a true believer to be compassionate. No greater ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9170]]></link><description><![CDATA[The value of compassion cannot be over-emphasized. Anyone can criticize. It takes a true believer to be compassionate. No greater burden can be borne by an individual than to know no one cares or understands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16978]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13635]]></link><description><![CDATA[Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13635</guid></item></channel></rss>