<?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[The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52445]]></link><description><![CDATA[The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was a freshman in high school, my drama teacher, an incredible, inspirational genius, the guy who got me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31160]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was a freshman in high school, my drama teacher, an incredible, inspirational genius, the guy who got me into acting, he encouraged me to get the lead in a musical. They didn't have any guys.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He prayeth best who loveth best All things, both great and small. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48053]]></link><description><![CDATA[He prayeth best who loveth best All things, both great and small.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not naïve enough to ask for pure men; we ask merely for men whose impurity does not conflict ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52601]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not naïve enough to ask for pure men; we ask merely for men whose impurity does not conflict with the obligations of their job.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12090]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's what I do for a living. I grew up doing it and this is what I love and I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42176]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's what I do for a living. I grew up doing it and this is what I love and I hope to do it for a long time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46145]]></link><description><![CDATA[Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He always wants to come with me. He insists, and he cries if I can't take him. He's afraid that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41275]]></link><description><![CDATA[He always wants to come with me. He insists, and he cries if I can't take him. He's afraid that if I go, I won't ever come back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great Fortune brings with it Great misfortune. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49300]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great Fortune brings with it Great misfortune.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66166]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The actual fact is that in this day Opportunity not only knocks at your door but is playing an anvil ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45076]]></link><description><![CDATA[The actual fact is that in this day Opportunity not only knocks at your door but is playing an anvil chorus on every man's door, and then lays for the owner around the corner with a club. The world is in sore need of men who can do things. Indeed, cases can easily be recalled by every one where Opportunity actually smashed in the door and collared her candidate and dragged him forth to success. These cases are exceptional, usually you have to meet Opportunity half-way. But the only place where you can get away from Opportunity is to lie down and die. Opportunity does not trouble dead men, or dead ones who flatter themselves that they are alive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15825]]></link><description><![CDATA[I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yes, we have injected uranium hexafluoride gas into a limited number of centrifuge machines, but it is even less than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35715]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yes, we have injected uranium hexafluoride gas into a limited number of centrifuge machines, but it is even less than is needed for a pilot project.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not surprised by the intensity, I didn't have to play it up to my girls at all. They knew ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34501]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not surprised by the intensity, I didn't have to play it up to my girls at all. They knew how important this game was. I knew if both teams played at the top of their games, it could go either way. But the conditions do dictate the game a little.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These gems have life in them: their colors speak, Say what words fail of. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23259]]></link><description><![CDATA[These gems have life in them: their colors speak, Say what words fail of.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's more important-your goal, or others' opinions of your goal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21449]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's more important-your goal, or others' opinions of your goal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a walker is indeed an individualist there is nowhere he can't go at dawn and not many places he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46240]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a walker is indeed an individualist there is nowhere he can't go at dawn and not many places he can't go at noon. But just as it demeans life to live alongside a great river you can no longer swim in or drink from, to be crowded into safer areas and hours takes much of the gloss off walking -- one sport you shouldn't have to reserve a time and a court for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would prefer to have no money but to have a nice family and good friends around. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66398]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would prefer to have no money but to have a nice family and good friends around.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We came back from Saturday's loss and we were better against Grand Rapids and grinded out a win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32797]]></link><description><![CDATA[We came back from Saturday's loss and we were better against Grand Rapids and grinded out a win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now we shall possess a right definition of faith if we call it a firm and certain knowledge of God's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now we shall possess a right definition of faith if we call it a firm and certain knowledge of God's benevolence toward us, founded upon the truth of the freely given promise in Christ, both revealed to our minds and sealed upon our hearts through the Holy Spirit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mad, adj.: Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mad, adj.: Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Raise the urinals. (on how management could keep the Braves on their toes) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57623]]></link><description><![CDATA[Raise the urinals. (on how management could keep the Braves on their toes)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery, it's not an art. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15674]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery, it's not an art. The main thing about directing is: photograph the people's eyes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13369]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26364]]></link><description><![CDATA[Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bureaucrats are the only people in the world who can say absolutely nothing and mean it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bureaucrats are the only people in the world who can say absolutely nothing and mean it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[THE PRESENTATION OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE   We are very shy nowadays of even mentioning Heaven. We are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8545]]></link><description><![CDATA[THE PRESENTATION OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE   We are very shy nowadays of even mentioning Heaven. We are afraid of the jeer about "pie in the sky", and of being told that we are trying to "escape" from the duty of making a happy world here and now, into dreams of a better world elsewhere. But either there is "pie in the sky" or there is not. If there is not, then Christianity is false, for this doctrine is woven into its whole fabric. If there is, then this doctrine, like any other, must be faced, whether it is useful at political meetings or no.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd go in a minute. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37780]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd go in a minute.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her reasoning is it was an accident from day one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her reasoning is it was an accident from day one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A glass is good, and a lass is good, And a pipe to smoke in cold weather;  The world ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59399]]></link><description><![CDATA[A glass is good, and a lass is good, And a pipe to smoke in cold weather;  The world is good and the people are good,   And we're all good fellows together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20261]]></link><description><![CDATA[I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A jury is a group of twelve people of average ignorance ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23583]]></link><description><![CDATA[A jury is a group of twelve people of average ignorance]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2568]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was happy. We played average at best in the beginning, but when we went down 6-5 we got some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30561]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was happy. We played average at best in the beginning, but when we went down 6-5 we got some rhythm going in our offense and scored the next four goals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23668]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When eating an elephant take one bite at a time ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32257]]></link><description><![CDATA[When eating an elephant take one bite at a time]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've legged you up on winners - do you want me to leg you up now? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33389]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've legged you up on winners - do you want me to leg you up now?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Party honesty is party expediency. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Party honesty is party expediency.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not with whom you are born, but with whom you are bred. [Sp., No con quien naces, sino con quien ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not with whom you are born, but with whom you are bred. [Sp., No con quien naces, sino con quien paces.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What men turn to is more important than what they turn from, even if that to which they turn is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7528]]></link><description><![CDATA[What men turn to is more important than what they turn from, even if that to which they turn is only a higher moral truth; but to turn to Christ is far more important than to turn to higher moral truth: it is to turn the face towards Him in whom is all moral truth; it is to turn to HIm in whom is not only the virtue which corresponds to the known vice from which the penitent wishes to flee, but all virtue; it is to turn the face to all holiness, all purity, all grace. It was this repentance which the apostles preached after Pentecost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come what come may, Time and the hour runs through the roughest day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51375]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come what come may, Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You'll discover that real love is millions of miles past falling in love with anyone or anything. When you make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25807]]></link><description><![CDATA[You'll discover that real love is millions of miles past falling in love with anyone or anything. When you make that one effort to feel compassion instead of blame or self-blame, the heart opens again and continues opening. -Sara Paddison.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A theme is a memory aid, it helps you through the presentation just as it also provides the thread of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27756]]></link><description><![CDATA[A theme is a memory aid, it helps you through the presentation just as it also provides the thread of continuity for your audience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest."N.B.: This quote refers to the British disarmament of the Indian Army. Gandhi never advocated the individual right to bear arms. - Gandhi, An Autobiography.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Among the notable things about fire is that it also requires oxygen to burn - exactly like its enemy, life. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15999]]></link><description><![CDATA[Among the notable things about fire is that it also requires oxygen to burn - exactly like its enemy, life. Thereby are life and flames so often compared.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is the proper task of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is the proper task of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now we're getting into the sites that are asking specific questions, even down to 'How was this date?' 'How are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39431]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now we're getting into the sites that are asking specific questions, even down to 'How was this date?' 'How are they sexually?']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People aren't going to be happy if it goes down this way. I hope we get a simpler solution. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35013]]></link><description><![CDATA[People aren't going to be happy if it goes down this way. I hope we get a simpler solution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35013</guid></item></channel></rss>