<?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[It's about love and loss, it struck me as a meaningful and compelling story, and the shifts in reality offered ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42431]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's about love and loss, it struck me as a meaningful and compelling story, and the shifts in reality offered up strong visual possibilities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57377]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.  [Fr., La parfaite raison fuit toute ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53102]]></link><description><![CDATA[All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.  [Fr., La parfaite raison fuit toute extremite,   Et veut que l'on soit sage avec sobriete.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't run around a guy that's 355 pounds. There's no key to getting around 'Mean' Max. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36932]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't run around a guy that's 355 pounds. There's no key to getting around 'Mean' Max.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're out of their minds. Who do they think they are? This is totally inappropriate. What they've done highlights the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30299]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're out of their minds. Who do they think they are? This is totally inappropriate. What they've done highlights the fact they're an organization that has absolutely no credibility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From a personnel perspective, the personnel matter has been resolved. We took what action needed to be taken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38445]]></link><description><![CDATA[From a personnel perspective, the personnel matter has been resolved. We took what action needed to be taken.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60485]]></link><description><![CDATA[I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The universe, they said, depended for its operation on the balance of four forces which they identified as charm, persuasion, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60177]]></link><description><![CDATA[The universe, they said, depended for its operation on the balance of four forces which they identified as charm, persuasion, uncertainty and bloody-mindedness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's somehow symbolic of Hollywood that Tara was just a facade, with no rooms inside. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19590]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's somehow symbolic of Hollywood that Tara was just a facade, with no rooms inside.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the time, my grandparents told my mom, "Lordy, what is Shannen doing?" Now I've calmed down. [on her reputation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4009]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the time, my grandparents told my mom, "Lordy, what is Shannen doing?" Now I've calmed down. [on her reputation for bad behavior].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And after hearing what our Church can say, If still our reason runs another way,  That private reason 'tis ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12633]]></link><description><![CDATA[And after hearing what our Church can say, If still our reason runs another way,  That private reason 'tis more just to curb,   Than by disputes the public peace disturb;    For points obscure are of small use to learn,     But common quiet is mankind's concern.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O villain, thou hast stol'n both mine office and my name! The one ne'er got me credit, the other mickle ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59133]]></link><description><![CDATA[O villain, thou hast stol'n both mine office and my name! The one ne'er got me credit, the other mickle blame.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the time spent idly, is spent wickedly, and is unfaithfulness to our masters.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63849]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the time spent idly, is spent wickedly, and is unfaithfulness to our masters.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23348]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When our vices leave us, we flatter ourselves that we are leaving them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60553]]></link><description><![CDATA[When our vices leave us, we flatter ourselves that we are leaving them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's just been incredible. The changes in him have just been amazing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39750]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's just been incredible. The changes in him have just been amazing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty and there is nothing to fear from them, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59951]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Age is a very high price to pay for maturity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1740]]></link><description><![CDATA[Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have no enthusiasm for nature which the slightest chill will not instantly destroy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64340]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have no enthusiasm for nature which the slightest chill will not instantly destroy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you loose your time, you cannot get mony nor gaine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49522]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you loose your time, you cannot get mony nor gaine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3805]]></link><description><![CDATA[No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For (Martin) Luther, the sola of "Sola Scriptura" was inseparably related to the Scriptures' unique inerrancy. It was because popes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6343]]></link><description><![CDATA[For (Martin) Luther, the sola of "Sola Scriptura" was inseparably related to the Scriptures' unique inerrancy. It was because popes could and did err and because councils could and did err that Luther came to realize the supremacy of Scripture. Luther did not despise church authority, nor did he repudiate church councils as having no value. His praise of the Council of Nicaea is noteworthy. Luther and the Reformers did not mean by "Sola Scriptura" that the Bible is the only authority in the church; rather, they meant that the Bible is the only infallible authority in the church.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Johann Sebastian Bach, musician, 1750  Humility and love are precisely the graces which the men of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Johann Sebastian Bach, musician, 1750  Humility and love are precisely the graces which the men of the world can understand, if they do not comprehend doctrines. They are the graces about which there is no mystery, and they are within reach of all classes... [The poorest] Christian can every day find occasion for practicing love and humility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy - the mother ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18137]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy - the mother]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is 'God is crying.' ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20070]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is 'God is crying.' And if he asks why God is crying, another cute thing to tell him is 'Probably because of something you did.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh man. That picture was so beautiful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh man. That picture was so beautiful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65436]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In every country dogges bite. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49539]]></link><description><![CDATA[In every country dogges bite.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55030]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try to give their best qualities to men -- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27260]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try to give their best qualities to men -- bring them softness, teach them how to cry. -Joan Baez.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God, cannot long retain it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16727]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The big majority of Americans, who are comparatively well off, have developed an ability to have enclaves of people living ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27662]]></link><description><![CDATA[The big majority of Americans, who are comparatively well off, have developed an ability to have enclaves of people living in the greatest misery without almost noticing them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God never had a church but there, men say, The devil a chapel hath raised by some wiles,  I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8674]]></link><description><![CDATA[God never had a church but there, men say, The devil a chapel hath raised by some wiles,  I doubted of this saw, till on a day   I westward spied great Edinburgh's Saint Giles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stuff your eyes with wonder . . . live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61966]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stuff your eyes with wonder . . . live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins? Distinctly we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54677]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins? Distinctly we see the difference of the colors, but where exactly does the one first blendingly enter into the other? So with sanity and insanity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know. [Lat., Non me pudet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20404]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know. [Lat., Non me pudet fateri nescire quod nesciam.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The devil is and always has been a gentleman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14236]]></link><description><![CDATA[The devil is and always has been a gentleman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When someone is mean to me, I just make them a victim in my next book. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65785]]></link><description><![CDATA[When someone is mean to me, I just make them a victim in my next book.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want three million people digesting my private life over their cornflakes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34974]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want three million people digesting my private life over their cornflakes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The striking point about our model family is not simply the compete-compete, consume-consume style of life it urges us to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27071]]></link><description><![CDATA[The striking point about our model family is not simply the compete-compete, consume-consume style of life it urges us to follow. The striking point, in the face of all the propaganda, is how few Americans actually live this way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Teresa of Avila, Mystic, Teacher, 1582 O God, grant that today  I may not disappoint any friend; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7838]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Teresa of Avila, Mystic, Teacher, 1582 O God, grant that today  I may not disappoint any friend;  I may not grieve any loved one;  I may not fail anyone to whom I have a duty;  I may not shame myself. Grant that today  I may do my work with honesty and fidelity;  I may take my pleasure in happiness and purity. Grant that today  I may lead no one astray;  I may not make goodness and faith harder for anyone. Help me today  to be a help and example to all;  to bring strength and encouragement wherever I am: Through Jesus Christ my Lord, Amen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18057]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25415]]></link><description><![CDATA[To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not the hours we put in on the job, it is what we put into the hours that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20363]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not the hours we put in on the job, it is what we put into the hours that counts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fake news executives are nicer than real news executives, though real news executives are funnier than fake news executives. They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44452]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fake news executives are nicer than real news executives, though real news executives are funnier than fake news executives. They don’t know they’re being funny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vision looks inward and becomes duty.Vision looks outward and becomes aspiration.Vision looks upward and becomes faith. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60828]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vision looks inward and becomes duty.Vision looks outward and becomes aspiration.Vision looks upward and becomes faith.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In our society, any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to be condemned to death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11391]]></link><description><![CDATA[In our society, any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to be condemned to death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11391</guid></item></channel></rss>