<?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[I will be able to do quite a bit from home, and when I commute, it won't be bad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37801]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will be able to do quite a bit from home, and when I commute, it won't be bad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the skull of the man grows broader, so do his creeds. And his gods they are shaped in his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62310]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the skull of the man grows broader, so do his creeds. And his gods they are shaped in his image and mirror his needs.  And he clothes them with thunders and beauty,   He clothes them with music and fire,    Seeing not, as he bows by their altars,     That he worships his own desire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Statistics are like lampposts: they are good to lean on, but they don't shed much light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57869]]></link><description><![CDATA[Statistics are like lampposts: they are good to lean on, but they don't shed much light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It looks like things are going to get rough, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35123]]></link><description><![CDATA[It looks like things are going to get rough,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music is the shorthand of emotion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13723]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music is the shorthand of emotion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And on her lover's arm she leant, And round her waist she felt it fold,  And far across the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51729]]></link><description><![CDATA[And on her lover's arm she leant, And round her waist she felt it fold,  And far across the hills they went,   In that new world that is the old.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14704]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The follies which a man regrets most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1845]]></link><description><![CDATA[The follies which a man regrets most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity. -Helen Rowland.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It needs not nor it boots thee not, proud queen, Unless the adage must be verified,  That beggars mounted ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3933]]></link><description><![CDATA[It needs not nor it boots thee not, proud queen, Unless the adage must be verified,  That beggars mounted run their horse to death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When your life flashes before your eyes, make sure you’ve got plenty to watch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66052]]></link><description><![CDATA[When your life flashes before your eyes, make sure you’ve got plenty to watch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any society that needs disclaimers has too many lawyers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any society that needs disclaimers has too many lawyers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eventually they get interested in all the different kinds of music we play...and they want to know about those countries. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28556]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eventually they get interested in all the different kinds of music we play...and they want to know about those countries.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63447]]></link><description><![CDATA[A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst men often give the best advice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1244]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst men often give the best advice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44631]]></link><description><![CDATA[Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nation of shopkeepers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5010]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nation of shopkeepers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1263]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1300]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Justice delayed is justice denied. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47281]]></link><description><![CDATA[Justice delayed is justice denied.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a fair amount of resilience in the consumer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32880]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a fair amount of resilience in the consumer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one should be judge in his own cause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51651]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one should be judge in his own cause.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you love your customer to death, you can't go wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15754]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you love your customer to death, you can't go wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope costs nothing ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope costs nothing]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47093]]></link><description><![CDATA[The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude. [Lat., Domini pudet non servitutis.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55221]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude. [Lat., Domini pudet non servitutis.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53223]]></link><description><![CDATA[If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Frederick Denison Maurice, Priest, teacher, 1872  We can do nothing, we say sometimes, we can only pray. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8044]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Frederick Denison Maurice, Priest, teacher, 1872  We can do nothing, we say sometimes, we can only pray. That, we feel, is a terribly precarious second-best. So long as we can fuss and work and rush about, so long as we can lend a hand, we have some hope; but if we have to fall back upon God -- ah, then things must be critical indeed!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11671]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The stone unhewn and cold Becomes a living mould,  The more the marble wastes   The more the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54933]]></link><description><![CDATA[The stone unhewn and cold Becomes a living mould,  The more the marble wastes   The more the statue grows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21346]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clashes and vitriol only make it worse. I think what we must learn to do is to read the imagery. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clashes and vitriol only make it worse. I think what we must learn to do is to read the imagery. We need to analyze and understand the subtext.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Luke the Evangelist  Study universal holiness of life. Your whole usefulness depends on this, for your sermons ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6502]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Luke the Evangelist  Study universal holiness of life. Your whole usefulness depends on this, for your sermons last but an hour or two: your life preaches all week. If Satan can only make a covetous minister a lover of praise, of pleasure, of good eating, he has ruined your ministry. Give yourself to prayer, and get your texts, your thoughts, your words, from God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18350]]></link><description><![CDATA[While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who dainties love shall beggars prove. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who dainties love shall beggars prove.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quick enough, if good enough. [Lat., Sat cito, si sat bene.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18775]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quick enough, if good enough. [Lat., Sat cito, si sat bene.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/529]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever they may be in public life, whatever their relations with men, in their relations with women, all men are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27156]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever they may be in public life, whatever their relations with men, in their relations with women, all men are rapists and that's all they are. They rape us with their eyes, their laws, their codes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Persuasion is better than force. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Persuasion is better than force.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In War: Resolution. In Defeat: Defiance. In Victory: Magnanimity. In Peace: Goodwill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11816]]></link><description><![CDATA[In War: Resolution. In Defeat: Defiance. In Victory: Magnanimity. In Peace: Goodwill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Universe forces those who live in it to understand it. Those creatures who find everyday experience a muddled jumble ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60194]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Universe forces those who live in it to understand it. Those creatures who find everyday experience a muddled jumble of events with no predictability, no regularity, are in grave peril. The Universe belongs to those who, at least to some degree,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We picked up at the start of the second half the way we finished the first. The Duke game was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34528]]></link><description><![CDATA[We picked up at the start of the second half the way we finished the first. The Duke game was a tough loss. We know we could have won that game. All we could do was watch the tape of it and learn our lesson, not make the same mistakes again and that's what we did against Wake Forest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1260]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is life distilled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is life distilled.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I mean, having the speedometer in the front windshield was something I've never experienced before, and that took some getting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40381]]></link><description><![CDATA[I mean, having the speedometer in the front windshield was something I've never experienced before, and that took some getting used to. The power was there, and every red light was a temptation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40381</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[All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62343]]></link><description><![CDATA[All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14872]]></link><description><![CDATA[I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14872</guid></item></channel></rss>