<?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[On with the dance, let joy be unconfined. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48755]]></link><description><![CDATA[On with the dance, let joy be unconfined.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43963]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59181]]></link><description><![CDATA[One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Volunteering is an act of heroism on a grand scale. And it matters profoundly. It does more than help people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Volunteering is an act of heroism on a grand scale. And it matters profoundly. It does more than help people beat the odds; it changes the odds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jealousy is all the fun you think they had. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22905]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I'm not thank'd at all, I'm thank'd enough: I've done my duty, and I've done no more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13053]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I'm not thank'd at all, I'm thank'd enough: I've done my duty, and I've done no more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So long as a man confines his ideas of Christ to a rather misty hero figure of long ago who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7754]]></link><description><![CDATA[So long as a man confines his ideas of Christ to a rather misty hero figure of long ago who died a tragic death, and so long as his ideas of Christianity are bounded by what he calls the Sermon on the Mount (which he has almost certainly not read in its entirety since he became grown-up), then the living truth never has a chance to touch him. This is plainly what has happened to many otherwise intelligent people. Over the years I have had hundreds of conversations with people, many of them of higher intellectual calibre than my own, who quite obviously had no idea of what Christianity is really about. I was in no case trying to catch them out: I was simply and gently trying to find out what they knew about the New Testament. My conclusion was that they knew virtually nothing. This I find pathetic and somewhat horrifying. It means that the most important Event in human history is politely and quietly bypassed. For it is not as though the evidence had been examined and found unconvincing: it had simply never been examined.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absence and death are the same--only that in death there is no suffering. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/175]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absence and death are the same--only that in death there is no suffering.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When to soft Sleep we give ourselves away, And in a dream as in a fairy bark  Drift on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12855]]></link><description><![CDATA[When to soft Sleep we give ourselves away, And in a dream as in a fairy bark  Drift on and on through the enchanted dark   To purple daybreak--little thought we pay    To that sweet bitter world we know by day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4138]]></link><description><![CDATA[A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer. [Lat., Beneficium non in eo quot fit aut datur consistit sed in ipso dantis aut facientis animo.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Want to make your computer go really fast? Throw it out a window. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9416]]></link><description><![CDATA[Want to make your computer go really fast? Throw it out a window.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We didn't want to look past this game. If we looked past it they could have come in and beat ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41872]]></link><description><![CDATA[We didn't want to look past this game. If we looked past it they could have come in and beat us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lady, I'm not an athlete. I'm a baseball player. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3767]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lady, I'm not an athlete. I'm a baseball player.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm very comfortable with that overall total reduction in risk, and I would not be able to say that there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36962]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm very comfortable with that overall total reduction in risk, and I would not be able to say that there is anything that I can tell that should stop them from going ahead and flying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marimekko meets Machu Picchu. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marimekko meets Machu Picchu.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mystical bond of brotherhood makes all men brothers ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4935]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mystical bond of brotherhood makes all men brothers]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cowards can never be moral. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10507]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cowards can never be moral.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Juliana of Norwich, Mystic, Teacher, c.1417  We of the churches often gather our robes away from contamination, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7805]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Juliana of Norwich, Mystic, Teacher, c.1417  We of the churches often gather our robes away from contamination, and thank God that we are not as other men. We don't despise God's name; in fact, we call upon it constantly to justify ourselves... If we object to meat-eating, we declare that God is vegetarian; if we abhor war, we proclaim a pacifist Deity. He who turned water into wine to gladden a wedding it now accused by many of favouring that abominable fluid grape juice. There can hardly be a more evil way of taking God's name in vain than this way of presuming to speak in it. For here is spiritual pride, the ultimate sin, in action -- the sin of believing in one's own righteousness. The true prophet says humbly, "To me, a sinful man, God spoke." But the scribes and Pharisees declare, "When we speak, God agrees." They feel no need of a special revelation, for they are always, in their own view, infallible. It is this self-righteousness of the pious that most breeds atheism, by inspiring all decent, ordinary men with loathing of the enormous lie.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Passion costs me too much to bestow it on every trifle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2130]]></link><description><![CDATA[Passion costs me too much to bestow it on every trifle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28097]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True glory strikes root, and even extends itself; all false pretensions fall as do flowers, nor can any feigned thing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48177]]></link><description><![CDATA[True glory strikes root, and even extends itself; all false pretensions fall as do flowers, nor can any feigned thing be lasting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best-laid schemes o' mice an 'menGang aft agley. - "To A Mouse". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4013]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best-laid schemes o' mice an 'menGang aft agley. - "To A Mouse".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With profits in such a tailspin, I'm revising down my capital expenditure outlook for the next six to nine months, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42249]]></link><description><![CDATA[With profits in such a tailspin, I'm revising down my capital expenditure outlook for the next six to nine months, and (I see) almost zero job growth for rest of this year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some of the greater things in life are unseen; that's why you close your eyes when you kiss, cry, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62795]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some of the greater things in life are unseen; that's why you close your eyes when you kiss, cry, or dream.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are like a fine wine. They all start out like grapes, and it's our job to stomp on them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26994]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are like a fine wine. They all start out like grapes, and it's our job to stomp on them and keep them in the dark until they mature into something you'd like to have dinner with.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You show people what you're willing to fight for when you fight your friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15654]]></link><description><![CDATA[You show people what you're willing to fight for when you fight your friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scandals aren't over. Something shows up in March, around the 12th or the 18th. I see a man in Parliament ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32100]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scandals aren't over. Something shows up in March, around the 12th or the 18th. I see a man in Parliament with his head hung low, apologizing for something.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is the art of controlling your environment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63573]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is the art of controlling your environment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52521]]></link><description><![CDATA[The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The violets were past their prime, Yet their departing breath  Was sweeter, in the blast of death,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60716]]></link><description><![CDATA[The violets were past their prime, Yet their departing breath  Was sweeter, in the blast of death,   Than all the lavish fragrance of the time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When something [an affliction] happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1674]]></link><description><![CDATA[When something [an affliction] happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In this world of extremes, we can only love too little. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25650]]></link><description><![CDATA[In this world of extremes, we can only love too little.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are some complicated rhythms. I've had to slowly work through it and subdivide the music and do it over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42664]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are some complicated rhythms. I've had to slowly work through it and subdivide the music and do it over and over to make sure that when I get it up to tempo it actually sounds right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is known that there are an infinte number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34017]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is known that there are an infinte number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the Universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole Universe is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely products of a deranged imagination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues is on the way to totalitarianism and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10068]]></link><description><![CDATA[A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues is on the way to totalitarianism and death]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14707]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got to understand. The biker world is a very, very big organization, and they're all over the U.S. and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40966]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to understand. The biker world is a very, very big organization, and they're all over the U.S. and the world. When they know you're right ... you're not going to find us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10599]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grief brims itself and flows away in tears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grief brims itself and flows away in tears.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34012]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5130]]></link><description><![CDATA[Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15123]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do what you should, not what you may. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51139]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do what you should, not what you may.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lily is all in white, like a saint, And so is no mate for me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25085]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lily is all in white, like a saint, And so is no mate for me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38730]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not Philip, but Phillip's gold, took the cities of Greece. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not Philip, but Phillip's gold, took the cities of Greece.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Appearances often are deceiving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Appearances often are deceiving.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good listener is usually thinking about something else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65235]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good listener is usually thinking about something else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I absolutely believe that an audit is warranted; 20 years is too long, ... There have been a lot of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31135]]></link><description><![CDATA[I absolutely believe that an audit is warranted; 20 years is too long, ... There have been a lot of allegations about this board, but the key word is 'allegations.' We need to, hopefully through an audit, see if the allegations have any merit. I'm not necessarily digging for any unethical behavior, but after 20 years, I think we should take a look.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31135</guid></item></channel></rss>