<?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[And he walked up to me and he said, 'I just shot and killed two people, and you need to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29514]]></link><description><![CDATA[And he walked up to me and he said, 'I just shot and killed two people, and you need to call 911,' and I just thought, OK, whatever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2876]]></link><description><![CDATA[You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald spot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War destroys men, but luxury destroys mankind; at once corrupts the body and the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26103]]></link><description><![CDATA[War destroys men, but luxury destroys mankind; at once corrupts the body and the mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13085]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest. [Ger., Die Menschen gehen wie Schiesskugeln weiter, wenn sie abgeglattet sind.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest. [Ger., Die Menschen gehen wie Schiesskugeln weiter, wenn sie abgeglattet sind.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's preposterous, but [director Doug] Liman gives it such a seductive, playfully hip texture that you happily embrace the fantasy. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33120]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's preposterous, but [director Doug] Liman gives it such a seductive, playfully hip texture that you happily embrace the fantasy. ... Brad and Angelina are the whole show here. They bring out the best in each other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the veil, spun from the cobweb fashion of the times, to hid the feeling heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41716]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the veil, spun from the cobweb fashion of the times, to hid the feeling heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you reach the heart of life you shall find beauty in all things, even in the eyes that are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3814]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you reach the heart of life you shall find beauty in all things, even in the eyes that are blind to beauty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10449]]></link><description><![CDATA[True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For five years I worked at the [Commerce Department] and did econometric modeling, and you could never get these numbers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40739]]></link><description><![CDATA[For five years I worked at the [Commerce Department] and did econometric modeling, and you could never get these numbers to load into consumption numbers. They're not leading indicators or coincident indicators. They don't tell you a lot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9557]]></link><description><![CDATA[I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let who will boast their courage in the field, I find but little safety from my shield,  Nature's, not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61126]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let who will boast their courage in the field, I find but little safety from my shield,  Nature's, not honour's law we must obey:   This made me cast my useless shield away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm a passionate believer in the inherent creativity possessed by all people and our inherent ability--if it's not clouded by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1611]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm a passionate believer in the inherent creativity possessed by all people and our inherent ability--if it's not clouded by convention--to appreciate authentic beauty in all forms, whether we like it or not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no feeling more comforting and consoling than knowing you are right next to the one you love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8975]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no feeling more comforting and consoling than knowing you are right next to the one you love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66305]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Should I worship Him from fear of hell, may I be cast into it. Should I serve Him from desire ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7324]]></link><description><![CDATA[Should I worship Him from fear of hell, may I be cast into it. Should I serve Him from desire of gaining heaven, may He keep me out. But should I worship Him from love alone, He reveal Himself to me, that my whole heart may be filled with His love and presence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13710]]></link><description><![CDATA[True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56305]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44701]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. -Marcus Aurelius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Goths are sort of like mimes with long hair and trenchcoats. Neat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17929]]></link><description><![CDATA[Goths are sort of like mimes with long hair and trenchcoats. Neat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thank God, I have done my duty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24121]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thank God, I have done my duty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am Sir Oracle, And when I ope my lips, let no dog bark! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45223]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am Sir Oracle, And when I ope my lips, let no dog bark!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always remember that the future comes one day at a time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24006]]></link><description><![CDATA[Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a door opens not to your knock, consider your reputation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53902]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a door opens not to your knock, consider your reputation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It makes an impact for me now. Because I smoke cigars. And, a lot of restaurants will let you smoke ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39928]]></link><description><![CDATA[It makes an impact for me now. Because I smoke cigars. And, a lot of restaurants will let you smoke cigarettes but not cigars. So, even now I came here specifically because I knew I could smoke my cigar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Try to be like the turtle - at ease in your own shell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Try to be like the turtle - at ease in your own shell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a paradox in pride: it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48214]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a paradox in pride: it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, that lovely title, ex-president. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47429]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes two to speak truth, one to speak and another to hear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57320]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes two to speak truth, one to speak and another to hear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who will follow precedent, but never create one, is merely an obvious example of the routineer. You find ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46252]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who will follow precedent, but never create one, is merely an obvious example of the routineer. You find him desperately numerous in the civil service, in the official bureaus. To him government is something given as unconditionally, as absolutely as ocean or hill. He goes on winding the tape that he finds. His imagination has rarely extricated itself from under the administrative machine to gain any sense of what a human, temporary contraption the whole affair is. What he thinks is the heavens above him is nothing but the roof.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Families are great murderers of the creative impulse, particularly husbands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63956]]></link><description><![CDATA[Families are great murderers of the creative impulse, particularly husbands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether the weather be fine, Whether the weather be not, Whether the weather be cold, Whether the weather be hot, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61479]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether the weather be fine, Whether the weather be not, Whether the weather be cold, Whether the weather be hot, We'll weather the weather, Whatever the whether, Whether we like it or not]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only gracious way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you can't ignore it, top it; if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22853]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only gracious way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you can't ignore it, top it; if you can't top it, laugh at it; if you can't laugh at it, it's probably deserved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did notsometimes taste of adversity, prosperity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21716]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did notsometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt But being season'd with a gracious voice Obscures the show of evil? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55591]]></link><description><![CDATA[In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt But being season'd with a gracious voice Obscures the show of evil? -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In England three are sixty different religions, and only one sauce. [It., Il y en Angleterre soizante sectes religieuses differentes, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13911]]></link><description><![CDATA[In England three are sixty different religions, and only one sauce. [It., Il y en Angleterre soizante sectes religieuses differentes, et une seule sauce.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only way a woman can ever reform her husband is by boring him so completely that he loses all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26404]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only way a woman can ever reform her husband is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognises genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58583]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognises genius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Haste makes waste. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50148]]></link><description><![CDATA[Haste makes waste.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One sword keeres another in the sheath. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49700]]></link><description><![CDATA[One sword keeres another in the sheath.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23746]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's an opportunity for citizens who care about issues to communicate with lawmakers about what's happening in their communities. Without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33566]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's an opportunity for citizens who care about issues to communicate with lawmakers about what's happening in their communities. Without that input, lawmakers might not be able to make informed decisions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[... as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or we grow weak, and at last some crisis shows us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10714]]></link><description><![CDATA[... as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or we grow weak, and at last some crisis shows us what we have become.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is, not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56935]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is, not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66320]]></link><description><![CDATA[Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One attempt to reconcile the Gnostic doctrine [of the unreality of evilness] of matter with the apostolic teaching about Christ ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6715]]></link><description><![CDATA[One attempt to reconcile the Gnostic doctrine [of the unreality of evilness] of matter with the apostolic teaching about Christ was the theory that the body which our Lord took at His coming into the world was not a real body but a phantom one. He only seemed to inhabit a material body, and from the Greek word dokein ["to seem"], people who held this theory were known as Docetists. But if Christ's incarnation was unreal, His death and resurrection were also unreal; and the whole gospel message was thus evacuated of its truth and power: one unhappy legacy of this short-lived phase of Christian heresy remains to bedevil Christian witness to Muslims up to the present day. For when the Koran says of Jesus that "they did not kill Him, nor did they crucify Him, but they thought they did", we may infer that Muhammad was indebted for this idea to a Christian source tainted with Docetism.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4703]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, and always count their change when it is handed to them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4703</guid></item></channel></rss>