<?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 have this running quandary about Christmas. I get upset about it, because I feel that we American Christians make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7997]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have this running quandary about Christmas. I get upset about it, because I feel that we American Christians make too much of it, and too little. Too little of it, because we pile all sorts of other things onto it, including some that have only the feeblest connection with the Event it is supposed to commemorate. If God did become a man, in any real sense, it is the most important thing that ever happened. Surely we, who believe it, could well devote one day a year to uninterrupted contemplation of the fact, and let Saturnalia fall on the winter solstice, where it belongs.   On the other hand, we make so much of the actual birth, and forget the things that make it more than just the birth of a baby (though even that is, in Walt Whitman's phrase, "miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels") -- more, even, than the birth of the greatest man who ever lived. We forget the promise to Eve of a descendant who will solve the problem of Evil; the promise to Abraham of one by whom all mankind will be blessed; the promise to Moses of a greater prophet than he, to arise from his people; and the promise to David of a Son who would be his Master. We forget about the eternal Purpose behind it all: it's like telling a story and leaving out the point. Yes, it is true that God gave us His Son, and so maybe we ought also to give gifts -- but what, and to whom? It is also true that God gave us Himself, and the only sensible response to that is to give ourselves to Him. There is nothing else that He wants from us, or, if there is something, He can take it. Only I, my ego, my heart, is truly mine to give or to withhold -- and is therefore the appropriate gift to Him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would fight for my liberty so long as my strength lasted, and if the time came for me to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24703]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would fight for my liberty so long as my strength lasted, and if the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are only as wise as others perceive you to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46095]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are only as wise as others perceive you to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26947]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man that weds for greedy wealth, He goes a fishing fair,  But often times he gets a frog, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16097]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man that weds for greedy wealth, He goes a fishing fair,  But often times he gets a frog,   Or very little share.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47549]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's nothing that a tight forward likes more than a loosie right up his backside ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57661]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's nothing that a tight forward likes more than a loosie right up his backside]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People in their 20s have a lot of time to grow their investments and don't need to be too conservative, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39468]]></link><description><![CDATA[People in their 20s have a lot of time to grow their investments and don't need to be too conservative,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thy spirit, Independence, let me share! Lord of the lion-heart and eagle-eye,  Thy steps I follow with my bosom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thy spirit, Independence, let me share! Lord of the lion-heart and eagle-eye,  Thy steps I follow with my bosom bare,   Nor heed the storm that howls along the sky.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherin he that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43854]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherin he that cannot read A, B, C may read our natures.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole race of scribblers flies from the town and yearns for country life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50358]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole race of scribblers flies from the town and yearns for country life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There has to be a certain amount of common sense. As we know, common sense isn't that common. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40259]]></link><description><![CDATA[There has to be a certain amount of common sense. As we know, common sense isn't that common.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I too am not powerless, and my weapons strike hard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50731]]></link><description><![CDATA[I too am not powerless, and my weapons strike hard.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Easy to say, not easy to achieve, ... But together we have achieved great things, and this is a red-letter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Easy to say, not easy to achieve, ... But together we have achieved great things, and this is a red-letter day. All of us here today will never forget it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good manager is a man who isn't worried about his own career but rather the careers of those who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15976]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good manager is a man who isn't worried about his own career but rather the careers of those who work for him. My advice: Don't worry about yourself. Take care of those who work for you and you'll float to greatness on their achievements.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See that your own hearth is swept before you lift your neighbor's ashes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44381]]></link><description><![CDATA[See that your own hearth is swept before you lift your neighbor's ashes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you play with the big dogs, you're going to get hurt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31486]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you play with the big dogs, you're going to get hurt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24447]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Mary Sumner, Founder of the Mothers' Union, 1921  Thou knowest well how to excuse and color thine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8390]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Mary Sumner, Founder of the Mothers' Union, 1921  Thou knowest well how to excuse and color thine own deeds; but thou art not willing to receive the excuses of others. It were more just that thou shouldest accuse thyself, and excuse thy brother.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In general it's a healthy profit taking move for the EM market, and for the domestic markets in Latin America ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34542]]></link><description><![CDATA[In general it's a healthy profit taking move for the EM market, and for the domestic markets in Latin America as the stock and currency markets are coming off.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10378]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63130]]></link><description><![CDATA[It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I tried to lean with it to get away from his length, but he still blocked the shot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35771]]></link><description><![CDATA[I tried to lean with it to get away from his length, but he still blocked the shot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I mean, when you've got guys like Ken Griffey Jr. in our stadium, in our locker room, I've got to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35174]]></link><description><![CDATA[I mean, when you've got guys like Ken Griffey Jr. in our stadium, in our locker room, I've got to talk to them. I'm just seizing the opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Whynot me? Why not now?. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21638]]></link><description><![CDATA[For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Whynot me? Why not now?.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53139]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think I always sang, I always used to listen to old Bessie Smith records, and Kate Smith. And Billie ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29919]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think I always sang, I always used to listen to old Bessie Smith records, and Kate Smith. And Billie Holiday. Before television when there was radio.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5685]]></link><description><![CDATA[Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've been fortunate to pick up where we left off last year. Hopefully we can keep working hard and keep ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37360]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've been fortunate to pick up where we left off last year. Hopefully we can keep working hard and keep it going.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Change of weather is the discourse of fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Change of weather is the discourse of fools.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money does all things for reward. Some are pious and honest as long as they thrive upon it, but if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43014]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money does all things for reward. Some are pious and honest as long as they thrive upon it, but if the devil himself gives better wages, they soon change their party.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we're hoping for is to come up with a generalized plan of how people want to see the town ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36879]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we're hoping for is to come up with a generalized plan of how people want to see the town develop.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who foresees calamities, suffers them twice over. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5172]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who foresees calamities, suffers them twice over.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There must be some reason why a man must be convinced, while a woman must be persuaded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27026]]></link><description><![CDATA[There must be some reason why a man must be convinced, while a woman must be persuaded.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26515]]></link><description><![CDATA[The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5030]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Extraordinary how potent cheap music is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43523]]></link><description><![CDATA[Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631  Though natural men, who have induced secondary and figurative consideration, have found ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8181]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631  Though natural men, who have induced secondary and figurative consideration, have found out this... emblematical use of sleep, that it should be a representation of death, God, who wrought and perfected his work, before Nature began, (for Nature was but his Apprentice, to learn in the first seven days, and now is his foreman, and works next under him) God, I say, intended sleep only for the refreshing of man by bodily rest, and not for a figure of death, for he intended not death itself then. But Man having induced death upon himself, God hath taken Man's Creature, death, into his hand, and mended it, and whereas it hath in itself a fearfull form and aspect, so that Man is afraid of his own Creature, God presents it to him, in a familiar, in an assiduous, in an agreeable and acceptable form, in sleep, that so when he awakes from sleep and says to himself, shall I be no otherwise when I am dead, than I was even now, when I was asleep, he may be ashamed of his waking dreams, and of his Melancholique fancying out a horrid and an affrightful figure of that death which is so like sleep. As then we need sleep to live out our threescore and ten years, so we need death, to live that life which we cannot out-live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12713]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For reasons which many persons thought ridiculous, Mrs. Lightfoot Lee decided to pass the winter in Washington. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4623]]></link><description><![CDATA[For reasons which many persons thought ridiculous, Mrs. Lightfoot Lee decided to pass the winter in Washington.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities . . . because it is the quality which guarantees all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10277]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities . . . because it is the quality which guarantees all others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is so unlike theory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59111]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is so unlike theory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54617]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An old man in love is like a flower in winter ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10926]]></link><description><![CDATA[An old man in love is like a flower in winter]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wit consists in seeing the resemblance between things which differ, and the difference between things which are alike ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61805]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wit consists in seeing the resemblance between things which differ, and the difference between things which are alike]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only way to have a friend is to be one. -Ralph Waldo Emerson. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16964]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only way to have a friend is to be one. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60040]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60040</guid></item></channel></rss>