<?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[When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and ahalf. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21109]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and ahalf.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only in your imagination can you revise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53230]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only in your imagination can you revise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22200]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are in the process of building a church. Hopefully this way we can start out doing good works on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42374]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are in the process of building a church. Hopefully this way we can start out doing good works on that land even before the church is built.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had five receivers on the front line and it was a semi-hands team, ... We had one or at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38257]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had five receivers on the front line and it was a semi-hands team, ... We had one or at least two shots at it. We didn't come up with it. The big play came when we had a big fourth down play. We had a stop and the kid (Perry) scrambled and scored, we have been victimized by that all year long. You live and die by it and I'm still proud of our team and hats off to Brandywine, they made the plays when they had to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher-out of virtue and expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46487]]></link><description><![CDATA[O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher-out of virtue and expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men have been without thee? Thou hast produced cities; thou hast called men scattered about into the social enjoyment of life. [Lat., O vitae philosophia dux! O virtutis indagatrix, expultrixque vitiorum! Quid non modo nos, sed omnino vita hominum sine et esse potuisset? Tu urbes peperisti; tu dissipatos homines in societatum vitae convocasti.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Growing up in Brooklyn in the '40s and following the war in the papers and on the radio every day, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Growing up in Brooklyn in the '40s and following the war in the papers and on the radio every day, the world looked very different to us then.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43994]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10118]]></link><description><![CDATA[People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don't sit looking at it- walk.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We knew we had to press up and play good defense. Good defense turns into good offense. We take pride ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29683]]></link><description><![CDATA[We knew we had to press up and play good defense. Good defense turns into good offense. We take pride in playing good defense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All hell shall stir for this. -King Henry V. Act v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55972]]></link><description><![CDATA[All hell shall stir for this. -King Henry V. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2481]]></link><description><![CDATA[People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I fear God, and next to God I chiefly fear him who fears Him not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17714]]></link><description><![CDATA[I fear God, and next to God I chiefly fear him who fears Him not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman has a much better chance than a man of acquittal on a murder charge. If she happens to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43385]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman has a much better chance than a man of acquittal on a murder charge. If she happens to be a blonde her chances rise about 45 percent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65188]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let justice be done, though the heavens fall. [Lat., Fiat justitia, ruat coelum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51849]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let justice be done, though the heavens fall. [Lat., Fiat justitia, ruat coelum.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kareem loved playing for the Bobcats and made returning to the team his top priority. There were some talks with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30933]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kareem loved playing for the Bobcats and made returning to the team his top priority. There were some talks with Denver and New Jersey, however all our real focus was on resigning with the Bobcats.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is the nature of men such, that they can reject miracle, and at the great moments of their life, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60304]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is the nature of men such, that they can reject miracle, and at the great moments of their life, the moments of their deepest, most agonising spiritual difficulties, cling only to the free verdict of the heart? Oh, Thou didst know that Thy deed would be recorded in books, would be handed down to remote times and the utmost ends of the earth, and Thou didst hope that man, following Thee, would cling to God and not ask for a miracle. But Thou didst not know that when man rejects miracle he rejects God too; for man seeks not so much God as the miraculous. And as man cannot bear to be without the miraculous, he will create new miracles of his own for himself, and will worship deeds of sorcery and witchcraft, though he might be a hundred times over a rebel, heretic and infidel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never forget what you need to remember. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never forget what you need to remember.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now, my sere fancy "falls into the yellow Leaf," and imagination droops her pinion;  And the sad truth, which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now, my sere fancy "falls into the yellow Leaf," and imagination droops her pinion;  And the sad truth, which hovers o'er my desk,   Turns what was once romantic to burlesque.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24450]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be forgiven him, indeed, they will be regarded as high qualities, if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16823]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20557]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities. So I believe that dreams - daydreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing-are likely to lead to the betterment of the world. The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to invent, and therefore to foster, civilization.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This was the fullness of time, when Christ Jesus did come, that the Messiah should come. It was so to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8226]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was the fullness of time, when Christ Jesus did come, that the Messiah should come. It was so to the Jews, and it was so to the Gentiles too... Christ hath excommunicated no nation, no shire, no house, no man; He gives none of His ministers leave to say to any man, thou art not redeemed; He gives no wounded or afflicted conscience leave to say to itself, I am not redeemed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The monarch oak, the patriarch of the trees, Shoots rising up, and spreads by slow degrees.  Three centuries he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44715]]></link><description><![CDATA[The monarch oak, the patriarch of the trees, Shoots rising up, and spreads by slow degrees.  Three centuries he grows, and three he stays   Supreme in state; and in three more decays.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66593]]></link><description><![CDATA[The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She governs but she does not reign. [Fr., Elle gouvernait, mais elle ne regnait pas.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54468]]></link><description><![CDATA[She governs but she does not reign. [Fr., Elle gouvernait, mais elle ne regnait pas.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius--and a lot of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17311]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius--and a lot of courage--to move in the opposite direction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need to protect the resources and livelihoods, not just the ones we have today, but in the future, too. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38552]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need to protect the resources and livelihoods, not just the ones we have today, but in the future, too. We have an opportunity to get it right and that's important to the entire nation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're kind of embarrassed when you lose like that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31082]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're kind of embarrassed when you lose like that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In war, resolution; in defeat, defiance; in victory, magnanimity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11791]]></link><description><![CDATA[In war, resolution; in defeat, defiance; in victory, magnanimity]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Last, but by no means least, courage--moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10384]]></link><description><![CDATA[Last, but by no means least, courage--moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle--the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your conscience on the other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would do anything Tim [Burton] wanted me to. You know - have sex with an aardvark... I would do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59269]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would do anything Tim [Burton] wanted me to. You know - have sex with an aardvark... I would do it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, rant, and rave, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17018]]></link><description><![CDATA[My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, rant, and rave, and at the sound of the bell, simmer down and go about business as usual]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything that people say is testable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64326]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything that people say is testable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes men are scared of me. You become a kind of an icon on television, and people are a little ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46057]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes men are scared of me. You become a kind of an icon on television, and people are a little bit unsure, careful. It's funny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's improved my physical strength, and I'm getting a lot better. There's not as much frustration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34767]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's improved my physical strength, and I'm getting a lot better. There's not as much frustration.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52491]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We did as many as we felt we could do in a short period of time and still do it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40116]]></link><description><![CDATA[We did as many as we felt we could do in a short period of time and still do it well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love isn't an emotion or an instinct--it's an art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love isn't an emotion or an instinct--it's an art.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas à Kempis, priest, spiritual writer, 1471   It is no great matter to associate with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas à Kempis, priest, spiritual writer, 1471   It is no great matter to associate with the good and gentle; for this is a naturally pleasing to all, and everyone willingly enjoyeth peace, and loveth those best that agree with him. But to be able to live peaceably with hard and perverse persons, or with the disorderly, or with such as go contrary to us, is a great grace, and a most commendable thing.  ... Thomas à Kempis July 25, 2000 Feast of James the Apostle  When Jesus calls his disciples "brothers" and "friends", he is contradicting general Jewish usage and breaking through into a new concept of brotherhood which is not tribal, but open to any person.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tyranny Absolves all faith; and who invades our rights,  Howe'er his own commence, can never be   But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59958]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tyranny Absolves all faith; and who invades our rights,  Howe'er his own commence, can never be   But an usurper.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've learned that you'll never be disappointed if you always keep an eye on uncharted territory, where you'll be challenged ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40178]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've learned that you'll never be disappointed if you always keep an eye on uncharted territory, where you'll be challenged and growing and having fun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people are always critical of vague statements. I tend rather to be critical of precise statements; they are the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10758]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people are always critical of vague statements. I tend rather to be critical of precise statements; they are the only ones which can correctly be labeled "wrong.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love without attachment is light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22174]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love without attachment is light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59168]]></link><description><![CDATA[Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24270]]></link><description><![CDATA[The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absence, that common cure of love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/168]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absence, that common cure of love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61146]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61146</guid></item></channel></rss>