<?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[If I know what love is, it is because of you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65732]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I know what love is, it is because of you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun. -Katharine Hepburn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14796]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun. -Katharine Hepburn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5079]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's only words...unless they're true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27898]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's only words...unless they're true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63100]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18905]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This has given us confidence. Next year is going to be great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31057]]></link><description><![CDATA[This has given us confidence. Next year is going to be great.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16788]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I loved every minute of being Val but as I said before there were other acting muscles in my body ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37981]]></link><description><![CDATA[I loved every minute of being Val but as I said before there were other acting muscles in my body that I wanted to use.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guilt is abscent when the act is justified. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18457]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guilt is abscent when the act is justified.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the Lord said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11082]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the Lord said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O joy! that in our embers Is something that doth live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16027]]></link><description><![CDATA[O joy! that in our embers Is something that doth live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Law sutes consume time, and mony, and rest, and friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49590]]></link><description><![CDATA[Law sutes consume time, and mony, and rest, and friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real cause of personal existence is not the favor of the Almighty, but the sexual love of one's earthly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56967]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real cause of personal existence is not the favor of the Almighty, but the sexual love of one's earthly parents.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let me live in my house by the side of the road, Where the race of men go by;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19856]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let me live in my house by the side of the road, Where the race of men go by;  They are good, they are bad; they are weak, they are strong,   Wise, foolish,--so am I;    Then why should I sit in the scorner's seat,     Or hurl the cynic's ban?      Let me live in my house by the side of the road,       And be a friend to man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assertintegrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers,the creatures ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21300]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assertintegrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers,the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13161]]></link><description><![CDATA[For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God: and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat. For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.  But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a game that two can play and both win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a game that two can play and both win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46796]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Study the best and highest things that are; but of yourself humble thoughts retain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1303]]></link><description><![CDATA[Study the best and highest things that are; but of yourself humble thoughts retain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You get what you reward. Be clear about what you want to get and systematically reward it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54164]]></link><description><![CDATA[You get what you reward. Be clear about what you want to get and systematically reward it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most pharmacies are not going to sign up for every one of them. [You should] see which ones they are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38571]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most pharmacies are not going to sign up for every one of them. [You should] see which ones they are working with and take your prescription medication list to your agent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've had bad luck with our kids--they've all grown up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5965]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've had bad luck with our kids--they've all grown up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The men that is now is only all palaver and what they can get out of you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64530]]></link><description><![CDATA[The men that is now is only all palaver and what they can get out of you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us; it creates in us a capacity for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/820]]></link><description><![CDATA[What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us; it creates in us a capacity for the closest possible intimacy with God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is like a hand of cards. You have to play the hand you're dealt, you can't win by folding, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22579]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is like a hand of cards. You have to play the hand you're dealt, you can't win by folding, and sometimes you must take chances in order to win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no substitute for hard work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21249]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no substitute for hard work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are average athletes, then there are above-average athletes. He has started for four years - ever since he was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40591]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are average athletes, then there are above-average athletes. He has started for four years - ever since he was a freshman - and he has taken a beating. But this year, he's giving one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I felt like we had it then. The momentum was definitely in our favor. They were timid at the point. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29063]]></link><description><![CDATA[I felt like we had it then. The momentum was definitely in our favor. They were timid at the point.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of François de Sales, Bishop of Geneva, Teacher, 1622  If I want only pure water, what does it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6939]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of François de Sales, Bishop of Geneva, Teacher, 1622  If I want only pure water, what does it matter to me whether it be brought in a vase of gold or of glass? What is it to me whether the will of God be presented to me in tribulation or consolation, since I desire and seek only the Divine will?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of a rich man who was mean and niggardly, he said, "That man does not possess his estate, but his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47761]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of a rich man who was mean and niggardly, he said, "That man does not possess his estate, but his estate possesses him."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When sleep leaves the body like smoke and man, sated with secrets, drives the overworked nag of quarrel out of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43618]]></link><description><![CDATA[When sleep leaves the body like smoke and man, sated with secrets, drives the overworked nag of quarrel out of its stall, then the fire-breathing union begins anew . . .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54158]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32011]]></link><description><![CDATA[As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. -As You Like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55688]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. -As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If criticism has made such discoveries as to necessitate the abandonment of the doctrine of plenary inspiration, it is not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6470]]></link><description><![CDATA[If criticism has made such discoveries as to necessitate the abandonment of the doctrine of plenary inspiration, it is not enough to say that we are compelled to abandon only a "particular theory of inspiration..." We must go on to say that that "particular theory of inspiration" is the theory of the apostles and of the Lord, and that in abandoning it we are abandoning them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[--They write here one Cornelius--Son Hath made the Hollanders an invisible eel  To swim the haven at Dunkirk, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44002]]></link><description><![CDATA[--They write here one Cornelius--Son Hath made the Hollanders an invisible eel  To swim the haven at Dunkirk, and sink all   The shipping there.    --But how is't done?     --I'll show you, sir.      It is automa, runs under water       With a snug nose, and has a nimble tail        Made like an auger, with which tail she wriggles         Betwixt the costs of a ship and sinks it straight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3353]]></link><description><![CDATA[A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What exile from himself can flee? To zones, though more and more remote,  Still, still pursues, where'er I be, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59203]]></link><description><![CDATA[What exile from himself can flee? To zones, though more and more remote,  Still, still pursues, where'er I be,   The blight of life--the demon Thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chaos is a friend of mine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5603]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chaos is a friend of mine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is forgiven is usually well remembered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53272]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is forgiven is usually well remembered.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be slow to fall into friendship, but when thou art in, continue firm and constant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15617]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be slow to fall into friendship, but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wilfrid, Abbot of Ripon, Bishop of York, Missionary, 709 Commemoration of Elizabeth Fry, Prison Reformer, 1845   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8500]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wilfrid, Abbot of Ripon, Bishop of York, Missionary, 709 Commemoration of Elizabeth Fry, Prison Reformer, 1845   No nation, and few individuals, are really brought into [God's] camp by the historical study of the biography of Jesus, simply as biography. Indeed, materials for a full biography have been withheld from men. The earliest converts were converted by a single historical fact (the Resurrection) and a single theological doctrine (the Redemption) operating on a sense of win which they already had... The "Gospels" came later and were written not to make Christians but to edify Christians already made.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few persons have courage enough to appear as good as they really are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10285]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few persons have courage enough to appear as good as they really are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism and skepticism and humbug and we shall want to live ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10955]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism and skepticism and humbug and we shall want to live more musically]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One good act of vengeance deserves another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44220]]></link><description><![CDATA[One good act of vengeance deserves another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to create than to be learned, creating is the true essence of life ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10558]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to create than to be learned, creating is the true essence of life]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10558</guid></item></channel></rss>