<?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[Men resort to talking only when they haven't the power to enforce their convictions upon others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47189]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men resort to talking only when they haven't the power to enforce their convictions upon others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning. I think about it all day and I dream ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3743]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning. I think about it all day and I dream about it at night. The only time I don't think about it is when I'm playing it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, Teacher, 373  The Hebrew word, nabi, translated "prophet" in English Bibles, has the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8281]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, Teacher, 373  The Hebrew word, nabi, translated "prophet" in English Bibles, has the connotation of "message bearer". The prophets were men called by God to serve as His messengers to a stubborn and unheeding people. They were always careful to point out that they were not voicing their own wisdom. Their warnings, entreaties, and promises were always prefaced by the awesome proclamation: "Thus says the Lord..." When the prophets did engage in prognostication, they usually were concerned with events which were fairly close at hand, such as the Assyrian conquest of Israel and the Babylonian conquest of Judah (both of which they foretold with deadly accuracy). But occasionally a prophet's vision ranged farther into the future, to the day when God would enter into a new covenant with his rebellious children. The hope of reconciliation was often linked with the coming of a very particular person, a Messiah or Savior.  What made the prophets so sure that they had a right--nay, a duty, to speak in the name of God? It is clear from their writings that they were not megalomaniacs who confused their own thoughts with the voice of God. On the contrary, they were humble men, awe-stricken by the responsibilities thrust upon them... The prophets minced no words in their indictments of the sins of Israel and Judah, and they trod especially hard on the toes of the rich, the powerful, and the pious. The Establishment responded then as some church members are wont to respond now when a preacher speaks out on controversial public issues: "One should not preach of such things!" (Micah 2:6).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...there is no alienation that a little power will not cure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52266]]></link><description><![CDATA[...there is no alienation that a little power will not cure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always let your flattery be seen through for what really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16193]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always let your flattery be seen through for what really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[a lady who couldn't keep her legs together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37954]]></link><description><![CDATA[a lady who couldn't keep her legs together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each person designs his own life, freedom gives him the power to carry out his own designs, and power gives ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each person designs his own life, freedom gives him the power to carry out his own designs, and power gives the freedom to interfere with the designs of others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was young I was sure of everything; in a few years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5461]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was young I was sure of everything; in a few years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I was not half so sure of most things as I was before; at present, I am hardly sure of anything but what God has revealed to me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[After working constantly in the 1980s, Armstrong tried his hand at screenwriting in the 1990s. With writing partner John Doolittle, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32285]]></link><description><![CDATA[[After working constantly in the 1980s, Armstrong tried his hand at screenwriting in the 1990s. With writing partner John Doolittle, he sold several scripts but none ended up on the screen.] It occurred to me after a while -- I didn't understand why I was setting myself up for two careers where I was going to be rejected, ... You can do it all right with one, but come on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I tease her all the time because she'll need to take an afternoon off here and there to sing at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31450]]></link><description><![CDATA[I tease her all the time because she'll need to take an afternoon off here and there to sing at someone's funeral. I told her when I die, she better sing at mine. She's really good - she'll move you to tears.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look wise; say nothing and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look wise; say nothing and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I took the wren's nest;-- Heaven forgive me!  Its merry architects so small   Had scarcely finished their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62380]]></link><description><![CDATA[I took the wren's nest;-- Heaven forgive me!  Its merry architects so small   Had scarcely finished their wee hall,    That empty still, and nest and fair,     Hung idly in the summer air.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This panics the community. It makes people scared. And for no reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37735]]></link><description><![CDATA[This panics the community. It makes people scared. And for no reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3150]]></link><description><![CDATA[The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the first time we've heard about this proposal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38203]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the first time we've heard about this proposal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By all that's good and glorious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48526]]></link><description><![CDATA[By all that's good and glorious.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not an athiest. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19938]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not an athiest. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62821]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To make a commencement requires a mental effort. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51203]]></link><description><![CDATA[To make a commencement requires a mental effort.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58683]]></link><description><![CDATA[Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A tragey means always a man's struggle with that which is stronger than man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24923]]></link><description><![CDATA[A tragey means always a man's struggle with that which is stronger than man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth--in a word, all those bodies which compose the mighty frame of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27500]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth--in a word, all those bodies which compose the mighty frame of the world--have not any subsistence without a mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Osmund, Bishop of Salisbury, 1099  The glory of God is a living man; and the life of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6254]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Osmund, Bishop of Salisbury, 1099  The glory of God is a living man; and the life of man consists in beholding God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Widow and Her Little MaidensA widow who was fond of cleaning had two little maidens to wait on her. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1577]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Widow and Her Little MaidensA widow who was fond of cleaning had two little maidens to wait on her. She was in the habit of waking them early in the morning, at cockcrow. The maidens, aggravated by such excessive labor, resolved to kill the cock who roused their mistress so early. When they had done this, they found that they had only prepared for themselves greater troubles, for their mistress, no longer hearing the hour from the cock, woke them up to their work in the middle of the night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25465]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are praying for them and their family. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40063]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are praying for them and their family.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. Life refuses to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18419]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. Life refuses to be embalmed alive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No pain, no gain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51016]]></link><description><![CDATA[No pain, no gain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anothers bread costs deare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anothers bread costs deare.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59156]]></link><description><![CDATA[I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In deciding which passages he will accept, [the "rational skeptic"] proceeds on the a priori assumption that miracles can't happen. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8272]]></link><description><![CDATA[In deciding which passages he will accept, [the "rational skeptic"] proceeds on the a priori assumption that miracles can't happen. So he automatically writes off any Biblical account of a wondrous happening which suggests that there is an order of reality transcending the observable regularities of nature and occasionally breaking in upon them. Nor is rational skepticism content with jettisoning the Bible's miracle stories. It also dismisses other passages on the grounds that they reflect the ignorance and prejudice of a particular age, or the propaganda interests of the Church at a particular stage of its development. Its basic rule of Biblical interpretation is: "When in doubt, throw it out." And the highest scores in the game of radical reductionism are awarded to pedagogues who find the most novel and far-fetched reasons for doubting that any part of the Bible really means what it says.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But given the initiatives we've committed ourselves to, it's going to be very difficult, even if we get more money ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38475]]></link><description><![CDATA[But given the initiatives we've committed ourselves to, it's going to be very difficult, even if we get more money than the county initially earmarked. The initial signs show we are getting a positive response. We'll see what the upshot is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65195]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The artist, like the idiot, or clown, sits on the edge of the world, and a push may send him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8929]]></link><description><![CDATA[The artist, like the idiot, or clown, sits on the edge of the world, and a push may send him over it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and the one that we take the least care of all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4309]]></link><description><![CDATA[A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and the one that we take the least care of all to acquire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4309</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[Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17414]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adam ate the apple, and our teeth still ache. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56416]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adam ate the apple, and our teeth still ache.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, swiftly glides the bonnie boat. Just parted from the shore,  And to the fisher's chorus-note,   Soft ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4395]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, swiftly glides the bonnie boat. Just parted from the shore,  And to the fisher's chorus-note,   Soft moves the dipping oar!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The series is not reactive, not angry, not a debate; it's reflective and premeditated. We very deliberately haven't opened any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37453]]></link><description><![CDATA[The series is not reactive, not angry, not a debate; it's reflective and premeditated. We very deliberately haven't opened any online discussion boards. So many people today listen in attack mode. We want to enforce listening.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every tear is answered by a blossom, Every sigh with songs and laughter blent,  April-blooms upon the breezes toss ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every tear is answered by a blossom, Every sigh with songs and laughter blent,  April-blooms upon the breezes toss them.   April knows her own, and is content.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Given a big enough why people can bear almost any how. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Given a big enough why people can bear almost any how.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Zionists should prepare ... bags to collect the remains of their soldiers and settlers because we are going to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28314]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Zionists should prepare ... bags to collect the remains of their soldiers and settlers because we are going to hit in the depths of the entity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Canadian is someone who knows how to make love in a canoe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47626]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Canadian is someone who knows how to make love in a canoe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their defense was good. They were on the body on the catch and just made you think about it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38918]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their defense was good. They were on the body on the catch and just made you think about it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But zeal moved thee; To please thy gods thou didst it! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62628]]></link><description><![CDATA[But zeal moved thee; To please thy gods thou didst it!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for mankind ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26323]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for mankind]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God tempers the cold to the shorn sheep. [Fr., Dieu mesure le froid a la brebis tondue.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51924]]></link><description><![CDATA[God tempers the cold to the shorn sheep. [Fr., Dieu mesure le froid a la brebis tondue.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11810]]></link><description><![CDATA[Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need to ask our visitors who our visitors are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33779]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need to ask our visitors who our visitors are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33779</guid></item></channel></rss>