<?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[Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies but which let wasps and hornets break through. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies but which let wasps and hornets break through.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is an adventure in forgiveness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8425]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is an adventure in forgiveness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We talked for a few more minutes and then the president turned to the vice president and said he'd just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19446]]></link><description><![CDATA[We talked for a few more minutes and then the president turned to the vice president and said he'd just narrowed the candidates to one. And my 31-year naval career flew out the window.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...the fog is rising. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24139]]></link><description><![CDATA[...the fog is rising.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grandeur . . . consists in form, and not in size: and to the eye of the philosopher, the curve ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3026]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grandeur . . . consists in form, and not in size: and to the eye of the philosopher, the curve drawn on a paper two inches long, is just as magnificent, just as symbolic of divine mysteries and melodies, as when embodied in the span of some cathedral roof.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A foole may throw a stone into a well, which a hundred wise men cannot pull out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49020]]></link><description><![CDATA[A foole may throw a stone into a well, which a hundred wise men cannot pull out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Th' newspaper does ivrything f'r us. It runs th' polis foorce an' th' banks, commands th' milishy, controls th'ligislachure, baptizes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27727]]></link><description><![CDATA[Th' newspaper does ivrything f'r us. It runs th' polis foorce an' th' banks, commands th' milishy, controls th'ligislachure, baptizes th' young, marries th' foolish, comforts th' afflicted, afflicts th' comfortable, buries th' dead an' roasts thim aftherward. - "Mr. Dooley's Opinions", 1900.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64249]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got to sing like you don't need the money, love like you'll never get hurt. You've got to dance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24844]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to sing like you don't need the money, love like you'll never get hurt. You've got to dance like no one is watching. It's gotta come from the heart, if you want it to work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25626]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2213]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12544]]></link><description><![CDATA[If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These broad evaluations of Iran as a present and growing threat highlight the truly perilous situation most Americans see outside ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31633]]></link><description><![CDATA[These broad evaluations of Iran as a present and growing threat highlight the truly perilous situation most Americans see outside our boarders. We haven't even finished one war and many already see the potential need for another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Benefits become business events, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32946]]></link><description><![CDATA[Benefits become business events,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56956]]></link><description><![CDATA[Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what's wrong ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27925]]></link><description><![CDATA[Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what's wrong with it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not only do we not know God except through Jesus Christ; We do not even know ourselves except through Jesus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8345]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not only do we not know God except through Jesus Christ; We do not even know ourselves except through Jesus Christ.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8345</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[If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16306]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There has never been a statue erected to the memory of someone who letwell enough alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22667]]></link><description><![CDATA[There has never been a statue erected to the memory of someone who letwell enough alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worry is simply an unhealthy and destructive mentalhabit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22635]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worry is simply an unhealthy and destructive mentalhabit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And that was the way The deuce was to pay  As it always is, at the close of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19572]]></link><description><![CDATA[And that was the way The deuce was to pay  As it always is, at the close of the day   That gave us--    Hurray! Hurray! Hurray!     (With some restrictions, the fault-finders say)      That which, please God, we will keep for aye       Our National Independence!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're not playing with intensity all the time. We can't just have two innings and then lie down; our little ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35401]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're not playing with intensity all the time. We can't just have two innings and then lie down; our little mental errors make the games look bad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Into a mouth shut flies flie not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49556]]></link><description><![CDATA[Into a mouth shut flies flie not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is quite true that the Greek word ekklesia comes from two roots which mean literally "called out." Many preachers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6860]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is quite true that the Greek word ekklesia comes from two roots which mean literally "called out." Many preachers have made use of this fact to point out helpful spiritual implications; and yet, by New Testament times, the word carried no such denotation as "called out." It was simply the word for "assembly" or "congregation." It so happened that in the Greek city-states an assembly of the citizenry resulted from the people being called out of their city and summoned from their farms to participate in such gatherings. Even though the etymology of the word remains, its real meaning is just "assembly," and a Greek-speaking person of New Testament times would be no more inclined to understand ekklesia in its original etymological value of "called out" than we today would recognize "God be with you" in "good-by," which, as we may learn from the dictionary, was derived from the longer phrase.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Passion holds up the bottom of the universe and genius paints up its roof. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Passion holds up the bottom of the universe and genius paints up its roof.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And a breastplate made of daisies, Closely fitting, leaf on leaf,  Periwinkles interlaced   Drawn for belt about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10980]]></link><description><![CDATA[And a breastplate made of daisies, Closely fitting, leaf on leaf,  Periwinkles interlaced   Drawn for belt about the waist;    While the brown bees, humming praises,     Shot their arrows round the chief.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take thou some new infection to thy eye, And the rank poison of the old will die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51465]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take thou some new infection to thy eye, And the rank poison of the old will die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is like jam. You can't spread even a little without getting some on yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is like jam. You can't spread even a little without getting some on yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speak me fair in death. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55608]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speak me fair in death. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you stop having dreams and ideals - well, you might as well stop altogether. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41595]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you stop having dreams and ideals - well, you might as well stop altogether.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Agents are like tires on a car; in order to get anywhere at all, youneed at least four of them, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Agents are like tires on a car; in order to get anywhere at all, youneed at least four of them, and they need to be rotated every 5,000 miles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go away... I'm alright. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24138]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go away... I'm alright.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a wise and a happy purchase]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5649]]></link><description><![CDATA[A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first question was a laundry list explanation of peoples' activities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37743]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first question was a laundry list explanation of peoples' activities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[From our side] our relation to God is unrighteous. Secretly we are ourselves the masters in this relationship. We are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8567]]></link><description><![CDATA[[From our side] our relation to God is unrighteous. Secretly we are ourselves the masters in this relationship. We are not concerned with God, but with our own requirements, to which God must adjust Himself. Our arrogance demands that, in addition to everything else, some super-world should also be known and accessible to us. Our conduct calls for some deeper sanction, some approbation and remuneration from another world. Our well-regulated, pleasurable life longs for some hours of devotion, some prolongation into infinity. And so, when we set God upon the throne of the world, we mean by God ourselves. In "believing" on Him, we justify, enjoy, and adore ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48399]]></link><description><![CDATA[To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One (practitioner of science) is the educated man who still has a controlled sense of wonder before the universal mystery, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43557]]></link><description><![CDATA[One (practitioner of science) is the educated man who still has a controlled sense of wonder before the universal mystery, whether it hides in a snail's eye or within the light that impinges on that delicate organ.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we drink, we get drunk. When we get drunk, we fall asleep. When we fall asleep, we commit no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30733]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we drink, we get drunk. When we get drunk, we fall asleep. When we fall asleep, we commit no sin. When we commit no sin, we go to heaven. Sooooo, let's all get drunk and go to heaven!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We haven't really lost the momentum. We were afraid that might happen with Congress away for two weeks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29357]]></link><description><![CDATA[We haven't really lost the momentum. We were afraid that might happen with Congress away for two weeks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When health, affrighted, spreads her rosy wing, And flies with every changing gale of spring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18915]]></link><description><![CDATA[When health, affrighted, spreads her rosy wing, And flies with every changing gale of spring.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63693]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't see that I'm going to be a much different person? I signed the contract. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41633]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't see that I'm going to be a much different person? I signed the contract.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best kind of friend is the kind you can sit on a porch swing with, never say a word, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16748]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best kind of friend is the kind you can sit on a porch swing with, never say a word, then walk away feeling like it was the best conversation that you ever had.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not mean to be disrespectful, but the attempt of the Lords to stop the progress of reform, reminds ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53205]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not mean to be disrespectful, but the attempt of the Lords to stop the progress of reform, reminds me very forcibly of the great storm of Sidmouth, and of the conduct of the excellent Mrs. Partington on that occasion. In the winter of 1824, there set in a great flood upon that town--the tide rose to an incredible height: the waves rushed in upon the houses, and everything was threatened with destruction. In the midst of this sublime and terrible storm, Dame Partington, who lived upon the beach, was seen at the door of her house with mop and pattens, trundling her mop, squeezing out the sea water, and vigorously pushing away the Atlantic Ocean. The Atlantic was roused. Mrs. Partington's spirit was up; but I need not tell you that the contest was unequal. The Atlantic Ocean beat Mrs. Partington. She was excellent at a slop or a puddle, but she should not have meddled with a tempest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was necessary for us to discover greater powers of destruction than our enemies. We did. But after every war ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61149]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was necessary for us to discover greater powers of destruction than our enemies. We did. But after every war we have followed through with a new rise in our standard of living by the application of war-taught knowledge for the benefit of the world. It will be the same with the atomic bomb principles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always be smarter than the people who hire you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64277]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always be smarter than the people who hire you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For writing, getting off our buts means getting on our butts-putting itinto a chair and not moving from the chair ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21442]]></link><description><![CDATA[For writing, getting off our buts means getting on our butts-putting itinto a chair and not moving from the chair for a set period of time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21442</guid></item></channel></rss>