<?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[The crowd gives the leader new strength. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24408]]></link><description><![CDATA[The crowd gives the leader new strength.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46729]]></link><description><![CDATA[That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17948]]></link><description><![CDATA[An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mine was the role of the oilcan in making the machinery clunk around. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3346]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mine was the role of the oilcan in making the machinery clunk around.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are having to live with paying the price for what happened before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44029]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are having to live with paying the price for what happened before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't be afraid if things seem difficult in the beginning. That's only the initial impression. The important thing is not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44182]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't be afraid if things seem difficult in the beginning. That's only the initial impression. The important thing is not to retreat; you have to master yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our job is not to set things right but to see them right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our job is not to set things right but to see them right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My doctrine is not a doctrine but just a vision. I have not given you any set rules, I have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12618]]></link><description><![CDATA[My doctrine is not a doctrine but just a vision. I have not given you any set rules, I have not given you a system.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women made us lose paradise, but how frequently we find it again in their arms ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61912]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women made us lose paradise, but how frequently we find it again in their arms]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24987]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[THE PRESENTATION OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE   It belongs to the very nature of the gospel that the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6334]]></link><description><![CDATA[THE PRESENTATION OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE   It belongs to the very nature of the gospel that the Church is built across cultural, social, and racial barriers. There are siren voices (as well as gut reactions) telling Christians that the way to success in evangelism is to follow the natural divisions, and to try to build churches along cultural, social and racial divisions. In doing so, they ignore the "success" in the New Testament in crossing these lines; more importantly, they are in fact stressing success more highly than the truth of the gospel. To buy success at the price of treating the fundamental nature of the gospel as dispensable is to follow a false gospel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For Catholics before Vatican II, the land of the free was pre-eminently the land of Sister Says-except, of course, for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5302]]></link><description><![CDATA[For Catholics before Vatican II, the land of the free was pre-eminently the land of Sister Says-except, of course, for Sister, for whom it was the land of Father Says.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hell is paved with good intentions, roofed in with lost opportunities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hell is paved with good intentions, roofed in with lost opportunities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a theory which states that if ever for any reason anyone discovers what exactly the Universe is for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4282]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a theory which states that if ever for any reason anyone discovers what exactly the Universe is for and why it is here it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another that states that this has already happened.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4724]]></link><description><![CDATA[Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The emotions aren't always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13724]]></link><description><![CDATA[The emotions aren't always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm going to have to relive it all over again. But I'll do that if it means he will be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29199]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm going to have to relive it all over again. But I'll do that if it means he will be held accountable for what he did.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the self-delusion we manufacture to justify the trouble we take to have sex. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the self-delusion we manufacture to justify the trouble we take to have sex.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wine unlocks the breast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50395]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wine unlocks the breast.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they (the whites of South Africa) have turned ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27636]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they (the whites of South Africa) have turned to loving, they will find we (the blacks) are turned to hating.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the 6 and 11 ever would be offered, my kids are all moving into school age now. My kids ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37800]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the 6 and 11 ever would be offered, my kids are all moving into school age now. My kids would be in school during the day; when would I see them?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63374]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once during Prohibition I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once during Prohibition I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pleasures of the palate deal with us like the Egyptian thieves, who strangle those whom they embrace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17591]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pleasures of the palate deal with us like the Egyptian thieves, who strangle those whom they embrace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can show you 200 or 300 houses that need work done on it, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33958]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can show you 200 or 300 houses that need work done on it,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The swallow follows not summer more willing than we your lordship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55226]]></link><description><![CDATA[The swallow follows not summer more willing than we your lordship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's nice about my dating life is that I don't have to leave my house. All I have to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11105]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's nice about my dating life is that I don't have to leave my house. All I have to do is read the paper: I'm marrying Richard Gere, dating Daniel Day-Lewis, parading around with John F. Kennedy, Jr., and even Robert De Niro was in there for a day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2607]]></link><description><![CDATA[Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains. -Helen Douglas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is subtle but he is not malicious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63282]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is subtle but he is not malicious.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1792]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66340]]></link><description><![CDATA[For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One picture in ten thousand, perhaps, ought to live in the applause of mankind, from generation to generation until the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45420]]></link><description><![CDATA[One picture in ten thousand, perhaps, ought to live in the applause of mankind, from generation to generation until the colors fade and blacken out of sight or the canvas rot entirely away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have to say that I got off very easy. There were incidents. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42274]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have to say that I got off very easy. There were incidents.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He not only understands the defensive concepts we're trying to accomplish, he understands what the offense is thinking, too. So ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34086]]></link><description><![CDATA[He not only understands the defensive concepts we're trying to accomplish, he understands what the offense is thinking, too. So I can position him mentally to take the strains off of our linebackers and the rest of the secondary. I can put all the mental cover-down rules on him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One kiss breaches the distance between friendship and love ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16847]]></link><description><![CDATA[One kiss breaches the distance between friendship and love]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. . ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15061]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. . . . It is in our follies that we are one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Still desiring, we live without hope. [It., Senza speme vivemo in desio.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19781]]></link><description><![CDATA[Still desiring, we live without hope. [It., Senza speme vivemo in desio.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17112]]></link><description><![CDATA[The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Birinus, Bishop of Dorchester (Oxon), Apostle of Wessex, 650  Prayer is the preface to the book of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Birinus, Bishop of Dorchester (Oxon), Apostle of Wessex, 650  Prayer is the preface to the book of Christian living; the test of the new life sermon; the girding on of armor for battle; the pilgrim's preparation for his journey. It must be supplemented by action or it amounts to nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...the mind is conscious, but conscious of nothing - I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11382]]></link><description><![CDATA[...the mind is conscious, but conscious of nothing - I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope For hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: so the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A witch and a bitch always dress up for each other, because otherwise the witch would upstage the bitch, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8892]]></link><description><![CDATA[A witch and a bitch always dress up for each other, because otherwise the witch would upstage the bitch, or the bitch would upstage the witch, and the result would be havoc]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some sense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When yu' can't have what you choose, yu' just choose what you have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6076]]></link><description><![CDATA[When yu' can't have what you choose, yu' just choose what you have.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like feather-bed betwixt a wall And heavy brunt of cannon ball. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3884]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like feather-bed betwixt a wall And heavy brunt of cannon ball.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am afraid the Israeli project aims to make Gaza a Palestinian state... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41317]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am afraid the Israeli project aims to make Gaza a Palestinian state...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would be a remarkable thing for all of us. Right now, we feel like we can accomplish a lot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40550]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would be a remarkable thing for all of us. Right now, we feel like we can accomplish a lot of things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They earned a trip to the tournament. It's a sad deal for them. It's not our favorite way to get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33747]]></link><description><![CDATA[They earned a trip to the tournament. It's a sad deal for them. It's not our favorite way to get there, but if Mohawk can't go then obviously we would.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20163</guid></item></channel></rss>