<?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[I thought girls would be impressed because I had read a big dictionary. I guess I thought it would get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16238]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought girls would be impressed because I had read a big dictionary. I guess I thought it would get their attention when I told them I was sesquipedalian. One look down at my feet usually dispelled the deception though.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Martin, Monk, Bishop of Tours, 397  When no tensions are confronted and overcome, because insiders or outsiders ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6594]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Martin, Monk, Bishop of Tours, 397  When no tensions are confronted and overcome, because insiders or outsiders of a certain class or group meet happily among themselves, then the one new thing, peace, and the one new man created by Christ, are missing; then no faith, no church, no Christ, is found or confessed. For if the attribute "Christian" can be given sense from Eph. 2, then it means reconciled and reconciling, triumphant over walls and removing the debris, showing solidarity with the "enemy" and promoting not one's own peace of mind but "our peace"... When this peace is deprived of its social, national, or economic dimensions, when it is distorted or emasculated so much that only "peace of mind" enjoyed by saintly individuals is left -- then Jesus Christ is being flatly denied. To propose, in the name of Christianity, neutrality or unconcern on questions of international, racial, or economic peace -- this amounts to using Christ's name in vain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Paulinus, Bishop of York, Missionary, 644  In conversion you are not attached primarily to an order, nor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8108]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Paulinus, Bishop of York, Missionary, 644  In conversion you are not attached primarily to an order, nor to an institution, nor a movement, nor a set of beliefs, nor a code of action -- you are attached primarily to a Person, and secondarily to these other things... You are not called to get to heaven, to do good, or to be good -- you are called to belong to Jesus Christ. The doing good, the being good, and the getting to heaven, are the by-products of that belonging. The center of conversion is the belonging of a person to a Person.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17636]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mediocrity is climbing molehills without sweating ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mediocrity is climbing molehills without sweating]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21166]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marxism has not only failed to promote human freedom, it has failed to produce food ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marxism has not only failed to promote human freedom, it has failed to produce food]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They've removed anything you can tie a rope to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41524]]></link><description><![CDATA[They've removed anything you can tie a rope to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The city is huge. Humongous buildings. I was really surprised. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29480]]></link><description><![CDATA[The city is huge. Humongous buildings. I was really surprised.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not free, it was not intended we should be. A book of rules is placed in our cradle, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16715]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not free, it was not intended we should be. A book of rules is placed in our cradle, and we never get rid of it until we reach our graves. Then we are free, and only then.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14184]]></link><description><![CDATA[An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock  The meat it feeds on. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23168]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock  The meat it feeds on. That cuckold lives in bliss   Who, certain of his fate, loves not his wronger;    But O, what damned minutes tells he o'er     Who dotes, yet doubts--suspects, yet strongly loves!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything in the world may be endured, except only a succession of prosperous days. [Ger., Alles in der Welt lasst ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything in the world may be endured, except only a succession of prosperous days. [Ger., Alles in der Welt lasst sich ertragen,  Nur nicht eine Reihe von schonen Tagen.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great aim of education is not knowledge, but action ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13364]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great aim of education is not knowledge, but action]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/847]]></link><description><![CDATA[The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54359]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a man's last romance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one tells the truth, one is sure sooner or later to be found out ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59790]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one tells the truth, one is sure sooner or later to be found out]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not clean. It's not simple, but if you read the questions carefully it's not that difficult. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36742]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not clean. It's not simple, but if you read the questions carefully it's not that difficult.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has gone to the demnition bow-wows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15388]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has gone to the demnition bow-wows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More than we use is more than we want. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11978]]></link><description><![CDATA[More than we use is more than we want.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make no judgments where you have no compassion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53369]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make no judgments where you have no compassion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It needs not nor it boots thee not, proud queen, Unless the adage must be verified,  That beggars mounted ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3933]]></link><description><![CDATA[It needs not nor it boots thee not, proud queen, Unless the adage must be verified,  That beggars mounted run their horse to death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We call it 'invasion' because it's not just a concert, it's something that goes on all day for everyone that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38218]]></link><description><![CDATA[We call it 'invasion' because it's not just a concert, it's something that goes on all day for everyone that goes. Stop by when you can, get some free swag, and get excited about the concert, hopefully.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A prudent man does not make the goat his gardener. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17189]]></link><description><![CDATA[A prudent man does not make the goat his gardener.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/519]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two things over which you have complete dominion, authority and control ð your mind and your mouth ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3482]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two things over which you have complete dominion, authority and control ð your mind and your mouth]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood—the virtues that made America. The things that will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2378]]></link><description><![CDATA[Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood—the virtues that made America. The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we don't change our direction we're likely to end up where we're headed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14113]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we don't change our direction we're likely to end up where we're headed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To measure the man, measure his heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46314]]></link><description><![CDATA[To measure the man, measure his heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the genuine religious impulse becomes dominant, adoration more and more takes charge. "I come to seek God because I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7457]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the genuine religious impulse becomes dominant, adoration more and more takes charge. "I come to seek God because I need Him", may be an adequate formula for prayer. "I come to adore His splendour, and fling myself and all that I have at His feet", is the only possible formula for worship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are an alchemist; make gold of that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1983]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are an alchemist; make gold of that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything that used to be a sin is now a disease. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12475]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything that used to be a sin is now a disease.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26200]]></link><description><![CDATA[I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy - for friendship's sake. -William Blake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16912]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy - for friendship's sake. -William Blake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life, to me, is like a quiet forest pool, one that needs a direct hit from a big rock half-buried ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life, to me, is like a quiet forest pool, one that needs a direct hit from a big rock half-buried in the ground. You pull and you pull, but you can't get the rock out of the ground. So you give it a good kick, but you lose your balance and go skidding down the hill toward the pool. Then out comes a big Hawaiian man who was screwing his wife beside the pool because they thought it was real pretty. He tells you to get out of there, but you start faking it, like you're talking Hawaiian, and then he gets mad and chases you...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And oftentimes excusing of a fault Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse. -King John. Act iv. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55796]]></link><description><![CDATA[And oftentimes excusing of a fault Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse. -King John. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though you rise early, yet the day comes at his time, and not till then. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49978]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though you rise early, yet the day comes at his time, and not till then.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62041]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I knew I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself. -Mickey Mantle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24945]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I knew I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself. -Mickey Mantle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suggestions or comments on this site? Send an email -Frank Zappa. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suggestions or comments on this site? Send an email -Frank Zappa.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking -- and since it cannot, in order ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4681]]></link><description><![CDATA[To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking -- and since it cannot, in order to become its echo I have, in a way, to silence it. I bring to this incessant speech the decisiveness, the authority of my own silence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't judge a man by his opinions, but by what his opinions have made him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44960]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't judge a man by his opinions, but by what his opinions have made him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you set out on your journey to Ithaca, pray that the road is long,full of adventure, full of knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23103]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you set out on your journey to Ithaca, pray that the road is long,full of adventure, full of knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fame is a bee. / It has a song / It has a sting / Ah, too, it has a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fame is a bee. / It has a song / It has a sting / Ah, too, it has a wing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59058]]></link><description><![CDATA[I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reason itself is fallible, and this fallibility must find a place in our logic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64955]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reason itself is fallible, and this fallibility must find a place in our logic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth,  And constancy lives in realms above; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth,  And constancy lives in realms above;   And life is thorny, and youth is vain;    And to be wrothe with one we love     Doth work like madness in the brain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44283]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44283</guid></item></channel></rss>