<?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[My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5871]]></link><description><![CDATA[My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, it was like roots, like the motherland. I knew I belonged here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19905]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9817]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But I do hate him as I hate the devil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18856]]></link><description><![CDATA[But I do hate him as I hate the devil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus does the white swan, as he lies on the wet grass, when the Fates summon him, sing at the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus does the white swan, as he lies on the wet grass, when the Fates summon him, sing at the fords of Maeander.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you will, they wont, when you wont, they will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51755]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you will, they wont, when you wont, they will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There may be some comments or text which will offer Fed views on the recent soft economic data and monetary ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41354]]></link><description><![CDATA[There may be some comments or text which will offer Fed views on the recent soft economic data and monetary policy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jesus calls us; o'er the tumult / Of our life's wild, restless sea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31243]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jesus calls us; o'er the tumult / Of our life's wild, restless sea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We tried to get the ball inside early, and Robbie did a great job. Our other guys also did a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41832]]></link><description><![CDATA[We tried to get the ball inside early, and Robbie did a great job. Our other guys also did a great job of getting him the ball in good position.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have this running quandary about Christmas. I get upset about it, because I feel that we American Christians make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7997]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have this running quandary about Christmas. I get upset about it, because I feel that we American Christians make too much of it, and too little. Too little of it, because we pile all sorts of other things onto it, including some that have only the feeblest connection with the Event it is supposed to commemorate. If God did become a man, in any real sense, it is the most important thing that ever happened. Surely we, who believe it, could well devote one day a year to uninterrupted contemplation of the fact, and let Saturnalia fall on the winter solstice, where it belongs.   On the other hand, we make so much of the actual birth, and forget the things that make it more than just the birth of a baby (though even that is, in Walt Whitman's phrase, "miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels") -- more, even, than the birth of the greatest man who ever lived. We forget the promise to Eve of a descendant who will solve the problem of Evil; the promise to Abraham of one by whom all mankind will be blessed; the promise to Moses of a greater prophet than he, to arise from his people; and the promise to David of a Son who would be his Master. We forget about the eternal Purpose behind it all: it's like telling a story and leaving out the point. Yes, it is true that God gave us His Son, and so maybe we ought also to give gifts -- but what, and to whom? It is also true that God gave us Himself, and the only sensible response to that is to give ourselves to Him. There is nothing else that He wants from us, or, if there is something, He can take it. Only I, my ego, my heart, is truly mine to give or to withhold -- and is therefore the appropriate gift to Him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibility for ourselves and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10644]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibility for ourselves and an over-indulgence to our own desires]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not improbable that a man may receive more solid satisfaction from pudding while he is alive than from praise ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51002]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not improbable that a man may receive more solid satisfaction from pudding while he is alive than from praise after he is dead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Horses are predictably unpredictable ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Horses are predictably unpredictable]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only risk of failure is promotion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48406]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only risk of failure is promotion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[America has been discovered before, but it has always been hushed up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14762]]></link><description><![CDATA[America has been discovered before, but it has always been hushed up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I began to use my cricket, the first man I met in the darkness I thought was a German ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10638]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I began to use my cricket, the first man I met in the darkness I thought was a German until he cricketed. We threw our arms around each other, and from that moment I knew we had won the war.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18122]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63707]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was a cowboy, mister, and he loved the land. He loved it so much he made a woman out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11731]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was a cowboy, mister, and he loved the land. He loved it so much he made a woman out of dirt and married her. But when he kissed her, she disintegrated. Later, at the funeral, when the preacher said, "Dust to dust," some people laughed, and the cowboy shot them. At his hanging, he told the others, "I'll be waiting for you in heaven--with a gun.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We couldn't make a basket and we just let it get away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32455]]></link><description><![CDATA[We couldn't make a basket and we just let it get away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the law is quite stupid because nobody follows it. I'll take a full car if I need to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34515]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the law is quite stupid because nobody follows it. I'll take a full car if I need to otherwise I usually just have about one or two people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9822]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These are cancer victims and survivors who are close to me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39933]]></link><description><![CDATA[These are cancer victims and survivors who are close to me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people are always critical of vague statements. I tend rather to be critical of precise statements; they are the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10758]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people are always critical of vague statements. I tend rather to be critical of precise statements; they are the only ones which can correctly be labeled "wrong.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You do not know it but you are the talk of all the town. [Lat., Fabula (nec sentis) tota jactaris ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17887]]></link><description><![CDATA[You do not know it but you are the talk of all the town. [Lat., Fabula (nec sentis) tota jactaris in urba.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The several sorts of religion in the world are little more than so many spiritual monopolies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56968]]></link><description><![CDATA[The several sorts of religion in the world are little more than so many spiritual monopolies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is false zeal to keep truth while wounding charity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62614]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is false zeal to keep truth while wounding charity]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62614</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[Without alienation, there can be no politics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1995]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without alienation, there can be no politics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Edmund of the East Angles, Martyr, 870 Commemoration of Priscilla Lydia Sellon, a Restorer of the Religious Life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6738]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Edmund of the East Angles, Martyr, 870 Commemoration of Priscilla Lydia Sellon, a Restorer of the Religious Life in the Church of England, 1876   We take nothing to the grave with us, but a good or evil conscience... It is true, terrors of conscience cast us down; and yet without terrors of conscience we cannot be raised up again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clearness ornaments profound thoughts. [Fr., La clarte orne les pensees profondes.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58101]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clearness ornaments profound thoughts. [Fr., La clarte orne les pensees profondes.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1755]]></link><description><![CDATA[Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better not to be at all Than not to be noble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better not to be at all Than not to be noble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember that credit is money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10612]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember that credit is money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Ali Ansari, an Iran expert at St. Andrews University in Scotland, said the president would have to make concessions.] I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28947]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Ali Ansari, an Iran expert at St. Andrews University in Scotland, said the president would have to make concessions.] I do not think it is fatal, ... but he is going to have to take some drastic action to realize that politics is the art of compromise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should learn to choose our words carefully, as we can hurt, and mislead others. Words...can't be taken back, once ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63188]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should learn to choose our words carefully, as we can hurt, and mislead others. Words...can't be taken back, once you give them away.Harsh words are like bullets: no matter what, they can still leave a painful injury. And sometimes, a "sorry" is not enough to heal the wounds you leave...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62101]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dream in a pragmatic way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63729]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dream in a pragmatic way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump: you may be freeing him from being a camel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56937]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump: you may be freeing him from being a camel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No fool can be silent at a feast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25541]]></link><description><![CDATA[No fool can be silent at a feast.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We did that to keep people from all over the country from entering, because we have a grand prize -- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33949]]></link><description><![CDATA[We did that to keep people from all over the country from entering, because we have a grand prize -- and a significant one at that. Only people who know about this contest through the radio station or the paper will be able to enter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65665]]></link><description><![CDATA[To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way out is always through. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/532]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way out is always through.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend called me up the other day and talked about investing in a dot-com that sells lobsters. Internet lobsters. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9387]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend called me up the other day and talked about investing in a dot-com that sells lobsters. Internet lobsters. Where will this end? The next day he sent me a huge package of lobsters on ice. How low can you stoop?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To my friends: My work is done. Why wait?. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15213]]></link><description><![CDATA[To my friends: My work is done. Why wait?.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not buy repentance at so heavy a cost as a thousand drachmae. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53815]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not buy repentance at so heavy a cost as a thousand drachmae.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensationand specificity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46792]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensationand specificity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without one friend, above all foes, Britannia gives the world repose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13919]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without one friend, above all foes, Britannia gives the world repose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It will not reduce America's dependence on oil and it will not create a cleaner energy future, ... Instead the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29409]]></link><description><![CDATA[It will not reduce America's dependence on oil and it will not create a cleaner energy future, ... Instead the bill allows big oil companies to pollute water supplies, plunder the Treasury and attack our coastlines.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In heaven, all the interesting people are missing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63608]]></link><description><![CDATA[In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63608</guid></item></channel></rss>