<?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[We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger. [Fr., On ne peut repondre de son ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10290]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger. [Fr., On ne peut repondre de son courage quand on n'a jamais ete dans le peril.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here's that which is too weak to be a sinner: Honest water, which ne'er left man i' th' mire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61301]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here's that which is too weak to be a sinner: Honest water, which ne'er left man i' th' mire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And especially, especially, don't f*ck with vegans. Do not look vegans in the eye. If you get into an argument ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54702]]></link><description><![CDATA[And especially, especially, don't f*ck with vegans. Do not look vegans in the eye. If you get into an argument with a vegan, say "I'm wrong", and run away as fast as you can. Do not f*ck with vegans because they will f*ck you up... BECAUSE THEY'RE HUNGRY.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on. Terrible things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If your every human plan and calculation has miscarried, if, one by one, human props have been knocked out, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7982]]></link><description><![CDATA[If your every human plan and calculation has miscarried, if, one by one, human props have been knocked out, and doors have shut in your face, take heart. God is trying to get a message through to you, and the message is: "Stop depending on inadequate human resources. Let me handle the matter.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63342]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Lord of all being is far more than the Lord of all beings. He is the Lord of all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7071]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Lord of all being is far more than the Lord of all beings. He is the Lord of all actual existence. He is the Lord of all kinds of beings--spiritual being, natural being, physical being. Therefore, when we rightly worship Him we encompass all being.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65193]]></link><description><![CDATA[This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43601]]></link><description><![CDATA[A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Benedict of Nursia, Father of Western Monasticism, c.550  In a Christian community, everything depends upon whether each ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8582]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Benedict of Nursia, Father of Western Monasticism, c.550  In a Christian community, everything depends upon whether each individual is an indispensable link in a chain. Only when even the smallest link is securely interlocked is the chain unbreakable. A community which allows unemployed members to exist within it will perish because of them. It will be well, therefore, if every member receives a definite task to perform for the community, that he may know in hours of doubt that he, too, is not useless and unusable. Every Christian community must realize that not only do the weak need the strong, but also that the strong cannot exist without the weak. The elimination of the weak is the death of the fellowship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thrustelcok made eek hir lay, The wode dove upon the spray  She sang ful loude and cleere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12802]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thrustelcok made eek hir lay, The wode dove upon the spray  She sang ful loude and cleere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is only a human invention. I get paid for my work, it's a system of trade, but it's not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62174]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is only a human invention. I get paid for my work, it's a system of trade, but it's not my purpose and reason for living.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nursing her wrath to keep it warm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2534]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nursing her wrath to keep it warm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56230]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glamour is what makes a man ask for your telephone number. But it also is what makes a woman ask ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17513]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glamour is what makes a man ask for your telephone number. But it also is what makes a woman ask for the name of your dressmaker.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The war for liberty never ends. One day liberty has to be defended against the power of wealth, on another ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47414]]></link><description><![CDATA[The war for liberty never ends. One day liberty has to be defended against the power of wealth, on another day against the intrigues of politicians, on another against the dead hand of bureaucrats, on another against the patrioter and the militarist, on another against the profiteer, and then against the hysteria and the passions of the mobs, against obscurantism and stupidity, against the criminal and against the overrighteous. In this campaign every civilized man is enlisted till he dies, and he only has known the full joy of living who somewhere and at some time has struck a decisive blow for the freedom of the human spirit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter andgive up. They happen to break you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21811]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter andgive up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be allthat you were intended to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's every possibility that this is a murder we are dealing with, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32062]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's every possibility that this is a murder we are dealing with,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our mission ... is to help people better understand and value their freedoms so they can protect and defend them. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our mission ... is to help people better understand and value their freedoms so they can protect and defend them. As citizens of a democratic society, we can't take our freedoms for granted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3332]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He might have proved a useful adjunct, if not an ornament to society. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56773]]></link><description><![CDATA[He might have proved a useful adjunct, if not an ornament to society.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24566]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Mill gets by going. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49894]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Mill gets by going.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[However, he has at the level of resistance that we need. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41162]]></link><description><![CDATA[However, he has at the level of resistance that we need.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A child kicks its legs rhythmically through excess, not absence, of life. Because children have abounding vitality, because they are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7639]]></link><description><![CDATA[A child kicks its legs rhythmically through excess, not absence, of life. Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, "Do it again"; and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead. For grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony. But perhaps God is strong enough... It is possible that God says every morning, "Do it again," to the sun; and every evening, "Do it again," to the moon. It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike: it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never got tired of making them. It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22137]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You do have to be fairly selfish when you have a gift. You cannot afford to let too many outside ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3319]]></link><description><![CDATA[You do have to be fairly selfish when you have a gift. You cannot afford to let too many outside things get in the way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fate steals along with silent tread, Found oftenest in what least we dread;  Frowns in the storm with angry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15387]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fate steals along with silent tread, Found oftenest in what least we dread;  Frowns in the storm with angry brow,   But in the sunshine strikes the blow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a fool does in the end, the wise do in the beginning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16389]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a fool does in the end, the wise do in the beginning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, it's a good bird. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, it's a good bird.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll go out and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65310]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26092]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best-concerted schemes men lay for fame, Die fast away: only themselves die faster.  The far-fam'd sculptor, and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15092]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best-concerted schemes men lay for fame, Die fast away: only themselves die faster.  The far-fam'd sculptor, and the laurell'd bard,   Those bold insurancers of deathless fame,    Supply their little feeble aids in vain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Agreements which, I hope, will be followed by other treaties that will give increasing force to cooperation. It is now ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28246]]></link><description><![CDATA[Agreements which, I hope, will be followed by other treaties that will give increasing force to cooperation. It is now up to our diplomats to work for them to be implemented.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without realizing what was happening, most of us gradually came to take for granted the premises underlying the philosophy of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without realizing what was happening, most of us gradually came to take for granted the premises underlying the philosophy of optimism. We proceeded to live these propositions, though we would not have stated them as blandly as I set them forth here:   Man is inherently good.  Individual man can carve out his own salvation with the help of education and society through progressively better government.  Reality and values worth searching for lie in the material world that science is steadily teaching us to analyze, catalogue, and measure. While we do not deny the existence of inner values, we relegate them to second place.  The purpose of life is happiness, [which] we define in terms of enjoyable activity, friends, and the accumulation of material objects.  The pain and evil of life -- such as ignorance, poverty, selfishness, hatred, greed, lust for power -- are caused by factors in the external world; therefore, the cure lies in the reforming of human institutions and the bettering of environmental conditions.  As science and technology remove poverty and lift from us the burden of physical existence, we shall automatically become finer persons, seeing for ourselves the value of living the Golden Rule.  In time, the rest of the world will appreciate the demonstration that the American way of life is best. They will then seek for themselves the good life of freedom and prosperity. This will be the greatest impetus toward an end of global conflict.  The way to get along with people is to beware of religious dictums and dogma. The ideal is to be a nice person and to live by the Creed of Tolerance. Thus we offend few people. We live and let live. This is the American Way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58347]]></link><description><![CDATA[The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jove, thou regent of the skies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jove, thou regent of the skies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All I demand for the black man is, that the white people shall take their heels off his neck, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52892]]></link><description><![CDATA[All I demand for the black man is, that the white people shall take their heels off his neck, and let him have a chance to rise by his own efforts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like ships that have gone down at sea, When heaven was all tranquillity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56182]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like ships that have gone down at sea, When heaven was all tranquillity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're a Thanksgiving dinner, but you don't like the stuffing or the cranberry sauce or anything else, just pretend ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11690]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're a Thanksgiving dinner, but you don't like the stuffing or the cranberry sauce or anything else, just pretend like you're eating it, but instead, put it all in your lap and form it into a big mushy ball. Then, later, when you're out back having cigars with the boys, let out a big fake cough and throw the ball to the ground. Then say, "Boy, these are good cigars!".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The biblical account of Noah's Ark and the Flood is perhaps the most implausible story for fundamentalists to defend. Where, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53527]]></link><description><![CDATA[The biblical account of Noah's Ark and the Flood is perhaps the most implausible story for fundamentalists to defend. Where, for example, while loading his ark, did Noah find penguins and polar bears in Palestine?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Union Carbide desecratedIndia withkiller insecticidesbrought to BhopalThey violated HinduismAll bugs are sacredto Ahimsa's Gopal***(the biggest industrial accident of all time.. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Union Carbide desecratedIndia withkiller insecticidesbrought to BhopalThey violated HinduismAll bugs are sacredto Ahimsa's Gopal***(the biggest industrial accident of all time.. involved several thousand deaths..as killer insecticide gas killed humans.. )Ahimsa nonviolenceGopal.. name for Krishna as protector of cows and all beings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but The truth in masquerade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26114]]></link><description><![CDATA[And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but The truth in masquerade.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Understand that most problems are a good sign. Problems indicate thatprogress is being made, wheels are turning, you are moving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Understand that most problems are a good sign. Problems indicate thatprogress is being made, wheels are turning, you are moving toward yourgoals. Beware when you have no problems. Then you've really got a problem. . . Problems are like landmarks of progress.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14707]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To sit in judgmentof those things which you perceive to be wrong orimperfect is to be one more person who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21516]]></link><description><![CDATA[To sit in judgmentof those things which you perceive to be wrong orimperfect is to be one more person who is part of judgment, evil orimperfection.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble is not that players have sex the night before a game. It's that they stay out all night ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57685]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble is not that players have sex the night before a game. It's that they stay out all night looking for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seven principles for eradicating selfish ambition in the fellowship: 2. the ministry of meekness   He who would learn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8606]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seven principles for eradicating selfish ambition in the fellowship: 2. the ministry of meekness   He who would learn to serve must first learn to think little of himself... Only he who lives by the forgiveness of his sin in Jesus Christ will rightly think little of himself. He will know that his own wisdom reached the end of its tether when Jesus forgave him. He will know that it is good for his own will to be broken in the encounter with his neighbor...   But not only my neighbor's will, but also his honor is more important than mine. The desire for one's own honor hinders faith. One who seeks his own honor is no longer seeking God and his neighbor. What does it matter if I suffer injustice? Would I not have deserved even worse punishment from God, if He had not dealt with me according to His mercy?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26580]]></link><description><![CDATA[My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's like my father always said to me, he said to me, he said, Roseanna Roseanadana, it's always something. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5291]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's like my father always said to me, he said to me, he said, Roseanna Roseanadana, it's always something. If it isn't one thing--it's another! It's always something.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5291</guid></item></channel></rss>