<?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[Those who ask for love in return are coolies demanding wages. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who ask for love in return are coolies demanding wages.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's helpful that I was an athletic director (at Lutheran before John Ragland took over last year). I know about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37889]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's helpful that I was an athletic director (at Lutheran before John Ragland took over last year). I know about the problems in scheduling, but we try not to make a big deal of it. It's something we don't talk about.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seek joy in what you give not in what you get ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seek joy in what you give not in what you get]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11182]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the other guy have whatever he wants before the fight. Once the bell rings he's gonna be disappointed anyway. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57723]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the other guy have whatever he wants before the fight. Once the bell rings he's gonna be disappointed anyway. Rrelating boxing advice he received from Archie Moore on posturing before a fight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1214]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They all seem to be doing OK. Seventh-graders are seventh-graders and don't know to put their pants on right, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30353]]></link><description><![CDATA[They all seem to be doing OK. Seventh-graders are seventh-graders and don't know to put their pants on right, but we're taking care of that. It's a challenge for all of us to travel to Bowie only so far as we can't just walk out the back door and start working.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A race of altruists is necessarily a race of slaves. A race of free men is necessarily a race of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47161]]></link><description><![CDATA[A race of altruists is necessarily a race of slaves. A race of free men is necessarily a race of egoists.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jesus once declared that God is "good to the ungrateful and the wicked" (St. Luke 6:35), and I remember preaching ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7389]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jesus once declared that God is "good to the ungrateful and the wicked" (St. Luke 6:35), and I remember preaching a sermon on this text to a horrified and even astonished congregation who simply refused to believe (so I gathered afterwards) in this astounding liberality of God. That God should be in a state of constant fury with the wicked seemed to them only right and proper, but that God should be kind towards those who were defying or disobeying His laws seemed to them a monstrous injustice. Yet I was but quoting the Son of God Himself, and I only comment here that the terrifying risks that God takes are part of His Nature. We do not need to explain or modify His unremitting love towards mankind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62999]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The soft blue sky did never melt Into his heart; he never felt  The witching of the soft blue ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56528]]></link><description><![CDATA[The soft blue sky did never melt Into his heart; he never felt  The witching of the soft blue sky!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62724]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We grow because we struggle, we learn and overcome. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18413]]></link><description><![CDATA[We grow because we struggle, we learn and overcome.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thrice happy he, who by some shady grove, Far from the clamorous world; doth live his own;  Though solitary, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57178]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thrice happy he, who by some shady grove, Far from the clamorous world; doth live his own;  Though solitary, who is not alone,   But doth converse with that eternal love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's something in't More than my father's skill, which was the great'st  Of his profession, that his good receipt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26021]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's something in't More than my father's skill, which was the great'st  Of his profession, that his good receipt   Shall for my legacy be sanctified    By th' luckiest stars in heaven; and would your honor     But give me leave to thy success, I'd venture      The well-lost life of mine on his grace's cure       By such a day and hour.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A basic trouble is that most Churches limit themselves unnecessarily by addressing their message almost exclusively to those who are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8031]]></link><description><![CDATA[A basic trouble is that most Churches limit themselves unnecessarily by addressing their message almost exclusively to those who are open to religious impression through the intellect, whereas ... there are at least four other gateways -- the emotions, the imagination, the aesthetic feeling, and the will -- through which they can be reached.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26870]]></link><description><![CDATA[In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would make it awfully difficult to do sewer projects in the future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32160]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would make it awfully difficult to do sewer projects in the future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His cares are now all ended. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act v. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55940]]></link><description><![CDATA[His cares are now all ended. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act v. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sparrows chirped as if they still were proud Their race in Holy Writ should mentioned be.   - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57316]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sparrows chirped as if they still were proud Their race in Holy Writ should mentioned be.   - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He misses playing. He prepared really hard for his senior year. It has been tough on him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32539]]></link><description><![CDATA[He misses playing. He prepared really hard for his senior year. It has been tough on him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8955]]></link><description><![CDATA[Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many other countries in this world are in a difficult situation, and all the Thai people are probably worried about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30153]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many other countries in this world are in a difficult situation, and all the Thai people are probably worried about the fate of Thailand: whether the country would survive or not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reason we did this was to make sure he would be taken care of, no matter what happened to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40833]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reason we did this was to make sure he would be taken care of, no matter what happened to us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The TV shows and magazines both confirm and propel the trend. With the economy improving, and people making more money, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42569]]></link><description><![CDATA[The TV shows and magazines both confirm and propel the trend. With the economy improving, and people making more money, it feels like they're beginning to spend more than they have in the past couple of years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There ought to be system of manners in every nation which a well-formed mind would be disposed to relish. To ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25952]]></link><description><![CDATA[There ought to be system of manners in every nation which a well-formed mind would be disposed to relish. To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66296]]></link><description><![CDATA[The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My ignorance of science is such that if anyone mentioned copper nitrate I should think he was talking about policemen's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46878]]></link><description><![CDATA[My ignorance of science is such that if anyone mentioned copper nitrate I should think he was talking about policemen's overtime.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20596]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not want faith, I want knowledge. I do not want hope, I want truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59865]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not want faith, I want knowledge. I do not want hope, I want truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever wants to be a judge of human nature should study people's excuses ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23585]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever wants to be a judge of human nature should study people's excuses]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever they recommend, he will do. Nobody ordered him to do it. He did it on his own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30018]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever they recommend, he will do. Nobody ordered him to do it. He did it on his own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So from that spring, whence comfort seem'd to come, Discomfort swells. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51376]]></link><description><![CDATA[So from that spring, whence comfort seem'd to come, Discomfort swells.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55133]]></link><description><![CDATA[The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature's great law, and law of all men's minds?-- To its own impulse every creature stirs;  Live by thy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43786]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature's great law, and law of all men's minds?-- To its own impulse every creature stirs;  Live by thy light, and earth will live by hers!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To receive gifts is to lose freedom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17456]]></link><description><![CDATA[To receive gifts is to lose freedom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66020]]></link><description><![CDATA[You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is mastering you. [Lat., Miserum est opus,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61299]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is mastering you. [Lat., Miserum est opus,  Igitur demum fodere puteum, ubi sitis fauces tedet.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52344]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Call me not an olive, till thou see me gathered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49171]]></link><description><![CDATA[Call me not an olive, till thou see me gathered.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope is the poore mans bread. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49496]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is the poore mans bread.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62162]]></link><description><![CDATA[Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is one, but he has innumerable forms. He is the creator of all and He himself takes the human ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63908]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is one, but he has innumerable forms. He is the creator of all and He himself takes the human form.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The contractors that they're trying to hire to do these repairs are the same people that have been displaced or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40756]]></link><description><![CDATA[The contractors that they're trying to hire to do these repairs are the same people that have been displaced or are working on everybody else's stuff.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Evelyn Underhill, Mystical Writer, 1941  Those who complain that they make no progress in the life of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Evelyn Underhill, Mystical Writer, 1941  Those who complain that they make no progress in the life of prayer because they "cannot meditate" should examine, not their capacity for meditation, but their capacity for suffering and love. For there is a hard and costly element, a deep seriousness, a crucial choice, in all genuine religion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First time he kiss'd me, he but only kiss'd The fingers of this hand wherewith I write;  And ever ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23820]]></link><description><![CDATA[First time he kiss'd me, he but only kiss'd The fingers of this hand wherewith I write;  And ever since it grew more clean and white.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes a lot of work from the face to let out a smile, but just think what good smiling ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62883]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes a lot of work from the face to let out a smile, but just think what good smiling can bring to the most important muscle of the body... the heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man is an island- he is a holon. A Janus-faced entity who, looking inward, sees himself as a self-contained ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52030]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man is an island- he is a holon. A Janus-faced entity who, looking inward, sees himself as a self-contained unique whole, looking outward as a dependent part. His self-assertive tendency is the dynamic manifestation of his unique wholeness, his autonomy and independence as a holon. Its equally universal antagonist, the integrative tendency, expresses his dependence on the larger whole to which he belongs: his 'part-ness.'.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What I'll take away the most from today is that you learn from your mistakes. Mistakes and hard lessons make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34666]]></link><description><![CDATA[What I'll take away the most from today is that you learn from your mistakes. Mistakes and hard lessons make you appreciate life more. That's how I think, and I was glad to hear that. I don't regret anything I've done because of that way of thinking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A word once spoken cannot be recalled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50180]]></link><description><![CDATA[A word once spoken cannot be recalled.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50180</guid></item></channel></rss>