<?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 world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47497]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Durability is part of what makes a great athlete. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Durability is part of what makes a great athlete.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think he's probably done his best work at the bully pulpit. Compare and contrast with his two predecessors, who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32875]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think he's probably done his best work at the bully pulpit. Compare and contrast with his two predecessors, who either didn't like it or weren't capable of using it to its fullest extent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it is hurtful ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56365]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it is hurtful]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's true; this stuff can't be made up, folks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40291]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's true; this stuff can't be made up, folks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The postman always rings twice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47808]]></link><description><![CDATA[The postman always rings twice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5581]]></link><description><![CDATA[We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8022]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - and the less a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59541]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - and the less a man knows, the more sure he is that he knows everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning. I think about it all day and I dream ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3743]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning. I think about it all day and I dream about it at night. The only time I don't think about it is when I'm playing it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where your will is ready, your feete are light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50085]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where your will is ready, your feete are light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All men think all men mortal, but themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20621]]></link><description><![CDATA[All men think all men mortal, but themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ear is something we cannot close at will, and we are the poorer for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25197]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ear is something we cannot close at will, and we are the poorer for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There in no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23632]]></link><description><![CDATA[There in no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When all the blandishments of life are gone, The coward sneaks to death, the brave live on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10496]]></link><description><![CDATA[When all the blandishments of life are gone, The coward sneaks to death, the brave live on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In heaven an angel is nobody in particular. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2519]]></link><description><![CDATA[In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Holy Cross   When scientists are honest, as most of them are, they are well aware ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7428]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Holy Cross   When scientists are honest, as most of them are, they are well aware of the fact that their competence in science does not give them a clue to the problem of how their science should be used in the service of man. The sensitive visitor to the mesas of Los Alamos is almost sure to meditate on the experience of that gifted man, Klaus Fuchs. Though his work in the laboratories was outstanding, his decision concerning the use of what he knew was disastrous. What if, in addition to his scientific competence, the younger Fuchs had shared something of the Christian conviction of his father, Emil Fuchs? Much of the subsequent history of our earth might then have been different.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You miss your pitches some times -- that is part of the game, ... I've missed a lot of pitches ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35253]]></link><description><![CDATA[You miss your pitches some times -- that is part of the game, ... I've missed a lot of pitches this year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There never was in the world two opinions alike, no more that two hairs, or two grains; the most universal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44949]]></link><description><![CDATA[There never was in the world two opinions alike, no more that two hairs, or two grains; the most universal quality is diversity.   - Michael Eyquen de Montaigne,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret... if you have any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64585]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret... if you have any sense, and if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to make a little money, write a book. If you want to make a lot of money, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54885]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to make a little money, write a book. If you want to make a lot of money, create a religion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19799]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of to-day, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A heart unspotted is not easily daunted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51311]]></link><description><![CDATA[A heart unspotted is not easily daunted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[May the dreams of your past be the reality of your future ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17071]]></link><description><![CDATA[May the dreams of your past be the reality of your future]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better to get up late and be wide awake than to get up early and be asleep all day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56646]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better to get up late and be wide awake than to get up early and be asleep all day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on the Bible:  Never was a book so full of incredible sayings -- everywhere the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7529]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on the Bible:  Never was a book so full of incredible sayings -- everywhere the sense of mystery dominates; unless you feel that mystery, all becomes prosaic -- nothing about God is prosaic.   ... The Notebooks of Florence Allshorn  August 26, 2000 Continuing a short series on the Bible:   Have you noticed this? Whatever need or trouble you are in, there is always something to help you in your Bible, if only you go on reading till you come to the word God specially has for you. I have noticed this often. Sometimes the special word is in the portion you would naturally read, or in the Psalm for the day, ... but you must go on till you find it, for it is always somewhere. You will know it the moment you come to it, for it will rest your heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A guy walks up to me and asks 'What's Punk?'. So I kick over a garbage can and say 'That's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52582]]></link><description><![CDATA[A guy walks up to me and asks 'What's Punk?'. So I kick over a garbage can and say 'That's punk!'. So he kicks over a garbage can and says 'That's Punk?', and I say 'No that's trendy!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always accept good fortune with grace and humility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18100]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always accept good fortune with grace and humility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23476]]></link><description><![CDATA[We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To generous souls every task is noble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17266]]></link><description><![CDATA[To generous souls every task is noble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Television is a corporate vulgarity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Television is a corporate vulgarity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fickle and capricious woman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51779]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fickle and capricious woman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10387]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prolifers support warwaging candidateswhose bomber planes become partial birth abortionists. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5967]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prolifers support warwaging candidateswhose bomber planes become partial birth abortionists.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very easy to say everything is outrageous. But if you have an oil company that's setting up its own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33231]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very easy to say everything is outrageous. But if you have an oil company that's setting up its own environmental department, for example, what do you do? Do you spit in its eye, or do you make sure that what they do actually has some substance?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I bought an unction of a mountebank, So mortal that, but dip a knife in it,  Where it draws ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26715]]></link><description><![CDATA[I bought an unction of a mountebank, So mortal that, but dip a knife in it,  Where it draws blood so cataplasm so rare,   Collected from all simples that have virtue    Under the moon, can save the thing from death     That is but scratched withal. I'll touch my point      With this contagion, that, if I gall him slightly,       It may be death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge can be enormously costly, and is often scattered in widely uneven fragments, too small to be individually usable in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52173]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge can be enormously costly, and is often scattered in widely uneven fragments, too small to be individually usable in decision making. The communication and coordination of these scattered fragments of knowledge is one of the basic problems- perhaps the basic problem- of any society.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Christmas bells are swinging above the fields of snow, we hear sweet voices ringing from lands of long ago, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62703]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Christmas bells are swinging above the fields of snow, we hear sweet voices ringing from lands of long ago, and etched on vacant places are half-forgotten faces of friends we used to cherish, and loves we used to know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing I can do is really mow the cover crop quite short so the sun can reach the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35834]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing I can do is really mow the cover crop quite short so the sun can reach the earth and the soil and really warm it quite a bit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59610]]></link><description><![CDATA[And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men can do all things if they will ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men can do all things if they will]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12177]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Iran is striving to take a dominant position in the region, and its nuclear program is the most suitable means ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Iran is striving to take a dominant position in the region, and its nuclear program is the most suitable means of achieving this.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Waiting, are they? Waiting, are they? Well, goddam 'em, let 'em wait!" [Ethan Allen, to his physician who said "General, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34749]]></link><description><![CDATA["Waiting, are they? Waiting, are they? Well, goddam 'em, let 'em wait!" [Ethan Allen, to his physician who said "General, I fear the angels are waiting for you", quoted in Saturday Review, April 5, 1958]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who hesitates is probably right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21438]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who hesitates is probably right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had a neighbor helping take care of the kids, and we just kind of jostled it. I called 24 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40949]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had a neighbor helping take care of the kids, and we just kind of jostled it. I called 24 hours a day to see how everyone was.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21557]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thing generally raised on city land is taxes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58672]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58672</guid></item></channel></rss>