<?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[Christianity is a battle, not a dream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7384]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christianity is a battle, not a dream.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History would be wonderful thing - if it were only true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19349]]></link><description><![CDATA[History would be wonderful thing - if it were only true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The love of money and the love of learning rarely meet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49888]]></link><description><![CDATA[The love of money and the love of learning rarely meet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I say to the moment: 'Stay now! You are so beautiful'! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28032]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I say to the moment: 'Stay now! You are so beautiful'!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolutions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolutions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23791]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from reproach.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do it, dump it, or change it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21937]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do it, dump it, or change it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/899]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What does not destroy me, makes me strong. [Or, What doesn't kill youmakes you stronger.]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21074]]></link><description><![CDATA[What does not destroy me, makes me strong. [Or, What doesn't kill youmakes you stronger.].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60745]]></link><description><![CDATA[The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think homosexuality is a choice. Society forces you to think it's a choice, but in fact, it's in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19652]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think homosexuality is a choice. Society forces you to think it's a choice, but in fact, it's in one's nature. The choice is whether one expresses one's nature truthfully or spends the rest of one's life lying about it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think of your own faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and the faults of others ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think of your own faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Habit with him was all the test of truth; "It must be right: I've done it from my youth." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18519]]></link><description><![CDATA[Habit with him was all the test of truth; "It must be right: I've done it from my youth."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So much of this world is based on illusion, temporariness, and disposability that I think it's essential that our closest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35782]]></link><description><![CDATA[So much of this world is based on illusion, temporariness, and disposability that I think it's essential that our closest relationships reflect what is real.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to go into history; I want to go into the Canal Zone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45435]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to go into history; I want to go into the Canal Zone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3867]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20505]]></link><description><![CDATA[My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which, if it were available in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12826]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which, if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is generally said, "Past labors are pleasant," Euripides says, for you all know the Greek verse, "The recollection of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23927]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is generally said, "Past labors are pleasant," Euripides says, for you all know the Greek verse, "The recollection of past labors is pleasant." [Lat., Vulgo enim dicitur, Jucundi acti labores: nec male Euripides: concludam, si potero, Latine: Graecum enim hunc versum nostis omnes: Suavis laborum est proeteritorum memoria.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She relied hardly at all on spontaneous foot traffic coming through the door. She has cultivated corporate and Internet clients. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38601]]></link><description><![CDATA[She relied hardly at all on spontaneous foot traffic coming through the door. She has cultivated corporate and Internet clients. It's more an evolution of the company and not (about) the community.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leisure is a form of silence, not noiselessness. It is the silence of contemplation such as occurs when we let ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24599]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leisure is a form of silence, not noiselessness. It is the silence of contemplation such as occurs when we let our minds rest on a rosebud, a child at play, a Divine mystery, or a waterfall.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dead scandals form good subjects for dissection. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dead scandals form good subjects for dissection.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no more sure tie between friends than when they are united in their objects and wishes. [Lat., Neque ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60132]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no more sure tie between friends than when they are united in their objects and wishes. [Lat., Neque est ullum certius amicitiae vinculum, quam consensus et societas consiliorum et voluntatum.,]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just see it as another guy trying to get what I'm trying to get, a win for our team. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36969]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just see it as another guy trying to get what I'm trying to get, a win for our team. I treat it like a battlefield.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person is either the effect of his environment or is able to have an effect upon his environment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13602]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person is either the effect of his environment or is able to have an effect upon his environment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now this is the ground and original of the Spirit of Love in the creature, it is and must be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now this is the ground and original of the Spirit of Love in the creature, it is and must be a will to all goodness; and you have not the Spirit of Love in you till you have this will to all goodness at all times and on all occasions. You may indeed do many works of love and delight in them -- especially at such times as they are not inconvenient to your state or temper or occurrences in life. But the Spirit of Love is not in you till it is the spirit of your life, till you live freely, willingly, and universally according to it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As in a theatre, the eyes of men, After a well-graced actor leaves the stage, Are idly bent on him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55829]]></link><description><![CDATA[As in a theatre, the eyes of men, After a well-graced actor leaves the stage, Are idly bent on him that enters next, Thinking his prattle to be tedious. -King Richard II. Act v. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have not the love of greatness, but the love of the love of greatness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18247]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have not the love of greatness, but the love of the love of greatness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14963]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men say I am a saint losing himself in politics. The fact is that I am a politician trying my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men say I am a saint losing himself in politics. The fact is that I am a politician trying my hardest to become a saint.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you practice an art, be proud of it and make it proud of you It may break your heart, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42313]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you practice an art, be proud of it and make it proud of you It may break your heart, but it will fill your heart before it breaks it; it will make you a person in your own right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wish I could say that I am better this week than I was last week, but every day seems ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40064]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wish I could say that I am better this week than I was last week, but every day seems to be getting a little bit more difficult. A little more challenging.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Impatience is the mark of independence not of bondage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20636]]></link><description><![CDATA[Impatience is the mark of independence not of bondage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience is the remedy for every misfortune. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51629]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience is the remedy for every misfortune.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45698]]></link><description><![CDATA[I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are firm believers in the maxim that, for all right judgment of any man or thing, it is useful, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5646]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are firm believers in the maxim that, for all right judgment of any man or thing, it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sonny was a no-frills kind of guy. He shot straight from the shoulder. You knew exactly where you stood with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sonny was a no-frills kind of guy. He shot straight from the shoulder. You knew exactly where you stood with him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8831]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, what I tried to do is simply to get out on the land. And when I came to Washington, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64685]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, what I tried to do is simply to get out on the land. And when I came to Washington, I think one of the mistakes we made early on was kind of having an ideological dispute up in the Congress.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56431]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What do we live for if it is not to make life less difficult to each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23779]]></link><description><![CDATA[What do we live for if it is not to make life less difficult to each other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is well paid is well satisfied. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9999]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is well paid is well satisfied.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The shameful apostasy of Israel is unparalleled among the heathen nations of the world, God charges (Jer. 2:9-13). Search through ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8227]]></link><description><![CDATA[The shameful apostasy of Israel is unparalleled among the heathen nations of the world, God charges (Jer. 2:9-13). Search through every pagan nation, inquire in every idol temple, investigate the religious life of the idolaters of the world, and there will be found a fidelity to these false gods that will put Israel's unfaithfulness to her God to shame. Israel's conduct was unheard of even among the heathen. The idolatrous nations remained true to their gods, in spite of the fact that they did not actually exist and could not help them in any way. God, as it were, marvels at Israel's unbelief.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's about love and loss, it struck me as a meaningful and compelling story, and the shifts in reality offered ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42431]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's about love and loss, it struck me as a meaningful and compelling story, and the shifts in reality offered up strong visual possibilities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad monetary and fiscal policy, often designed by the IMF, is the real cause of global problems. The only explanation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47300]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bad monetary and fiscal policy, often designed by the IMF, is the real cause of global problems. The only explanation for why government leaders continue to follow these policies is that by blaming markets, they avoid blaming themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the end, everything is a gag. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20059]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the end, everything is a gag.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1282]]></link><description><![CDATA[Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We participate in tragedy. At comedy we only look. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59537]]></link><description><![CDATA[We participate in tragedy. At comedy we only look.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27691]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lo! darkness bends down like a mother of grief On the limitless plain, and the fall of her hair  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11086]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lo! darkness bends down like a mother of grief On the limitless plain, and the fall of her hair  It has mantled a world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11086</guid></item></channel></rss>