<?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[Yet half the beast is the great god Pan, To laugh, as he sits by the river,  Making a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43439]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet half the beast is the great god Pan, To laugh, as he sits by the river,  Making a poet out of a man.   The true gods sigh for the cost and the pain--    For the reed that grows never more again     As a reed with the reeds of the river.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59826]]></link><description><![CDATA[The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While we are under the tyranny of Priests [...] it will ever be their interest, to invalidate the law of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34751]]></link><description><![CDATA[While we are under the tyranny of Priests [...] it will ever be their interest, to invalidate the law of nature and reason, in order to establish systems incompatible therewith.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64643]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man or woman has achieved an effective personality who is not self-disciplined. Such discipline must not be an end ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1249]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man or woman has achieved an effective personality who is not self-disciplined. Such discipline must not be an end in itself, but must be directed to the development of resolute Christian character.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53059]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Rose of Lima, Contemplative, 1617  We have been adopted as sons by the Lord with this one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7650]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Rose of Lima, Contemplative, 1617  We have been adopted as sons by the Lord with this one condition: that our life express Christ, the bond of our adoption. Accordingly, unless we give and devote ourselves to righteousness, we not only revolt from our Creator with wicked perfidy, but we also abjure our Savior Himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7650</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, I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34744]]></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/34744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11269]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're going to individualize every single program for every guy in the system. That'll be the big positive. And of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38904]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're going to individualize every single program for every guy in the system. That'll be the big positive. And of course, the take-a-strike, we've modified that, that's no longer going to exist. Pitch counts will exist, but it's not one blanket program. If it needs to exist for a certain individual, it will. If it doesn't for another, it won't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Jack Winslow, Missionary, Evangelist, 1974  What will move you? Will pity? Here is distress never the like. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Jack Winslow, Missionary, Evangelist, 1974  What will move you? Will pity? Here is distress never the like. Will duty? Here is a person never the like. Will fear? Here is wrath never the like. Will remorse? Here are sins never the like. Will kindness? Here is love never the like. Will bounty? Here are benefits never the like. Will all these? Here they be all, all in the highest degree.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eric was in control the entire match. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36473]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eric was in control the entire match.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What the devil was he doing in this galley? [Fr., Que diable alloit-il faire dans cette galere?] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58408]]></link><description><![CDATA[What the devil was he doing in this galley? [Fr., Que diable alloit-il faire dans cette galere?]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Holidays - Have no pity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26203]]></link><description><![CDATA[Holidays - Have no pity]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With the things that create blight, there's a common thread that runs through all of them. If we were to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30197]]></link><description><![CDATA[With the things that create blight, there's a common thread that runs through all of them. If we were to pull that string tight at one time through all of them, we'd make a lot of headway.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Engrave this Quote 	He dreamed he was eating shredded wheat and woke up to find the mattress half gone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65540]]></link><description><![CDATA[Engrave this Quote 	He dreamed he was eating shredded wheat and woke up to find the mattress half gone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a good idea to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54118]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a good idea to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presence may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I got off stage and this guy walked up to me. He's like this ball of energy. His name was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37315]]></link><description><![CDATA[I got off stage and this guy walked up to me. He's like this ball of energy. His name was Lawrence Mathis, a manager. He said. 'I like what you're doing, and I'd like to talk to you. What are your plans? What are you doing?' I said, 'You caught me at a bad time, because I'm probably moving home in a couple of months.' But I met with him that next Monday and told him what was going on. He said, 'Give me a year to work with you.' I said, 'l don't have a year. I've got six months, at best.' He said, 'All right. Six months.' Five weeks later we got offered a deal from Broken Bow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm up to my neck in the real world, every day. Just you try doing your VAT return with a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20529]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm up to my neck in the real world, every day. Just you try doing your VAT return with a head full of goblins.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maxims are like lawyers who must need to see but one side of the case. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26602]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maxims are like lawyers who must need to see but one side of the case.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They can't give endorsements, but they can at least lead you to three or four people in your geographic area ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35351]]></link><description><![CDATA[They can't give endorsements, but they can at least lead you to three or four people in your geographic area that you can meet with.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every cock fights best on his own dunghill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51141]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every cock fights best on his own dunghill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Add a sprinkling of folly to your long deliberations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50181]]></link><description><![CDATA[Add a sprinkling of folly to your long deliberations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the still small voice that the soul heeds; not the deafening blasts of doom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60940]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the still small voice that the soul heeds; not the deafening blasts of doom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I quote others only in order the better to express myself. •Michel De Montaigne    Certain brief sentences ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52879]]></link><description><![CDATA[I quote others only in order the better to express myself. •Michel De Montaigne    Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said. •Jean Rostand    I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truth is, President Bush provides the right rhetoric, but then pursues all the wrong policies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17385]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truth is, President Bush provides the right rhetoric, but then pursues all the wrong policies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's one of the few jobs in which you sign a contract to risk your life on your job. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35043]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's one of the few jobs in which you sign a contract to risk your life on your job.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I had to decide right now, it would be between Kansas, Indiana and Baylor. I am not ready to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32711]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I had to decide right now, it would be between Kansas, Indiana and Baylor. I am not ready to make a decision now. I just want to finish out the season, and then I will be ready to make a decision.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He always wants to come with me. He insists, and he cries if I can't take him. He's afraid that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41275]]></link><description><![CDATA[He always wants to come with me. He insists, and he cries if I can't take him. He's afraid that if I go, I won't ever come back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Taft's encouragement of McKenna's resignation illustrates how effective procedural pressure exerted by a chief justice can be. With the concurrence ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33223]]></link><description><![CDATA[Taft's encouragement of McKenna's resignation illustrates how effective procedural pressure exerted by a chief justice can be. With the concurrence of his colleagues, Taft was able to steer important opinions away from McKenna until he was able to persuade him to leave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told;  Many a man his life hath sold; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61425]]></link><description><![CDATA[All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told;  Many a man his life hath sold;   But my outside to behold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the silhouette of the kimono costume will become engraved in people's minds. I do think there'll be lots ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32081]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the silhouette of the kimono costume will become engraved in people's minds. I do think there'll be lots of red accents in the near future. For me personally, I can't see myself flaunting around in a geisha uniform, but it'll make me smile when I see what others do with it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the cause that lacks assistance, The wrong that needs resistance,  For the future in the distance,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17840]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the cause that lacks assistance, The wrong that needs resistance,  For the future in the distance,   And the good that I can do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3623]]></link><description><![CDATA[Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whistle, and I'll come to you, my lad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whistle, and I'll come to you, my lad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1826]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is very impressive. I was in San Diego and he ran the 40 in a 4.3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31409]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is very impressive. I was in San Diego and he ran the 40 in a 4.3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man always travels along precipices. His truest obligation is to keep his balance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3686]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man always travels along precipices. His truest obligation is to keep his balance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, stay, sweet warbling woodlark, stay, Nor quit for me the trembling spray,  A hapless lover courts thy lay, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24090]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, stay, sweet warbling woodlark, stay, Nor quit for me the trembling spray,  A hapless lover courts thy lay,   Thy soothing, fond complaining.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many Christians are reluctant to become involved in public affairs be cause politics is a "dirty business", but the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7047]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many Christians are reluctant to become involved in public affairs be cause politics is a "dirty business", but the same people are generally quite happy to go into business life, which is in its way just as "dirty". If the dubious practices and moral compromises of every walk of life were dissected and made known with the glare of publicity which shines on the activities of politicians, then those who like to think that they can keep their hands clean would have very few professions to choose from.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is the matter with Kansas? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51856]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is the matter with Kansas?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brigid, Abbess of Kildare, c.525  God does not lead His children around hardship, but leads them straight ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brigid, Abbess of Kildare, c.525  God does not lead His children around hardship, but leads them straight through hardship. But He leads! And amidst the hardship, He is nearer to them than ever before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At early dawn when the air is crisp And you're standing knee deep in a beautiful rip  You see ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16284]]></link><description><![CDATA[At early dawn when the air is crisp And you're standing knee deep in a beautiful rip  You see a trout rise to an unknown fly   Then your heart starts to thump and you wonder why    You're a neophyte fly fisherman.     You can measure the cast and study the lie      Then lengthen the line to make your first try       As you check the rod to get a good presentation        You hold your breath in solemn anticipation         You must be a fly fisherman!          The fly floats gently on its way to the trout           You know it will "take it" without a doubt.            You're all charged up and ready to strike             But the fly floats by because something's not right              You are still a fly fisherman.               You open your fly box and select a new fly                Then lengthen the tippet before the next try                 Change your position to help with the cast                  And hope you have made the right decision at last                   Now you are a doubtful fly fisherman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But jealous souls will not be answered so; They are not ever jealous for the cause,  But jealous for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23170]]></link><description><![CDATA[But jealous souls will not be answered so; They are not ever jealous for the cause,  But jealous for they're jealous.   'Tis a monster    Begot upon itself, born on itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the kind of thing you sort of always hope you're going to see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33371]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the kind of thing you sort of always hope you're going to see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In hospitals there is no time off for good behavior. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19885]]></link><description><![CDATA[In hospitals there is no time off for good behavior.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let him that would move the world first move himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let him that would move the world first move himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is, not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56935]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is, not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Value of a man depends upon his courage; his veracity depends upon his self-respect and his chastity depends upon his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26272]]></link><description><![CDATA[Value of a man depends upon his courage; his veracity depends upon his self-respect and his chastity depends upon his sense of honor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can confirm that a 28-year-old New Zealand man was today charged by Norfolk Island police with murder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40451]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can confirm that a 28-year-old New Zealand man was today charged by Norfolk Island police with murder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40451</guid></item></channel></rss>