<?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[Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you were born, you were crying and everyone around you wassmiling. Live your life so that when you die, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53691]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you were born, you were crying and everyone around you wassmiling. Live your life so that when you die, you're smiling andeveryone around you is crying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And thus, what can we do, Poor rose and poet too,  Who both antedate our mission   In ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54428]]></link><description><![CDATA[And thus, what can we do, Poor rose and poet too,  Who both antedate our mission   In an unprepared season?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was really disappointed in our blocking out in the first half. We gave up 14 offensive rebounds in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37674]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was really disappointed in our blocking out in the first half. We gave up 14 offensive rebounds in the first half. I thought our kids played a lot better in the second. We really battled through the kids' sickness throughout the game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't have a girlfriend. But I do know a woman who'd be mad at me for saying that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17458]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't have a girlfriend. But I do know a woman who'd be mad at me for saying that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't have big anxieties. I wish I did. I'd be much more interesting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3284]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't have big anxieties. I wish I did. I'd be much more interesting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50928]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All crush'd and stone-cast in behaviour, She stood as a marble would stand,  Then the Saviour bent down, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5705]]></link><description><![CDATA[All crush'd and stone-cast in behaviour, She stood as a marble would stand,  Then the Saviour bent down, and the Saviour   In silence wrote on in the sand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The spirit or life spark which animates this manifestation could be called God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63959]]></link><description><![CDATA[The spirit or life spark which animates this manifestation could be called God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29533]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Patrick, Bishop of Armagh, Missionary, Patron of Ireland, c.460  Without realizing what was happening, most of us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Patrick, Bishop of Armagh, Missionary, Patron of Ireland, c.460  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/8040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all the things I do, acting is the thing that grabs most, but there's another level on which it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all the things I do, acting is the thing that grabs most, but there's another level on which it strikes me as being a little silly. In the end you're dressing up and deciding to be somebody.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life that he has a raging desire to go somewhere and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4802]]></link><description><![CDATA[There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life that he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55205]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The total number of eligible voters is 15.5 million, ... and we expect the turn-out to reach 11 or 12 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34838]]></link><description><![CDATA[The total number of eligible voters is 15.5 million, ... and we expect the turn-out to reach 11 or 12 million.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What I want back is what I wasBefore the bed, before the knife,Before the brooch-pin and the salveFixed me in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26897]]></link><description><![CDATA[What I want back is what I wasBefore the bed, before the knife,Before the brooch-pin and the salveFixed me in this parenthesis;Horses fluent in the wind,A place, a time gone out of mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every writer I know has trouble writing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62402]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every writer I know has trouble writing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All you must do is accecpt all that is unaccecptable to you. -Cheri Huber. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58383]]></link><description><![CDATA[All you must do is accecpt all that is unaccecptable to you. -Cheri Huber.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evil and good are God's right hand and left. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14288]]></link><description><![CDATA[Evil and good are God's right hand and left.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We picked up at the start of the second half the way we finished the first. The Duke game was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34528]]></link><description><![CDATA[We picked up at the start of the second half the way we finished the first. The Duke game was a tough loss. We know we could have won that game. All we could do was watch the tape of it and learn our lesson, not make the same mistakes again and that's what we did against Wake Forest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagine the worst stomach pain you've ever had. I have that 24 hours a day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39670]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagine the worst stomach pain you've ever had. I have that 24 hours a day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just think of how stupid the average person is, and then realize half of them are even stupider! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58060]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just think of how stupid the average person is, and then realize half of them are even stupider!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hilda, Abbess of Whitby, 680 Commemoration of Elizabeth, Princess of Hungary, Philanthropist, 1231 Commemoration of Mechtild, Bèguine of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7042]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hilda, Abbess of Whitby, 680 Commemoration of Elizabeth, Princess of Hungary, Philanthropist, 1231 Commemoration of Mechtild, Bèguine of Magdeburg, Mystic, Prophet, 1280   Where, then, does happiness lie? In forgetfulness, not indulgence, of the self. In escape from sensual appetites, not in their satisfaction We live in a dark, self-enclosed prison, which is all we see or know if our glance is fixed ever downward. To lift it upward, becoming aware of the wide, luminous universe outside -- this alone is happiness. At its highest level, such happiness is the ecstasy that mystics have inadequately described At more humdrum levels, it is human love; the delights and beauties of our dear earth, its colors and shapes and sounds; the enchantment of understanding and laughing, and all other exercise of such faculties as we possess; the marvel of the meaning of everything, fitfully glimpsed, inadequately expounded, but ever present.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16094]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All cases are unique and very similar to others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45303]]></link><description><![CDATA[All cases are unique and very similar to others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The shriek was followed by another, louder and yet more agonizing..for once started upon that journey, the hog never came ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/253]]></link><description><![CDATA[The shriek was followed by another, louder and yet more agonizing..for once started upon that journey, the hog never came back. One by one the men hooked up the hogs and slit their throats. There was a line of hogs with squeals and lifeblood ebbing away.. until at last each vanished into a huge vat of boiling water (some still alive). The hogs were so innocent. They came so very trustingly. They were so very human in their protests. They had done nothing to deserve it. in the book THE JUNGLE.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is where we learn that he had two daughters... his two daughters, Sylvia and Regina. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35439]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is where we learn that he had two daughters... his two daughters, Sylvia and Regina.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have fun like a child in the street. When the day comes when I'm not enjoying it, I will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66369]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have fun like a child in the street. When the day comes when I'm not enjoying it, I will leave football.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, of straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms!  The things, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, of straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms!  The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare,   But wonder how the devil they got there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You pursue, I fly; you fly, I pursue; such is my humor. What you wish, Dondymus, I do not wish, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61785]]></link><description><![CDATA[You pursue, I fly; you fly, I pursue; such is my humor. What you wish, Dondymus, I do not wish, what you do not wish, I do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be wise to-day; 'tis madness to defer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51862]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be wise to-day; 'tis madness to defer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't believe I've ever caused all three turnovers in a game and gotten two of them. That was awesome. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37266]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't believe I've ever caused all three turnovers in a game and gotten two of them. That was awesome. But what makes it better is that we won.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Nature had made all her birds, With no more cares to think on,  She gave a rippling laugh ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4419]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Nature had made all her birds, With no more cares to think on,  She gave a rippling laugh and out   There flew a Bobolinkon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17249]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kind messages, that pass from land to land; Kind letters, that betray the heart's deep history,  In which we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kind messages, that pass from land to land; Kind letters, that betray the heart's deep history,  In which we feel the pressure of a hand,--   One touch of fire,--and all the rest is mystery!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel so lucky to have both a son and a daughter, because there's a different relationship with each of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65380]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel so lucky to have both a son and a daughter, because there's a different relationship with each of them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he'll eat forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24542]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he'll eat forever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20443]]></link><description><![CDATA[The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Conversion of Paul  The church is unique in that it is so able to cut across ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7603]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Conversion of Paul  The church is unique in that it is so able to cut across age boundaries and social-status boundaries. When one loves the Lord Jesus Christ and sincerely seeks to follow Him, then one quite by surprise comes upon a community that he did not know existed, a community that is experienced within the heart; and when this community is found, nothing is ever quite the same again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Treason and murder ever kept together, As two yoke-devils sworn to either's purpose,  Working so grossly in a natural ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59656]]></link><description><![CDATA[Treason and murder ever kept together, As two yoke-devils sworn to either's purpose,  Working so grossly in a natural cause   That admiration did not whoop at them;    But thou, 'gainst all proportion, didst bring in     Wonder to wait on treason and on murder;      And whatsoever cunning fiend it was       That wrought upon thee so preposterously        Hath got the voice in hell for excellence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord, often have I thought to myself, I will sin but this one sin more, and then I will repent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8033]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord, often have I thought to myself, I will sin but this one sin more, and then I will repent of it, and of all the rest of my sins together. So foolish was I, and ignorant. As if I should be more able to pay my debts when I owe more: or as if I should say, I will wound my friend once again, and then I will lovingly shake hands with him -- but what if my friend will not shake hands with me?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25781]]></link><description><![CDATA[To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was trying to set a screen for Andre Miller and just get open. I saw the double team coming ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31080]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was trying to set a screen for Andre Miller and just get open. I saw the double team coming and I just tried to beat it and go fast to the basket.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sons of Edward sleep in Abraham's bosom. -King Richard III. Act iv. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56012]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sons of Edward sleep in Abraham's bosom. -King Richard III. Act iv. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60905]]></link><description><![CDATA[People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We got to go to Lucas Ranch and, at that time, my brother was still living in a condo about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31024]]></link><description><![CDATA[We got to go to Lucas Ranch and, at that time, my brother was still living in a condo about a mile from Robin Williams, and so I made all of the other comics jealous because I got to get a ride home with him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65323]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When sense runs out, one shall follow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22997]]></link><description><![CDATA[When sense runs out, one shall follow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66510]]></link><description><![CDATA[It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66510</guid></item></channel></rss>