<?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[We may have the best-shooting backcourt in the NBA. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41965]]></link><description><![CDATA[We may have the best-shooting backcourt in the NBA.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The poet, as everyone knows, must strike his individual note sometime between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five. He may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46806]]></link><description><![CDATA[The poet, as everyone knows, must strike his individual note sometime between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five. He may hold it a long time, or a short time, but it is then that he must strike it or never. School and college have been conducted with the almost express purpose of keeping him busy with something else till the danger of his ever creating anything is past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47147]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Catherine of Siena, Mystic, Teacher, 1380  God is often faulted for creating a world full of suffering ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Catherine of Siena, Mystic, Teacher, 1380  God is often faulted for creating a world full of suffering and evil. The issue is complex, both philosophically and theologically; but surely it is inappropriate to blame God for a problem He did not initiate, and [that is] in fact, one which He has sought to alleviate, at great cost to Himself. God sent His Son to inaugurate the Kingdom and to "destroy him who has the power of death, that is, the devil" (Heb. 2:14). God is not the cause of suffering and sickness; He is its cure! Jesus' ministry and death guarantee this.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're investing a lot at being able to store massive amounts of storage in the cloud, as cheaply as possible. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30655]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're investing a lot at being able to store massive amounts of storage in the cloud, as cheaply as possible. We want to give customers the choice of what they put up in the cloud and what they keep on their PC.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're not a for-loss company. This is something we should do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36054]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're not a for-loss company. This is something we should do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For a good poet's made, as well as born, And such wast thou! Look how the father's face  Lives ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55325]]></link><description><![CDATA[For a good poet's made, as well as born, And such wast thou! Look how the father's face  Lives in his issue; even so the race   Of Shakespeare's mind and manner brightly shine    In his well-turned and true-filed lines;     In each of which he seems to shake a lance,      As brandished at the eyes of ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17988]]></link><description><![CDATA[And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our advertising guidelines are such that Lowe's chooses not to advertise in controversial programming, including programming with gratuitous sex and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31543]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our advertising guidelines are such that Lowe's chooses not to advertise in controversial programming, including programming with gratuitous sex and violence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you seek it, you cannot find it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21840]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you seek it, you cannot find it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People begin to gain weight as they become older. It's only natural that they gain weight if they eat the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39651]]></link><description><![CDATA[People begin to gain weight as they become older. It's only natural that they gain weight if they eat the same amount of food as they did when they were young. They need to know that their basal metabolic rate decreases with age. Gaining weight means not only increasing the amount of subcutaneous fat in the body, but visceral as well, and this is the major factor in lifestyle-related diseases.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger. [Fr., On ne peut repondre de son ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10290]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger. [Fr., On ne peut repondre de son courage quand on n'a jamais ete dans le peril.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1203]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Polar Express was the easiest of my picture book manuscripts to write... Once I realized the train was going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31621]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Polar Express was the easiest of my picture book manuscripts to write... Once I realized the train was going to the North Pole, finding the story seemed less like a creative effort than an act of recollection. I felt, like the story's narrator, that I was remembering something, not making it up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good Friday Commemoration of Jack Winslow, Missionary, Evangelist, 1974   Who was it that set up the Cross? Not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7929]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good Friday Commemoration of Jack Winslow, Missionary, Evangelist, 1974   Who was it that set up the Cross? Not fiends incarnate, but plain flesh and blood like us; quite ordinary men, decent and kindly souls enough, some of whom, no doubt, went to their homes that day from Calvary and took their children on their knees and loved them very genuinely. Only, they were a bit old fashioned in the make-up of their minds, had grown stiff and inelastic in their thinking, inhospitable to new notions -- surely a very minor sin at worst -- and some feared for their vested interests; and one, poor Pilate, had lost his temper with these impossible Jews in days gone by, and had received a curt warning from Rome that there must be no further bloodshed in Jerusalem, and here was a new trouble at the very worst of times in the whole year, with fanatics in tens of thousands come up for the Feast; and one wanted to save the world by quick-running machinery, and so put Christ into a situation where He could no longer dilly-dally but must do something vivid, dramatic, revolutionary. And the people? No need for us to bother being there at the decision between Jesus and Barabbas. We had the lined streets cheering for Him yesterday. And we have relatives to see, and messages from neighbours to deliver to their kindred. He will be all right; we needn't worry to be there. Such simple and plebian sins -- minds grown a trifle out of date, a little selfishness, some temper and its consequences, a bit of worldly wisdom, and an indifference that did nothing at all -- these brought about the shame of mankind, and the tragedy of history, and the blot upon our annals that will not rub out. And they are all of them within your heart and mine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think'st thou there are no serpents in the world But those who slide along the grassy sod,  And sting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11517]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think'st thou there are no serpents in the world But those who slide along the grassy sod,  And sting the luckless foot that presses them?   There are who in the path of social life    Do bask their spotted skins in Fortune's sun,     And sting the soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What want these outlaws conquerors should have But History's purchased page to call them great? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19315]]></link><description><![CDATA[What want these outlaws conquerors should have But History's purchased page to call them great?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has it in his power to commit sin, is less inclined to do so. The very idea of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56393]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has it in his power to commit sin, is less inclined to do so. The very idea of being able, weakens the desire. [Lat., Cui peccare licet peccat minus. Ipsa potestas  Semina nequitiae languidiora facit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I shall look forward to a pleasant time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15232]]></link><description><![CDATA[I shall look forward to a pleasant time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The search for truth is in one way hard and in another way easy, for it is evident that no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43765]]></link><description><![CDATA[The search for truth is in one way hard and in another way easy, for it is evident that no one can master it fully or miss it wholly. But each adds a little to our knowledge of nature, and from all the facts assembled there arises a certain grandeur.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That three-point play, you could tell the excitement in the girls. That was definitely the turning point in the game. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41778]]></link><description><![CDATA[That three-point play, you could tell the excitement in the girls. That was definitely the turning point in the game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20454]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Me therefore studious of laborious ease. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Me therefore studious of laborious ease.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No mortal thing can bear so high a price, But that with mortal thing it may be bought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4908]]></link><description><![CDATA[No mortal thing can bear so high a price, But that with mortal thing it may be bought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The immature man wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mature man wants to live humanely for one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26587]]></link><description><![CDATA[The immature man wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mature man wants to live humanely for one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To me, this is the most important game since we played Moody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32609]]></link><description><![CDATA[To me, this is the most important game since we played Moody.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A war for a great principle ennobles a nation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47069]]></link><description><![CDATA[A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know the full story but we'll be in touch with him as soon as possible. We'll keep our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35966]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know the full story but we'll be in touch with him as soon as possible. We'll keep our fingers crossed it's not too serious. Knowing Harry he'll do everything he can to get fit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The factories were heavily bombed, but practically the construction work had been redone very quickly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35744]]></link><description><![CDATA[The factories were heavily bombed, but practically the construction work had been redone very quickly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sun is set; and in his latest beams Yon little cloud of ashen gray and gold,  Slowly upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59924]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sun is set; and in his latest beams Yon little cloud of ashen gray and gold,  Slowly upon the amber air unrolled,   The falling mantle of the Prophet seems.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46469]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know that a lot of gay people feel like if you're openly gay, by doing so you're sacrificing being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28365]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know that a lot of gay people feel like if you're openly gay, by doing so you're sacrificing being any kind of public figure on Howard's campus.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sentiment is likely to be hit hard ... Investors were disappointed by the warning in October, as it was one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sentiment is likely to be hit hard ... Investors were disappointed by the warning in October, as it was one of the first operators to lower expectations. This second hit to expectations is only likely to raise more questions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you find that somebody is not grateful for all that you have done for him, then do not get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43132]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you find that somebody is not grateful for all that you have done for him, then do not get disappointed because often you will find that someone else feels under your obligation though you have done nothing for him and thus your good deeds will be compensated, and Allah will reward you for your goodness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest thing in style is to have a command of metaphor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27435]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest thing in style is to have a command of metaphor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You want to have consistent and uniform muscle development across all of your muscles? It can't be done. It's just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15249]]></link><description><![CDATA[You want to have consistent and uniform muscle development across all of your muscles? It can't be done. It's just a fact of life. You just have to accept inconsistent muscle development as an unalterable condition of weight training. -- Response to Arthur Jones, who solved the unsolvable problem by inventing Nautilus.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought we did enough solid things to win the game. There were stretches where we were pretty good defensively. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37921]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought we did enough solid things to win the game. There were stretches where we were pretty good defensively.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idol-maker may know, more or less clearly, that he is only giving shape to the half-formed concept of God ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7509]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idol-maker may know, more or less clearly, that he is only giving shape to the half-formed concept of God in his head; that his images are solid metaphors -- what we call symbols. The skeptical Greek philosopher may remind us that, after all, the image of Athena is only a symbol, only a means of fixing one's rambling thoughts upon the spirit that is Athena. Yet the idolater will persist in losing sight of the forest for the trees, and the god for the image. The gold and ivory statue of Athena becomes holy in itself, an answerer of prayer, a mysterious source of power, a material object somehow different from other objects. The crucifix, the plaster image, the saint's relic or miraculous medal or cheaply and illegibly printed Bible may become themselves things considered holy and magical, able to stop a bullet. Worse yet, the god confined in an image is a shrunken and powerless god. Because you have limited your concept of God to a man shape on a carved crucifix, you may be in danger of inferring that you are free to outrage the man shapes walking and breathing around you. Because you worship the god in a specially baked wafer and a specially designed chalice, you may forget to worship the God of all bread and all wine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ass and the Lapdog A man had an Ass, and a Maltese Lapdog, a very great beauty. The Ass ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1545]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Ass and the Lapdog A man had an Ass, and a Maltese Lapdog, a very great beauty. The Ass was left in a stable and had plenty of oats and hay to eat, just as any other Ass would. The Lapdog knew many tricks and was a great favorite with his master, who often fondled him and seldom went out to dine without bringing him home some tidbit to eat. The Ass, on the contrary, had much work to do in grinding the corn-mill and in carrying wood from the forest or burdens from the farm. He often lamented his own hard fate and contrasted it with the luxury and idleness of the Lapdog, till at last one day he broke his cords and halter, and galloped into his master's house, kicking up his heels without measure, and frisking and fawning as well as he could. He next tried to jump about his master as he had seen the Lapdog do, but he broke the table and smashed all the dishes upon it to atoms. He then attempted to lick his master, and jumped upon his back. The servants, hearing the strange hubbub and perceiving the danger of their master, quickly relieved him, and drove out the Ass to his stable with kicks and clubs and cuffs. The Ass, as he returned to his stall beaten nearly to death, thus lamented: I have brought it all on myself! Why could I not have been contented to labor with my companions, and not wish to be idle all the day like that useless little Lapdog!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience does not ever err; it is only your judgment that errs in promising itself results which are not caused ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience does not ever err; it is only your judgment that errs in promising itself results which are not caused by your experiments]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41594]]></link><description><![CDATA[The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16942]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It adds a precious seeing to the eye. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55495]]></link><description><![CDATA[It adds a precious seeing to the eye. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only the more rugged mortals should attempt to keep up with current literature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25397]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the more rugged mortals should attempt to keep up with current literature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, Martyr in Uganda, 1885  Continuing a short series on prayer: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, Martyr in Uganda, 1885  Continuing a short series on prayer:   Madness frequently discovers itself merely by unnecessary deviation from the usual modes of the world. My poor friend Christopher Smart showed the disturbance of his mind, by falling upon his knees, and saying his prayers in the street, or in any other unusual place. Now although, rationally speaking, it is greater madness not to pray at all, than to pray as Smart did, I am afraid there are so many who do not pray, that their understanding is not called in question... I did not think he ought to be shut up. His infirmities were not noxious to society. He insisted on people praying with him; and I'd as lief pray with Kit Smart as any.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, while the heart of the fool is in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19051]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, while the heart of the fool is in the house of entertainment. •Bible   Do not judge by appearances; a rich heart may be under a poor coat. •Gaelic Proverb   There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect. •Gilbert K. Chesterton   If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart. •Arabian Proverb   The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart. •Benjamin Franklin   See with your mind, hear with your heart. •Kurdish Proverb   Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together. •David Hare   Were it not for hope the heart would break.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disney Hall is truly astonishingly beautiful. There is something about those silver petals that just makes you want to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Disney Hall is truly astonishingly beautiful. There is something about those silver petals that just makes you want to be inside them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33686]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33686</guid></item></channel></rss>