<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[The earth was made so various, that the mind of desultory man, studious of change, and pleased with novelty, might ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44695]]></link><description><![CDATA[The earth was made so various, that the mind of desultory man, studious of change, and pleased with novelty, might be indulged.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Streak of silver sea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13925]]></link><description><![CDATA[Streak of silver sea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to be envied than pitied. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14012]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to be envied than pitied.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Harris Teeter looks for is a certain demographic, household income and education level, and Columbia really fit the demographic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39958]]></link><description><![CDATA[What Harris Teeter looks for is a certain demographic, household income and education level, and Columbia really fit the demographic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Far too often, young people become Christians and then search among the Church's ranks for real people, and have a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Far too often, young people become Christians and then search among the Church's ranks for real people, and have a hard task finding them. All too often, evangelicals are paper people. If we do not preach these things, talk about them to each other, and teach them carefully from the pulpit and in the Christian classroom, we cannot expect Christians so to act. This has always been important, but it is especially so today because we are surrounded by a world in which personality is increasingly eroded. If we, who have become God's children, do not show Him to be personal in our lives, then in practice we are denying His existence, and He cannot be anything but grieved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[David's had an incredible year on clay and is in spectacular form at the moment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39055]]></link><description><![CDATA[David's had an incredible year on clay and is in spectacular form at the moment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15277]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Slang is a poor man's poetry ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56568]]></link><description><![CDATA[Slang is a poor man's poetry]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thought is a dangerous thing; it makes one see that the popular notions of society are wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1092]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thought is a dangerous thing; it makes one see that the popular notions of society are wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wretched soul, bruised with adversity. -The Comedy of Errors. Act ii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55406]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wretched soul, bruised with adversity. -The Comedy of Errors. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remembrances embellish life but forgetfulness alone makes it possible. [Fr., Les souvenirs embellissent la vie, l'oubli seul la rend possible.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26929]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remembrances embellish life but forgetfulness alone makes it possible. [Fr., Les souvenirs embellissent la vie, l'oubli seul la rend possible.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People grow old only by deserting their ideals, Macarthur had written. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62528]]></link><description><![CDATA[People grow old only by deserting their ideals, Macarthur had written. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope as old as your despair. In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber. So long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer and courage, so long are you young. When your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and then only, are you grown old. And then, indeed as the ballad says, you just fade away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True Love burns the brightest, But the brightest flames leave the deepest scars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20181]]></link><description><![CDATA[True Love burns the brightest, But the brightest flames leave the deepest scars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man is worth your tears, but once you find one that is, he won't make you cry ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26987]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man is worth your tears, but once you find one that is, he won't make you cry]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am giving you examples of the fact that this creature man, who in his own selfish affairs is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62148]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am giving you examples of the fact that this creature man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will fight for an idea like a hero. . . . I tell you, gentlemen, if you can shew a man a piece of what he now calls God's work to do, and what he will later call by many new names, you can make him entirely reckless of the consequences to himself personally.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/751]]></link><description><![CDATA[Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47494]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world. The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fine has been imposed because his duties don't allow him to be offering advice to the referee during the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35961]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fine has been imposed because his duties don't allow him to be offering advice to the referee during the course of the game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have no right to ask when a sorrow comes, 'Why did this happen to me?' unless we ask the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2953]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have no right to ask when a sorrow comes, 'Why did this happen to me?' unless we ask the same question for every joy that comes our way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winny and I lived in a house that ran on static electricity... If you wanted to run the blender, you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3710]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winny and I lived in a house that ran on static electricity... If you wanted to run the blender, you had to rub balloons on your head. If you wanted to cook, you had to pull off a sweater real quick.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With me everything turns into mathematics. [Fr., Omnia apud me mathematica fiunt.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26536]]></link><description><![CDATA[With me everything turns into mathematics. [Fr., Omnia apud me mathematica fiunt.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now musing o'er the changing scene Farmers behind the tavern screen  Collect; with elbows idly press'd   On ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20988]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now musing o'er the changing scene Farmers behind the tavern screen  Collect; with elbows idly press'd   On hob, reclines the corner's guest,    Reading the news to mark again     The bankrupt lists or price of grain.      Puffing the while his red-tipt pipe       He dreams o'er troubles nearly ripe,        Yet, winter's leisure to regale,         Hopes better times, and sips his ale.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  Every true prayer has its background and its foreground. The foreground of prayer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7491]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  Every true prayer has its background and its foreground. The foreground of prayer is the intense, immediate desire for a certain blessing which seems to be absolutely necessary for the soul to have; the background of prayer is the quiet, earnest desire that the will of God, whatever it may be, should be done. What a picture is the perfect prayer of Jesus in Gethsemane! In front burns the strong desire to escape death and to live; but behind there stands, calm and strong, the craving of the whole life for the doing of the will of God... Leave out the foreground, let there be no expression of the will of him who prays, and there is left a pure submission which is almost fatalism. Leave out the background, let there be no acceptance of the will of God, and the prayer is only an expression of self-will, a petulant claiming of the uncorrected choice of him who prays. Only when the two are there together, the special desire resting on the universal submission, the universal submission opening into the special desire, is the picture perfect and the prayer complete.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not think that the U.N. is really perceived to be taking sides in toto, but there have been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33545]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not think that the U.N. is really perceived to be taking sides in toto, but there have been complaints that certain personnel in the U.N. seem to favor, for example, the pro-independence groups.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is all very frustrating, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29426]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is all very frustrating,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He actually came up to me and we started speaking. And from that conversation we were able to come to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42272]]></link><description><![CDATA[He actually came up to me and we started speaking. And from that conversation we were able to come to a meeting of the minds and it seemed as if it was clear to me that he wanted to do similar things to what I wanted to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world does not pay for what a person knows. But it pays for what a person does with what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13530]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world does not pay for what a person knows. But it pays for what a person does with what he knows. -Laurence Lee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hunger is the handmaid of genius ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hunger is the handmaid of genius]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I confront the European elite's self-image as tolerant 'while under their noses women are living like slaves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29760]]></link><description><![CDATA[I confront the European elite's self-image as tolerant 'while under their noses women are living like slaves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I went to see a band in New York. The lead singer got on the microphone, and he said How ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44422]]></link><description><![CDATA[I went to see a band in New York. The lead singer got on the microphone, and he said How many of you people feel like human beings tonight? Then he said How many of you feel like animals? And everyone cheered after the animals part. But the thing is, I cheered after the human being part because I did not know that there was a second part to the question.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Controversies merely speculative are of small importance in themselves, however they may have sometimes heated a disputant, or provoked a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10071]]></link><description><![CDATA[Controversies merely speculative are of small importance in themselves, however they may have sometimes heated a disputant, or provoked a faction]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14947]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You need to create waist definition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36165]]></link><description><![CDATA[You need to create waist definition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are many who find a good alibi far more attractive than an achievement. For an achievement does not settle ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52257]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are many who find a good alibi far more attractive than an achievement. For an achievement does not settle anything permanently. We still have to prove our worth anew each day: we have to prove that we are as good today as we were yesterday. But when we have a valid alibi for not achieving anything we are fixed, so to speak, for life. Moreover, when we have an alibi for not writing a book, painting a picture, and so on, we have an alibi for not writing the greatest book and not painting the greatest picture. Small wonder that the effort expended and the punishment endured in obtaining a good alibi often exceed the effort and grief requisite for the attainment of a most marked achievement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am treating you as my friend asking you share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16923]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am treating you as my friend asking you share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you to share my future pluses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53223]]></link><description><![CDATA[If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even Pain pricks to livelier living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26836]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even Pain pricks to livelier living.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was pretty pleased with the way we responded to being down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35027]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was pretty pleased with the way we responded to being down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Infinite riches in a little room. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61409]]></link><description><![CDATA[Infinite riches in a little room.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61409</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[In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32666]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He spake well who said that graves are the footprints of angels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18226]]></link><description><![CDATA[He spake well who said that graves are the footprints of angels.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43927]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy -- the mother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy -- the mother.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're certainly a lot deeper. Last year our No. 1 through 7 runners were set and there was a line ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40237]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're certainly a lot deeper. Last year our No. 1 through 7 runners were set and there was a line between 7 and 8. Now we have 1, 2 and 3 running together, and then everyone else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am deeply saddened and shocked by the death of Gene Pitney. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41406]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am deeply saddened and shocked by the death of Gene Pitney.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.  Of all the wonders ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51287]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.  Of all the wonders that I yet have heard.   It seems to me most strange that men should fear,    Seeing that death, a necessary end,     Will come when it will come.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His right and left brain are talking to each other more these days. The one is an atheist Marxist and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9066]]></link><description><![CDATA[His right and left brain are talking to each other more these days. The one is an atheist Marxist and the other isa Christian socialist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9066</guid></item></channel></rss>