<?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[Does he honestly believe that his constituents would prefer to see him lounging about in the Big Brother House rather ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Does he honestly believe that his constituents would prefer to see him lounging about in the Big Brother House rather than debating issues as serious as equality?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune, now see, now proudly Pluck off thy veil, and view thy triumph; look,  Look what thou hast brought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16573]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune, now see, now proudly Pluck off thy veil, and view thy triumph; look,  Look what thou hast brought this land to!--]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing worse than a silly politician analyzing art is a silly artist analyzing politics ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39023]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing worse than a silly politician analyzing art is a silly artist analyzing politics]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or fly importunate down the stair to answer the telephone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2639]]></link><description><![CDATA[A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stern fate and time Will have their victims; and the best die first,  Leaving the bad still strong, though ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15394]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stern fate and time Will have their victims; and the best die first,  Leaving the bad still strong, though past their prime,   To curse the hopeless world they ever curs'd    Vaunting vile deeds, and vainest of the worst.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To show great love for God and our neighbor we need not do great things. It is how much love ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60943]]></link><description><![CDATA[To show great love for God and our neighbor we need not do great things. It is how much love we put in the doing that makes our offering something beautiful for God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[French painting today is the only school which counts; only it plunders the universe for the logic of the great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36185]]></link><description><![CDATA[French painting today is the only school which counts; only it plunders the universe for the logic of the great traditions, only it is full of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best time to start thinking about your retirement is before the boss does. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54065]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best time to start thinking about your retirement is before the boss does.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do you so love the truth and the right that you welcome, or at least submit willingly to, the idea ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do you so love the truth and the right that you welcome, or at least submit willingly to, the idea of an exposure of what in you is yet unknown to yourself -- an exposure that may redound to the glory of the truth by making you ashamed and humbled?... Are you willing to be made glad that you were wrong when you thought others were wrong?... We may trust God with our past as heartily as with our future. It will not hurt us so long as we do not try to hide things, so long as we are ready to bow our heads in hearty shame where it is fit that we should be ashamed. For to be ashamed is a holy and blessed thing. Shame is a thing to shame only those who want to appear, not those who want to be. Shame is to shame those who want to pass their examination, not those who would get into the heart of things... To be humbly ashamed is to be plunged in the cleansing bath of truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adam was looking for a comedian to do a 7 o'clock show. Two years ago, I was up for a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41010]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adam was looking for a comedian to do a 7 o'clock show. Two years ago, I was up for a 10 o'clock show at another hotel, but I didn't want a 10 o'clock show. It isn't my crowd and I didn't think it would work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kissing is like drinking salted water: you drink and your thirst increases ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23860]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kissing is like drinking salted water: you drink and your thirst increases]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics: (noun) From Greek, poly, meaning many, and ticks, meaning bloodsuckers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47665]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics: (noun) From Greek, poly, meaning many, and ticks, meaning bloodsuckers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A malignant sore throat is a danger, a malignant throat not sore is worse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29084]]></link><description><![CDATA[A malignant sore throat is a danger, a malignant throat not sore is worse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Submit or resign. [Lat., Se soumettre ou se demettre.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6063]]></link><description><![CDATA[Submit or resign. [Lat., Se soumettre ou se demettre.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't apologize for it not being pretty, and we don't apologize for keeping it close. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33683]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't apologize for it not being pretty, and we don't apologize for keeping it close.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My father, now in heaven, is a keeper of the birds. And his eye is on his sparrow ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48508]]></link><description><![CDATA[My father, now in heaven, is a keeper of the birds. And his eye is on his sparrow]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more of it remains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45215]]></link><description><![CDATA[So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more of it remains.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is a big-time steal for Duquesne. He will have an opportunity to come in and change that program around. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29636]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is a big-time steal for Duquesne. He will have an opportunity to come in and change that program around.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good taste is the modesty of the mind; that is why it cannot be either imitated or acquired. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42921]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good taste is the modesty of the mind; that is why it cannot be either imitated or acquired.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best soldier does not attack. The superior fightersucceeds without violence. The greatest conqueror wins without struggle.The most successful manager ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21142]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best soldier does not attack. The superior fightersucceeds without violence. The greatest conqueror wins without struggle.The most successful manager leads without dictating. This is intelligentnonaggressiveness. This is called the mastery of men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature attains perfection, but man never does. There is a perfect ant, a perfect bee, but man is perpetually unfinished. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52282]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature attains perfection, but man never does. There is a perfect ant, a perfect bee, but man is perpetually unfinished. He is both an unfinished animal and an unfinished man. It is this incurable unfinishedness which sets man apart from other living things. For, in the attempt to finish himself, man becomes a creator. Moreover, the incurable unfinishedness keeps man perpetually immature, perpetually capable of learning and growing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was good for us to take the 100 plus lead and we will wait till tea on fourth day ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37027]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was good for us to take the 100 plus lead and we will wait till tea on fourth day to see how things go.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12125]]></link><description><![CDATA[Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2019]]></link><description><![CDATA[One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2019</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 would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43575]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the people like us are we, And everyone else is They. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14137]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the people like us are we, And everyone else is They.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The latter part of a man's life is taken up in curing the follies,prejudices, and false opinions he had contracted ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22687]]></link><description><![CDATA[The latter part of a man's life is taken up in curing the follies,prejudices, and false opinions he had contracted in the former.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches in flat countries with spire steeples, which, as they cannot be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8670]]></link><description><![CDATA[An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches in flat countries with spire steeples, which, as they cannot be referred to any other object, point as with silent finger to the sky and stars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16194]]></link><description><![CDATA[Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who talk of reading the Bible "as literature" sometimes mean, I think, reading it without attending to the main ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8542]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who talk of reading the Bible "as literature" sometimes mean, I think, reading it without attending to the main thing it is about; like reading Burke with no interest in politics, or reading the Aeneid with no interest in Rome... But there is a saner sense in which the Bible -- since it is, after all, literature -- cannot properly be read except as literature, and the different parts of it as the different sorts of literature they are. Most emphatically, the Psalms must be read as poems -- as lyrics, with all the licenses and all the formalities, the hyperboles, the emotional rather than logical connections, which are proper to lyric poetry... Otherwise we shall miss what is in them and think we see what is not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die tomorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12919]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43953]]></link><description><![CDATA[For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you fall , you damagewhen you fall in love with somebody your love for them stays with you foreverif ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25871]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you fall , you damagewhen you fall in love with somebody your love for them stays with you foreverif you fall out of love, you where never really in loveonce you fall, you can't fall out of it, you only fall.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was really staggering to stand there on that slab on what was their City Hall and you look around ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30441]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was really staggering to stand there on that slab on what was their City Hall and you look around 360 degrees and you see nothing there that could be salvaged.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Said the little Eohippus, "I am going to be a horse,  And on my middle fingernails   To ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14351]]></link><description><![CDATA[Said the little Eohippus, "I am going to be a horse,  And on my middle fingernails   To run my earthly course!    . . . .     I'm going to have a flowing tail!      I'm going to have a mane!       I'm going to stand fourteen hands high        On the Psychozoic plain!"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64854]]></link><description><![CDATA[All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words "Ich bin ein Berliner!"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think not the good, The gentle deeds of mercy thou hast done,  Shall die forgotten all; the poor, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27344]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think not the good, The gentle deeds of mercy thou hast done,  Shall die forgotten all; the poor, the prisoner,   The fatherless, the friendless, and the widow,    Who daily owe the bounty of thy hand,     Shall cry to Heaven, and pull a blessing on thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, don't be sorrowful darling, And don't be sorrowful, pray:  Taking the year together, my dear,   There ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57240]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, don't be sorrowful darling, And don't be sorrowful, pray:  Taking the year together, my dear,   There isn't more night than day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not going to stop there. To Tunisia, classical diplomacy is not enough. We also want to base our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28244]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not going to stop there. To Tunisia, classical diplomacy is not enough. We also want to base our actions and relations with the foreign market on private diplomacy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The tournament returns to the same venue this morning for the 2005 state tournament, but this time the elements are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28796]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The tournament returns to the same venue this morning for the 2005 state tournament, but this time the elements are forecasted to be more conducive to scoring.] The weather is supposed to be great, ... They say its going to be the nicest day of the week.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Madness takes its toll. Please have exact change. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26186]]></link><description><![CDATA[Madness takes its toll. Please have exact change.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am only one, but I am one. I can't do everything, but I can do something. The something I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47860]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am only one, but I am one. I can't do everything, but I can do something. The something I ought to do, I can do. And by the grace of God, I will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The end crowns all, And that old common arbitrator, Time, Will one day end it. -Troilus and Cressida. Act iv. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56072]]></link><description><![CDATA[The end crowns all, And that old common arbitrator, Time, Will one day end it. -Troilus and Cressida. Act iv. Sc. 5.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their feet through faithless leather met the dirt, And oftener chang'd their principles than shirt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2773]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their feet through faithless leather met the dirt, And oftener chang'd their principles than shirt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The British tourist was askedwhat he thought of theGrand Canyon.. and wroteback'gorge-ous'. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20123]]></link><description><![CDATA[The British tourist was askedwhat he thought of theGrand Canyon.. and wroteback'gorge-ous'.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On fair Britania's isle, bright bird, A legend strange is told of thee,--  'Tis said thy blithesome song was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54340]]></link><description><![CDATA[On fair Britania's isle, bright bird, A legend strange is told of thee,--  'Tis said thy blithesome song was hushed   While Christ toiled up Mount Calvary,    Bowed 'neath the sins of all mankind;     And humbled to the very dust      By the vile cross, while viler men       Mocked with a crown of thorns the Just.        Pierced by our sorrows, and weighed down         By our transgressions,--faint and weak,          Crushed by an angry Judge's frown,           And agonies no word can speak,--            'Twas then, dear bird, the legend says             That thou, from out His crown, didst tear              The thorns, to lighten the distress               And ease the pain that he must bear,                While pendant from thy tiny beak                 The gory points thy bosom pressed,                  And crimsoned with thy Saviour's blood                   The sober brownness of thy breast!                    Since which proud hour for thee and thine.                     As an especial sign of grace                      God pours like sacramental wine                       Red signs of favor o'er thy race!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worry is interest paid on trouble before it is due. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62287]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worry is interest paid on trouble before it is due.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62287</guid></item></channel></rss>