<?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[A monster frightful, formless, immense, with sight removed. [Lat., Monstrum horrendum, informe, ingens, cui lumen ademptum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56261]]></link><description><![CDATA[A monster frightful, formless, immense, with sight removed. [Lat., Monstrum horrendum, informe, ingens, cui lumen ademptum.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Saddle your dreams before you ride em. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63238]]></link><description><![CDATA[Saddle your dreams before you ride em.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What one has wished for in youth, in old age one has in abundance. [Ger., Was man in der Jugend ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61779]]></link><description><![CDATA[What one has wished for in youth, in old age one has in abundance. [Ger., Was man in der Jugend wunscht, hat man im Alter die Fulle.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Palm Sunday Commemoration of William Augustus Muhlenberg of New York, Priest, 1877   The entrance into Jerusalem [on Palm ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6373]]></link><description><![CDATA[Palm Sunday Commemoration of William Augustus Muhlenberg of New York, Priest, 1877   The entrance into Jerusalem [on Palm Sunday] has all the elements of the theatre of the absurd: the poor king; truth comes riding on a donkey; symbolic actions -- even parading without a permit! Also, when Jesus "set his face to go to Jerusalem," what was involved was direct action, an open confrontation and public demonstration of the incompatibility of evil with the Kingdom of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes in the morning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45216]]></link><description><![CDATA[In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes in the morning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He told us the game wasn't over. He told us (the Bulldogs) weren't going to quit. We got lackadaisical. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30605]]></link><description><![CDATA[He told us the game wasn't over. He told us (the Bulldogs) weren't going to quit. We got lackadaisical.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask God's blessing on your work, but don't ask him to do it for you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22664]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ask God's blessing on your work, but don't ask him to do it for you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I could have stopped it after they paid me the $50,000. I wouldn't even have had to go on to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28758]]></link><description><![CDATA[I could have stopped it after they paid me the $50,000. I wouldn't even have had to go on to do more than I already had: just the double agents' names that I gave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mentality of an army on the march is merely so much delayed adolescence; it remains persistently, incorrigibly and notoriously ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52048]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mentality of an army on the march is merely so much delayed adolescence; it remains persistently, incorrigibly and notoriously infantile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13320]]></link><description><![CDATA[True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we had one (prairie dog) die, it was right under the swing set - right there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28955]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we had one (prairie dog) die, it was right under the swing set - right there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're very proud of what's taking place in Old Town. We've seen a big increase in traffic there with all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28172]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're very proud of what's taking place in Old Town. We've seen a big increase in traffic there with all the new shops.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10342]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does, she will wither without sun; she will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18405]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does, she will wither without sun; she will decay in her sheath as a narcissus will if you do not give her air enough; she might fall and defile her head in dust if you leave her without help at some moments in her life; but you cannot fetter her; she must take her own fair form and way if she take any.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are permitted in time of great danger to walk with the devil until you have crossed the bridge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11055]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are permitted in time of great danger to walk with the devil until you have crossed the bridge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Personally I believe it is important for mankind to respect nature - for homeostasis - and I have volunteered with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39269]]></link><description><![CDATA[Personally I believe it is important for mankind to respect nature - for homeostasis - and I have volunteered with environmental organizations, I do not attempt to have an environmental leaning regarding my artwork.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is the sinews of love, as of war. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15918]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is the sinews of love, as of war.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may go to Carlisle's and to Almanac's too; And I'll give you my Head if you find such a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20985]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may go to Carlisle's and to Almanac's too; And I'll give you my Head if you find such a Host,  For Coffee, Tea, Chocolate, Butter, or Toast;   How he welcomes at once all the World and his Wife,    And how civil to Folks he ne'er saw in his Life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're very athletic and they run the floor. They have tough-minded guys and they never give up. Even when you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34524]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're very athletic and they run the floor. They have tough-minded guys and they never give up. Even when you have a lead, they always find a way to come back. It's an ACC game and it's going to be a close game I'm sure. We're just going to have to be consistent throughout the game; we can't have long periods where we don't score.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can't be happy where you are, it's a cinch you can't be happywhere you ain't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21810]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can't be happy where you are, it's a cinch you can't be happywhere you ain't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our focus is getting the power back to our customers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31121]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our focus is getting the power back to our customers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Habit maketh no monke, ne wearing of guilt spurs maketh no knight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2814]]></link><description><![CDATA[Habit maketh no monke, ne wearing of guilt spurs maketh no knight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diligence is the mother of good fortune. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12294]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diligence is the mother of good fortune.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23468]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, you can rise above doubt and judgment. And you can see forever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Crime requires further crime to conceal it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51137]]></link><description><![CDATA[Crime requires further crime to conceal it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43838]]></link><description><![CDATA[We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition -- in having put forth the best within ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition -- in having put forth the best within you]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know what I should love to do--to build a study; to write, and to think of nothing else. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58028]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know what I should love to do--to build a study; to write, and to think of nothing else. I want to bury myself in a den of books. I want to saturate myself with the elements of which they are made, and breathe their atmosphere until I am of it. Not a bookworm, being which is to give off no utterances; but a man in the world of writing--one with a pen that shall stop men to listen to it, whether they wish to or not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An inch in a miss is as good as an ell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48796]]></link><description><![CDATA[An inch in a miss is as good as an ell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the world is cold, make it your business to build fires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62218]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the world is cold, make it your business to build fires.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[National leaders who find themselves wilting under the withering criticisms by members of the media, would do well not to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32132]]></link><description><![CDATA[National leaders who find themselves wilting under the withering criticisms by members of the media, would do well not to take such criticism personally but to regard the media as their allies in keeping the government clean and honest, its services]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26796]]></link><description><![CDATA[Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For example, if a car rental company charges $100 a day for a mid-sized rental car to a family in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35982]]></link><description><![CDATA[For example, if a car rental company charges $100 a day for a mid-sized rental car to a family in need, this amounts to exorbitant pricing and that company will answer for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is, above all, the gift of oneself ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17405]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is, above all, the gift of oneself]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those, who in quarrels interpose, Must often wipe a bloody nose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48978]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those, who in quarrels interpose, Must often wipe a bloody nose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cherefull looke makes a dish a feast. [A cheerful look makes a dish a feast.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5840]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cherefull looke makes a dish a feast. [A cheerful look makes a dish a feast.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou art a traitor. Off with his head! Now by Saint Paul I swear  I will not dine until ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59657]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou art a traitor. Off with his head! Now by Saint Paul I swear  I will not dine until I see the same.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Lord, let thyself be found with a good gift to everyone who needs it, that the happy may find ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8086]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Lord, let thyself be found with a good gift to everyone who needs it, that the happy may find courage to accept thy good gifts, that the sorrowful may find courage to accept thy perfect gifts. For to men there is a difference of joy and of sorrow, but for thee, O Lord, there is no difference in these things; everything that comes from thee is a good and perfect gift.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not the mere existence of unusual criminals that [has] ravaged our world; for the arrangements of society (whether ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6630]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not the mere existence of unusual criminals that [has] ravaged our world; for the arrangements of society (whether national or international) ought always to presume that some of these will be lurking somewhere. The gates have been opened to evil in part because of a terrible discrepancy between human ideals and actual possibilities -- terrible heresies concerning the nature of man and the structure of the historical universe. Christianity, even if it cannot persuade men to rise to the contemplation of the spiritual things, embodies principles which may at least have the effect of bringing the dreamers down to earth. Because it confronts the problem of human sin, it can face our difficulties and dilemmas without evasions -- without the fundamental evasiveness of those who believe that all would be well with the world if it were not for a few unspeakable criminals, always conveniently identified with the political enemy of the moment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In spite of the young lineup, we will be competitive and have a quicker overall team. Last year was one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35230]]></link><description><![CDATA[In spite of the young lineup, we will be competitive and have a quicker overall team. Last year was one of the best Council Bluffs soccer seasons. This year will be new and different.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Baths, wine and Venus bring decay to our bodies; but baths, wine and Venus make up life. [Lat., Balnea, vina, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Baths, wine and Venus bring decay to our bodies; but baths, wine and Venus make up life. [Lat., Balnea, vina, Venus corrumpunt corpora nostra;  Sed vitam faciunt baldea, vina, Venus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Delphi is telling the bankruptcy court that if nothing changes in terms of their union agreement, they won?t have money ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35591]]></link><description><![CDATA[Delphi is telling the bankruptcy court that if nothing changes in terms of their union agreement, they won?t have money to pay their light bill by the end of 2007. So there?s definitely going to be a need for changes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59186]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discretionary funds are asking for trouble anytime you give people money and the opportunity to do anything they want with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30181]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discretionary funds are asking for trouble anytime you give people money and the opportunity to do anything they want with it and they aren't held accountable the possibilities are endless.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51816]]></link><description><![CDATA[Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Argument is conclusive... but... it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44234]]></link><description><![CDATA[Argument is conclusive... but... it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, unless it finds it by the method of experiment. For if any man who never saw fire proved by satisfactory arguments that fire burns. his hearer's mind would never be satisfied, nor would he avoid the fire until he put his hand in it that he might learn by experiment what argument taught.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The radical failure in so-called religion is that its way is from man to God. Starting with man, it seeks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6615]]></link><description><![CDATA[The radical failure in so-called religion is that its way is from man to God. Starting with man, it seeks to rise to God; and there is no road that way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6615</guid></item></channel></rss>