<?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 best gift you can give is a hug: one size fits all and no one ever minds if you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17406]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best gift you can give is a hug: one size fits all and no one ever minds if you return it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For brevity is very good, Where we are, or are not understood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57344]]></link><description><![CDATA[For brevity is very good, Where we are, or are not understood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Animals that go into (shelters) everywhere, if they have anything wrong with them, if they're not social, they're immediately put ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31045]]></link><description><![CDATA[Animals that go into (shelters) everywhere, if they have anything wrong with them, if they're not social, they're immediately put down. Very few of them are kept, and the ones that are kept are the ones they think would be adoptable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can't excell with talent, triumph with effort. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1488]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can't excell with talent, triumph with effort.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I watched the replay five times and it wasn't a foul. It was a foul on him. I didn't even ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35770]]></link><description><![CDATA[I watched the replay five times and it wasn't a foul. It was a foul on him. I didn't even get the charge. He was falling before I even got there. When a rookie ref gets put in that situation -- somebody who weighs 215 going against somebody who weighs 165 -- it's an obvious call to make.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22046]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/694]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fly away, pretty moth, to the shade Of the leaf where you slumbered all day;  Be content with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62195]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fly away, pretty moth, to the shade Of the leaf where you slumbered all day;  Be content with the moon and the stars, pretty moth,   And make use of your wings while you may.    . . . .     But tho' dreams of delight may have dazzled you quite,      They at last found it dangerous play;       Many things in this world that look bright, pretty moth,        Only dazzle to lead us astray.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Labor is the fruit of civilization, not the basis of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23948]]></link><description><![CDATA[Labor is the fruit of civilization, not the basis of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life ain't always beautiful, but it's a beautiful ride. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life ain't always beautiful, but it's a beautiful ride.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is blynde. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25863]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is blynde.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering teach the rest to sneer;  Willing to wound, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50939]]></link><description><![CDATA[Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering teach the rest to sneer;  Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike,   Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike;    Alike reserv'd to blame, or to commend,     A tim'rous foe, and a suspicious friend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boys are sent out into the world to buffet with its temptations, to mingle with bad and good, to govern ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55289]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boys are sent out into the world to buffet with its temptations, to mingle with bad and good, to govern and direct - girls are to dwell in quiet homes among few friends, to exercise a noiseless influence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bunch of youngsters entered a Muslim house (in Western Australia) and attacked a lady in the house and later ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29082]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bunch of youngsters entered a Muslim house (in Western Australia) and attacked a lady in the house and later admitted to police that they did that because they are Muslims,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are hermit souls that live withdrawn In the place of their self-content;  There are souls like stars that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19857]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are hermit souls that live withdrawn In the place of their self-content;  There are souls like stars that dwell apart,   In a fellowless firmament;    There are pioneer souls that blaze their paths     Where highways never ran,--      But let me live by the side of the road,       And be a friend to man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20277]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52430]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The severe schools shall never laugh me out of the philosophy of Hermes, that this visible world is but a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62204]]></link><description><![CDATA[The severe schools shall never laugh me out of the philosophy of Hermes, that this visible world is but a picture of the invisible, wherein as in a portrait, things are not truly, but in equivocal shapes, and as they counterfeit some real substance in that invisible fabric.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God's timing in moving me down here was perfect, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39159]]></link><description><![CDATA[God's timing in moving me down here was perfect,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3964]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished the fifth grade a year before I did. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23179]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished the fifth grade a year before I did.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Last year we got a taste of it. The first game we played extremely well and the second game we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35243]]></link><description><![CDATA[Last year we got a taste of it. The first game we played extremely well and the second game we didn't play our game. We're going to try to get to the Sweet 16 - that's our goal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Young in limbs, in judgment old. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51410]]></link><description><![CDATA[Young in limbs, in judgment old.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A witty saying proves nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65792]]></link><description><![CDATA[A witty saying proves nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The vigor of a mass movement stems from the propensity of its followers for united action and self-sacrifice. When we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56862]]></link><description><![CDATA[The vigor of a mass movement stems from the propensity of its followers for united action and self-sacrifice. When we ascribe the success of a movement to its faith, doctrine, propaganda, leadership, ruthlessness and so on, we are but referring to instruments of unification and to means used to inculcate a readiness for self-sacrifice. It is perhaps impossible to understand the nature of a mass movement unless it is recognized that their chief preoccupation is to foster, perfect and perpetuate a facility for united action and self-sacrifice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's a great quarterback. He's learning the system. As soon as everything starts clicking for him, he's going to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37435]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's a great quarterback. He's learning the system. As soon as everything starts clicking for him, he's going to be unbelievable. Unbelievable. I just can't wait.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["I cannot bear it!" said the pewter soldier. "I have shed pewter tears! It is too melancholy! Rather let me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57129]]></link><description><![CDATA["I cannot bear it!" said the pewter soldier. "I have shed pewter tears! It is too melancholy! Rather let me go to the wars and lose arms and legs! It would at least be a change. I cannot bear it longer! Now, I know what it is to have a visit from one's old thoughts, with what they may bring with them! I have had a visit from mine, and you may be sure it is no pleasant thing in the end; I was at last about to jump down from the drawers."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[In a] natural fear of lowering the Divine dignity of Christ, we often forget His true humanity. We think of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7187]]></link><description><![CDATA[[In a] natural fear of lowering the Divine dignity of Christ, we often forget His true humanity. We think of His earthly life as moving on a plane so different from ours that no parallel can be drawn between them. What we forget is, that He too needed to walk by faith, needed to be filled with the Holy Spirit, needed the sympathy of loving friends, needed the strengthening that is gained by private prayer. His strong and beautiful, serene and holy life so fills the eye that we lose sight of His secret intercourse with the Father, out of which came all its beauty, all its power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not like I walked in expecting this, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39810]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not like I walked in expecting this,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17222]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind still longs for what it has missed, and loses itself in the contemplation of the past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50835]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind still longs for what it has missed, and loses itself in the contemplation of the past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When under the pretext of fraternity, the legal code imposes mutual sacrifices on the citizens, human nature is not thereby ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52220]]></link><description><![CDATA[When under the pretext of fraternity, the legal code imposes mutual sacrifices on the citizens, human nature is not thereby abrogated. Everyone will then direct his efforts toward contributing little to, and taking much from, the common fund of sacrifices. Now, is it the most unfortunate who gains from this struggle? Certainly not, but rather the most influential and calculating.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only the little people pay taxes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15824]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the little people pay taxes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it's Harris Ferris who made the difference. His vision is that what makes a successful ballet company is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32304]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it's Harris Ferris who made the difference. His vision is that what makes a successful ballet company is the cohesion of music and dance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sympathy is a virtue unknown in nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58507]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sympathy is a virtue unknown in nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever life throws at us, we'll be able to handle it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34452]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever life throws at us, we'll be able to handle it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evil events from evil causes spring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14287]]></link><description><![CDATA[Evil events from evil causes spring.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[30,000 baby chicks were sent through a San Diego factory farm chipper by workers too tired to continue individual strangling.That ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/259]]></link><description><![CDATA[30,000 baby chicks were sent through a San Diego factory farm chipper by workers too tired to continue individual strangling.That made the chipper a chicker.. while the little drum with swirling knives into which some factories drop baby chicks is called an eviscerator.. and what is the namefor those tiny mouse sized guillotines Purina as owner of the magazine Lab Animal advertised for decapitationof captive expendable lab animals?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who knows how to be poor knows everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47896]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who knows how to be poor knows everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7406]]></link><description><![CDATA[We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All government, in its essence, is organized exploitation, and in virtually all of its existing forms it is the implacable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47510]]></link><description><![CDATA[All government, in its essence, is organized exploitation, and in virtually all of its existing forms it is the implacable enemy of every industrious and well-disposed man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is not blind. Love sees what is most true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64105]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is not blind. Love sees what is most true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3762]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44417]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18621]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our calling is not primarily to be holy women, but to work for God and for others with Him. Our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our calling is not primarily to be holy women, but to work for God and for others with Him. Our holiness is an effect, not a cause; so long as our eyes are on our own personal whiteness as an end in itself, the thing breaks down. God can do nothing while my interest is in my own personal character--He will take care of this if I obey His call. In learning to love God and people as He commanded us to do, obviously your sanctification cannot but come, but not as an end in itself.   ... The Notebooks of Florence Allshorn  November 13, 2001 Feast of Charles Simeon, Pastor, Teacher, 1836   Repentance is in every view so desirable, so necessary, so suited to honor God, that I seek that above all. The tender heart, the broken and contrite spirit, are to me far above all the joys that I could ever hope for in this vale of tears. I long to be in my proper place, my hand on my mouth, and my mouth in the dust... I feel this to be safe ground. Here I cannot err... I am sure that whatever God may despise... He will not despise the broken and contrite heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's good walking with a horse in ones hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49578]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's good walking with a horse in ones hand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Swithun, Bishop of Winchester, c.862 Commemoration of Bonaventure, Franciscan Friar, Bishop, Peacemaker, 1274   In addition to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6700]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Swithun, Bishop of Winchester, c.862 Commemoration of Bonaventure, Franciscan Friar, Bishop, Peacemaker, 1274   In addition to the general situations in which men find themselves today, there are those things in personal life which have always tested faith: the inexplicable tragedies and injustices; the suffering of innocent people, especially of children; the seeming uselessness of prayer, and so forth. It is surely life itself that makes against belief in most cases. It is the contradiction in real life between any image of God as good -- whether God is "above", "beneath", or "within" -- that makes men atheists. Yet how few books and how few sermons touch on this basic problem! Our theological libraries are crammed with books devoted to every aspect of textual and higher criticism of the Bible; but of genuine theological thinking about the things which drive religion from men's hearts, there is appallingly little to be found. The archaeology of Christian origins seems largely to have replaced genuine theology.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65948]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65948</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></channel></rss>