<?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[Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love, the itch, and a cough cannot be hid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love, the itch, and a cough cannot be hid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success demands singleness of purpose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success demands singleness of purpose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I lived to write, and wrote to live ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62417]]></link><description><![CDATA[I lived to write, and wrote to live]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32660]]></link><description><![CDATA[O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34284]]></link><description><![CDATA[Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want them to be productive in the community, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28719]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want them to be productive in the community,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I turned the house into a studio and invited over a bunch of sailors, who were actually students I'd met ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39870]]></link><description><![CDATA[I turned the house into a studio and invited over a bunch of sailors, who were actually students I'd met at USC. They were studying cinema to become technical cameramen. They weren't real sailors picked up off the street, but they were very happy to play these roles in my film.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need society, and we need solitude also, as we need summer and winter, day and night, exercise and rest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44108]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need society, and we need solitude also, as we need summer and winter, day and night, exercise and rest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman's love Is mighty, but a mother's heart is weak,  And by its weakness overcomes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43205]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman's love Is mighty, but a mother's heart is weak,  And by its weakness overcomes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself. - All About Ourselves and Other Essays.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56478]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extrahuman architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17380]]></link><description><![CDATA[The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extrahuman architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pro football is like nuclear warfare. there are no winners, only survivors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pro football is like nuclear warfare. there are no winners, only survivors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Statisticians probably do it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Statisticians probably do it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15551]]></link><description><![CDATA[To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Celerity is never more admired Than by the negligent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18782]]></link><description><![CDATA[Celerity is never more admired Than by the negligent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't let one bad moment spoil a bunch of good ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21903]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't let one bad moment spoil a bunch of good ones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26621]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revere has won a couple of games in a row. Both teams will play really hard. This game will have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32522]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revere has won a couple of games in a row. Both teams will play really hard. This game will have an intense atmosphere, and it will test our mettle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People differ not only in their ability to do but also in their 'will to do'. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9207]]></link><description><![CDATA[People differ not only in their ability to do but also in their 'will to do'.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary -- they are in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary -- they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By this verdict, the jury has found that death is a possible sentence in this case. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34162]]></link><description><![CDATA[By this verdict, the jury has found that death is a possible sentence in this case.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63715]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9458]]></link><description><![CDATA[I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away... it was already here. I just wasn't aware of it yet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45149]]></link><description><![CDATA[Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers, too plainly prove a deliberate, systematic plan of reducing [a people] to slavery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many times a day I realize how much my own life is built upon the labors of my fellowmen, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12722]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many times a day I realize how much my own life is built upon the labors of my fellowmen, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love your friend with his faults. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25635]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love your friend with his faults.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How much lies in Laughter: the cipher-key, wherewith we decipher the whole man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24165]]></link><description><![CDATA[How much lies in Laughter: the cipher-key, wherewith we decipher the whole man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Calvin, renewer of the Church, 1564  When they inquire into predestination, they are penetrating the sacred ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7627]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Calvin, renewer of the Church, 1564  When they inquire into predestination, they are penetrating the sacred precincts of divine wisdom. If anyone with carefree assurance breaks into this place, he will not succeed in satisfying his curiosity and he will enter a labyrinth from which he can find no exit. For it is not right for man unrestrainedly to search out things that the Lord has willed to be hidden in Himself; nor is it right for him to investigate from eternity that sublime wisdom, which God would have us revere but not understand, in order that through this also He should fill us with wonder. He has set forth by His Word the secrets of His will that He has decided to reveal to us. These He decided to reveal in so far as He foresaw that they would concern and benefit us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're asking someone from the lacrosse team to step forward. We will be relentless in finding out who committed this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32924]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're asking someone from the lacrosse team to step forward. We will be relentless in finding out who committed this crime.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45647]]></link><description><![CDATA[The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In addition, it has been less successful than we had hoped in selling consumer electronics in its mall stores. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30436]]></link><description><![CDATA[In addition, it has been less successful than we had hoped in selling consumer electronics in its mall stores.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5270]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Necessity knows no law except to conquer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Necessity knows no law except to conquer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unlike some politicians, I can admit to a mistake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66440]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unlike some politicians, I can admit to a mistake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Scholastica, Abbess of Plombariola, c.543  Since becoming a disciple of Christ, Paul knows that all mere orthodoxy, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Scholastica, Abbess of Plombariola, c.543  Since becoming a disciple of Christ, Paul knows that all mere orthodoxy, all mere knowledge concerning God's will, is not only nothing but less than nothing. The more knowledge, the more obligation. The maintaining of revealed doctrine becomes blasphemy if it is not borne out by the corresponding testimony of the life. He who is always appealing to the Word of God without his life and conduct corresponding to this knowledge of God, dishonours God's name, making Him an object of mockery and hatred. It is just those who know so well how to talk about God who make His name hateful among men, because their lives darken the picture of God and turn it into a caricature. The Lord is judged by the life of His servants; this is the truer, the more zealously they appeal to Him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61349]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an exuberance that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22793]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world. -Sheila Graham.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ascension He has gone away, the Well-Beloved,  For our sake! He is risen, the Well-Beloved,  For our sake! ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ascension He has gone away, the Well-Beloved,  For our sake! He is risen, the Well-Beloved,  For our sake! He has prayed, the Well-Beloved,  For our sake! He has spoken, He has sung, The Word was with God. Praises of the Father, Substance of the Father, The stamp and issue forever, In Love! Word of Love!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Waiting, are they? Waiting, are they? Well, goddam 'em, let 'em wait!"[Ethan Allen, to his physician who said "General, I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34744]]></link><description><![CDATA["Waiting, are they? Waiting, are they? Well, goddam 'em, let 'em wait!"[Ethan Allen, to his physician who said "General, I fear the angels are waiting for you", quoted in Saturday Review, April 5, 1958]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The purifying worth of prayer consists in the increasing contrast which it sets up between the holy God and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7678]]></link><description><![CDATA[The purifying worth of prayer consists in the increasing contrast which it sets up between the holy God and the creature; subordinating that creature's fugitive activities and desires to the standard set by this solemn apprehension of Reality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65680]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was a good lesson learned and we ended up winning the game. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28787]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was a good lesson learned and we ended up winning the game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be ignorance thy choice, where knowledge leads to woe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be ignorance thy choice, where knowledge leads to woe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1115]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My dad actually looked at the wrong list in the paper and we just figured I didn't get it. Then, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39953]]></link><description><![CDATA[My dad actually looked at the wrong list in the paper and we just figured I didn't get it. Then, 10 minutes later he saw the right list and came and told me. It's an honor. I felt like if I had a good season I might get it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43752]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mere verbiage,--it is not worth a carrot! Why Socrates or Plato--where's the odds?--  Once taught a jay to supplicate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mere verbiage,--it is not worth a carrot! Why Socrates or Plato--where's the odds?--  Once taught a jay to supplicate the Gods,   And made a Polly-theist of a Parrot!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50163</guid></item></channel></rss>