<?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[It's a miracle. Everyone was telling us they were probably dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40943]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a miracle. Everyone was telling us they were probably dead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43029]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44847]]></link><description><![CDATA[To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no foods which are completely forbidden. It's a matter of how much and how often. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40092]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no foods which are completely forbidden. It's a matter of how much and how often.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16607]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hannibal, as he had mighty virtues, so head he many vices; . . . he had two distinct persons in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hannibal, as he had mighty virtues, so head he many vices; . . . he had two distinct persons in him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We refused to assume - one of the central obligations of parenthood: to make ourselves the final authority on good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44752]]></link><description><![CDATA[We refused to assume - one of the central obligations of parenthood: to make ourselves the final authority on good and bad, right and wrong, and to take the consequences of what might turn out to be a lifetime battle]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gratitude is expensive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gratitude is expensive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The observation of others is coloured by our inability to observe ourselves impartially. We can never be impartial about anything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46273]]></link><description><![CDATA[The observation of others is coloured by our inability to observe ourselves impartially. We can never be impartial about anything until we can be impartial about our own organism. - Essays and Aphorisms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/404]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Simplicity is the glory of expression. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56361]]></link><description><![CDATA[Simplicity is the glory of expression.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We fear that the glittering generalities of the speaker have left an impression more delightful than permanent.   - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45231]]></link><description><![CDATA[We fear that the glittering generalities of the speaker have left an impression more delightful than permanent.   - Franklin J. Dickman,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We liberated 24 cases of Scotch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34132]]></link><description><![CDATA[We liberated 24 cases of Scotch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55537]]></link><description><![CDATA[The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53885]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One might say, for example, that a patient has a kind of St Vitus's dance; a kind of dropsy; a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11234]]></link><description><![CDATA[One might say, for example, that a patient has a kind of St Vitus's dance; a kind of dropsy; a kind of nerve fever; a kind of ague. One would never say, however (to end once and for all the confusion of these names) "He has St. Vitus's dance," "He has nerve fever," "He has dropsy," "He has ague," since there simply are not any fixed, unchanging diseases to be known by such names.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have made the Reich by propaganda. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48426]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have made the Reich by propaganda.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never did say that you can't be a nice guy and win. I said that if I was playing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61702]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never did say that you can't be a nice guy and win. I said that if I was playing third base and my mother rounded third with the winning run, I'd trip her up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Mary, Martha & Lazarus, Companions of Our Lord  Ideological notions are strongest amongst people who have lost ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6564]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Mary, Martha & Lazarus, Companions of Our Lord  Ideological notions are strongest amongst people who have lost their traditional religious faith, and they provide a kind of pseudo-religion to take its place. Ideology may well be defined as religion-substitute. The fact that religious faith expresses itself in the particular ideological forms current in any given period is no reason why we should confuse religion with ideology; and, even though it requires a penetrating and candid investigation to distinguish between the genuinely religious and the merely ideological elements in the outlook of a particular period or individual, this does not mean that religion itself is an aspect of ideology. The core of religious belief is not ideological, whatever may be said of the soft pulp in which it is wrapped up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vanity is my favourite sin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60363]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vanity is my favourite sin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1875]]></link><description><![CDATA[The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The biggest thing that would help the markets right now would be a sustained drop in crude oil, but I'm ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40733]]></link><description><![CDATA[The biggest thing that would help the markets right now would be a sustained drop in crude oil, but I'm not holding my breath for that. It's drawing attention away from third-quarter numbers that, despite GM, are really pretty good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60074]]></link><description><![CDATA[Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying about being put out of their jobs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not by appointment do we meet delight Or joy; they heed not our expectancy;  But round some corner of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not by appointment do we meet delight Or joy; they heed not our expectancy;  But round some corner of the streets of life   They of a sudden greet us with a smile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61068]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Christian should participate in social and political efforts in order to have an influence in the work, not with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8301]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Christian should participate in social and political efforts in order to have an influence in the work, not with the hope of making a paradise (of the earth), but simply to make it more tolerable -- not to diminish the opposition between this world and the Kingdom of God, but simply to modify the opposition between the disorder of this world and the order of preservation that God wants it to have -- not to bring in the Kingdom of God, but so that the Gospel might be proclaimed in order that all men might truly hear the good news.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and those of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26767]]></link><description><![CDATA[The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and those of the public.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our sovereignty may be dependent on our ability to eavesdrop on transmissions between our enemies on the outside and those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our sovereignty may be dependent on our ability to eavesdrop on transmissions between our enemies on the outside and those on the inside with sympathies for them. I trust my ability to determine who to mark for examination and so will you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1938]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63125]]></link><description><![CDATA[Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33130]]></link><description><![CDATA[For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45491]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60344]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Christian is a man who feels repentance on Sunday for what he did on Saturday and is going to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6871]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Christian is a man who feels repentance on Sunday for what he did on Saturday and is going to do on Monday.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come and trip it as ye go, On the light fantastic toe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come and trip it as ye go, On the light fantastic toe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few things are more striking than the change which has taken place during my own lifetime in the attitude of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7157]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few things are more striking than the change which has taken place during my own lifetime in the attitude of the intelligentsia towards the spokesmen of Christian opinion. When I was a child, bishops expressed doubts about the Resurrection, and were called courageous. When I was a girl, G. K. Chesterton professed belief in the Resurrection, and was called whimsical. When I was at college, thoughtful people expressed belief in the Resurrection "in a spiritual sense", and were called advanced; (any other kind of belief was called obsolete, and its professors were held to be simpleminded). When I was middle-aged, a number of lay persons, including some poets and writers of popular fiction, put forward rational arguments for the Resurrection, and were called courageous. Today, any lay apologist for Christianity... whose works are sold and read, is liable to be abused in no uncertain terms as a mountebank, a reactionary, a tool of the Inquisition, a spiritual snob, an intellectual bully, an escapist, an obstructionist, a psychopathic introvert, an insensitive extrovert, and an enemy of society. The charges are not always mutually compatible, but the common animus behind them is unmistakable, and its name is fear. Writers who attack these domineering Christians are called courageous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most players on the team only have one or two years experience. Soccer and field hockey strategy as far as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39220]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most players on the team only have one or two years experience. Soccer and field hockey strategy as far as field positioning is very similar. The only difference is that you're hitting the ball with a stick instead of your foot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humor is reason gone mad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor is reason gone mad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54572]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can remember walking as a child. It was not customary to say you were fatigued. It was customary to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61087]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can remember walking as a child. It was not customary to say you were fatigued. It was customary to complete the goal of the expedition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One must chose in life between boredom and suffering. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24963]]></link><description><![CDATA[One must chose in life between boredom and suffering.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5344]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11966]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63284]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never do anything against conscience, even if the state demands it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never do anything against conscience, even if the state demands it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are a very extensive minority who have suffered discrimination and who have the same right to participation in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45552]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are a very extensive minority who have suffered discrimination and who have the same right to participation in the promise and fruits of society as every other individual.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dogma of woman's complete historical subjection to men must be rated as one of the most fantastic myths ever ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43614]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dogma of woman's complete historical subjection to men must be rated as one of the most fantastic myths ever created by the human mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We didn't think it would hit, so we didn't pack. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42635]]></link><description><![CDATA[We didn't think it would hit, so we didn't pack.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42635</guid></item></channel></rss>