<?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 standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves. - The Uses of Philosophy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22253]]></link><description><![CDATA[The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves. - The Uses of Philosophy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46607]]></link><description><![CDATA[As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44163]]></link><description><![CDATA[In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5491]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O how loud It calls devotion! genuine growth of night!  Devotion! daughter of Astronomy!   As undevout Astronomer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3406]]></link><description><![CDATA[O how loud It calls devotion! genuine growth of night!  Devotion! daughter of Astronomy!   As undevout Astronomer is mad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36281]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a man may have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52611]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a man may have.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature or do the children of men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55035]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature or do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3654]]></link><description><![CDATA[Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ladies at the food stamp office started calling around. And by the time we left the office, we had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32075]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ladies at the food stamp office started calling around. And by the time we left the office, we had food and clothes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not if you burst yourself will you equal him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50306]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not if you burst yourself will you equal him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46813]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4018]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Richard Hooker, Priest, Anglican Apologist, Teacher, 1600 Commemoration of Martin of Porres, Dominican Friar, 1639   There ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6846]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Richard Hooker, Priest, Anglican Apologist, Teacher, 1600 Commemoration of Martin of Porres, Dominican Friar, 1639   There is no defect in Scripture, so anyone may "have the light of his natural understanding so completed... that there can be no want of needful instruction" for any good work God would have that person do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A preacher must be both soldier and shepherd. He must nourish, defend, and teach; he must have teeth in his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48060]]></link><description><![CDATA[A preacher must be both soldier and shepherd. He must nourish, defend, and teach; he must have teeth in his mouth, and be able to bite and fight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why? Is this guy afraid of me? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33138]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why? Is this guy afraid of me?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[to get drunk, meet attractive girls, and get laid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35347]]></link><description><![CDATA[to get drunk, meet attractive girls, and get laid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the prophecies of the Old Testament are not rightly interpreted of Jesus our Christ, then there is no prediction ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7576]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the prophecies of the Old Testament are not rightly interpreted of Jesus our Christ, then there is no prediction whatever contained in it of that stupendous event, the rise and establishment of Christianity, in comparison with which all the preceding Jewish history is as nothing. With the exception of the book of Daniel, which the Jews themselves never classed among the prophecies, and an obscure text of Jeremiah, there is not a passage in all the Old Testament which favours the notion of a temporal Messiah. What moral object was there, for which such a Messiah should come? What could he have been but a sort of virtuous Napoleon?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are men who would quickly love each other if once they were speak to each other; for when they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9054]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are men who would quickly love each other if once they were speak to each other; for when they spoke they would discover that their souls had only separated by phantoms and delusions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have tried to do what is true and not ideal.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64021]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have tried to do what is true and not ideal.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now the Name of Jesus is a concrete and powerful means of transforming men and women into their hidden, innermost ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21123]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now the Name of Jesus is a concrete and powerful means of transforming men and women into their hidden, innermost utmost reality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pitch to Hannah was too close to take, we have to be swinging. But, regardless of the situation, Hannah ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38019]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pitch to Hannah was too close to take, we have to be swinging. But, regardless of the situation, Hannah has done a great job of driving in runs for us and he'll learn from it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; Adversity is the blessing of the New. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4311]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; Adversity is the blessing of the New.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Goths don't identify with evil, we mourn the evil in society. The fascination with death is basically a reminder to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17927]]></link><description><![CDATA[Goths don't identify with evil, we mourn the evil in society. The fascination with death is basically a reminder to us of our own mortality. For these reasons, we wear black.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16798]]></link><description><![CDATA[I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[At Bacchus, which has 140 seats in its main dining room,] the booths and the corners are the most requested ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31381]]></link><description><![CDATA[[At Bacchus, which has 140 seats in its main dining room,] the booths and the corners are the most requested tables, ... If you're four persons as opposed to two, my first option would be to give it to four. But if I'm not busy I'll accommodate two.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Repentance may be old-fashioned, but it is not outdated so long as there is sin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53652]]></link><description><![CDATA[Repentance may be old-fashioned, but it is not outdated so long as there is sin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If customers are able to reduce their water use, then Lake Decatur may not drop to a more critical level. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39690]]></link><description><![CDATA[If customers are able to reduce their water use, then Lake Decatur may not drop to a more critical level. If the lake level falls another foot, the city will have to implement mandatory water conservation measures, which have not been done since the drought of 1988.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We thought it was wrong that she wasn't taking him right away. We didn't understand why they were waiting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40832]]></link><description><![CDATA[We thought it was wrong that she wasn't taking him right away. We didn't understand why they were waiting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64447]]></link><description><![CDATA[If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't see how the company can have that kind of visibility, especially with a management team that had to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28341]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't see how the company can have that kind of visibility, especially with a management team that had to revise earnings three times within one quarter last year. They don't have credibility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A boy of fifteen who is not a democrat is good for nothing, and he is no better who is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65418]]></link><description><![CDATA[A boy of fifteen who is not a democrat is good for nothing, and he is no better who is a democrat at twenty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cry out upon the stars for doing Ill offices, to cross their wooing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cry out upon the stars for doing Ill offices, to cross their wooing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If that vital spark that we find in a grain of wheat can pass unchanged through countless deaths and resurrections, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57389]]></link><description><![CDATA[If that vital spark that we find in a grain of wheat can pass unchanged through countless deaths and resurrections, will the spirit of man be unable to pass from this body to another?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since ancient Time began, Ever on some great soul God laid an infinite burden--  The weight of all this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since ancient Time began, Ever on some great soul God laid an infinite burden--  The weight of all this world, the hopes of man,   Conflict and pain, and fame immortal are his guerdon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience is the virtue of an ass, who treads beneath his burden and complains not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53296]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience is the virtue of an ass, who treads beneath his burden and complains not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64282]]></link><description><![CDATA[People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I think I'd be better off dead. No, wait, not me, you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I think I'd be better off dead. No, wait, not me, you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And he's had his family with him during this time. I think that has really helped. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30340]]></link><description><![CDATA[And he's had his family with him during this time. I think that has really helped.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is the barometer of a society's virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[During the trip, the president will explain that the people of Afghanistan want an end to terrorism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40044]]></link><description><![CDATA[During the trip, the president will explain that the people of Afghanistan want an end to terrorism.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24861]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5969]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45298]]></link><description><![CDATA[The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[United we stand; divided we fall ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60120]]></link><description><![CDATA[United we stand; divided we fall]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My brother picked on me when I was younger, ... I guess it started when I was about 7 or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38048]]></link><description><![CDATA[My brother picked on me when I was younger, ... I guess it started when I was about 7 or 8 years old.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We talked at the end of last year and I told him he had the talent. He was our catalyst ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39949]]></link><description><![CDATA[We talked at the end of last year and I told him he had the talent. He was our catalyst and deserved it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They've won a lot of games in a lot of different ways. Buzzer-beaters, last-second shots. We've had our chances, we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32544]]></link><description><![CDATA[They've won a lot of games in a lot of different ways. Buzzer-beaters, last-second shots. We've had our chances, we just haven't been able to get over the hump the last few years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even a ring of iron is worn away by constant use. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50717]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even a ring of iron is worn away by constant use.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to have something that's different to the way I've been portrayed. I admire Angelina Jolie - she acts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/410]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to have something that's different to the way I've been portrayed. I admire Angelina Jolie - she acts tough but is still sexy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/410</guid></item></channel></rss>