<?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[I think physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race. They never grow up and they keep their curiosity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46580]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race. They never grow up and they keep their curiosity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Borrow money from a pessimist - they don't expect it back ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17056]]></link><description><![CDATA[Borrow money from a pessimist - they don't expect it back]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3168]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An excess of courtesy is discourtesy ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14442]]></link><description><![CDATA[An excess of courtesy is discourtesy]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people who have really made history are the martyrs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53690]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people who have really made history are the martyrs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A perfect example of the new republic's urge to drape itself with the togas of classical respectability. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38735]]></link><description><![CDATA[A perfect example of the new republic's urge to drape itself with the togas of classical respectability.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62249]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death darkens his eyes, and unplumes his wings, Yet the sweetest song is the last he sings:  Live so, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58447]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death darkens his eyes, and unplumes his wings, Yet the sweetest song is the last he sings:  Live so, my Love, that when death shall come,   Swan-like and sweet it may waft thee home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do have maps in the lobby of the Des Moines Police Department that's open 24 hours a day, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30210]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do have maps in the lobby of the Des Moines Police Department that's open 24 hours a day, but they will see there's very limited space. And the space they have open, I'd be surprised if they (have) any luck finding a place to live,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Edward King, Bishop of Lincoln, Teacher, 1910 Commemoration of Martyrs of Uganda, 1886 & 1978  God frees ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7723]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Edward King, Bishop of Lincoln, Teacher, 1910 Commemoration of Martyrs of Uganda, 1886 & 1978  God frees our souls, not from service, not from duty, but into service and into duty; and he who mistakes the purpose of his freedom mistakes the character of his freedom. He who thinks that he is being released from the work, and not set free in order that he may accomplish that work, mistakes the condition into which his soul is invited to enter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When yu' can't have what you choose, yu' just choose what you have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6076]]></link><description><![CDATA[When yu' can't have what you choose, yu' just choose what you have.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is life, except excuse for death, or death but an escape from life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28087]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is life, except excuse for death, or death but an escape from life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["The Bible," we are told sometimes, "gives us such a beautiful picture of what we should be." Nonsense! It gives ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7292]]></link><description><![CDATA["The Bible," we are told sometimes, "gives us such a beautiful picture of what we should be." Nonsense! It gives us no picture at all. It reveals to us a fact: it tells us what we really are; it says, This is the form in which God created you, to which He has restored you; this is the work which the Eternal Son, the God of Truth and Love, is continually carrying on within you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stress: The confusion created when one's mind overrides the body's basic desire to choke the living daylights out of some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57974]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stress: The confusion created when one's mind overrides the body's basic desire to choke the living daylights out of some jerk who desperately deserves it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Japan, 1597  Those who charged the Christians with burning down Rome with fire brands were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7608]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Japan, 1597  Those who charged the Christians with burning down Rome with fire brands were slanderers -- but they were, at least, far nearer to the nature of Christianity than those among the moderns who tell us that the Christians were a sort of ethical society, being martyred in a languid fashion for telling men they had a duty to their neighbours, and only mildly disliked because they were meek and mild!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it is bolstering management rather than bringing in someone who is going to say yes to a bid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29360]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it is bolstering management rather than bringing in someone who is going to say yes to a bid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11794]]></link><description><![CDATA[The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Take courage, soul! Hold not thy strength in vain!  With faith o'ercome the steeps   Thy God hath ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14965]]></link><description><![CDATA["Take courage, soul! Hold not thy strength in vain!  With faith o'ercome the steeps   Thy God hath set for thee.    Beyond the Alpine summits of great pain     Lieth thine Italy."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[IODA is excited at the opportunity to distribute the vast catalog of the China Record Corporation, ... We are proud ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39994]]></link><description><![CDATA[IODA is excited at the opportunity to distribute the vast catalog of the China Record Corporation, ... We are proud to help make China's rich musical history accessible for the first time to scholars, students and fans of Chinese culture around the globe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There has been much tragedy in my life; at least half of it actually happend. -Mark Twain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24939]]></link><description><![CDATA[There has been much tragedy in my life; at least half of it actually happend. -Mark Twain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was a shocking gasoline build...the crude build was bigger than expected and that should put down pressure on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28412]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was a shocking gasoline build...the crude build was bigger than expected and that should put down pressure on the market.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confusion is the welcome mat at the door of creativity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confusion is the welcome mat at the door of creativity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gluttony kills more then the sword. [Gluttony kills more than the sword.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13200]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gluttony kills more then the sword. [Gluttony kills more than the sword.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Promises are like the full moon, if they are not kept at once they diminish day by day ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48392]]></link><description><![CDATA[Promises are like the full moon, if they are not kept at once they diminish day by day]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I couldn't help but say to [Mr. Gorbachev], just think how easy his task and mine might be in these ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61213]]></link><description><![CDATA[I couldn't help but say to [Mr. Gorbachev], just think how easy his task and mine might be in these meetings that we held if suddenly there was a threat to this world from another planet. [We'd] find out once and for all that we really are all human beings here on this earth together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For out allotted time is the passing of a shadow, and there is no return from our death,  because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59307]]></link><description><![CDATA[For out allotted time is the passing of a shadow, and there is no return from our death,  because it is sealed up and no one turns back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3967]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days. [Fr., Le premier pas, mon fils, que l'on fait dans le monde,  Est celui dont depend le reste de nos jours.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43455]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Social values in general are incrementally variable: neither safety, diversity, rational articulation, nor morality is categorically a "good thing" to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52177]]></link><description><![CDATA[Social values in general are incrementally variable: neither safety, diversity, rational articulation, nor morality is categorically a "good thing" to have more of, without limits. All are subject to diminishing returns, and ultimately negative returns.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A few observations and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning lead to truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44790]]></link><description><![CDATA[A few observations and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning lead to truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heaven lent you a soul Earth will lend a grave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13125]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heaven lent you a soul Earth will lend a grave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, it seems to me that the best relationships - the ones that last - are frequently the ones that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, it seems to me that the best relationships - the ones that last - are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship. You know, one day you look at the person and you see something more than you did the night before. Like a switch has been flicked somewhere. And the person who was just a friend is... suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who have attained things worth having in this world have workedwhile others have idled, have perservered while others gave ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21729]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who have attained things worth having in this world have workedwhile others have idled, have perservered while others gave up in despair,and have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial,industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later lifethe success often erroneously attributed to good luck.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He kept no Christmas-house for once a yeere, Each day his boards were fild with Lordly fare;  He fed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19858]]></link><description><![CDATA[He kept no Christmas-house for once a yeere, Each day his boards were fild with Lordly fare;  He fed a rout of yeoman with his cheer,   Nor was his bread and beefe kept in with care;    His wine and beere to strangers were not spare,     And yet beside to all that hunger greved,      His gates were open, and they were there relived.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teaching is the single most important thing we do here at the University. To cultivate knowledge and watch it grow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42562]]></link><description><![CDATA[Teaching is the single most important thing we do here at the University. To cultivate knowledge and watch it grow is immensely rewarding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is free who knows how to keep in his own hand the power to decide, at each step, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47409]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is free who knows how to keep in his own hand the power to decide, at each step, the course of his life, and who lives in a society which does not block the exercise of that power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When ideas fail, words come in very handy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20286]]></link><description><![CDATA[When ideas fail, words come in very handy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26498]]></link><description><![CDATA[Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on forgiveness:   "The law of Jehovah is perfect, restoring the soul" (Psa 19:7). Most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7918]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on forgiveness:   "The law of Jehovah is perfect, restoring the soul" (Psa 19:7). Most laws condemn the soul and pronounce sentence. The result of the law of my God is perfect. It condemns but forgives. It restores - more than abundantly - what it takes away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For piety lies not in being often seen turning a veiled head to stones, nor in approaching every altar, nor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57047]]></link><description><![CDATA[For piety lies not in being often seen turning a veiled head to stones, nor in approaching every altar, nor in lying prostrate...before the temples of the gods, nor in sprinkling altars with the blood of beasts...but rather in being able to look upon all things with a mind at peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There weren't any great performances, but we won it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36501]]></link><description><![CDATA[There weren't any great performances, but we won it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is terrible except fear itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21215]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is terrible except fear itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're hoping if the dumpling-eating challenge is successful, ... it will make our event the premier dumpling-eating event in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33145]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're hoping if the dumpling-eating challenge is successful, ... it will make our event the premier dumpling-eating event in the New York area, sort of like what Coney Island is to Nathan's.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another. -Jean Paul Richter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16536]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another. -Jean Paul Richter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A book is a mirror: If an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4596]]></link><description><![CDATA[A book is a mirror: If an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But me no buts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48965]]></link><description><![CDATA[But me no buts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes adversity impels a person to greater heights, and sometimes it provides the opportunity for that person to be a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/719]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes adversity impels a person to greater heights, and sometimes it provides the opportunity for that person to be a blessing in the lives of others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have inherited new difficulties because we have inherited more privileges. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12260]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have inherited new difficulties because we have inherited more privileges.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12260</guid></item></channel></rss>