<?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[A man may carry the whole scheme of Christian truth in his mind from boyhood to old age without the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7538]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man may carry the whole scheme of Christian truth in his mind from boyhood to old age without the slightest effect upon his character and aims. It has had less influence than the multiplication table.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26771]]></link><description><![CDATA[Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35163]]></link><description><![CDATA[The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loquacity storms the ear, but modesty takes the heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25542]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loquacity storms the ear, but modesty takes the heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Society is only possible on these terms, that the individual finds therein a strengthening of his own ego and his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Society is only possible on these terms, that the individual finds therein a strengthening of his own ego and his own will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't need to be Catholic to be Catholic anymore. If you dissent, you don't get out. Martin Luther looks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5301]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't need to be Catholic to be Catholic anymore. If you dissent, you don't get out. Martin Luther looks like a prince compared to these people because he knew when it was time to go.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64041]]></link><description><![CDATA[To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: even to day do I declare that I will render ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: even to day do I declare that I will render double unto thee; When I have bent Judah for me, filled the bow with Ephraim, and raised up thy sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O Greece, and made thee as the sword of a mighty man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61594]]></link><description><![CDATA[To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now landsmen all, whoever you may be, If you want to rise to the top of the tree,  If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44021]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now landsmen all, whoever you may be, If you want to rise to the top of the tree,  If your soul isn't fettered to an office stool,   Be careful to be guided by this golden rule--    Stick close to your desks and never go to sea,     And you all may be Rulers of the Queen's Navee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics isn't about big money or power games; it's about the improvement of people's lives ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46920]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics isn't about big money or power games; it's about the improvement of people's lives]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel the whole issue has been a witchhunt from day one as part of a broader Republican political agenda. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40220]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel the whole issue has been a witchhunt from day one as part of a broader Republican political agenda.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56938]]></link><description><![CDATA[The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vitanda est improba Siren Desidia. (That shameful Siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5653]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vitanda est improba Siren Desidia. (That shameful Siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One can't carry one's father's corpse about everywhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36183]]></link><description><![CDATA[One can't carry one's father's corpse about everywhere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[When we filmed Animal House, I] found John [Belushi] astonishingly shy and vulnerable. Rather than being a confident established star, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39462]]></link><description><![CDATA[[When we filmed Animal House, I] found John [Belushi] astonishingly shy and vulnerable. Rather than being a confident established star, he seemed nervous about meeting everyone, about fitting in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One should eat to live, not live to eat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17593]]></link><description><![CDATA[One should eat to live, not live to eat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Moo-cow-moo's got a tail like a rope En it's ravelled down where it grows,  En it's just like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10527]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Moo-cow-moo's got a tail like a rope En it's ravelled down where it grows,  En it's just like feeling a piece of soap   All over the moo-cow's nose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a sexually transmitted disease. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21764]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a sexually transmitted disease.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worry is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2675]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worry is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's going to take awhile, I know. City engineers as well as the [Army] Corps of Engineers are working right ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38112]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's going to take awhile, I know. City engineers as well as the [Army] Corps of Engineers are working right now to dredge out an area around Pier 6 so we can bring in barges and help facilitate the removal of the debris. But it's going to take months.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Palestinian Authority seems to believe that failing to act against terrorism, and inducing turmoil, chaos and instability, will cause ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40210]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Palestinian Authority seems to believe that failing to act against terrorism, and inducing turmoil, chaos and instability, will cause the government and people of Israel to buckle. They will not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't counteract whatever teams are doing. We were always worried at one point about what Detroit was doing, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33973]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't counteract whatever teams are doing. We were always worried at one point about what Detroit was doing, and we haven't played them in nine years [in the postseason]. So it's really irrelevant, I think.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They made adjustments at half-time and we didn't. Their press killed us, and our girls just looked like they were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42650]]></link><description><![CDATA[They made adjustments at half-time and we didn't. Their press killed us, and our girls just looked like they were worn out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54843</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[Every ill man hath his ill day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49215]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every ill man hath his ill day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sensual pleasures are like soap bubbles, sparkling, effervescent. The pleasures of intellect are calm, beautiful, sublime, ever enduring and climbing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55165]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sensual pleasures are like soap bubbles, sparkling, effervescent. The pleasures of intellect are calm, beautiful, sublime, ever enduring and climbing upward to the borders of the unseen world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Companies appear to have turned cautious because of the possibility of spikes in crude oil prices, which could hit corporate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39865]]></link><description><![CDATA[Companies appear to have turned cautious because of the possibility of spikes in crude oil prices, which could hit corporate profitability. Oil prices have been stable recently, but are still generally at high levels.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17304]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reorganizing can be a wonderful method for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reorganizing can be a wonderful method for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cannot pray in the name of Jesus to have my own will; the name of Jesus is not a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8220]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cannot pray in the name of Jesus to have my own will; the name of Jesus is not a signature of no importance, but the decisive factor. The fact that the name of Jesus comes at the beginning does not make it a prayer in the name of Jesus; but this means to pray in such a manner that I dare name Jesus in it, that is to say, dare to think of Him, think His holy will together with whatever I am praying for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27610]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Justice is the firm and continuous desire to render to everyone that which is his due ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23615]]></link><description><![CDATA[Justice is the firm and continuous desire to render to everyone that which is his due]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My heart has joined the thousand, for my friend stopped running today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21384]]></link><description><![CDATA[My heart has joined the thousand, for my friend stopped running today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The April winds are magical, And thrill our tuneful frames;  The garden-walks are passional   To bachelors and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2982]]></link><description><![CDATA[The April winds are magical, And thrill our tuneful frames;  The garden-walks are passional   To bachelors and dames.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I appeal to all Britishers to answer this call to arms for the defence of all the principles that we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38538]]></link><description><![CDATA[I appeal to all Britishers to answer this call to arms for the defence of all the principles that we Englishmen have been the first to proclaim in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who eat their corn while yet 'tis green At the true harvest can but glean. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18765]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who eat their corn while yet 'tis green At the true harvest can but glean.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60350]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11290]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Martin Luther King challenged the conscience of my generation, and his words and his legacy continue to move generations to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26470]]></link><description><![CDATA[Martin Luther King challenged the conscience of my generation, and his words and his legacy continue to move generations to action today at home and around the world. His love and faith is alive in millions of Americans who volunteer each day in soup kitchens or in schools, or who refused to ignore the suffering of millions they'd never met in far-away places when a tsunami brought unthinkable destruction. His vision and his passion is alive in churches and on campuses when millions stand up against the injustice of discrimination anywhere, or the indifference that leaves too many behind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the end that crowns us, not the fight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13782]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the end that crowns us, not the fight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Propaganda...serves more to justify ourselves than to convince others; and the more reason we have to feel guilty, the more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Propaganda...serves more to justify ourselves than to convince others; and the more reason we have to feel guilty, the more fervent our propaganda.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I take it that what all men are really after is some form of, perhaps only some formula of, peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45979]]></link><description><![CDATA[I take it that what all men are really after is some form of, perhaps only some formula of, peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cherish your visions; cherish your ideals; cherish the music that stirsin your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22746]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cherish your visions; cherish your ideals; cherish the music that stirsin your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness thatdrapes your purest thoughts, for out of them will grow delightfulconditions, all heavenly environment; of these if you but remain true tothem, your world will at last be built.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The darkest day in a man's career is that wherein he fancies there is some easier way of getting a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5264]]></link><description><![CDATA[The darkest day in a man's career is that wherein he fancies there is some easier way of getting a dollar than by squarely earning it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Saving is a fine thing. Especially when your parents have done it for you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63556]]></link><description><![CDATA[Saving is a fine thing. Especially when your parents have done it for you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those that are evil have not only the good against them, but also the bad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those that are evil have not only the good against them, but also the bad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15653]]></link><description><![CDATA[The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The strongest and the fiercest spirit That fought in heaven, now fiercer by despair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50657]]></link><description><![CDATA[The strongest and the fiercest spirit That fought in heaven, now fiercer by despair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50657</guid></item></channel></rss>