<?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 ox-eyes awful Juno. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17756]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ox-eyes awful Juno.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an after-life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4565]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18892]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My goal as a Christian (is) to sound the alarm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39569]]></link><description><![CDATA[My goal as a Christian (is) to sound the alarm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. Youmust want it with an inner exuberance that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21767]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. Youmust want it with an inner exuberance that erupts through the skin andjoins the energy that created the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real malady is fear of life, not of death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24849]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real malady is fear of life, not of death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is purpose in pain, Otherwise it were devilish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45366]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is purpose in pain, Otherwise it were devilish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's going to be great. It'd really be nice to get a few games in before the playoffs, with all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32191]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's going to be great. It'd really be nice to get a few games in before the playoffs, with all the guys back in the lineup. We want to be firing on all cylinders, so we can hit the ground running in the first game of the playoffs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9097]]></link><description><![CDATA[The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65642]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Germany, they first came for the communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a communist. Then they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47366]]></link><description><![CDATA[In Germany, they first came for the communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Catholic. Then they came for me -- and by that time there was nobody left to speak up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63634]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10640]]></link><description><![CDATA[The punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The streets are safe in Philadelphia, it's only the people who make them unsafe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27964]]></link><description><![CDATA[The streets are safe in Philadelphia, it's only the people who make them unsafe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59893]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4005]]></link><description><![CDATA[When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are searching for some kind of harmony between two intangibles: a form which we have not yet designed and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31813]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are searching for some kind of harmony between two intangibles: a form which we have not yet designed and a context which we cannot properly describe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Away! Away! Tempt me no more insidious love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41720]]></link><description><![CDATA[Away! Away! Tempt me no more insidious love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fault is fostered by concealment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51777]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fault is fostered by concealment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He takes the greatest ornament from friendship, who takes modesty from it. [Lat., Maximum ornamentum amicitiae tollit, qui ex ea ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42902]]></link><description><![CDATA[He takes the greatest ornament from friendship, who takes modesty from it. [Lat., Maximum ornamentum amicitiae tollit, qui ex ea tollit verecudiam.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Work is behind, but 65 percent is not that far behind. Whether or not we'll be able to open the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38057]]></link><description><![CDATA[Work is behind, but 65 percent is not that far behind. Whether or not we'll be able to open the highway on time remains to be seen. The situation will be clearer in a week or two.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jesus' moral teaching does not consist of a universal scheme of ethics, a series of precepts which would be universally ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7401]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jesus' moral teaching does not consist of a universal scheme of ethics, a series of precepts which would be universally valid, by whomever they had been spoken. They are to be heard as His word, spoken by Him, with the impact of His person behind them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you count all your assets you always show a profit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/85]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you count all your assets you always show a profit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/85</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was probably not as sharp as he normally is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32143]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was probably not as sharp as he normally is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We didn't bring this church to the United States to be another Nigerian church. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28561]]></link><description><![CDATA[We didn't bring this church to the United States to be another Nigerian church.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Business without profit is not business any more than a pickle is candy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5047]]></link><description><![CDATA[Business without profit is not business any more than a pickle is candy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23888]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anarchism, really stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion; the liberation of the human ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2466]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anarchism, really stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion; the liberation of the human body from the dominion of property; liberation from the shackles and restraint of government.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! for so did their fathers to the false prophets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! for so did their fathers to the false prophets.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65525]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right now there is no sense of urgency and no accountability. When we tell people that they are planning for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right now there is no sense of urgency and no accountability. When we tell people that they are planning for the evacuation of only 20 percent of the people, they sign the petition right away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53730]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After it's all said and done, we usually have a couple thousand left, and we donate that to the Anacortes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37671]]></link><description><![CDATA[After it's all said and done, we usually have a couple thousand left, and we donate that to the Anacortes Boys and Girls Club.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63713]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The new church of St. John's, on Fifth Avenue, was thronged the morning of the last Sunday of October, in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4624]]></link><description><![CDATA[The new church of St. John's, on Fifth Avenue, was thronged the morning of the last Sunday of October, in the year 1880. Sitting in the gallery, beneath the unfinished frescoes, and looking down the nave, one caught an effect of autumn gardens, a suggestion of chrysanthemums and geraniums, or of October woods, dashed with scarlet oaks and yellow maples.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ay, every inch a king. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54507]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ay, every inch a king.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fate has carried me 'Mid the thick arrows: I will keep my stand--  Not shrink and let the shaft ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fate has carried me 'Mid the thick arrows: I will keep my stand--  Not shrink and let the shaft pass by my breast   To pierce another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2626]]></link><description><![CDATA[Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Private credit is wealth; public honor is security; the feather that adorns the royal bird supports its flight; strip him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Private credit is wealth; public honor is security; the feather that adorns the royal bird supports its flight; strip him of his plumage, and you fix him to the earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's three words that describes baseball 'You never know.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38008]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's three words that describes baseball 'You never know.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was lawyers nominated, but nothing would happen. I guess I got into someone's ear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33892]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was lawyers nominated, but nothing would happen. I guess I got into someone's ear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A.J. is a guy who, if we didn't have Dan and Andy, people would be buzzing about. He's hard-throwing with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32412]]></link><description><![CDATA[A.J. is a guy who, if we didn't have Dan and Andy, people would be buzzing about. He's hard-throwing with good control of three quality pitches. We had the luxury of bringing him along slowly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A true friend sees the good in everything, and brings out the best in the worst of things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21054]]></link><description><![CDATA[A true friend sees the good in everything, and brings out the best in the worst of things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55186]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Johann Sebastian Bach, musician, 1750   Let us go and wake up the universe... and sing His ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6926]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Johann Sebastian Bach, musician, 1750   Let us go and wake up the universe... and sing His praises.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62712]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16834]]></link><description><![CDATA[A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16834</guid></item></channel></rss>