<?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[To the sick, while there is life there is hope. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21363]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the sick, while there is life there is hope.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1477]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Provoking, isn't it? that when one is most in need of sensible words, one finds them not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62056]]></link><description><![CDATA[Provoking, isn't it? that when one is most in need of sensible words, one finds them not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rest: the sweet sauce of labor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54017]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rest: the sweet sauce of labor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No god ever gave any man anything, nor ever answered any prayer at any time - nor ever will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63897]]></link><description><![CDATA[No god ever gave any man anything, nor ever answered any prayer at any time - nor ever will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19069]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every politician, clergyman, educator, or physician, in short, anyone dealing with human individuals, is bound to make grave mistakes if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every politician, clergyman, educator, or physician, in short, anyone dealing with human individuals, is bound to make grave mistakes if he ignores these two great truths of population zoology: (1) no two individuals are alike, and (2) both environment and genetic endowment make a contribution to nearly every trait.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience permits us to cling to our faith in the Lord when we are tossed about by suffering as if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53327]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience permits us to cling to our faith in the Lord when we are tossed about by suffering as if by surf. When the undertow grasps us we will realize that we are somehow being carried forward even as we tumble. We are actually being -helped even as we cry for help.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(King Ferdinand:) In love, I hope--sweet fellowship in shame! (Berowne:) One drunkard loves another of the name. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22930]]></link><description><![CDATA[(King Ferdinand:) In love, I hope--sweet fellowship in shame! (Berowne:) One drunkard loves another of the name.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ruthlessness born of self-seeking is ineffectual compared with the ruthlessness sustained by dedication to a holy cause. "God wishes," ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52303]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ruthlessness born of self-seeking is ineffectual compared with the ruthlessness sustained by dedication to a holy cause. "God wishes," said Calvin, "that one should put aside all humanity when it is a question of striving for His glory.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is always the best policy to speak the truth-- unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59822]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is always the best policy to speak the truth-- unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They hit the ball hard, give them credit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42119]]></link><description><![CDATA[They hit the ball hard, give them credit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66808]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our aim is to survive and we need to beat West Brom. There will be big pressure on us to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39344]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our aim is to survive and we need to beat West Brom. There will be big pressure on us to win and we have to handle it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All diseases run into one, old age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1886]]></link><description><![CDATA[All diseases run into one, old age.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Giles of Provence, Hermit, c.710  It was not by dialectic that it pleased God to save His ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8367]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Giles of Provence, Hermit, c.710  It was not by dialectic that it pleased God to save His people; "for the kingdom of God consisteth in simplicity of faith, not in wordy contention.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48151]]></link><description><![CDATA[The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had a great sale. Bidding on e-Bay was very strong as were phone bids. We were busy all weekend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33181]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had a great sale. Bidding on e-Bay was very strong as were phone bids. We were busy all weekend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am slow of study. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55516]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am slow of study. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I speak of the gifted listener, I am thinking of the nonmusician primarily, of the listener who intends to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43512]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I speak of the gifted listener, I am thinking of the nonmusician primarily, of the listener who intends to retain his amateur status. It is the thought of just such a listener that excites the composer in me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21994]]></link><description><![CDATA[People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The study of theology, as it stands in the Christian churches, is the study of nothing; it is founded on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59079]]></link><description><![CDATA[The study of theology, as it stands in the Christian churches, is the study of nothing; it is founded on nothing; it rests on no principles; it proceeds by no authority; it has no data; it can demonstrate nothing; and it admits of no conclusion]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46683]]></link><description><![CDATA[The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64974]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nets not stretched to catch the hawk, Or kite, who do us wrong; but laid for those  Who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18898]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nets not stretched to catch the hawk, Or kite, who do us wrong; but laid for those  Who do us none at all.   [Lat., Non rete accipitri tenditur, neque miluo,    Qui male faciunt nobis: illis qui nihil faciunt tenditur.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absence from whom we love is worse than death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absence from whom we love is worse than death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22128]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed. - 1963.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you practice an art, be proud of it and make it proud of you It may break your heart, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42313]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you practice an art, be proud of it and make it proud of you It may break your heart, but it will fill your heart before it breaks it; it will make you a person in your own right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Cecilia, Martyr at Rome, c.230 Commemoration of Clive Staples Lewis, Spiritual Writer, 1963  The word religion is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8527]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Cecilia, Martyr at Rome, c.230 Commemoration of Clive Staples Lewis, Spiritual Writer, 1963  The word religion is extremely rare in the New Testament and the writings of mystics. The reason is simple. Those attitudes and practices to which we give the collective name of religion are themselves concerned with religion hardly at all. To be religious is to have one's attention fixed on God and on one's neighbour in relation to God. Therefore, almost by definition, a religious man, or a man when he is being religious, is not thinking about religion; he hasn't the time. Religion is what we (or he himself at a later moment) call his activity from outside.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every one of them shows a different picture of misery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every one of them shows a different picture of misery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time doesn't. All that Time does is make it more distant, put more space between you and what happened. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time doesn't. All that Time does is make it more distant, put more space between you and what happened. It doesn't heal anything. I don't know how or what does the healing, but it isn't Time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57866]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The zeal of friends it is that razes me, And not the hate of enemies.  [Ger., Der Freunde Eifer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62634]]></link><description><![CDATA[The zeal of friends it is that razes me, And not the hate of enemies.  [Ger., Der Freunde Eifer ist's, der mich   Zu Grunde richtet, nicht der Hass der Feinde.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12473]]></link><description><![CDATA[First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Margery Kempe, Mystic, after 1433  That crowd of Jews would have followed Christ at that moment because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7846]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Margery Kempe, Mystic, after 1433  That crowd of Jews would have followed Christ at that moment because He was giving them what they wanted [bread], and they wished to use Him for their plans and dreams and purposes. That attitude to Christ still lingers in men's minds. We would like Christ's gifts without Christ's Cross; we would like to use Christ instead of allowing Him to use us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home, which answer the same purpose as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27319]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home, which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love (Robin). He never ends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38521]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love (Robin). He never ends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53851]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Goethe said, 'Talent is developed in privacy, ' you know?And it's really true. There is a need for aloneness which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48269]]></link><description><![CDATA[Goethe said, 'Talent is developed in privacy, ' you know?And it's really true. There is a need for aloneness which I don't think most people realize for an actor. It's almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you'll let the whole world in on only for a moment, when you're acting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever life throws at us, we'll be able to handle it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34452]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever life throws at us, we'll be able to handle it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worry not that no one knows of you; seek to be worth knowing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worry not that no one knows of you; seek to be worth knowing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Set your target and keep trying until you reach it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63243]]></link><description><![CDATA[Set your target and keep trying until you reach it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we've created is not just a room with funny lights, but we've created an encounter that is designed to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38561]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we've created is not just a room with funny lights, but we've created an encounter that is designed to have an effect on the child. Children and parents have a more satisfying experience and fewer children need to be sedated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is the only animal that contemplates death, and also the only animal that shows any sign of doubt of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is the only animal that contemplates death, and also the only animal that shows any sign of doubt of its finality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little by little, the pimps have taken over the world. They don't do anything, they don't make anything - they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Little by little, the pimps have taken over the world. They don't do anything, they don't make anything - they just stand there and take their cut.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3817]]></link><description><![CDATA[Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of evils one should choose the least. [Lat., Ex malis eligere minima oportere.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14302]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of evils one should choose the least. [Lat., Ex malis eligere minima oportere.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15352]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15352</guid></item></channel></rss>