<?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 would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56437]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Add to golden numbers golden numbers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Add to golden numbers golden numbers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Long ago, people used to host Sunday afternoon dances with desserts and tea. We figured with the growing popularity of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Long ago, people used to host Sunday afternoon dances with desserts and tea. We figured with the growing popularity of the tango, we might be able to bring back two lost traditions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will see no better deal this week or next year. We believe our proposal to be fair and balanced ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39015]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will see no better deal this week or next year. We believe our proposal to be fair and balanced and there is very narrow room for negotiation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17906]]></link><description><![CDATA[Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a mountain is more at risk than someone who just walks along a village lane.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These broad evaluations of Iran as a present and growing threat highlight the truly perilous situation most Americans see outside ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31633]]></link><description><![CDATA[These broad evaluations of Iran as a present and growing threat highlight the truly perilous situation most Americans see outside our boarders. We haven't even finished one war and many already see the potential need for another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good husband makes a good wife. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27081]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good husband makes a good wife.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For what one has in black and white, One can carry home in comfort.  [Ger., Denn was man schwarz ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47765]]></link><description><![CDATA[For what one has in black and white, One can carry home in comfort.  [Ger., Denn was man schwarz auf weiss besitzt,   Kann man getrost nach Hause tragen.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can only hate the person whom we love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25890]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can only hate the person whom we love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Defence, not defiance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43284]]></link><description><![CDATA[Defence, not defiance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where your will is ready, your feete are light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50085]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where your will is ready, your feete are light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're playing it all over our radio stations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29820]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're playing it all over our radio stations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46365]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and sensual.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything. - The Passionate State of the Mind, 1954. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2865]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything. - The Passionate State of the Mind, 1954.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination fromambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47364]]></link><description><![CDATA[The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination fromambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference,andundernourishment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i' th' bud,  Feed on her damask cheek. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51525]]></link><description><![CDATA[She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i' th' bud,  Feed on her damask cheek. She pined in thought;   And, with a green and yellow melancholy,    She sat like Patience on a monument,     Smiling at grief.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60760]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3969]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It did a great deal of good, physically and mentally for me. I felt fresh out there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37347]]></link><description><![CDATA[It did a great deal of good, physically and mentally for me. I felt fresh out there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54705]]></link><description><![CDATA[The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There can be no economy where there is no efficiency. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13345]]></link><description><![CDATA[There can be no economy where there is no efficiency.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But everyone is responsible for protecting children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39425]]></link><description><![CDATA[But everyone is responsible for protecting children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20481]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Breaking his oath and resolution, like A twist of rotten silk. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Breaking his oath and resolution, like A twist of rotten silk.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't exaggerate - I just remember big ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17805]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't exaggerate - I just remember big]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He played too well. I also had some problems with my knee. But tomorrow it's going to be a different ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36698]]></link><description><![CDATA[He played too well. I also had some problems with my knee. But tomorrow it's going to be a different game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A half-truth is a whole lie ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24790]]></link><description><![CDATA[A half-truth is a whole lie]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Holy Innocents  The Bible is the written word of God, and because it is written it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7218]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Holy Innocents  The Bible is the written word of God, and because it is written it is confined and limited by the necessities of ink and paper and leather. The Voice of God, however, is alive and free as the sovereign God is free. "The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit and they are life." The life is in the speaking words. God's word in the Bible can have power only because it corresponds to God's word in the universe. It is the present Voice which makes the written Word all-powerful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You won't realize the distance you've walked until you take a look around and realize how far you've been. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21055]]></link><description><![CDATA[You won't realize the distance you've walked until you take a look around and realize how far you've been.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think writing about unhappiness is probably the source of my popularity, if I have any-after all, most people are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60092]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think writing about unhappiness is probably the source of my popularity, if I have any-after all, most people are unhappy, don't you think?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who would be useful, strong, and happy must cease to be a passive receptacle for the negative, beggarly, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37021]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who would be useful, strong, and happy must cease to be a passive receptacle for the negative, beggarly, and impure streams of thought; and as a wise householder commands his servants and invites his guests, so must he learn to command his desires and to say, with authority, what thoughts he shall admit into the mansion of his soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the woman who chooses the man who will choose her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27088]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the woman who chooses the man who will choose her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4838]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like to enjoy myself, but rest assured that I can be as serious as anyone else can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65823]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like to enjoy myself, but rest assured that I can be as serious as anyone else can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62228]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Missouri Bar runs people through Constitutional curriculum. I would like to see high schools take that up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34009]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Missouri Bar runs people through Constitutional curriculum. I would like to see high schools take that up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cards were at first for benefits designed, Sent to amuse, not to enslave the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cards were at first for benefits designed, Sent to amuse, not to enslave the mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13172]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If your time ain't come not even a doctor can kill you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23706]]></link><description><![CDATA[If your time ain't come not even a doctor can kill you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hardest part is your home fans booing you, but it comes with the territory. The guys have still got ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38269]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hardest part is your home fans booing you, but it comes with the territory. The guys have still got confidence in me. I just have to get confidence back in myself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cost of health care is going up much faster than people's wages. Families are paying about (on average) $1,000 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34065]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cost of health care is going up much faster than people's wages. Families are paying about (on average) $1,000 more now just for health care premiums than they were five years ago.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A shorter rotation is to be expected. Every team and every coach does that. Every team wants its seven or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31933]]></link><description><![CDATA[A shorter rotation is to be expected. Every team and every coach does that. Every team wants its seven or eight best out there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rhetoric is nothing, but reason well dressed and argument put in order. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54181]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rhetoric is nothing, but reason well dressed and argument put in order.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Browning ... tells us that what won him for Christ was this, that while others tried to soothe his angry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8389]]></link><description><![CDATA[Browning ... tells us that what won him for Christ was this, that while others tried to soothe his angry conscience, and kept urging that, really, things were not nearly so bad as he was making out, Christ looked him in the eyes and told him bluntly that he was a desperate sinner, worse, much worse, even than he realized. And that, queerly enough as you might think, the man was not discomfited but heartened. Here at last, he felt, is one who understands and knows the facts. And since His desperate diagnosis is so accurate, may not His optimism also justify itself even in me. Well does He know what is in human nature, and yet, knowing the worst, He still has confident hope.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58486]]></link><description><![CDATA[More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The economy is still growing, albeit at a more moderate pace than in the previous quarter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39867]]></link><description><![CDATA[The economy is still growing, albeit at a more moderate pace than in the previous quarter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sure, we got a couple lucky bounces at the end of the game, but we had to put ourselves in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sure, we got a couple lucky bounces at the end of the game, but we had to put ourselves in a position to take advantage of them. We never would have been there if we hadn't awoken from the funk we were in at the start.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest threat to freedom, as well as the most formidable enemy of it, is a supported cause against it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58969]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest threat to freedom, as well as the most formidable enemy of it, is a supported cause against it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58969</guid></item></channel></rss>