<?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[Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46921]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They made up for a very frustrating first half rather quickly. They responded to what we asked them to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39936]]></link><description><![CDATA[They made up for a very frustrating first half rather quickly. They responded to what we asked them to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I simple cannot understand the passion that some people have for making themselves thoroughly uncomfortable and then boasting about it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45626]]></link><description><![CDATA[I simple cannot understand the passion that some people have for making themselves thoroughly uncomfortable and then boasting about it afterwards.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take what you can use and let the rest go by ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take what you can use and let the rest go by]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer. - Gnomologia, 1732. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22145]]></link><description><![CDATA[All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer. - Gnomologia, 1732.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If cats could talk, they wouldn't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5326]]></link><description><![CDATA[If cats could talk, they wouldn't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we are flat on our backs there is no way to look but up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12035]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we are flat on our backs there is no way to look but up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The future of this republic is in the hands of the American voter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60994]]></link><description><![CDATA[The future of this republic is in the hands of the American voter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58661]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each story I've written starts out as a vague idea that seems to be going nowhere, then suddenly materializes as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each story I've written starts out as a vague idea that seems to be going nowhere, then suddenly materializes as a completed concept. It almost seems like a discovery, as if the story was always there. The few elements I start out with are actually clues. If I figure out what they mean, I can discover the story that's waiting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44044]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost. -J.R.R. Tolkein. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46086]]></link><description><![CDATA[All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost. -J.R.R. Tolkein.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When mistrust comes in, love goes out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42850]]></link><description><![CDATA[When mistrust comes in, love goes out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of things happened in a lot of places. And to see how well it was handled in Atlanta. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36792]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of things happened in a lot of places. And to see how well it was handled in Atlanta. There are a lot of reasons for Atlanta being a special town in the Civil Rights era.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All Life needs for life is possible to will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61609]]></link><description><![CDATA[All Life needs for life is possible to will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All Christian worship is a witness of the resurrection of Him who liveth for ever and ever. Because He lives, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41185]]></link><description><![CDATA[All Christian worship is a witness of the resurrection of Him who liveth for ever and ever. Because He lives, "now abideth faith, hope, charity."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The governor really doesn't control that. If they choose to operate under a different financial situation, that's up to them. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31899]]></link><description><![CDATA[The governor really doesn't control that. If they choose to operate under a different financial situation, that's up to them. They know best what they need.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19599]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since the invention of the microprocessor, the cost of moving a byte of information around has fallen on the order ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9457]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since the invention of the microprocessor, the cost of moving a byte of information around has fallen on the order of 10-million-fold. Never before in the human history has any product or service gotten 10 million times cheaper-much less in the course of a couple decades. That's as if a 747 plane, once at $150 million a piece, could now be bought for about the price of a large pizza.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not done. That's the one thing at this level. Recruiting is really not done until late August. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33920]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not done. That's the one thing at this level. Recruiting is really not done until late August.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm very pleased. It was really nice to come home with a trophy with this rebuilding group of girls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37507]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm very pleased. It was really nice to come home with a trophy with this rebuilding group of girls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For with G.D., to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to speak it profanely) to be present with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/148]]></link><description><![CDATA[For with G.D., to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to speak it profanely) to be present with the Lord.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Maximilian Kolbe, Franciscan Friar, Priest, Martyr, 1941   We distrust the providence of God when, after we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Maximilian Kolbe, Franciscan Friar, Priest, Martyr, 1941   We distrust the providence of God when, after we have used all our best endeavors and begged His blessing upon them, we torment ourselves about the wise issue and event of them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are going to be most creative and productive when they're doing something they're really interested in. So having fun ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13949]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are going to be most creative and productive when they're doing something they're really interested in. So having fun isn't an outrageous idea at all. It's a very sensible one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61178]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17326]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And on her lover's arm she leant, And round her waist she felt it fold,  And far across the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51729]]></link><description><![CDATA[And on her lover's arm she leant, And round her waist she felt it fold,  And far across the hills they went,   In that new world that is the old.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just as you began to feel that you could make good use of time, there was no time left to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just as you began to feel that you could make good use of time, there was no time left to you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hell is full of good intentions. [Sp., El infierno es lleno de buenas intenciones.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19137]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hell is full of good intentions. [Sp., El infierno es lleno de buenas intenciones.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is such a thing as taking ourselves and the world too seriously, or at any rate too anxiously. Half ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7647]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is such a thing as taking ourselves and the world too seriously, or at any rate too anxiously. Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain idea that every man is bound to be a critic of life, and to let no day pass without finding some fault with the general order of things, or projecting some plan for its general improvement. And the other half comes from the greedy notion that a man's life does consist, after all, in the abundance of things that he possesseth, and that it is, somehow or other, more respectable and pious to be always at work trying to make a larger living, than it is to lie on your back in the green pastures and beside the still waters, and thank God that you are alive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15700]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To relinquish any of the Psalms on the excuse that its sentiments are too violent for a Christian is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6402]]></link><description><![CDATA[To relinquish any of the Psalms on the excuse that its sentiments are too violent for a Christian is a clear sign that a person has also given up the very battle that a Christian is summoned to fight. The Psalms are prayers for those who are engaged in an ongoing, spiritual conflict. No one else need bother even opening the book.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stream of the living world Where dash the billows of strife!--  One plunge in the mighty torrent   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44431]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stream of the living world Where dash the billows of strife!--  One plunge in the mighty torrent   Is a year of tamer life!    City of glorious days,     Of hope, and labour and mirth,      With room and to spare, on thy splendid bays       For the ships of all the earth!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We, African-Americans, need to be more conscious of Africa. Africa will not get out of its economic hole until African-Americans ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36322]]></link><description><![CDATA[We, African-Americans, need to be more conscious of Africa. Africa will not get out of its economic hole until African-Americans start working with Africa. We've got the money. We need to go back home to our people and free them from their misery and suffering.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man who know little say much. Man who know much say little. -Unknown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man who know little say much. Man who know much say little. -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All men of action are dreamers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12819]]></link><description><![CDATA[All men of action are dreamers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52732]]></link><description><![CDATA[I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet each man kills the thing he loves... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25905]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet each man kills the thing he loves...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13576]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[WRATH, n. Anger of a superior quality and degree, appropriate to exalted characters and momentous occasions; as, "the wrath of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62377]]></link><description><![CDATA[WRATH, n. Anger of a superior quality and degree, appropriate to exalted characters and momentous occasions; as, "the wrath of God," "the day of wrath," etc. . . .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The stupendous fact that we stand in the midst of reality will always be something far more wonderful than anything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14528]]></link><description><![CDATA[The stupendous fact that we stand in the midst of reality will always be something far more wonderful than anything we do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And like a passing thought, she fled In light away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60874]]></link><description><![CDATA[And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am so in love with my brother right now! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4952]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am so in love with my brother right now!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I think about Zeal, he was the most honest and fair man I had ever known. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31857]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I think about Zeal, he was the most honest and fair man I had ever known.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not the position, but the disposition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21640]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not the position, but the disposition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evolution ever climbing after some ideal good And Reversion ever dragging Evolution in the mud. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14365]]></link><description><![CDATA[Evolution ever climbing after some ideal good And Reversion ever dragging Evolution in the mud.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature's laws affirm instead of prohibit. If you violate her laws, you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature's laws affirm instead of prohibit. If you violate her laws, you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thorns which I have reap'd are of the tree I planted--they have torn me--and I bleed!  I should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54040]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thorns which I have reap'd are of the tree I planted--they have torn me--and I bleed!  I should have known what fruit would spring from such a seed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the bonds of Death He lay Who for our offence was slain;  But the Lord is risen to-day, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13146]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the bonds of Death He lay Who for our offence was slain;  But the Lord is risen to-day,   Christ hath brought us life again,    Wherefore let us all rejoice,     Singing loud, with cheerful voice,      Hallelujah!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sea complains upon a thousand shores. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44894]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sea complains upon a thousand shores.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44894</guid></item></channel></rss>