<?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[Sometimes it's Britney Spears and sometimes it's Carrie Fisher. I can't tell if I've got a Lolita complex or an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes it's Britney Spears and sometimes it's Carrie Fisher. I can't tell if I've got a Lolita complex or an Oedipus complex.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16782]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a mind to join a club and beat you over the head with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66072]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a mind to join a club and beat you over the head with it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I implore you in God's name, not to think of Him as hard to please, but rather as generous beyond ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6764]]></link><description><![CDATA[I implore you in God's name, not to think of Him as hard to please, but rather as generous beyond all that you can ask or think.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is but a small merit to observe silence, but it is a grave fault to speak of matters on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50736]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is but a small merit to observe silence, but it is a grave fault to speak of matters on which we should be silent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We call it a wardrobe. It's a magic place where children find out that the world is a place of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29227]]></link><description><![CDATA[We call it a wardrobe. It's a magic place where children find out that the world is a place of infinite possibilities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis more noble to forgive, and more manly to despise, than to revenge an Injury. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54082]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis more noble to forgive, and more manly to despise, than to revenge an Injury.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let Apella the Jew credit it, if he will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let Apella the Jew credit it, if he will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54111]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I almost don't know where to begin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39883]]></link><description><![CDATA[I almost don't know where to begin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better is one Accipe, then twice to say, Dabo tibi. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49158]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better is one Accipe, then twice to say, Dabo tibi.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cynics are made, not born. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10953]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cynics are made, not born.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His thirst he slakes at some pure neighboring brook, Nor seeks for sauce where Appetite stands cook. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2895]]></link><description><![CDATA[His thirst he slakes at some pure neighboring brook, Nor seeks for sauce where Appetite stands cook.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He threatens many that hath injured one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50415]]></link><description><![CDATA[He threatens many that hath injured one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I bet a lot of mimes choke to death because nobody believes they're really choking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27486]]></link><description><![CDATA[I bet a lot of mimes choke to death because nobody believes they're really choking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is one mind in two bodies. Unknown Friends are the siblings, God never gave us. -Mencius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is one mind in two bodies. Unknown Friends are the siblings, God never gave us. -Mencius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's hallowed ground? Has earth a clod Its Maker mean'd not should be trod  By man, the image of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18216]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's hallowed ground? Has earth a clod Its Maker mean'd not should be trod  By man, the image of his God,   Erect and free,    Unscourged by Superstition's rod.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jesus once declared that God is "good to the ungrateful and the wicked" (St. Luke 6:35), and I remember preaching ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7389]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jesus once declared that God is "good to the ungrateful and the wicked" (St. Luke 6:35), and I remember preaching a sermon on this text to a horrified and even astonished congregation who simply refused to believe (so I gathered afterwards) in this astounding liberality of God. That God should be in a state of constant fury with the wicked seemed to them only right and proper, but that God should be kind towards those who were defying or disobeying His laws seemed to them a monstrous injustice. Yet I was but quoting the Son of God Himself, and I only comment here that the terrifying risks that God takes are part of His Nature. We do not need to explain or modify His unremitting love towards mankind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22277]]></link><description><![CDATA[The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One must talk about everything according to its nature, how it comes to be and how it grows. Men have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44804]]></link><description><![CDATA[One must talk about everything according to its nature, how it comes to be and how it grows. Men have talked about the world without paying attention to the world of their own minds, as if they were asleep or absent-minded.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chaos results when the world changes faster than people ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5608]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chaos results when the world changes faster than people]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A great part of the pleasure of travel lies in the fulfillment of early wishes to escape the family and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17039]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great part of the pleasure of travel lies in the fulfillment of early wishes to escape the family and especially the father]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have no time to make money, I am searching for the truth ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41029]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have no time to make money, I am searching for the truth]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't run your own life, somebody else will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1066]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't run your own life, somebody else will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is in souls a sympathy with sounds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58517]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We just had to tell the stories of these amazing volunteers, who left their families and jobs in some case ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41003]]></link><description><![CDATA[We just had to tell the stories of these amazing volunteers, who left their families and jobs in some case to work around the clock at the most dangerous disaster site in historyGround Zero.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23370]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61755]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But time strips our illusions of their hue, And one by one in turn some grand mistake  Casts off ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48726]]></link><description><![CDATA[But time strips our illusions of their hue, And one by one in turn some grand mistake  Casts off its bright skin yearly like a snake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In such a night Did Thisbe fearfully o'ertrip the dew,  And saw the lion's shadow ere himself,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26722]]></link><description><![CDATA[In such a night Did Thisbe fearfully o'ertrip the dew,  And saw the lion's shadow ere himself,   And ran dismayed away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53718]]></link><description><![CDATA[We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19681]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mistake is a Buddhist gift.Director Terry Gilliam to Robin Williams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/215]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mistake is a Buddhist gift.Director Terry Gilliam to Robin Williams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4995]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bigger they are, the further they have to fall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18255]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bigger they are, the further they have to fall.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[World trade means competition from anywhere; advancing technology encourages cross-industry competition. Consequently, strategic planning must consider who our future competitors ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57541]]></link><description><![CDATA[World trade means competition from anywhere; advancing technology encourages cross-industry competition. Consequently, strategic planning must consider who our future competitors will be, not only who is here today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flowers always make people better, happier and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine to the soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16274]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flowers always make people better, happier and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine to the soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always had to rebuild. Every school I've coached at always had a losing season before. That was one of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33378]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always had to rebuild. Every school I've coached at always had a losing season before. That was one of my passions to come to a school and always leave it better than it was.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24064]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To Paradise, the Arabs say, Satan could never find the way  Until the peacock led him in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46001]]></link><description><![CDATA[To Paradise, the Arabs say, Satan could never find the way  Until the peacock led him in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63268]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thanksgiving (U.S.) Lord, I am glad for the great gift of living, Glad for Thy days of sun and of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thanksgiving (U.S.) Lord, I am glad for the great gift of living, Glad for Thy days of sun and of rain; Grateful for joy, with an endless thanksgiving, Grateful for laughter -- and grateful for pain. Lord, I am glad for the young April's wonder, Glad for the fulness of long summer days; And now when the spring and my heart are asunder, Lord, I give thanks for the dark autumn ways. Sun, bloom, and blossom, O Lord, I remember, The dream of the spring and its joy I recall; But now in the silence and pain of November, Lord, I give thanks to Thee, Giver of all!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66082]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's Christmas in August for big energy, and consumers get lumps of coal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29406]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's Christmas in August for big energy, and consumers get lumps of coal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The college idealists who fill the ranks of the environmental movement seem willing to do absolutely anything to save the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47206]]></link><description><![CDATA[The college idealists who fill the ranks of the environmental movement seem willing to do absolutely anything to save the biosphere, except take science courses and learn something about it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us all be happy, and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us all be happy, and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6123]]></link><description><![CDATA[And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's been way too dry. There doesn't look to be any relief in sight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37823]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's been way too dry. There doesn't look to be any relief in sight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sincere student of Scripture cannot avoid the truth of God's choice of individuals from among the sinful race of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6359]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sincere student of Scripture cannot avoid the truth of God's choice of individuals from among the sinful race of men. We may not understand this, but we must never deny it. Scripture is filled with this great truth: it is not an isolated doctrine of the Word.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every burned book enlightens the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5426]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every burned book enlightens the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5426</guid></item></channel></rss>