<?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[My very first lessons in the art of telling stories took place in the kitchen . . . my mother ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23887]]></link><description><![CDATA[My very first lessons in the art of telling stories took place in the kitchen . . . my mother and three or four of her friends. . . told stories. . . with effortless art and technique. They were natural-born storytellers in the oral tradition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the world of reality, life, and human action there is no such thing as interests independent of ideas, preceding ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52016]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the world of reality, life, and human action there is no such thing as interests independent of ideas, preceding them temporarily and logically. What a man considers his interest is the result of his ideas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that will learne to pray, let him goe to Sea. [He that will learn to pray, let him go ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49411]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that will learne to pray, let him goe to Sea. [He that will learn to pray, let him go to Sea.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no dearth of kindness In the world of ours;  Only in our blindness   We gather thorns ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23757]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no dearth of kindness In the world of ours;  Only in our blindness   We gather thorns for flowers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who awaits much can expect little. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22714]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who awaits much can expect little.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46452]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged. [Fr., Je ne te quitterai point que je ne ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54091]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged. [Fr., Je ne te quitterai point que je ne t'aie vu pendu.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is an extra dividend when you like the girl you've fallen in love with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25731]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is an extra dividend when you like the girl you've fallen in love with.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17017]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Relegating women to second-class citizenship was abolished when Jesus died on the cross. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Relegating women to second-class citizenship was abolished when Jesus died on the cross.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ingratitude is monstrous; and for the multitude to be ingrateful were to make a monster of the multitude; of which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20898]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ingratitude is monstrous; and for the multitude to be ingrateful were to make a monster of the multitude; of which we being members, should bring ourselves to be monstrous members.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Next to the very young, the very old are the most selfish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Next to the very young, the very old are the most selfish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nunc scio quit sit amor."Lat., "Now I know what love is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2142]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nunc scio quit sit amor."Lat., "Now I know what love is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I got off stage and this guy walked up to me. He's like this ball of energy. His name was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37315]]></link><description><![CDATA[I got off stage and this guy walked up to me. He's like this ball of energy. His name was Lawrence Mathis, a manager. He said. 'I like what you're doing, and I'd like to talk to you. What are your plans? What are you doing?' I said, 'You caught me at a bad time, because I'm probably moving home in a couple of months.' But I met with him that next Monday and told him what was going on. He said, 'Give me a year to work with you.' I said, 'l don't have a year. I've got six months, at best.' He said, 'All right. Six months.' Five weeks later we got offered a deal from Broken Bow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, what a world of vile ill-favour'd faults Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year! -The Merry Wives of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55363]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, what a world of vile ill-favour'd faults Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year! -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Desire for approval and recognition is a healthy motive, but the desire to be acknowledged as better, stronger or more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Desire for approval and recognition is a healthy motive, but the desire to be acknowledged as better, stronger or more intelligent than a fellow being or fellow scholar easily leads to an excessively egoistic psychological adjustment, which may becom]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, good old man, how well in thee appears The constant service of the antique world, When service sweat for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55641]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, good old man, how well in thee appears The constant service of the antique world, When service sweat for duty, not for meed! Thou art not for the fashion of these times, Where none will sweat but for promotion. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not put on earth for ourselves, but are placed here for each other. If you are there always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44086]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not put on earth for ourselves, but are placed here for each other. If you are there always for others, then in time of need, someone will be there for you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is properly no history; only biography ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4215]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is properly no history; only biography]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4215</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[The pool noodle is not the important thing. Watch the body. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37372]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pool noodle is not the important thing. Watch the body.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19656]]></link><description><![CDATA[Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three year waiting list.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's timely and silences those who were betting Syria would not allow the interrogation of any Syrian, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36203]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's timely and silences those who were betting Syria would not allow the interrogation of any Syrian,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For a small bar, it's just great to get a national act like David and to be back better than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41021]]></link><description><![CDATA[For a small bar, it's just great to get a national act like David and to be back better than ever after the storms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a group in society, we've simply been ignored. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28523]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a group in society, we've simply been ignored.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men's language is as their lives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51171]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men's language is as their lives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Clement, Bishop of Rome, Martyr, c.100  When we say that the Scriptures are plain to all capacities ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7210]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Clement, Bishop of Rome, Martyr, c.100  When we say that the Scriptures are plain to all capacities in all things necessary, we mean that any man of ordinary capacity, by his own diligence and care, in conjunction with the helps and advantages which God hath appointed, and in the due use of them, may attain to the knowledge of everything necessary to his salvation; and that there is no book in the world more plain and better fitted to teach a man any art or science than the Bible is to direct and instruct men in the way to heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My unreality is chiefly this: I have never felt much like a human being. It's a splendid feeling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41501]]></link><description><![CDATA[My unreality is chiefly this: I have never felt much like a human being. It's a splendid feeling.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That number showed the market the U.S. may not be able to lower interest rates as soon as people expected ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35004]]></link><description><![CDATA[That number showed the market the U.S. may not be able to lower interest rates as soon as people expected ... and that will lengthen the time before their recovery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little labour, much health. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49048]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little labour, much health.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A handfull of good life is better then a bushell of learning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49034]]></link><description><![CDATA[A handfull of good life is better then a bushell of learning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49034</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[It is the theory that decides what can be observed ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59101]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the theory that decides what can be observed]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to assume there will be more deals. That certainly would be a positive for credit quality in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38803]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to assume there will be more deals. That certainly would be a positive for credit quality in the equipment space.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A scene has to have a rhythm of its own, a structure of its own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42619]]></link><description><![CDATA[A scene has to have a rhythm of its own, a structure of its own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A buck of the first head. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55488]]></link><description><![CDATA[A buck of the first head. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They allow schools to fit to kids instead of kids fitting to schools. Mandatory school assignment proves to have detrimental ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37529]]></link><description><![CDATA[They allow schools to fit to kids instead of kids fitting to schools. Mandatory school assignment proves to have detrimental consequences to students.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48140]]></link><description><![CDATA[The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas More, Scholar & Martyr, & John Fisher, Bishop & Martyr, 1535  We must always speak of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7732]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas More, Scholar & Martyr, & John Fisher, Bishop & Martyr, 1535  We must always speak of the efficacy of the ministry in such a manner that the entire praise of the work may be reserved for God alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Delegating means letting others become the experts and hence the best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47447]]></link><description><![CDATA[Delegating means letting others become the experts and hence the best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dousing wandThe lightning rodConductor's batonWill's aligned spineThey find the water,invoke the lightningattract the musicand summon angels' aid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57962]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dousing wandThe lightning rodConductor's batonWill's aligned spineThey find the water,invoke the lightningattract the musicand summon angels' aid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We think that this new document is balanced in character, and it includes North Korea's right to peaceful atomic energy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28846]]></link><description><![CDATA[We think that this new document is balanced in character, and it includes North Korea's right to peaceful atomic energy and the possibility in the long term of building a light-water nuclear reactor,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65123]]></link><description><![CDATA[I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; butknowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21591]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; butknowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in spaceand indefinite in duration.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In peace, sons bury their fathers; in war, fathers bury their sons. -Herodotus. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45993]]></link><description><![CDATA[In peace, sons bury their fathers; in war, fathers bury their sons. -Herodotus.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47077]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin they think of firelit homes, clean beds, and wives ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin they think of firelit homes, clean beds, and wives]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57367]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[C. S. Lewis Centennial  Holding [the Way of Affirmation], we see that every created thing is, in its degree, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8528]]></link><description><![CDATA[C. S. Lewis Centennial  Holding [the Way of Affirmation], we see that every created thing is, in its degree, an image of God, and the ordinate and faithful appreciation of that thing a clue, which, truly followed, will lead back to Him. Holding [the Way of Rejection], we see that every created thing, the highest devotion to moral duty, the purest conjugal love, the saint and the seraph, is no more than an image; that every one of them, followed for its own sake and isolated from its source, becomes an idol whose service is damnation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No river can return to its source, yet all rivers must have a beginning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3971]]></link><description><![CDATA[No river can return to its source, yet all rivers must have a beginning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3971</guid></item></channel></rss>