<?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 wish I had a Kryptonite cross, because then you could keep both Dracula AND Superman away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11759]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wish I had a Kryptonite cross, because then you could keep both Dracula AND Superman away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't want anyone to know it, don't do it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60527]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't want anyone to know it, don't do it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61737]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The various moral and theological and sociological disputes of the day, however progressively resolved with ecclesiastical connivance, have nothing to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7298]]></link><description><![CDATA[The various moral and theological and sociological disputes of the day, however progressively resolved with ecclesiastical connivance, have nothing to say to this spiritual hunger, which is not assuaged by legalized abortion and homosexuality, solaced by contraception, or relieved by majority rule. Nor will it take comfort in the thought that God is dead, or that mankind has come of age, or even in ecumenical negotiations for writing off Papal Infallibility against the validity of Anglican Orders. The only means of satisfying it remains that bread of life which Jesus offered, with the promise that those who are of it should never hunger again. The promise stands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weakness to be wroth with weakness! woman's pleasure, woman's pain-- Nature made them blinder motions bounded in a shallower brain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Weakness to be wroth with weakness! woman's pleasure, woman's pain-- Nature made them blinder motions bounded in a shallower brain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dost thou love hawking? Thou hast hawks will soar Above the morning lark. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18896]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dost thou love hawking? Thou hast hawks will soar Above the morning lark.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the local level, revenues which exceed the limit will have to be used to reduce local property taxes; at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41995]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the local level, revenues which exceed the limit will have to be used to reduce local property taxes; at the state level, revenues beyond the limit can be used to reduce existing taxes or as cash rebates.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All music is folk music, I ain't never heard no horse sing a song ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41054]]></link><description><![CDATA[All music is folk music, I ain't never heard no horse sing a song]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[December is an anomaly. We had an array of trouble. We had contractor problems, where contractors weren't able to clear ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41664]]></link><description><![CDATA[December is an anomaly. We had an array of trouble. We had contractor problems, where contractors weren't able to clear the tracks in time for rush hour. We had a broken rail, missing third-rail shoes, locomotive engine failures, and then we had the (New York City transit) strike in December. That affected all the lines because of slower boarding and congestions. We had trains stacked.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You do not have enough data to assign value to any actionin the book Starseed Transmissions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4003]]></link><description><![CDATA[You do not have enough data to assign value to any actionin the book Starseed Transmissions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65676]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is indeed its own reward. [Lat., Ipsa quidem pretium virtus sibi.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60776]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is indeed its own reward. [Lat., Ipsa quidem pretium virtus sibi.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eyes of gentianellas azure, Staring, winking at the skies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14824]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eyes of gentianellas azure, Staring, winking at the skies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63787]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Farce follow'd Comedy, and reach'd her prime. In ever-laughing Foote's fantastic time;  Mad wag! who pardon'd none, nor spared ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Farce follow'd Comedy, and reach'd her prime. In ever-laughing Foote's fantastic time;  Mad wag! who pardon'd none, nor spared the best,   And turn'd some very serious things to jest.    Nor church nor state escaped his public sneers,     Arms nor the gown, priests, lawyers, volunteers;      "Alas, poor Yorick!" now forever mute!       Whoever loves a laugh must sigh for Foote.        We smile, perforce, when histrionic scenes         Ape the swoln dialogue of kings and queens,          When "Chrononhotonthelogos must die,"           And Arthur struts in mimic majesty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The enemy of art is the absence of limitations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63239]]></link><description><![CDATA[The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know I met you, Kist you, and prest you close within my arms,  With all the tenderness of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61879]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know I met you, Kist you, and prest you close within my arms,  With all the tenderness of wifely love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4018]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2711]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, for one hour of blind old Dandolo, Th' octogenarian chief, Byzantium's conquering foe! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1727]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, for one hour of blind old Dandolo, Th' octogenarian chief, Byzantium's conquering foe!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11217]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tithe, and be rich. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tithe, and be rich.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In brief, I don't stick to declare, Father Dick, So they call him for short, is a regular brick;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5625]]></link><description><![CDATA[In brief, I don't stick to declare, Father Dick, So they call him for short, is a regular brick;  A metaphor taken--I have not the page aright--   From an ethical work by the Stagyrite.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[F.M. The Duke of Wellington presents his compliments to Mr. ------ and declines to interfere in circumstances over which he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8730]]></link><description><![CDATA[F.M. The Duke of Wellington presents his compliments to Mr. ------ and declines to interfere in circumstances over which he has no control.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In arriving at a decision in a question of doubt, the apostles in the Acts were guided solely by their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7662]]></link><description><![CDATA[In arriving at a decision in a question of doubt, the apostles in the Acts were guided solely by their sense of the Spirit behind the action, not by any speculations as to consequences which might ensue. And so they found the truth. Gradually the results of the action manifested themselves, and, seeing them, they perceived what they had really done, and learnt the meaning of the truth revealed in the action. But if, from fear of the consequences, they had checked or forbidden the action, they would have lost this revelation. They would have missed the way to truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Millions for defence, but not one cent for tribute. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Millions for defence, but not one cent for tribute.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sad and solemn night Hath yet her multitude of cheerful fires;  The glorious host of light   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57818]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sad and solemn night Hath yet her multitude of cheerful fires;  The glorious host of light   Walk the dark hemisphere till she retires;    All through her silent watches, gliding slow,     Her constellations come, and climb the heavens, and go.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two hundred million Americans, and there ain't two good catchers among 'em. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57686]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two hundred million Americans, and there ain't two good catchers among 'em.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43722]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19548]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Irenæus, Bishop of Lyons, Teacher, Martyr, c.200  Too many Christians still live with crossed fingers, sweating out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6806]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Irenæus, Bishop of Lyons, Teacher, Martyr, c.200  Too many Christians still live with crossed fingers, sweating out their good luck as a portent of calamity. To see them, you would never guess that God's good pleasure, and not the goddess of fate, rules human destiny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And what art thou, thou idol Ceremony? What kind of god art thou, that suffer'st more  Of mortal griefs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5443]]></link><description><![CDATA[And what art thou, thou idol Ceremony? What kind of god art thou, that suffer'st more  Of mortal griefs than do thy worshippers?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not all those who wander are lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65404]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not all those who wander are lost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambition should be made of sterner stuff. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63595]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66460]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't believe that out of 10,000 sperm, you were the quickest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66155]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't believe that out of 10,000 sperm, you were the quickest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64638]]></link><description><![CDATA[Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59305]]></link><description><![CDATA[For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't get many bites, but you can get some big bass, especially when the pattern first develops. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40401]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't get many bites, but you can get some big bass, especially when the pattern first develops.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And he wrote in the king Ahasuerus' name, and sealed it with the king's ring, and sent letters by posts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47806]]></link><description><![CDATA[And he wrote in the king Ahasuerus' name, and sealed it with the king's ring, and sent letters by posts on horseback, and riders on mules, camels, and young dromedaries: . . . . So the posts that rode upon mules and camels went out, being hastened and pressed on by the king's commandment. And the decrees was given at Shushan the palace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At all times, day by day, we have to continue fighting for freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and freedom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27599]]></link><description><![CDATA[At all times, day by day, we have to continue fighting for freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and freedom from want--for these are things that must be gained in peace as well as in war.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Television is the first truly democratic culture, the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Television is the first truly democratic culture, the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. the most terrifying thing is what people do want.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Part of the healing process is sharing with other people who care. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66551]]></link><description><![CDATA[Part of the healing process is sharing with other people who care.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger may in time change to gladness; vexation may be succeeded by content. But a kingdom that has once been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2577]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger may in time change to gladness; vexation may be succeeded by content. But a kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being; norcan the dead ever be brought back to life. Hence the enlightened ruler is heedful, and the good general full of caution. This is the way to keep a country at peace and an army intact.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30114]]></link><description><![CDATA[The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 651 Commemoration of Cuthburga, Founding Abbess of Wimborne, c.725 Commemoration of John Bunyan, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7297]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 651 Commemoration of Cuthburga, Founding Abbess of Wimborne, c.725 Commemoration of John Bunyan, Spiritual Writer, 1688   Afflictions make the heart more deep, more experimental, more knowing and profound, and so, more able to hold, to contain, and beat more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A nightingale dies for shame if another bird sings better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56125]]></link><description><![CDATA[A nightingale dies for shame if another bird sings better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1647]]></link><description><![CDATA[Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1647</guid></item></channel></rss>