<?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[We wanted to make a version that wasn't so disturbing that you couldn't put it in a family movie, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38845]]></link><description><![CDATA[We wanted to make a version that wasn't so disturbing that you couldn't put it in a family movie,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, c.326    If I now want to add something of my own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, c.326    If I now want to add something of my own (i.e., inner assurances) to this faith, if this great and glorious faith is defective and saves me not till I can add my own sense and my own feeling to it at such a time or place, is not this saying in the plainest manner that faith alone cannot justify me? ... All I would say of these inward delights and enjoyments is this: they are not holiness, they are not piety, they are not perfection, but they are God's gracious allurements and calls to seek after holiness and spiritual perfection.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If operating systems are weapons, Solaris is a world-war-two German railway gun with a cracked breech block. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57114]]></link><description><![CDATA[If operating systems are weapons, Solaris is a world-war-two German railway gun with a cracked breech block.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some good lessons Are also learnt from Ceres and from Bacchus,  Without whom Venus will not long attack us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48759]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some good lessons Are also learnt from Ceres and from Bacchus,  Without whom Venus will not long attack us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lower your voice and strengthen your argument. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3067]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lower your voice and strengthen your argument.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27613]]></link><description><![CDATA[To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a panel feels that a grant is worthy and they know the content of the work of art in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37186]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a panel feels that a grant is worthy and they know the content of the work of art in question, we at the endowment will be prepared to defend it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would have you call to mind the strength of the ancient giants, that undertook to lay the high mountain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43314]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would have you call to mind the strength of the ancient giants, that undertook to lay the high mountain Pelion on the top of Ossa, and set among those the shady Olympus.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When it draws near to witching time of night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44517]]></link><description><![CDATA[When it draws near to witching time of night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The eye and Religion can beare no jesting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49839]]></link><description><![CDATA[The eye and Religion can beare no jesting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I accept reality and dare not question it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53082]]></link><description><![CDATA[I accept reality and dare not question it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Devil himself, which is the author of confusion and lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12138]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Devil himself, which is the author of confusion and lies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Alban, first Martyr of Britain, c.209  It is an abuse to confess any kind of sin, mortal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7253]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Alban, first Martyr of Britain, c.209  It is an abuse to confess any kind of sin, mortal or venial, without a will to be delivered from it, since confession was instituted for no other end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Order is never observed; it is disorder that attracts attention because it is awkward and intrusive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Order is never observed; it is disorder that attracts attention because it is awkward and intrusive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11076]]></link><description><![CDATA[...Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47084]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The (penalty kill) has been doing a great job all year. It's something we want to improve down the stretch ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32576]]></link><description><![CDATA[The (penalty kill) has been doing a great job all year. It's something we want to improve down the stretch and it gives us confidence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discontent is want of self-reliance; it is infirmity of will ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discontent is want of self-reliance; it is infirmity of will]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the Czar has a cold all Russia coughs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12515]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the Czar has a cold all Russia coughs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I still buy nice pieces but, at the moment, they're presents for other people, so I only collect vicariously. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42533]]></link><description><![CDATA[I still buy nice pieces but, at the moment, they're presents for other people, so I only collect vicariously.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66181]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vengeance is a dish best eaten cold ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vengeance is a dish best eaten cold]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that hath little is the lesse durtie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49350]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that hath little is the lesse durtie.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And castels buylt above in lofty skies, Which never yet had good foundation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20518]]></link><description><![CDATA[And castels buylt above in lofty skies, Which never yet had good foundation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can have a set list and program the whole show, ... but if it's not working, it's not working. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29964]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can have a set list and program the whole show, ... but if it's not working, it's not working. You need to be able to adjust your set and be flexible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judge not a man by his clothes, but by his wife's clothes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2833]]></link><description><![CDATA[Judge not a man by his clothes, but by his wife's clothes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We live in the present, we dream of the future and we learn eternal truths from the past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1146]]></link><description><![CDATA[We live in the present, we dream of the future and we learn eternal truths from the past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's absolutely devastating, ... It's one thing to see it on TV, and it's another to talk to a mom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33592]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's absolutely devastating, ... It's one thing to see it on TV, and it's another to talk to a mom and dad and children who have lost everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65389]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If two men on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43355]]></link><description><![CDATA[If two men on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, then both are useless.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14484]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the end antiblack, antifemale, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing - antihumanism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12463]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the end antiblack, antifemale, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing - antihumanism.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By physical liberty I mean the right to do anything which does not interfere with the happiness of another. By ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24730]]></link><description><![CDATA[By physical liberty I mean the right to do anything which does not interfere with the happiness of another. By intellectual liberty I mean the right to think wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time was made for slaves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59311]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time was made for slaves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're essentially running a campaign without reporting who their contributors are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39624]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're essentially running a campaign without reporting who their contributors are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57303]]></link><description><![CDATA[Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts to space.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't take life seriously because you can't come out of it alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1254]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't take life seriously because you can't come out of it alive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The survivorship of a worthy man in his son is a pleasure scarce inferior to the hopes of the continuance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47850]]></link><description><![CDATA[The survivorship of a worthy man in his son is a pleasure scarce inferior to the hopes of the continuance of his own life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a thing that is full of cares and fears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64570]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a thing that is full of cares and fears.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If most men and women were forced to rely upon physical charm to attract lovers, their sexual lives would be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5768]]></link><description><![CDATA[If most men and women were forced to rely upon physical charm to attract lovers, their sexual lives would be not only meager but in a youth-worshiping country like America painfully brief.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above five-and-twenty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1722]]></link><description><![CDATA[By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above five-and-twenty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Papua New Guinea, 1942  Whence comes this idea that if what we are doing is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7653]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Papua New Guinea, 1942  Whence comes this idea that if what we are doing is fun, it can't be God's will? The God who made giraffes, a baby's fingernails, a puppy's tail, a crooknecked squash, the bobwhite's call, and a young girl's giggle, has a sense of humor. Make no mistake about that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  I have called my material surroundings a stage set. In this I can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  I have called my material surroundings a stage set. In this I can act. And you may well say "act". For what I call "myself" (for all practical, everyday purposes) is also a dramatic construction; memories, glimpses in the shavinglass, and snatches of the very fallible activity called "introspection", are the principal ingredients. Normally I call this construction "me"' and the stage set "the real world". Now the moment of prayer is for me -- or involves for me as its condition -- the awareness, the reawakened awareness, that this "real world" and "real self" are very far from being rock-bottom realities. I cannot, in the flesh, leave the stage, either to go behind the scenes or to take my seat in the pit; but I can remember that these regions exist. And I also remember that my apparent self -- this clown or hero or super -- under his grease-paint is a real person with an off-stage life. The dramatic person could not tread the stage unless he concealed a real person: unless the real and unknown I existed, I would not even make mistakes about the imagined me. And in prayer this real I struggles to speak, for once, from his real being, and to address, for once, not the other actors, but -- what shall I call Him? The Author, for He invented us all? The Producer, for He controls all? Or the Audience, for He watches, and will judge, the performance?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are oft to blame in this, 'Tis too much proved, that with devotion's visage  And pious action we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20233]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are oft to blame in this, 'Tis too much proved, that with devotion's visage  And pious action we do sugar o'er   The devil himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21707]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed. -Edna O'Brien. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27170]]></link><description><![CDATA[The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed. -Edna O'Brien.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60344]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60344</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/7742]]></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  Here in Pilgrim's Progress there is the ultimate human nostalgia for the City of God, which is the restless heart's true home. And even the cynical, the unbelieving and half-believing reader who goes with Christian to the end of the road must be a little shaken, may tremble to see something like a gate and also some of the glory of the place, and, glimpsing something of the company within the golden gates, may wish himself among them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The International Brigades provided a shock force while the Republic trained and organized an army from an assemblage of individuals. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30176]]></link><description><![CDATA[The International Brigades provided a shock force while the Republic trained and organized an army from an assemblage of individuals. The Spanish people knew they were not fighting alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30176</guid></item></channel></rss>