<?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[Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals. - Points of View. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20100]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals. - Points of View.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3285]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52788]]></link><description><![CDATA[To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rich adopt novelties and become accustomed to their use. This sets a fashion which others imitate. Once the richer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15738]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rich adopt novelties and become accustomed to their use. This sets a fashion which others imitate. Once the richer classes have adopted a certain way of living, producers have an incentive to improve the methods of manufacture so that soon it is possible for the poorer classes to follow suit. Thus luxury furthers progress. Innovation "is the whim of an elite before it becomes a need of the public. The luxury today is the necessity of tomorrow." Luxury is the roadmaker of progress: it develops latent needs and makes people discontented. In so far as they think consistently, moralists who condemn luxury must recommend the comparatively desireless existence of the wild life roaming in the woods as the ultimate ideal of civilized life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lack of discipline leads to frustration and self-loathing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1237]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lack of discipline leads to frustration and self-loathing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was pleased with the effort our kids put forth from the start of the game. We got a little ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32377]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was pleased with the effort our kids put forth from the start of the game. We got a little bit sloppy at the end and we need to be sharper. We need to keep getting better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35172]]></link><description><![CDATA[The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is but a flower,Which wrinkles will devour;Brightness falls from the air;Queens have died young and fair;Dust hath closed Helen's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25306]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is but a flower,Which wrinkles will devour;Brightness falls from the air;Queens have died young and fair;Dust hath closed Helen's eye.I am sick, I must die;Lord have mercy on us. - Song in Time of Pestilence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[John has the ability, he is a slippery player, he is able to use good speed and he has a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38083]]></link><description><![CDATA[John has the ability, he is a slippery player, he is able to use good speed and he has a great change of direction. He has a knack of getting himself to the goal and is also a very good feeder so he is making others better. When John is at his best, there are not many players that are of his ability in the country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/895]]></link><description><![CDATA[Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace is more important than all justice; and was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace is more important than all justice; and was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ounce of wit is worth a pound of sorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61806]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ounce of wit is worth a pound of sorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That does not stop people in those relationships from going through legal means of getting for instance, health care power ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39291]]></link><description><![CDATA[That does not stop people in those relationships from going through legal means of getting for instance, health care power of attorney.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People have learned the tricks, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34607]]></link><description><![CDATA[People have learned the tricks,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not uncommon to see kids on the school bus reading books and doing homework on the bus. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29492]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not uncommon to see kids on the school bus reading books and doing homework on the bus.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common-sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8010]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common-sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12610]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14293]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe the only explanation is that God did something extraordinary for Ryan. Ryan's got such a steadfast spirit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40802]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe the only explanation is that God did something extraordinary for Ryan. Ryan's got such a steadfast spirit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pity the man who has a character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46620]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pity the man who has a character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We believe that Muslims around the world must follow the example of Prophet Muhammad, who was compassionate and man of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34338]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe that Muslims around the world must follow the example of Prophet Muhammad, who was compassionate and man of mercy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Believe it or not, he has dedicated his life and his ideal to his country and to his nation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28434]]></link><description><![CDATA[Believe it or not, he has dedicated his life and his ideal to his country and to his nation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Satan exalted sat, by merit raised To that bad eminence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12157]]></link><description><![CDATA[Satan exalted sat, by merit raised To that bad eminence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reality is an illusion that occurs due to lack of alcohol ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reality is an illusion that occurs due to lack of alcohol]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We feel he'll be a great fit for our team, ... He'll come in and be our No. 3 quarterback. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30749]]></link><description><![CDATA[We feel he'll be a great fit for our team, ... He'll come in and be our No. 3 quarterback. It gives us some great insurance and a feeling that we can sleep at night that we have a bona fide NFL starter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spritual writer, 1893   We feel that other churches must accept, as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7375]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spritual writer, 1893   We feel that other churches must accept, as the pre-conditions of fellowship, such changes as will bring them into conformity with ourselves in matters which we regard as essential, and that a failure to insist on this will involve compromise in regard to what is essential to the Church's being. But for precisely the same reason, we cannot admit a demand from others for any changes in ourselves which would seem to imply a denial that we already possess the esse of the Church.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through this toilsome world, alas! Once and only once I pass; If a kindness I may show, If a good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through this toilsome world, alas! Once and only once I pass; If a kindness I may show, If a good deed I may do To a suffering fellow man, Let me do it while I can. No delay, for it is plain I shall not pass this way again. -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're a young Mafia gangster out on your first date, I bet it's real embarrassing if someone tries to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11720]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're a young Mafia gangster out on your first date, I bet it's real embarrassing if someone tries to kill you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The swan, with arched neck Between her white wings mantling proudly, rows  Her state with oary feet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58455]]></link><description><![CDATA[The swan, with arched neck Between her white wings mantling proudly, rows  Her state with oary feet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us crown ourselves with rosebuds before they wither. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48676]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us crown ourselves with rosebuds before they wither.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hold that the reckless disregard for human life implicit in knowingly engaging in criminal activity known to carry a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47433]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hold that the reckless disregard for human life implicit in knowingly engaging in criminal activity known to carry a grave risk of death represents a highly culpable mental state that may be taken into account in making a capital sentencing judgment not inevitable, lethal result.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet, the great ocean hath no tone of power Mightier to reach the soul, in thought's hushed hour,  Than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet, the great ocean hath no tone of power Mightier to reach the soul, in thought's hushed hour,  Than yours, ye Lilies! chosen thus and graced!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23386]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blood is just red sweat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15664]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blood is just red sweat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have made the Reich by propaganda ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48417]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have made the Reich by propaganda]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cultivate literature on a little oat-meal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25263]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cultivate literature on a little oat-meal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is necessary to point out that our responsibility is a relative one only, for as we think of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7598]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is necessary to point out that our responsibility is a relative one only, for as we think of the world-wide disintegration of the human family, the prospect before us could easily fill us with alarm and despondency, if we were not sure first of the absolute sovereignty of God who (I speak reverently) knows what He is doing in conducting this enormous experiment that we call life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go farther than a great idea that inspires no one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42064]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go farther than a great idea that inspires no one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Answer to the Great Question Of . . . Life, the Universe and Everything . . . [is] Forty-two. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24827]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Answer to the Great Question Of . . . Life, the Universe and Everything . . . [is] Forty-two.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fire, with well-dried logs supplied, Went roaring up the chimney wide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51103]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fire, with well-dried logs supplied, Went roaring up the chimney wide.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've been introducing them to adults for 30 years. It's not that it's not for kids, but the idea that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33849]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've been introducing them to adults for 30 years. It's not that it's not for kids, but the idea that they're only for kids.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To get the most out of your life, plant in your mind seeds of constructive power that will yield fruitful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62510]]></link><description><![CDATA[To get the most out of your life, plant in your mind seeds of constructive power that will yield fruitful results.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wonder [said Socrates] is very much the affection of a philosopher; for there is no other beginning of philosophy than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wonder [said Socrates] is very much the affection of a philosopher; for there is no other beginning of philosophy than this.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As you sow, so shall you also reap. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48828]]></link><description><![CDATA[As you sow, so shall you also reap.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was quite interesting but I didn't come for this. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28926]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was quite interesting but I didn't come for this.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A line is a dot that went for a walk. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17063]]></link><description><![CDATA[A line is a dot that went for a walk.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17063</guid></item></channel></rss>