<?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[Chris kept taking him down, but he got caught a few times. They're both really good wrestlers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36472]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chris kept taking him down, but he got caught a few times. They're both really good wrestlers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Paulinus, Bishop of York, Missionary, 644   The common custom is, when the physician has given over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7352]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Paulinus, Bishop of York, Missionary, 644   The common custom is, when the physician has given over his patient, then and not till then to send for the minister, not so much to inquire into the man's condition and to give him suitable advice as to minister comfort and to speak peace to him at a venture. But let me tell you that herein you put an extremely difficult task upon us, in expecting that we should pour wine and oil into the wound before it be searched, and speak smooth and comfortable things to a man that is but just brought to a sense of the long course of a lewd and wicked life impenitently continued in. Alas! what comfort can we give to men in such a case? We are loth to drive them to despair; and yet we must not destroy them by presumption; pity and good nature do strongly tempt us to make the best of their case and to give them all the little hopes which with any kind of reason we can --and God knows it is but very little that we can give to such persons upon good ground, for it all depends upon the degree and sincerity of their repentance, which God only knows, and we can but guess at.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I prefer the word "homemaker" because "housewife" always implies that there may be a wife someplace else ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29953]]></link><description><![CDATA[I prefer the word "homemaker" because "housewife" always implies that there may be a wife someplace else]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lofty pine is most easily brought low by the force of the wind, and the higher the tower the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50348]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lofty pine is most easily brought low by the force of the wind, and the higher the tower the greater the fall thereof.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her very silence, and her patience, Speak to the people, and they pity her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her very silence, and her patience, Speak to the people, and they pity her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Falsehoods border on truths. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Falsehoods border on truths.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes you have to let go to see if there was anything worth holding on to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes you have to let go to see if there was anything worth holding on to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody dies nowadays of fatal truths: there are too many antidotes to them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59883]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody dies nowadays of fatal truths: there are too many antidotes to them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So Bhutan would stand out as a model, and Haiti is at the other end, ... And everybody else sort ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35607]]></link><description><![CDATA[So Bhutan would stand out as a model, and Haiti is at the other end, ... And everybody else sort of falls in the middle somewhere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Expressions of sharp and even violent criticism of religion and the church have been welcomed, for they usually imply sincerity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6445]]></link><description><![CDATA[Expressions of sharp and even violent criticism of religion and the church have been welcomed, for they usually imply sincerity of thought. If caustic criticism of religious institutions and practices is irreligious, then Amos, Isaiah, and Jesus were very irreligious men. In fact, that is exactly what many of their contemporaries took them to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tim's characters tend to wear darker colors and some, like the corpse bride, are no longer living, but they have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tim's characters tend to wear darker colors and some, like the corpse bride, are no longer living, but they have a pluck and a spirit that makes you fall in love with them,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For God's sake, take this seriously. Don't behave normally. Don't look for compromises. Be great, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40848]]></link><description><![CDATA[For God's sake, take this seriously. Don't behave normally. Don't look for compromises. Be great,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A usurper always distrusts the whole world. [It., Usurpator diffida  Di tutti sempre.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12573]]></link><description><![CDATA[A usurper always distrusts the whole world. [It., Usurpator diffida  Di tutti sempre.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Compassion is no substitute for justice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9174]]></link><description><![CDATA[Compassion is no substitute for justice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glittering generalities! They are blazing ubiquities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glittering generalities! They are blazing ubiquities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9355]]></link><description><![CDATA[In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money was made, not to command our will, But all out lawful pleasure to fulfil.  Shame and woe to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42964]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money was made, not to command our will, But all out lawful pleasure to fulfil.  Shame and woe to use, if we our wealth obey;   The horse doth with the horseman run away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you’re learning, you’re not old. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44907]]></link><description><![CDATA[The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you’re learning, you’re not old.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never apologize! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28026]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never apologize!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show me an actress who isn't a personality and I'll show you a woman who isn't a star. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Show me an actress who isn't a personality and I'll show you a woman who isn't a star.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeatof habit by originality, overcomes everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeatof habit by originality, overcomes everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not really definitive evidence. But on the other hand, what do we do while we wait for definitive evidence? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32342]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not really definitive evidence. But on the other hand, what do we do while we wait for definitive evidence? We have lots of reasons to exercise, so perhaps this is another reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. ne great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. ne great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[RECREATION, n. A particular kind of dejection to relieve a general fatigue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53176]]></link><description><![CDATA[RECREATION, n. A particular kind of dejection to relieve a general fatigue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just once I would like to persuade the audience not to wear any article of blue denim. If only they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just once I would like to persuade the audience not to wear any article of blue denim. If only they could see themselves in a pair of brown corduroys like mine instead of this awful, boring blue denim.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We made a lot less mistakes, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28451]]></link><description><![CDATA[We made a lot less mistakes,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a real shock, and I felt bad for his wife and family. I've known his wife since we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30367]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a real shock, and I felt bad for his wife and family. I've known his wife since we were babies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5995]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: even to day do I declare that I will render ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: even to day do I declare that I will render double unto thee; When I have bent Judah for me, filled the bow with Ephraim, and raised up thy sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O Greece, and made thee as the sword of a mighty man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't expect a mean-spirited, mudslinging race. It's not my style. It's not Rudy's, either. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37421]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't expect a mean-spirited, mudslinging race. It's not my style. It's not Rudy's, either.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many plays-certainly mine-are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26293]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many plays-certainly mine-are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And wild-scatter'd cowslips bedeck the green dale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10535]]></link><description><![CDATA[And wild-scatter'd cowslips bedeck the green dale.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the responsibility of leadership to provide opportunity, and the responsibility of individuals to contribute. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45035]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the responsibility of leadership to provide opportunity, and the responsibility of individuals to contribute.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He might have proved a useful adjunct, if not an ornament to society. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56773]]></link><description><![CDATA[He might have proved a useful adjunct, if not an ornament to society.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness.Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness.Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means forcorrecting our misperceptions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spiritual writer, 1893   The Bible is like a telescope. If a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spiritual writer, 1893   The Bible is like a telescope. If a man looks through his telescope, then he sees worlds beyond; but if he looks at his telescope, then he does not see anything but that. The Bible is a thing to be looked through, to see that which is beyond.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53128]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't forget to swing hard, in case you hit the ball. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57459]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't forget to swing hard, in case you hit the ball.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ku Klux Klan into Harlem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35695]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ku Klux Klan into Harlem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soldiers, forty centuries are looking down upon you from these pyramids. [Fr., Soldats, du haut ces Pyramide quarante siecles vous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Soldiers, forty centuries are looking down upon you from these pyramids. [Fr., Soldats, du haut ces Pyramide quarante siecles vous contemplent.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a spelling checkerIt came with my PC;It plainly marks four my revueMistakes I cannot sea.I've run this poem ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9439]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a spelling checkerIt came with my PC;It plainly marks four my revueMistakes I cannot sea.I've run this poem threw it,I'm sure your pleased too no,Its letter perfect in it's weigh,My checker tolled me sew.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mouse might be in a cookie jar.. but he is not a cookieCasper Ten Boom, father of Corrie Ten ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25447]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mouse might be in a cookie jar.. but he is not a cookieCasper Ten Boom, father of Corrie Ten Boom, authorof The Hiding Place.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What they're accustomed to is no great matter, But then, alas! they've read an awful deal.  [Ger., Zwar sind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53012]]></link><description><![CDATA[What they're accustomed to is no great matter, But then, alas! they've read an awful deal.  [Ger., Zwar sind sie an das Beste nicht gewohnt,   Allein sie haben schrecklich viel gelesen.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The unexpected disappearance of Mr. Canning from the scene, followed by the transient and embarrassed phantom of Lord Goderich. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2779]]></link><description><![CDATA[The unexpected disappearance of Mr. Canning from the scene, followed by the transient and embarrassed phantom of Lord Goderich.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64814]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Racing is a matter of spirit not strength. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The national news has people afraid they can't even go outside without a mask and a full body suit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32279]]></link><description><![CDATA[The national news has people afraid they can't even go outside without a mask and a full body suit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had the feeling she was taking a doctor-patient confidentiality role. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36167]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had the feeling she was taking a doctor-patient confidentiality role.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To most of us nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth. Though it is held before our eyes, pushed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56879]]></link><description><![CDATA[To most of us nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth. Though it is held before our eyes, pushed under our noses, rammed down our throats- we know it not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56879</guid></item></channel></rss>