<?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[Life is made up of interruptions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24924]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is made up of interruptions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are leaving port under sealed orders and in a troubled period. You cannot know whither you are going or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7594]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are leaving port under sealed orders and in a troubled period. You cannot know whither you are going or what you are to do. But why not take the Pilot on board who knows the nature of your sealed orders from the outset, and who will shape your entire voyage accordingly? He knows the shoals and the sandbanks, the rocks and the reefs, He will steer you safely into that celestial harbor where your anchor will be cast for eternity. Let His almighty nail-pierced hands hold the wheel, and you will be safe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God will pardon me. It is his trade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24143]]></link><description><![CDATA[God will pardon me. It is his trade.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pretty is something you're born with. But beautiful, that's an equal opportunity adjective. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3808]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pretty is something you're born with. But beautiful, that's an equal opportunity adjective.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit. And the habit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25935]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit. And the habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care. And let it spring from love, born out of concern for all beings. . -Buddha.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This would be a strong political message from the United States ... for what we are doing. Israel is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32599]]></link><description><![CDATA[This would be a strong political message from the United States ... for what we are doing. Israel is a cornerstone for stability in the Middle East.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45737]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not afraid of death; but dying scares the hell out of me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11261]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not afraid of death; but dying scares the hell out of me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom of expression without limits is like a car without brakes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom of expression without limits is like a car without brakes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People always come up to me and say that my smoking is bothering them... Well, it's killing me! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56696]]></link><description><![CDATA[People always come up to me and say that my smoking is bothering them... Well, it's killing me!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are easy to get but hard to keep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are easy to get but hard to keep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That the desires of the majority of the people are often for injustice and inhumanity against the minority, is demonstrated ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26205]]></link><description><![CDATA[That the desires of the majority of the people are often for injustice and inhumanity against the minority, is demonstrated by every page of the history of the whole world]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For April sobs while these are so glad April weeps while these are so gay,--  Weeps like a tired ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2985]]></link><description><![CDATA[For April sobs while these are so glad April weeps while these are so gay,--  Weeps like a tired child who had,   Playing with flowers, lost its way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I spent a year in that town, one Sunday. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4733]]></link><description><![CDATA[I spent a year in that town, one Sunday.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The biggest thing that would help the markets right now would be a sustained drop in crude oil, but I'm ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40733]]></link><description><![CDATA[The biggest thing that would help the markets right now would be a sustained drop in crude oil, but I'm not holding my breath for that. It's drawing attention away from third-quarter numbers that, despite GM, are really pretty good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. - On the first moonwalk, July 20, 1969. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60230]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. - On the first moonwalk, July 20, 1969.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever Sceptic could inquire for, For every why he had a wherefore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever Sceptic could inquire for, For every why he had a wherefore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While it is right to stress the dangers of the permissive society, the argument from danger is not in itself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7562]]></link><description><![CDATA[While it is right to stress the dangers of the permissive society, the argument from danger is not in itself a good argument, because it seems to imply that, if the danger could be removed, if there was no risk of a child and no peril of infection, then the objection would be removed, too. It tends to imply that the objection is to the attendant dangers and not to the thing itself. But if sexual intercourse before and outside marriage is against the teaching of Jesus, then the thing is not only dangerous, it is wrong in itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[taking advantage of what we put together in that Saturn 5 rocket. If we had chosen to put wings on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30923]]></link><description><![CDATA[taking advantage of what we put together in that Saturn 5 rocket. If we had chosen to put wings on that Saturn, we might have been on the way. But then the Russians might have got to the moon first.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43374]]></link><description><![CDATA[Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So that every wand or staff of empire is forsooth curved at top. [Lat., Adeo ut omnes imperii virga sive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17977]]></link><description><![CDATA[So that every wand or staff of empire is forsooth curved at top. [Lat., Adeo ut omnes imperii virga sive bacillum vere superius inflexum sit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes two to make a quarrel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50999]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes two to make a quarrel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't catch him. He comes to you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40244]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't catch him. He comes to you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before, for me, peace could have been synonymous with boredom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before, for me, peace could have been synonymous with boredom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience proves that those are oftenest abused who can be abused with the greatest impunity. Men are whipped oftenest who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience proves that those are oftenest abused who can be abused with the greatest impunity. Men are whipped oftenest who are whipped easiest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53987]]></link><description><![CDATA[We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We played good defense (all game) and ran our offense (in the second half). When we do that, we can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30608]]></link><description><![CDATA[We played good defense (all game) and ran our offense (in the second half). When we do that, we can win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Last year I was diagnosed with osteoporosis. I was over 50, Caucasian, thin, small-framed, and I have it in my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65060]]></link><description><![CDATA[Last year I was diagnosed with osteoporosis. I was over 50, Caucasian, thin, small-framed, and I have it in my genetic history. It was almost a slam-dunk.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's been practicing hard, too. I really don't want to mention it, but wouldn't it be nice if ... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37696]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's been practicing hard, too. I really don't want to mention it, but wouldn't it be nice if ...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And as, when all the summer trees are seen So bright and green,  The Holly leaves a sober hue ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19584]]></link><description><![CDATA[And as, when all the summer trees are seen So bright and green,  The Holly leaves a sober hue display   Less bright than they,    But when the bare and wintry woods we see,     What then so cheerful as the Holly-tree?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Child abuse casts a shadow the length of a lifetime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5930]]></link><description><![CDATA[Child abuse casts a shadow the length of a lifetime.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've wanted to be in the Pittsburgh metro area for a long time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33429]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've wanted to be in the Pittsburgh metro area for a long time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10446]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If, as I can't help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4155]]></link><description><![CDATA[If, as I can't help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of their purgatorial sufferings), then for both lovers, and for all pairs of lovers without exception, bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:120]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1376]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:120].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum. - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27915]]></link><description><![CDATA[If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum. - "In the Nature of the Physical World", 1928.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A careless song, with a little nonsense in it now and then, does not mis-become a monarch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44617]]></link><description><![CDATA[A careless song, with a little nonsense in it now and then, does not mis-become a monarch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only one thing is certain -- that is, nothing is certain. If this statement is true, it is also false. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only one thing is certain -- that is, nothing is certain. If this statement is true, it is also false.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is an interesting and demonstrable fact, that all children are atheists and were religion not inculcated into their minds, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3413]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is an interesting and demonstrable fact, that all children are atheists and were religion not inculcated into their minds, they would remain so]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes a piece of music in the score isn't effective. When a score is too well finished with too many ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28762]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes a piece of music in the score isn't effective. When a score is too well finished with too many elements, sometimes it's too much.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While we are postponing, life speeds by. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65578]]></link><description><![CDATA[While we are postponing, life speeds by.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My people too were scared with eerie sounds, A footstep, a low throbbing in the walls.  A noise of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2794]]></link><description><![CDATA[My people too were scared with eerie sounds, A footstep, a low throbbing in the walls.  A noise of falling weights that never fell,   Weird whispers, bells that rang without a hand,    Door-handles turn'd when none was at the door,     And bolted doors that open'd of themselves;      And one betwixt the dark and light had seen       Her, bending by the cradle of her babe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33582]]></link><description><![CDATA[Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Follow your own star! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Follow your own star!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All that I love loses half its pleasure if you are not there to share it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10938]]></link><description><![CDATA[All that I love loses half its pleasure if you are not there to share it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is much that is bad and meaningless in the universe, and the universe contains men who know that much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8340]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is much that is bad and meaningless in the universe, and the universe contains men who know that much is bad and meaningless. The Christian answer is that this is a good world gone wrong, but with a memory of what it should have been.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Heifer and the Ox A heifer saw an Ox hard at work harnessed to a plow, and tormented him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1586]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Heifer and the Ox A heifer saw an Ox hard at work harnessed to a plow, and tormented him with reflections on his unhappy fate in being compelled to labor. Shortly afterwards, at the harvest festival, the owner released the Ox from his yoke, but bound the Heifer with cords and led him away to the altar to be slain in honor of the occasion. The Ox saw what was being done, and said with a smile to the Heifer: For this you were allowed to live in idleness, because you were presently to be sacrificed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ZOOLOGY, n. The science and history of the animal kingdom, including its king, the House Fly ("Musca maledicta"). The father ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62686]]></link><description><![CDATA[ZOOLOGY, n. The science and history of the animal kingdom, including its king, the House Fly ("Musca maledicta"). The father of Zoology was Aristotle, as is universally conceded, but the name of its mother has not come down to us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who are prepared to die for any cause are seldom defeated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who are prepared to die for any cause are seldom defeated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A breeze came wandering from the sky, Light as the whispers of a dream;  He put the o'erhanging grasses ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61637]]></link><description><![CDATA[A breeze came wandering from the sky, Light as the whispers of a dream;  He put the o'erhanging grasses by,   And softly stooped to kiss the stream,    The pretty stream, the flattered stream,     The shy, yet unreluctant stream.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61637</guid></item></channel></rss>