<?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[Instead, he killed people by lying and concealing the plot ... that resulted in the worst terrorist attack in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32988]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instead, he killed people by lying and concealing the plot ... that resulted in the worst terrorist attack in the country's history.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For light I go directly to the Source of light, not to any of thereflections. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21126]]></link><description><![CDATA[For light I go directly to the Source of light, not to any of thereflections.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When anger rises, think of the consequences. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9841]]></link><description><![CDATA[When anger rises, think of the consequences.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These kids just don't see anything, so when you come, they think you're a real celebrity; they keep asking you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35501]]></link><description><![CDATA[These kids just don't see anything, so when you come, they think you're a real celebrity; they keep asking you for your autograph.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I consider it a mark of great prudence in a man to abstain from threats or any contemptuous expressions, for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51945]]></link><description><![CDATA[I consider it a mark of great prudence in a man to abstain from threats or any contemptuous expressions, for neither of these weaken the enemy, but threats make him more cautious, and the other excites his hatred, and a desire to revenge himself]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wounded spirit who can bear? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48653]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wounded spirit who can bear?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Classes and masses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52466]]></link><description><![CDATA[Classes and masses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23285]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, "How is the president?"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's prudent to take every precaution you can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38753]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's prudent to take every precaution you can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to laugh. Because laughter, we already know, is the first evidence of freedom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24198]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to laugh. Because laughter, we already know, is the first evidence of freedom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26781]]></link><description><![CDATA["Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Asking the right questions takes as much skill as giving the right answers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63891]]></link><description><![CDATA[Asking the right questions takes as much skill as giving the right answers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think I brought it on myself. I guaranteed a gold medal (before the Olympics). I'm not doing that this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31078]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think I brought it on myself. I guaranteed a gold medal (before the Olympics). I'm not doing that this time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The punishment which the wise suffer, who refuse to take part in government, is to live under the government of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18060]]></link><description><![CDATA[The punishment which the wise suffer, who refuse to take part in government, is to live under the government of worse men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54692]]></link><description><![CDATA[Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't get rattled. We never get rattled. Coming into the game we knew that St. James was a good-shooting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40781]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't get rattled. We never get rattled. Coming into the game we knew that St. James was a good-shooting team. So, we decided to mix up defenses on them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This girl has an air of mystery. Her simple, straight hairstyle accentuates the angularity of her face and adds to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32070]]></link><description><![CDATA[This girl has an air of mystery. Her simple, straight hairstyle accentuates the angularity of her face and adds to her bad-girl image; it wards off the wolves. Even though she's sensitive, you better think before entering her space. She likes it that way. She is not high-maintenance, but don't piss her off.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No person is important enough to make me angry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21353]]></link><description><![CDATA[No person is important enough to make me angry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66497]]></link><description><![CDATA[The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even in the former Soviet Union, they have good copies of my movies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32689]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even in the former Soviet Union, they have good copies of my movies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good analogy would be that I don't know any customer who wants their vehicle built in their driveway and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35358]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good analogy would be that I don't know any customer who wants their vehicle built in their driveway and rained on for nine months before they get a chance to sit in it. Moisture is the largest enemy of construction. Once moisture gets into the material, it starts to shrink and mold even before it goes to production.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To help all created things, that is the measure of all our responsibility; to be helped by all, that is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19149]]></link><description><![CDATA[To help all created things, that is the measure of all our responsibility; to be helped by all, that is the measure of our hope.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Roads are wet where'er one wendeth, And with rain the thistle bendeth,  And the brook cries like a child! ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57898]]></link><description><![CDATA[Roads are wet where'er one wendeth, And with rain the thistle bendeth,  And the brook cries like a child!   Not a rainbow shines to cheer us;    Ah! the sun comes never near us,     And the heavens look dark and wile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If criticism has made such discoveries as to necessitate the abandonment of the doctrine of plenary inspiration, it is not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6470]]></link><description><![CDATA[If criticism has made such discoveries as to necessitate the abandonment of the doctrine of plenary inspiration, it is not enough to say that we are compelled to abandon only a "particular theory of inspiration..." We must go on to say that that "particular theory of inspiration" is the theory of the apostles and of the Lord, and that in abandoning it we are abandoning them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26431]]></link><description><![CDATA[A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We sometimes fear to bring our troubles to God, because they must seem small to Him who sitteth on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6907]]></link><description><![CDATA[We sometimes fear to bring our troubles to God, because they must seem small to Him who sitteth on the circle of the earth. But if they are large enough to vex and endanger our welfare, they are large enough to touch His heart of love. For love does not measure by a merchant's scales, not with a surveyor's chain. It hath a delicacy... unknown in any handling of material substance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful much adulated, very famous and very unhappy ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60091]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful much adulated, very famous and very unhappy]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of course, when they had their best years, they never quite got it done. They went (to the Super Bowl) ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of course, when they had their best years, they never quite got it done. They went (to the Super Bowl) four times, but never won. They're starved up there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every great work, every great accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12431]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every great work, every great accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24363]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5620]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things, but for good people to do bad things, it takes religion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For where does one run to when he's already in the promised land? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23974]]></link><description><![CDATA[For where does one run to when he's already in the promised land?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All success consists in this: You are doing something for somebody - benefiting humanity - and the feeling of success ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55231]]></link><description><![CDATA[All success consists in this: You are doing something for somebody - benefiting humanity - and the feeling of success comes from the consciousness of this. -Elbert Hubbard.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shout now! The months with loud acclaim, Take up the cry and send it forth;  May breathing sweet her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shout now! The months with loud acclaim, Take up the cry and send it forth;  May breathing sweet her Spring perfumes,   November thundering from the North.    With hands upraised, as with one voice,     They join their notes in grand accord;      Hail to December! say they all,       It gave to Earth our Christ the Lord!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering teach the rest to sneer;  Willing to wound, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50939]]></link><description><![CDATA[Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering teach the rest to sneer;  Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike,   Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike;    Alike reserv'd to blame, or to commend,     A tim'rous foe, and a suspicious friend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we think that Jesus did not rise, but "lives" and "reigns" only in his memories and imaginations, and is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6859]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we think that Jesus did not rise, but "lives" and "reigns" only in his memories and imaginations, and is not actively and objectively "there" in the place of power, irrespective of whether he is acknowledged or not, we should give up hope of our own rising, and of Jesus' public return, and admit that the idea of churches and Christians being sustained by the Spirit-giving energy of a living Lord was never more than a pleasing illusion. And, in that case, we ought frankly to affirm that, though the New Testament is an amazing witness to the religious creativity of the human spirit, its actual message is more wrong than right, more misleading than helpful; and we must reconstruct our gospel accordingly. Only a weak, muddled, or cowardly mind will hesitate to do this.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sell cheap and tell the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15950]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sell cheap and tell the truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[They can] shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19382]]></link><description><![CDATA[[They can] shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12230]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He called me a bigot two times. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38124]]></link><description><![CDATA[He called me a bigot two times.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2092]]></link><description><![CDATA[Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the husband once give way To his wife's capricious sway,  For his breeches he next day   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51772]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the husband once give way To his wife's capricious sway,  For his breeches he next day   May go to whoop and holloa.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thomas a Kempis speaks for all the ages when he represents Jesus as saying to him, "A wise lover regards ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6364]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thomas a Kempis speaks for all the ages when he represents Jesus as saying to him, "A wise lover regards not so much the gift of him who loves, as the love of him who gives. He esteems affection rather than valuables, and sets all gifts below the Beloved. A noble-minded lover rests not in the gift, but in Me above every gift." The sustaining power of the Beloved Presence has through the ages made the sickbed sweet and the graveside triumphant; transformed broken hearts and relations; brought glory to drudgery, poverty and old age; and turned the martyr's stake or noose into a place of coronation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5371]]></link><description><![CDATA[The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that lives well is learned enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that lives well is learned enough.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words; whereas ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53522]]></link><description><![CDATA[The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words; whereas the things one loves, lives, and dies for are not, in the last analysis completely expressible in words.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a cancer within, close to the Presidency, that is growing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48145]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a cancer within, close to the Presidency, that is growing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The twig is so easily bended I have banished the rule and the rod:  I have taught them the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58739]]></link><description><![CDATA[The twig is so easily bended I have banished the rule and the rod:  I have taught them the goodness of knowledge,   They have taught me the goodness of God;    My heart is the dungeon of darkness,     When I shut them for breaking a rule;      My frown is sufficient correction;       My love is the law of the school.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have of late--but wherefore I know not--lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed, it goes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56522]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have of late--but wherefore I know not--lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed, it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame the earth seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire--why, it appeareth nothing to me but a foul and pestilent congregation of vapors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where God has his church the Devil will have his chapel ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12130]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where God has his church the Devil will have his chapel]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12130</guid></item></channel></rss>