<?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[As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1879]]></link><description><![CDATA[As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Six or seven months ago, I didn't think I'd be up here talking about a new basketball coach. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39971]]></link><description><![CDATA[Six or seven months ago, I didn't think I'd be up here talking about a new basketball coach.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Destiny has two ways of crushing us -- by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15395]]></link><description><![CDATA[Destiny has two ways of crushing us -- by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ethelburga, Abbess of Barking, 675   What happens to someone who follows heretical teachings? It became quickly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6283]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ethelburga, Abbess of Barking, 675   What happens to someone who follows heretical teachings? It became quickly and readily apparent how cruel heretical teachings are and how prevalent the heresies are in contemporary times. Victims of these teachings have been encouraged to either to escape the world and their basic humanity into some form of flight and death or to use religion to undergird and isolate further their own self-centered self from the need to be loved and to love...   The conviction that heresy is cruel has given me a growing awe of and respect for orthodoxy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Duty of an Opposition is to oppose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46948]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Duty of an Opposition is to oppose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22859]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53343]]></link><description><![CDATA[Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12946]]></link><description><![CDATA[Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they don't like him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61911]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they don't like him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's mainly concerns about economic weakness all over the globe and what it will do to the U.S.. The common ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42446]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's mainly concerns about economic weakness all over the globe and what it will do to the U.S.. The common refrain has been that the Asian crisis shouldn't have a big impact on the U.S. economy. Now with Russia's problems, people are reassessing that belief.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I dote on his very absence. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55557]]></link><description><![CDATA[I dote on his very absence. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being a woman is a terribly difficult task since it consists principally in dealing with men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27210]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being a woman is a terribly difficult task since it consists principally in dealing with men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26901]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imitation is the sincerest form of television. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14507]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imitation is the sincerest form of television.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22721]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labor. [Ecclesiastes 2:24].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We just have to take charge and get the job done, we had our opportunities and that's the name of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38262]]></link><description><![CDATA[We just have to take charge and get the job done, we had our opportunities and that's the name of the game. You have to lay it on the line and get it done and those who make the plays win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't see in the market any real driving forces. People aren't too excited one way or another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30761]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't see in the market any real driving forces. People aren't too excited one way or another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man always has two reasons for doing anything--a good reason and the real reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53133]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man always has two reasons for doing anything--a good reason and the real reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The memory of past troubles is pleasant. [Lat., Jucunda memoria est praeteritorum malorum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59723]]></link><description><![CDATA[The memory of past troubles is pleasant. [Lat., Jucunda memoria est praeteritorum malorum.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who tries to protect himself from deception is often cheated, even when most on his guard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50867]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who tries to protect himself from deception is often cheated, even when most on his guard.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cigarettes and coffee: an alcoholic's best friend! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cigarettes and coffee: an alcoholic's best friend!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The immortal swan that did her life deplore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58448]]></link><description><![CDATA[The immortal swan that did her life deplore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a person is to get the meaning of life he must learn to like the facts about himself -- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60407]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a person is to get the meaning of life he must learn to like the facts about himself -- ugly as they may seem to his sentimental vanity -- before he can learn the truth behind the facts. And the truth is never ugly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63942]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you are without a great player like Gilbert Arenas, the other guys have to step up and play at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31929]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are without a great player like Gilbert Arenas, the other guys have to step up and play at the top of their games. Tonight was a total team effort. We got a lot of energy, we played great defense, we moved the ball and we made sure that everybody got shots in. When we do that, it makes the game a lot of fun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's totally it, ... Some people say, 'Whoa! That was great! Thanks a lot.' Then they go over and sit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33267]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's totally it, ... Some people say, 'Whoa! That was great! Thanks a lot.' Then they go over and sit down right over there. Then there's people like myself who think that it's the greatest thing ever. And you can't get enough of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The humblest citizen of all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10350]]></link><description><![CDATA[The humblest citizen of all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12590]]></link><description><![CDATA[Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53625]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I suppose, to use our national motto, something will turn up. [Motto of Vraibleusia.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14624]]></link><description><![CDATA[I suppose, to use our national motto, something will turn up. [Motto of Vraibleusia.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How far would Moses have gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt?. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22173]]></link><description><![CDATA[How far would Moses have gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt?.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more you sweat in peacetime, the less you bleed during war. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61111]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more you sweat in peacetime, the less you bleed during war.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15044]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They would talk of nothing but high life and high-lived company, with other fashionable topics, such as pictures, taste, Shakespeare, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10092]]></link><description><![CDATA[They would talk of nothing but high life and high-lived company, with other fashionable topics, such as pictures, taste, Shakespeare, and the musical glasses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wild swan's death-hymn took the soul Of that waste place with joy  Hidden in sorrow: at first to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58464]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wild swan's death-hymn took the soul Of that waste place with joy  Hidden in sorrow: at first to the ear   The warble was low, and full and clear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When God has once begun to throw down the prosperous, He overthrows them altogether: such is the end of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48494]]></link><description><![CDATA[When God has once begun to throw down the prosperous, He overthrows them altogether: such is the end of the mighty. [Lat., Semel profecto premere felices deus  Cum coepit, urget; hos habent magna exitus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our pitchers struggled, but there really wasn't much else we could do with their pitcher today. He's the best we've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32714]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our pitchers struggled, but there really wasn't much else we could do with their pitcher today. He's the best we've seen all year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An honest tale speeds best, being plainly told. -King Richard III. Act iv. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56015]]></link><description><![CDATA[An honest tale speeds best, being plainly told. -King Richard III. Act iv. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you love an addle egg as well as you love an idle head, you would eat chickens i' th' ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13261]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you love an addle egg as well as you love an idle head, you would eat chickens i' th' shell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. What do we live for if not to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. What do we live for if not to make the world less difficult for each other?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36959]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frederick Buechner,'Whistling in the Dark' When a child is born, a father is born. A mother is born, too of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45524]]></link><description><![CDATA[Frederick Buechner,'Whistling in the Dark' When a child is born, a father is born. A mother is born, too of course, but at least for her it's a gradual process. Body and soul, she has nine months to get used to what's happening. She becomes what's happening. But for even the best-prepared father, it happens all at once. On the other side of a plate-glass window, a nurse is holding up something roughly the size of a loaf of bread for him to see for the first time. Even if he should decide to abandon it forever ten minutes later, the memory will nag him to the grave. He has seen the creation of the world. It has his mark on it. He has its mark on him. Both marks are, for better or for worse, indelible. All sons, like all daughters, are prodigals if they're smart. Assuming the Old Man doesn't run out on them first, they will run out on him if they are to survive, and if he's smart he won't put up too much of a fuss. A wise father sees all this coming, and maybe that's why he keeps his distance from the start. He must survive too. Whether they ever find their way home again, none can say for sure, but it's the risk he must take if they're ever to find their way at all. In the meantime, the world tends to have a soft spot in its heart for lost children. Lost fathers have to fend for themselves. Even as the father lays down the law, he knows that someday his children will break it as they need to break it if ever they're to find something better than law to replace it. Until and unless that happens, there's no telling the scrapes they will get into trying to lose him and find themselves. Terrible blnders will be made-dissapointments and failures, hurts and losses of every kind. And they'll keep making them even after they've found themselves too, of course, because growing up is a process that goes on and on. And every hard knock they ever get, knocks the father even harder still, if that's possible, and if and when they finally come through more or less in one piece at the end, there's maybe no rejoicing greater than his in all creation. -Fatherhood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great world's altar stairs That slope through darkness up to God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18404]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great world's altar stairs That slope through darkness up to God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62253]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obscurity is the realm of error. [Fr., L'obscurite est le royaume de l'erreur.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obscurity is the realm of error. [Fr., L'obscurite est le royaume de l'erreur.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whence is that knocking? How is't with me, when every noise appals me? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51382]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whence is that knocking? How is't with me, when every noise appals me?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When people are laughing, they're generally not killing one another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28684]]></link><description><![CDATA[When people are laughing, they're generally not killing one another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The odds are that things are going to be a little stronger than people anticipate in another month or so. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38035]]></link><description><![CDATA[The odds are that things are going to be a little stronger than people anticipate in another month or so. With the exception of the labor market data, which will continue to stink.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57381]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57381</guid></item></channel></rss>