<?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[God thinks within geniuses, dreams within poets, and sleeps within the rest of us ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17658]]></link><description><![CDATA[God thinks within geniuses, dreams within poets, and sleeps within the rest of us]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is terrible except fear itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21215]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is terrible except fear itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54056]]></link><description><![CDATA[I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All quiet along the Potomac they say Except now and then a stray picket  Is shot as he walks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61132]]></link><description><![CDATA[All quiet along the Potomac they say Except now and then a stray picket  Is shot as he walks on his beat, to and fro,   By a rifleman hid in the thicket.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had been talking to the kids in that the bottom of the lineup had to do something and pick ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37293]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had been talking to the kids in that the bottom of the lineup had to do something and pick up some weight too. They have responded here the last four-five games.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My first record came out in 1961 and then I had one come out in 1962 and then I had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36360]]></link><description><![CDATA[My first record came out in 1961 and then I had one come out in 1962 and then I had two that came out in 1964.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is impossible to understand the history of economic thought if one does not pay attention to the fact that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15727]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is impossible to understand the history of economic thought if one does not pay attention to the fact that economics as such is a challenge to the conceit of those in power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once you have heard the lark, known the swish of feet through hill-top grass and smelt the earth made ready ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43883]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once you have heard the lark, known the swish of feet through hill-top grass and smelt the earth made ready for the seed, you are never again going to be fully happy about the cities and towns that man carries like a crippling weight upon his back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jewelled coryphee With quivering wings like shielding gauze outspread. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20044]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jewelled coryphee With quivering wings like shielding gauze outspread.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a compelling reason to master information and news. Clearly there will be better job and financial opportunities. Other high ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1196]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a compelling reason to master information and news. Clearly there will be better job and financial opportunities. Other high stakes will be missed by people if they don't master and connect information.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best of all the preachers are the men who live their creeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53539]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best of all the preachers are the men who live their creeds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have this running quandary about Christmas. I get upset about it, because I feel that we American Christians make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7997]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have this running quandary about Christmas. I get upset about it, because I feel that we American Christians make too much of it, and too little. Too little of it, because we pile all sorts of other things onto it, including some that have only the feeblest connection with the Event it is supposed to commemorate. If God did become a man, in any real sense, it is the most important thing that ever happened. Surely we, who believe it, could well devote one day a year to uninterrupted contemplation of the fact, and let Saturnalia fall on the winter solstice, where it belongs.   On the other hand, we make so much of the actual birth, and forget the things that make it more than just the birth of a baby (though even that is, in Walt Whitman's phrase, "miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels") -- more, even, than the birth of the greatest man who ever lived. We forget the promise to Eve of a descendant who will solve the problem of Evil; the promise to Abraham of one by whom all mankind will be blessed; the promise to Moses of a greater prophet than he, to arise from his people; and the promise to David of a Son who would be his Master. We forget about the eternal Purpose behind it all: it's like telling a story and leaving out the point. Yes, it is true that God gave us His Son, and so maybe we ought also to give gifts -- but what, and to whom? It is also true that God gave us Himself, and the only sensible response to that is to give ourselves to Him. There is nothing else that He wants from us, or, if there is something, He can take it. Only I, my ego, my heart, is truly mine to give or to withhold -- and is therefore the appropriate gift to Him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the relationship between man and religion, the state is firmly committed to a position of neutrality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53605]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the relationship between man and religion, the state is firmly committed to a position of neutrality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4143]]></link><description><![CDATA[For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the experts bought his first piece at the age of four, so they did start very young, most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42537]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the experts bought his first piece at the age of four, so they did start very young, most of them. They did it out of genuine interest but today's kids are much more materialistic and there's a danger, I suppose, that they might just be out to make dosh.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At first he was very discouraging, to my astonishment then, but now I fancy he did it as a forlorn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34409]]></link><description><![CDATA[At first he was very discouraging, to my astonishment then, but now I fancy he did it as a forlorn hope to check me; he said the whole idea was so disgusting that he could not entertain it for a moment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66200]]></link><description><![CDATA[How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That grief is light which can take counsel. [Lat., Levis est dolor qui capere consilium potest.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18344]]></link><description><![CDATA[That grief is light which can take counsel. [Lat., Levis est dolor qui capere consilium potest.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am a Jew else, an Ebrew Jew. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55858]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am a Jew else, an Ebrew Jew. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They that are booted are not alwaies ready. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49964]]></link><description><![CDATA[They that are booted are not alwaies ready.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will continue martyrdom operations throughout Palestine until the occupation leaves. The barriers of shame and disgrace set up by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28621]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will continue martyrdom operations throughout Palestine until the occupation leaves. The barriers of shame and disgrace set up by the Zionists shall face more blows,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64716]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it's very good to have regrets, to learn how to live with them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39913]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it's very good to have regrets, to learn how to live with them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've gotten to know John Kerry since the primaries. The reason I'm going out and working my you know what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17387]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've gotten to know John Kerry since the primaries. The reason I'm going out and working my you know what off for John Kerry is because I believe him. I believe he'll be a good president and a much better president than George Bush.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A whole is that which has a beginning, a middle and an end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3944]]></link><description><![CDATA[A whole is that which has a beginning, a middle and an end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing that bothered him a little bit is when they had him skip, just to put all the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30454]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing that bothered him a little bit is when they had him skip, just to put all the weight on it. That didn't go as well as he was hoping, but everything else was right up to par. ... As he said, 'When am I ever going to skip on the baseball field?']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1630]]></link><description><![CDATA[A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[FINANCE, n. The art or science of managing revenues and resources for the best advantage of the manager. The pronunciation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15678]]></link><description><![CDATA[FINANCE, n. The art or science of managing revenues and resources for the best advantage of the manager. The pronunciation of this word with the i long and the accent on the first syllable is one of America's most precious discoveries and possessions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Countless the various species of mankind, Countless the shades which sep'rate mind from mind;  No general object of desire ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60427]]></link><description><![CDATA[Countless the various species of mankind, Countless the shades which sep'rate mind from mind;  No general object of desire is known,   Each has his will, and each pursues his own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8992]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12432]]></link><description><![CDATA[All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em. -Twelfth Night. Act ii. Sc. 5. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55755]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em. -Twelfth Night. Act ii. Sc. 5.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I saw her I as undone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51840]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I saw her I as undone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all wear some disguise, make some professions, use some artifice, to set ourselves off as being better than we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12528]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all wear some disguise, make some professions, use some artifice, to set ourselves off as being better than we are; and yet it is not denied that we have some good intentions and praiseworthy qualities at bottom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8564]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance. But what is Repentance? Not the last and noblest and most refined achievement of the righteousness of men in the service of God, but the first elemental act of the righteousness of God in the service of men; the work that God has written in their hearts and which, because it is from God and not from men, occasions joy in heaven; that looking forward to God, and to Him only, which is recognized only by God and by God Himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Conscience, into what abyss of fears And horrors hast thou driven me, out of which  I find no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9807]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Conscience, into what abyss of fears And horrors hast thou driven me, out of which  I find no way, from deep to deeper plunged.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While I deduce, From the first note the hollow cuckoo sings,  The symphony of spring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10816]]></link><description><![CDATA[While I deduce, From the first note the hollow cuckoo sings,  The symphony of spring.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62065]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discontent is likely to be highest when misery is bearable; when conditions have so improved that an ideal state seems ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47602]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discontent is likely to be highest when misery is bearable; when conditions have so improved that an ideal state seems almost within reach. A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed. De Tocqueville in his researches into the state of society in France before the revolution was struck by the discovery that "in no one of the periods which have followed the Revolution of 1789 has the national prosperity of France augmented more rapidly than it did in the twenty years preceding that event." He is forced to conclude that "the French found their position the more intolerable the better it became.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My minde to me a kingdome is, Such perfect joy therein I finde  As farre exceeds all earthly blisse ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27507]]></link><description><![CDATA[My minde to me a kingdome is, Such perfect joy therein I finde  As farre exceeds all earthly blisse   That God or Nature hath assignde    Though much I want that most would have     Yet still my minde forbids to crave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4732]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18182]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a love story with six protagonists, ... And it's about a girl on the cusp of womanhood, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41681]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a love story with six protagonists, ... And it's about a girl on the cusp of womanhood, a girl who is smart enough to realize she's happy, but not smart enough to know that everything must change.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope is the physician of each misery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42781]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is the physician of each misery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Matt Dillon was the kind of guy who's low-key but stands for what is right, ... And he goes about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37083]]></link><description><![CDATA[Matt Dillon was the kind of guy who's low-key but stands for what is right, ... And he goes about seeing that things turn out that way with, of course, a lot of people suffering along the way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Red as a rose of Harpocrate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54427]]></link><description><![CDATA[Red as a rose of Harpocrate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It sounds like stories from the land of spirits, If any man obtain that which he merits,  Or any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27382]]></link><description><![CDATA[It sounds like stories from the land of spirits, If any man obtain that which he merits,  Or any merit that which he obtains.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21623]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19733</guid></item></channel></rss>