<?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[Honest bread is very well--it's the butter that makes the temptation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58901]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honest bread is very well--it's the butter that makes the temptation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3790]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look back, and smile on perils past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look back, and smile on perils past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17132]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel that everyone who wants to say anything, do anything, should be able to say anything or do anything, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63899]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel that everyone who wants to say anything, do anything, should be able to say anything or do anything, within the limits of not hurting another person.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At school I was pretty sociable, but I did like to come home and be on my own and make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33684]]></link><description><![CDATA[At school I was pretty sociable, but I did like to come home and be on my own and make music and write my dreams down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Japan, 1597  Those who charged the Christians with burning down Rome with fire brands were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7608]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Japan, 1597  Those who charged the Christians with burning down Rome with fire brands were slanderers -- but they were, at least, far nearer to the nature of Christianity than those among the moderns who tell us that the Christians were a sort of ethical society, being martyred in a languid fashion for telling men they had a duty to their neighbours, and only mildly disliked because they were meek and mild!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you woke up breathing, congratulations!  You have another chance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65717]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you woke up breathing, congratulations!  You have another chance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36461]]></link><description><![CDATA[One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The character ethic, which I believe to be the foundation ofsuccess, teaches that there are basic principles of effective living, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21561]]></link><description><![CDATA[The character ethic, which I believe to be the foundation ofsuccess, teaches that there are basic principles of effective living, andthat people can only experience true success and enduring happiness asthey learn and integrate these principles into their basic character.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64742]]></link><description><![CDATA[Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dancing is silent poetry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65955]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dancing is silent poetry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Miss Flora McFlimsey of Madison Square, Has made three separate journeys to Paris,  And her father assures me each ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2724]]></link><description><![CDATA[Miss Flora McFlimsey of Madison Square, Has made three separate journeys to Paris,  And her father assures me each time she was there   That she and her friend Mrs. Harris . . .    Spent six consecutive weeks, without shopping     In one continuous round of shopping,-- . . .      And yet, though scarce three months have passed since the day       This merchandise went on twelve carts, up Broadway,        This same Miss McFlimsey of Madison Square         The last time we met was in utter despair          Becasue she had nothing whatever to wear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows that from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12571]]></link><description><![CDATA[A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows that from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas of freedom. Free society must fertilize the soil in which non-conformity and dissent and individualism can grow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64464]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lost a planet Master Obi-Wan has. How embarrassing … ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lost a planet Master Obi-Wan has. How embarrassing …]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wise understand by themselves; fools follow the reports of others ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58062]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wise understand by themselves; fools follow the reports of others]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2173]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2173</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[I am mortal. I am born to love and to suffer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19988]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am mortal. I am born to love and to suffer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am a tainted wether of the flock, Meetest for death: the weakest kind of fruit Drops earliest to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55602]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am a tainted wether of the flock, Meetest for death: the weakest kind of fruit Drops earliest to the ground. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Shepherd's Boy and the WolfA sheperd boy, who watched a flock of sheep near a village, brought out the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1578]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Shepherd's Boy and the WolfA sheperd boy, who watched a flock of sheep near a village, brought out the villagers three or four times by crying out, Wolf! Wolf! and when his neighbors came to help him, laughed at them for their pains. The Wolf, however, did truly come at last. The Shepherd-boy, now really alarmed, shouted in an agony of terror: Pray, do come and help me; the Wolf is killing the sheep; but no one paid any heed to his cries, nor rendered any assistance. The Wolf, having no cause of fear, at his leisure lacerated or destroyed the whole flock. There is no believing a liar, even when he speaks the truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation because in the degradation of woman the very ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43717]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation because in the degradation of woman the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was so awesome. The work that we've put in during the season and out of season was great. When ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36499]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was so awesome. The work that we've put in during the season and out of season was great. When it comes to a climax like that, it makes it all worthwhile. You reflect back to when they weren't in shape and not doing the little things. When you see it all come together at the state meet, it is very rewarding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mockery king of snow. -King Richard II. Act iv. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55828]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mockery king of snow. -King Richard II. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flirting is the sin of the virtuous and the virtue of the sinful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flirting is the sin of the virtuous and the virtue of the sinful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Withdraw yourself from that vile bondage; Come say, "I am free," "I am free." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Withdraw yourself from that vile bondage; Come say, "I am free," "I am free."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jest not in earnest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50691]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jest not in earnest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For today and its blessings, I owe the world an attitude of gratitude. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4304]]></link><description><![CDATA[For today and its blessings, I owe the world an attitude of gratitude.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The golden rule is that there are no golden rules. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54274]]></link><description><![CDATA[The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was a stricken deer that left the herd Long since. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42802]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was a stricken deer that left the herd Long since.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the last analysis sound judgment will prevail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53398]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the last analysis sound judgment will prevail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ Chronicles 15:7]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10423]]></link><description><![CDATA[But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ Chronicles 15:7].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No book was ever written down by any but itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53878]]></link><description><![CDATA[No book was ever written down by any but itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So comes a reck'ning when the banquet's o'er, The dreadful reckn'ning, and men smile no more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23533]]></link><description><![CDATA[So comes a reck'ning when the banquet's o'er, The dreadful reckn'ning, and men smile no more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibility for ourselves and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10644]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibility for ourselves and an over-indulgence to our own desires]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good, honest, wholesome, hungry breakfast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16352]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good, honest, wholesome, hungry breakfast.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That which offends the ear will not easily gainadmission to the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21320]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which offends the ear will not easily gainadmission to the mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63050]]></link><description><![CDATA[The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We each, in our very small ways multiplied by the millions of us are contributing to the overall pollution of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40426]]></link><description><![CDATA[We each, in our very small ways multiplied by the millions of us are contributing to the overall pollution of our waters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each day provides its own gifts ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each day provides its own gifts]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who could build a church, as one may say, by squinting at a sheet of paper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3016]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who could build a church, as one may say, by squinting at a sheet of paper.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They made a lot of spirited plays. We left our men at times in the first half and they made ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35473]]></link><description><![CDATA[They made a lot of spirited plays. We left our men at times in the first half and they made shots and then they started earning them, but they deserve a lot of credit for their effort.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a woman ceases to alter the fashion of her hair, you guess that she has passed the crisis of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42083]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a woman ceases to alter the fashion of her hair, you guess that she has passed the crisis of her experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman's idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessman's idea ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman's idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessman's idea of the real.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's only one way you can fail, and that's to quit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10374]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's only one way you can fail, and that's to quit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom means freedom from forces and circumstances which would turn man into a thing, which would impose on man the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom means freedom from forces and circumstances which would turn man into a thing, which would impose on man the passivity and predictability of matter. By this test, absolute power is the manifestation most inimical to human uniqueness. Absolute power wants to turn people into malleable clay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering the weaknesses of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11546]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering the weaknesses of others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Call things by their right names - Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65481]]></link><description><![CDATA[Call things by their right names - Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate name; ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love to fly. I always wanted to fly. It's been one of my dreams since I was 3 years ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34372]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love to fly. I always wanted to fly. It's been one of my dreams since I was 3 years old. I remember saying to my mom, 3 years old, every day, 'I can fly!' Living on the ninth floor, it was dangerous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34372</guid></item></channel></rss>