<?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[It would be neat to get together old-time people who went to a small-town school. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33069]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would be neat to get together old-time people who went to a small-town school.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mother endures with greater courage the loss of one out many children, than she who, in her tears, exclaims, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50774]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mother endures with greater courage the loss of one out many children, than she who, in her tears, exclaims, "Thou wast my only one!"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54058]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Old Man and DeathAn old man was employed in cutting wood in the forest, and, in carrying the faggots ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1589]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Old Man and DeathAn old man was employed in cutting wood in the forest, and, in carrying the faggots to the city for sale one day, became very wearied with his long journey. He sat down by the wayside, and throwing down his load, besought Death to come. Death immediately appeared in answer to his summons and asked for what reason he had called him. The Old Man hurriedly replied, That, lifting up the load, you may place it again upon my shoulders.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/289]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for- because unless we stand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60827]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for- because unless we stand for something we shall fall for anything]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be gentle to all and stern with yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're eyeball to eyeball and the other fellow just blinked. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44364]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're eyeball to eyeball and the other fellow just blinked.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down your sentences. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62390]]></link><description><![CDATA[You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down your sentences.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Mary, Martha & Lazarus, Companions of Our Lord  [Paul] makes use of the symbolism of baptism, which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Mary, Martha & Lazarus, Companions of Our Lord  [Paul] makes use of the symbolism of baptism, which in the East was performed by the complete immersion of the believer in water. "We were buried with Christ through our baptism (and so entered) into a state of death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the splendor of the Father, we too might walk in the newness which belongs to (real) life." To the rite as such Paul did not attach overwhelming importance. "Christ", he says, "did not send me to baptize, but to preach the Gospel."  Paul recognized in the idea a most suggestive figure for the change wrought by faith in Christ. He found it necessary to guard against the crude sacramentalism which found in the mere physical process, as such, the actual impartation of new life, quite apart from anything taking place in the realm of inward experience. The Israelites in the wilderness ... received baptism in the Red Sea and in the cloud which overshadowed them; and yet they were disobedient, "the majority of them God did not choose," and they perished miserably. The inference is plain. No sacramental act achieves anything unless it is an outward symbol of what really happens inwardly in experience. The test of that is the reality of the new life as exhibited in its ethical consequences. "How can we who are dead to sin live any longer in sin?" If baptism is a real dying and rising again, then it is indeed a profound revolution in the personal life, a revolution which is simply bound to show itself in a new moral character.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a law were passed giving six months to every writer of a first book, only the good ones would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4600]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a law were passed giving six months to every writer of a first book, only the good ones would do it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From labour health, from health contentment spring; Contentment opes the source of every joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9932]]></link><description><![CDATA[From labour health, from health contentment spring; Contentment opes the source of every joy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every child should have the opportunity to receive a quality education. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every child should have the opportunity to receive a quality education.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fool bolts a door with a boiled carrot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50957]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fool bolts a door with a boiled carrot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In every age and clime we see, Two of a trade can ne'er agree. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5029]]></link><description><![CDATA[In every age and clime we see, Two of a trade can ne'er agree.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stress is when you wake up screaming and you realize you haven't fallen asleep yet ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57975]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stress is when you wake up screaming and you realize you haven't fallen asleep yet]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst of law is, that one suit breedes twenty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49941]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst of law is, that one suit breedes twenty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I understand some of the people's impatience with the show last year. I think that Lisa's (Lili Taylor) story line ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31565]]></link><description><![CDATA[I understand some of the people's impatience with the show last year. I think that Lisa's (Lili Taylor) story line (marrying Nate with minimal motivation in season three) became a little bit of a diversion - and that happens. It happens in every show.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42875]]></link><description><![CDATA[To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The entire essence of America is the hope to first make money -- then make money with money -- then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15828]]></link><description><![CDATA[The entire essence of America is the hope to first make money -- then make money with money -- then make lots of money with lots of money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With our business solution in place we are far ahead of any alliance competitor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36815]]></link><description><![CDATA[With our business solution in place we are far ahead of any alliance competitor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's almost a death wish in a way. What (the Tories) should be doing is trying to attract the best ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40890]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's almost a death wish in a way. What (the Tories) should be doing is trying to attract the best and the brightest to Ottawa.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An imitative creature is man; whoever is foremost, leads the herd. [Ger., Der Mensch ist ein nachahmendes Geschopf.  Und ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20573]]></link><description><![CDATA[An imitative creature is man; whoever is foremost, leads the herd. [Ger., Der Mensch ist ein nachahmendes Geschopf.  Und wer Vorderste ist, fuhrt die Heerde.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those pigmy tribes of Panton street, Those hardy blades, those hearts of oak,  Obedient to a tyrant's yoke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13899]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those pigmy tribes of Panton street, Those hardy blades, those hearts of oak,  Obedient to a tyrant's yoke.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, how bitter it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1330]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, how bitter it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anybody who enjoys being in the House of Commons probably needs psychiatric help. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51986]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anybody who enjoys being in the House of Commons probably needs psychiatric help.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All our experience with history should teach us, when we look back, how badly human wisdom is betrayed when it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4167]]></link><description><![CDATA[All our experience with history should teach us, when we look back, how badly human wisdom is betrayed when it relies on itself]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2546]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Goodbye. I am leaving because I am bored. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24135]]></link><description><![CDATA[Goodbye. I am leaving because I am bored.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing only leads to more writing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing only leads to more writing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most men act so tough and strong on the outside because on the inside, we are scared, weak, and fragile. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27035]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most men act so tough and strong on the outside because on the inside, we are scared, weak, and fragile. Men, not women, are the weaker sex.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60896]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured. - Agricola. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27905]]></link><description><![CDATA[It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured. - Agricola.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you get hung up on everybody else's hang-ups, then the whole world's going to be nothing more than one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9507]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you get hung up on everybody else's hang-ups, then the whole world's going to be nothing more than one huge gallows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, then, what graces in my love do dwell That he hath turned a heaven unto a hell! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18087]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, then, what graces in my love do dwell That he hath turned a heaven unto a hell!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like the fact that there is challenge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39911]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like the fact that there is challenge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've learned that no matter what happens, or how bad itseems today, life does go on, and it will be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25222]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've learned that no matter what happens, or how bad itseems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow. I've learned thatyou can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles these three things:a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights. I've learned thatregardless of your relationship with your parents, you'll miss them when they'regone from your life. I've learned that making a living is not the same thing asmaking a life. I've learned that life sometimes gives you a second chance. I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on bothhands; you need to be able to throw some things back. I've learned that wheneverI decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision. I'velearned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one. I've learned thatevery day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, orjust a friendly pat on the back. I've learned that I still have a lot to learn. I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what youdid, but people will never forget how you made them feel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26182]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Yes," I answered you last night; "No," this morning, sir, I say:  Colors seen by candle-light   Will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61997]]></link><description><![CDATA["Yes," I answered you last night; "No," this morning, sir, I say:  Colors seen by candle-light   Will not look the same by day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dynamics that are required to make any relationship work: Just keep putting your love out there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2234]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dynamics that are required to make any relationship work: Just keep putting your love out there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As to virtue . . . it is an act of the will, a habit which increases the quantity, intensity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52676]]></link><description><![CDATA[As to virtue . . . it is an act of the will, a habit which increases the quantity, intensity and quality of life. It builds up, strengthens and vivifies personality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The scientists have to worry about their future, and they may opt to leave Iraq looking for a better future ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32992]]></link><description><![CDATA[The scientists have to worry about their future, and they may opt to leave Iraq looking for a better future ... there may be some scientists who have a deep grudge against the United States. Who knows [if they] are going to try to find some way to get revenge?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is the definition of faith -- acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48410]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is the definition of faith -- acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many pictures turn out to be limp translations of the known world instead of vital objects which create an intrinsic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many pictures turn out to be limp translations of the known world instead of vital objects which create an intrinsic world of their own. There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One has no great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37234]]></link><description><![CDATA[One has no great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we're trying to avoid is someone who can't afford a $20 co-pay from leaving a pharmacy without getting their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38936]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we're trying to avoid is someone who can't afford a $20 co-pay from leaving a pharmacy without getting their medicine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a brave ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10349]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a brave man, -- it is the man who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. -Joseph Joubert. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20544]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. -Joseph Joubert.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20544</guid></item></channel></rss>