<?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[If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61689]]></link><description><![CDATA[If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the law of supply and demand. Demand is down, supply is up, so the price is down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31123]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the law of supply and demand. Demand is down, supply is up, so the price is down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We just needed help with learning how to care for children with special needs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40967]]></link><description><![CDATA[We just needed help with learning how to care for children with special needs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tact is after all a kind of mind reading. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46995]]></link><description><![CDATA[The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. -Aristotle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55246]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. -Aristotle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your capacity to keep your vow will depend on the purity of your life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your capacity to keep your vow will depend on the purity of your life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the fictitious sources of pleasure be as near as possible to the true. [Lat., Ficta voluptatis causa sint proxima ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the fictitious sources of pleasure be as near as possible to the true. [Lat., Ficta voluptatis causa sint proxima veris.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let ease and rest at times be given to the weary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51166]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let ease and rest at times be given to the weary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is the perfect poet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46815]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is the perfect poet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21746]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'd like to be second behind New York. Frankly, we lost a lot of our place in the theater scene, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30178]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'd like to be second behind New York. Frankly, we lost a lot of our place in the theater scene, and we see 'Lord of the Rings' as a way to bring that back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evaluation and judgment are responses to what exists, sorting the things that pass before us into categories of good, bad, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51994]]></link><description><![CDATA[Evaluation and judgment are responses to what exists, sorting the things that pass before us into categories of good, bad, and indifferent. But a rational life, the life of a valuer, does not consist essentially in reaction. It consists in action. Man does not find his values, like the other animals; he creates them. The primary focus of a valuer is not to take the world as it comes and pass judgment. His primary focus is to identify what might and ought to exist, to uncover potentialities that he can exploit, to find ways of reshaping the world in the image of his values.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Firemen and police have a big Celtic background, from way back when New York police and firemen were mostly of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38498]]></link><description><![CDATA[Firemen and police have a big Celtic background, from way back when New York police and firemen were mostly of Irish and Scottish descent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/628]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wonder is the beginning of wisdom. -Anonymous (Greek Proverb). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wonder is the beginning of wisdom. -Anonymous (Greek Proverb).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16289]]></link><description><![CDATA[I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38834]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grasp the subject, the words will follow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52478]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grasp the subject, the words will follow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All delay is irksome, but it teaches us wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51583]]></link><description><![CDATA[All delay is irksome, but it teaches us wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have no enemies, you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13867]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have no enemies, you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You could hear a pin drop when he was done. It was definitely one of the most impressive interviews I've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34688]]></link><description><![CDATA[You could hear a pin drop when he was done. It was definitely one of the most impressive interviews I've ever been around.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is in the universe something for the description and analysis of which the natural sciences cannot contribute anything. There ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56801]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is in the universe something for the description and analysis of which the natural sciences cannot contribute anything. There are events beyond the range of those events that the procedures of the natural sciences are fit to observe and describe. There is human action.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just about anyone can put a solid color tie with a patterned shirt, or vice-versa, but the ability to put ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just about anyone can put a solid color tie with a patterned shirt, or vice-versa, but the ability to put patterns together in a harmonized way results in a much more sophisticated and contemporary look.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers; vanity can give  No hollow aid; alone--man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57167]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers; vanity can give  No hollow aid; alone--man with his God must strive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got to remember that this is what you play for all your life, and being on the big show, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29587]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to remember that this is what you play for all your life, and being on the big show, you've got to keep trying, ... This is my first time playing the course and even if I don't make the cut, I want to play as good as I can for next year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20249]]></link><description><![CDATA[I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11669]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A smile that glow'd Celestial rosy red, love's proper hue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56683]]></link><description><![CDATA[A smile that glow'd Celestial rosy red, love's proper hue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thirty years after drafting the US Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson warned of the dangers posed by the corporation, writing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10177]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thirty years after drafting the US Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson warned of the dangers posed by the corporation, writing of the need to "crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country." Today, instead, the aristocracy of the corporation has grown to full maturity, wielding power over the state and its laws in the service of corporate aims.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More matter for a May morning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26622]]></link><description><![CDATA[More matter for a May morning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on forgiveness:   With this sweet hope of ultimate acceptance with God, I have always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6770]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on forgiveness:   With this sweet hope of ultimate acceptance with God, I have always enjoyed much cheerfulness before men; but I have at the same time laboured incessantly to cultivate the deepest humiliation before God. I have never thought that the circumstance of God's having forgiven me was any reason why I should forgive myself; on the contrary, I have always judged it better to loathe myself the more, in proportion as I was assured that God was pacified towards me (Ezekiel 16:63).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absolute power turns its possessors not into a God but an anti-God. For God turned clay into men, while the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absolute power turns its possessors not into a God but an anti-God. For God turned clay into men, while the absolute despot turns men into clay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love making music, I love composing on my computer, just making crazy ethnic slack orchestral tracks, that's one of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64121]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love making music, I love composing on my computer, just making crazy ethnic slack orchestral tracks, that's one of my fun things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The brave or the fortunate can afford to laugh at envy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51632]]></link><description><![CDATA[The brave or the fortunate can afford to laugh at envy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are seeing if we can get some personalities together. Once they believe in one another, and they start competing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38651]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are seeing if we can get some personalities together. Once they believe in one another, and they start competing for every point, I think we will be a very good team.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us have wine and woman, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda-water the day after. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15590]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us have wine and woman, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda-water the day after.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5617]]></link><description><![CDATA[To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34013]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  I have come to see that I do not limit my mind simply ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6196]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  I have come to see that I do not limit my mind simply enough to prayer that I always want to do something myself in it, wherein I do very wrong and wish most definitely to cut off and separate my mind from all that, and to hold it with all my strength, as much as I can, to the sole regard and simple unity. By allowing the fear of being ineffectual to enter into the state of prayer, and by wishing to accomplish something myself, I spoilt it all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The primary requisite for any new tax law is for it to exempt enough voters to win the next election ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58684]]></link><description><![CDATA[The primary requisite for any new tax law is for it to exempt enough voters to win the next election]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . Therefore I am wel pleased to take any coulor to defend your honour and hope you wyl ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51967]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . Therefore I am wel pleased to take any coulor to defend your honour and hope you wyl remember that who seaketh two strings to one bowe, he may shute strong but never strait.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will most likely find a tremendous difference in opinion from certain Ohio universities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36495]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will most likely find a tremendous difference in opinion from certain Ohio universities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech: And not as Moses, which put a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech: And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished:  But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46190]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can't go around it, over it, or through it, you had better negotiate with it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12308]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can't go around it, over it, or through it, you had better negotiate with it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is an honourable thing to be merciful to the vanquished. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51558]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is an honourable thing to be merciful to the vanquished.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Purpose is what gives life a meaning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52607]]></link><description><![CDATA[Purpose is what gives life a meaning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[heat from impending searches. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38669]]></link><description><![CDATA[heat from impending searches.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38669</guid></item></channel></rss>