<?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[War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14936]]></link><description><![CDATA[War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to show violence the way it is. If you don't show it realistically, then that's immoral and harmful. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60676]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to show violence the way it is. If you don't show it realistically, then that's immoral and harmful. If you don't upset people, then that's obscenity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've been contacted by some (ticket holders). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37238]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've been contacted by some (ticket holders).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I began to use my cricket, the first man I met in the darkness I thought was a German ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10638]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I began to use my cricket, the first man I met in the darkness I thought was a German until he cricketed. We threw our arms around each other, and from that moment I knew we had won the war.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In arguing one should meet serious pleading with humor, and humor with serious pleading. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3053]]></link><description><![CDATA[In arguing one should meet serious pleading with humor, and humor with serious pleading.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20287]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11323]]></link><description><![CDATA[Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even at the turning o' the tide. -King Henry V. Act ii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55948]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even at the turning o' the tide. -King Henry V. Act ii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The solemn fog; significant and budge; A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16336]]></link><description><![CDATA[The solemn fog; significant and budge; A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Columba, Abbot of Iona, Missionary, 597 Commemoration of Ephrem of Syria, Deacon, Hymnographer, Teacher, 373  The Servant ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8253]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Columba, Abbot of Iona, Missionary, 597 Commemoration of Ephrem of Syria, Deacon, Hymnographer, Teacher, 373  The Servant Messiah carries out his ministry in the lives of his ministers. His life is reproduced in their lives, so they also are servants. But this ministry is exercised in and towards the Church, so as to enable the Church itself to carry out the ministry of the Servant. The Messiah came as a Servant; his ministers are servants; and the Church he created is a Servant-Church.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's amazing how much "mature wisdom" resembles being too tired. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52416]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's amazing how much "mature wisdom" resembles being too tired.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You make a decision about how you want to live your life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37118]]></link><description><![CDATA[You make a decision about how you want to live your life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm happy coach Calhoun is beginning to trust me. I just want to keep it that way. I don't want ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32254]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm happy coach Calhoun is beginning to trust me. I just want to keep it that way. I don't want to take a step back. My confidence is through the roof. Confidence is what you have to have at this level.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have made decisions that turned out to be wrong, and went back and did it another way, and still ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53279]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have made decisions that turned out to be wrong, and went back and did it another way, and still took less time than many who procrastinated over the original decision. Your brain is capable of handling 140, 000 million bits of information in one second, and if you take hours or days or weeks to reach a vital decision, you are short-circuiting your most valuable property.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Waiting, are they? Waiting, are they? Well, goddam 'em, let 'em wait!" [Ethan Allen, to his physician who said "General, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34749]]></link><description><![CDATA["Waiting, are they? Waiting, are they? Well, goddam 'em, let 'em wait!" [Ethan Allen, to his physician who said "General, I fear the angels are waiting for you", quoted in Saturday Review, April 5, 1958]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45841]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Had Cain been Scot, God would have changed his doom Nor forced him wander, but confine him home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54891]]></link><description><![CDATA[Had Cain been Scot, God would have changed his doom Nor forced him wander, but confine him home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience is always sowing the seed of one thing after another. [Lat., Semper enim ex aliis alia proseminat usus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14686]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience is always sowing the seed of one thing after another. [Lat., Semper enim ex aliis alia proseminat usus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30585]]></link><description><![CDATA[When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship should be more than biting time can sever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16884]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all know there is blood in meat(USDA hearings in Senate Ag committee). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/200]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all know there is blood in meat(USDA hearings in Senate Ag committee).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wars are caused by undefended wealth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65890]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wars are caused by undefended wealth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A day without laughter is a day wasted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24168]]></link><description><![CDATA[A day without laughter is a day wasted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork. -Pearl Bailey. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14794]]></link><description><![CDATA[What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork. -Pearl Bailey.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At first, the chemistry wasn't quite there. That little spark was missing. But today everything was great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31797]]></link><description><![CDATA[At first, the chemistry wasn't quite there. That little spark was missing. But today everything was great.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It still feels like it's the NCAA Tournament. It's a game we've got to get by first to get to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41875]]></link><description><![CDATA[It still feels like it's the NCAA Tournament. It's a game we've got to get by first to get to a powerhouse. The atmosphere is good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A vow is a snare for sin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61031]]></link><description><![CDATA[A vow is a snare for sin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57366]]></link><description><![CDATA[Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The absurdity of it gets played out in the day-to-day lives of Border Patrol agents. Everybody knows somebody [in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37762]]></link><description><![CDATA[The absurdity of it gets played out in the day-to-day lives of Border Patrol agents. Everybody knows somebody [in the U.S. illegally] who has some kind of relationship with a Border Patrol agent. Either someone in their family is married to one, or they're sleeping with one. People's lives are very complicated and intertwined and they're not very clear-cut.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26481]]></link><description><![CDATA[Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to the second or even the third rank. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2315]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to the second or even the third rank. [Lat., Prima enim sequentem, honestumn est in secundis, tertiisque consistere.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Woe to him, . . . who has no court of appeal against the world's judgment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Woe to him, . . . who has no court of appeal against the world's judgment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32668]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take care that all your offerings be free, and of your own, that has cost you something; so that ye ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6651]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take care that all your offerings be free, and of your own, that has cost you something; so that ye may not offer of that which is another man's, or that which ye are entrusted withal, and not your own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Irenæus, Bishop of Lyons, Teacher, Martyr, c.200  We need not despair of any man, so long as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8463]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Irenæus, Bishop of Lyons, Teacher, Martyr, c.200  We need not despair of any man, so long as he lives. For God deemed it better to bring good out of evil than not to permit evil at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people stand on the dock of life waiting for their ship to come inwhen deep down inside they know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21201]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people stand on the dock of life waiting for their ship to come inwhen deep down inside they know it has never left port.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66769]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites make blanket indictments against blacks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64387]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO is the answer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO is the answer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good orators, when they are out, they will spit. -As You Like It. Act iv. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55679]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good orators, when they are out, they will spit. -As You Like It. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13435]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is to be along; this, this is solitude! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57164]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is to be along; this, this is solitude!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're the youngest team in the NFL. They're not supposed to be doing anything. They are supposed to be the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30864]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're the youngest team in the NFL. They're not supposed to be doing anything. They are supposed to be the youngest team, but they didn't look like it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It affects the income, no doubt. Most people just want to wait for the good days. But figuring which days ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30005]]></link><description><![CDATA[It affects the income, no doubt. Most people just want to wait for the good days. But figuring which days those are is hard enough.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cannot answer all the curious questions of the brain concerning prayer and law, not half of them, indeed, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6601]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cannot answer all the curious questions of the brain concerning prayer and law, not half of them, indeed, and I will not attempt to; but I will cast my anchor here in this revealing fact, that He, the Holiest of the Holy and the Wisest of the Wise, He prays. Therefore I am assured that this anchorage of Divine example will hold the vessel in the tossings of the wildest sea of doubt, and I shall be as safe as He was, if the vessel itself is engulfed in the waves of suffering and sorrow. His act is an argument. His prayer is an inspiration. His achievements are the everlasting and all-sufficient vindication of prayer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A blustering night, a faire day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49003]]></link><description><![CDATA[A blustering night, a faire day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hardly find any persons of good sense save those who agree with us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44946]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hardly find any persons of good sense save those who agree with us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Qualities absolutely necessary for a historian: (1) Imagination. (2) Prejudice. (3) The power of writing your own biography at the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Qualities absolutely necessary for a historian: (1) Imagination. (2) Prejudice. (3) The power of writing your own biography at the same time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our Lady of the Snows. [Lat., Notre Dames des Neiges.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56716]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our Lady of the Snows. [Lat., Notre Dames des Neiges.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They say we are Almost as like as eggs. -The Winter's Tale. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55772]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say we are Almost as like as eggs. -The Winter's Tale. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55772</guid></item></channel></rss>