<?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[They're very raw. They're lacrosse I.Q. isn't that great. The big thing is their stick skills. They're going to come ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29495]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're very raw. They're lacrosse I.Q. isn't that great. The big thing is their stick skills. They're going to come up against teams with much better stick skills.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I prefer the word "homemaker" because "housewife" always implies that there may be a wife someplace else ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29953]]></link><description><![CDATA[I prefer the word "homemaker" because "housewife" always implies that there may be a wife someplace else]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The proximity of an army causes prices to go up; and high prices cause people's substance to be drained away. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3113]]></link><description><![CDATA[The proximity of an army causes prices to go up; and high prices cause people's substance to be drained away. When their substance is drained away, they will be afflicted by heavy exactions. With this loss of substance and exhaustion of strength, the homes of the people will be stripped bare, and their incomes dissipated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the families will be given a thorough medical and criminal history check, ... Once they are cleared, they can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36878]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the families will be given a thorough medical and criminal history check, ... Once they are cleared, they can then transition up here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a woman at the begining of all great things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63529]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a woman at the begining of all great things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A very gentle beast, and of a good conscience. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55535]]></link><description><![CDATA[A very gentle beast, and of a good conscience. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48469]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was from an old friend who . thought he was dying. Anyway, he said, Life and death issues don't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11355]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was from an old friend who . thought he was dying. Anyway, he said, Life and death issues don't come along that often, thank God, so don't treat everything like it's life or death. Go easier.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22834]]></link><description><![CDATA[Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need to make a change in as many people's lives as possible in their lifetime, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31481]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need to make a change in as many people's lives as possible in their lifetime,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you commit a crime, you're guilty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21549]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you commit a crime, you're guilty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The large white owl that with eye is blind, That hath sate for years in the old tree hollow,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45334]]></link><description><![CDATA[The large white owl that with eye is blind, That hath sate for years in the old tree hollow,  Is carried away in a gust of wind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55348]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another: I hope, upon familiarity will grow more contempt. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, you think it's only a minute. But when you sit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46594]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, you think it's only a minute. But when you sit on a hot stove for a minute, you think it's two hours. That's relativity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When there is no adversity, he can be a very positive person in the unit. (When there's adversity or trouble), ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36304]]></link><description><![CDATA[When there is no adversity, he can be a very positive person in the unit. (When there's adversity or trouble), we see a different side. There is a duality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is appallingly obvious our technology has exceeded our humanity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58815]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is appallingly obvious our technology has exceeded our humanity]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is all very well to be able to write books, but can you waggle your ears? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4508]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is all very well to be able to write books, but can you waggle your ears?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where the drink goes in, there the wit goes out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61685]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where the drink goes in, there the wit goes out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9449]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are fagots and fagots. [Fr., Il y a fagots et fagots.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9162]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are fagots and fagots. [Fr., Il y a fagots et fagots.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on their toes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15162]]></link><description><![CDATA[Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on their toes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one can guard him. He's strong with a low center of gravity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40355]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one can guard him. He's strong with a low center of gravity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, plain, and easy, and simple way of salvation! wanting no subtleties of art or science, no borrowed learning, no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6990]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, plain, and easy, and simple way of salvation! wanting no subtleties of art or science, no borrowed learning, no refinements of reason; but all done by the simple natural motion of every heart that truly longs after God. For no sooner is the finite desire of the creature in motion towards God, but the infinite desire of God is united with it, co-operates with it; and in this united desire of God and the creature is the salvation and life of the soul brought forth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The House shewes the owner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49876]]></link><description><![CDATA[The House shewes the owner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My new straw hat that's trimly lin'd with green, Let Peggy wear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18885]]></link><description><![CDATA[My new straw hat that's trimly lin'd with green, Let Peggy wear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we talk about values, I think of rationality in solving problems. That’s something I value. Fairness, kindness, generosity, tolerance. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23744]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we talk about values, I think of rationality in solving problems. That’s something I value. Fairness, kindness, generosity, tolerance. When they talk about values, they’re talking about things like going to church, voting for Bush, being loyal to Jesus, praying. These are not values.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If monotony tries me, and I cannot stand drudgery; if stupid people fret me and the little ruffles set me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7886]]></link><description><![CDATA[If monotony tries me, and I cannot stand drudgery; if stupid people fret me and the little ruffles set me on edge; if I make much of the trifles of life, then I know nothing of Calvary love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only a government that is rich and safe can afford to be a democracy, for democracy is the most expensive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17942]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only a government that is rich and safe can afford to be a democracy, for democracy is the most expensive and nefarious kind of government ever heard of on earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need, in effect, to make the phantom 'lock-boxes' around the trust fund real. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65014]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need, in effect, to make the phantom 'lock-boxes' around the trust fund real.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, I'm still looking for Maurice Ashley. My essential qualities. I think that more than anything, I try to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42278]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, I'm still looking for Maurice Ashley. My essential qualities. I think that more than anything, I try to do the right thing, I think about doing the right thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The palpable obscure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44765]]></link><description><![CDATA[The palpable obscure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9659]]></link><description><![CDATA[The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Christina Rossetti, Poet, 1894  We cannot attain to the understanding of Scripture either by study or by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8246]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Christina Rossetti, Poet, 1894  We cannot attain to the understanding of Scripture either by study or by the intellect. Your first duty is to begin by prayer. Entreat the Lord to grant you, of His great mercy, the true understanding of His Word. There is no other interpreter of the Word of God than the Author of this Word, as He Himself has said, "They shall be all taught of God" (John 6:45). Hope for nothing from your own labors, from your own understanding: trust solely in God, and in the influence of His Spirit. Believe this on the word of a man who has experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Almighty in His infinite wisdom did not see fit to create Frenchmen in the image of Englishmen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13898]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Almighty in His infinite wisdom did not see fit to create Frenchmen in the image of Englishmen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without the utopians of other times, men would still live in caves, miserable and naked;...utopia is the principle of all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60301]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without the utopians of other times, men would still live in caves, miserable and naked;...utopia is the principle of all progress, adn the essay into a better world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even as a tree has a single trunk, but many branches and leaves, there is one religion but any number ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10213]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even as a tree has a single trunk, but many branches and leaves, there is one religion but any number of faiths]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never Explain--your Friends do not need it and your Enemies will not believe you anyway. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16965]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never Explain--your Friends do not need it and your Enemies will not believe you anyway.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18681]]></link><description><![CDATA[To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know who critics are?--the men who have failed in literature and art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10742]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know who critics are?--the men who have failed in literature and art.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civilization rests on a set of promises; if the promises are broken too often, the civilization dies, no matter how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1274]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civilization rests on a set of promises; if the promises are broken too often, the civilization dies, no matter how rich it may be, or how mechanically clever. Hope and faith depend on the promises; if hope and faith go, everything goes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As I came down the Highgate Hill, The Highgate Hill, the Highgate Hill,  As I came down the Highgate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25449]]></link><description><![CDATA[As I came down the Highgate Hill, The Highgate Hill, the Highgate Hill,  As I came down the Highgate Hill   I met the sun's bravado,    And saw below me, fold on fold,     Grey to pearl and pearl to gold,      This London like a land of old,       The land of Eldorado.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is apparently no surer way of turning a thing into its opposite than by exaggerating it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45136]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is apparently no surer way of turning a thing into its opposite than by exaggerating it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't talk to me about atrocities in war; all war is an atrocity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47260]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't talk to me about atrocities in war; all war is an atrocity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men and animals. Some seem to smile; some have a sad ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men and animals. Some seem to smile; some have a sad expression; some are pensive and diffident; others again are plain, honest and upright, like the broad-faced sunflower and the hollyhock.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Price is what you pay. Value is what you get. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66879]]></link><description><![CDATA[Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1131]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66267]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I received his resignation in the morning, and we will discuss it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28994]]></link><description><![CDATA[I received his resignation in the morning, and we will discuss it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28994</guid></item></channel></rss>