<?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://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Give a woman an inch and she thinks she's a ruler ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61907]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give a woman an inch and she thinks she's a ruler]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A generation of Christians reared among push buttons and automatic machines is impatient of slower and less direct methods of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6950]]></link><description><![CDATA[A generation of Christians reared among push buttons and automatic machines is impatient of slower and less direct methods of reaching their goals. We have been trying to apply machine-age methods to our relations with God. We read our chapter, have our short devotions, and rush away, hoping to make up for our deep inward bankruptcy by attending another gospel meeting or listening to another thrilling story told by a religious adventurer lately returned from afar. The tragic results of this spirit are all about us. Shallow lives, hollow religious philosophies, the preponderance of the element of fun in gospel meetings, the glorification of men, trust in religious externalities, quasi-religious fellowships, salesmanship methods, the mistaking of dynamic personality for the power of the Spirit; these and such as these are the symptoms of an evil disease, a deep and serious malady of the soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23949]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53196]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does, she will wither without sun; she will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18405]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does, she will wither without sun; she will decay in her sheath as a narcissus will if you do not give her air enough; she might fall and defile her head in dust if you leave her without help at some moments in her life; but you cannot fetter her; she must take her own fair form and way if she take any.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our hearts deceive us, because we leave them to themselves, are absent from them, taken up in outward rules and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7076]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our hearts deceive us, because we leave them to themselves, are absent from them, taken up in outward rules and forms of living and praying. But this kind of praying, which takes all its thoughts and words only from the state of our hearts, makes it impossible for us to be strangers to ourselves. The strength of every sin, the power of every evil temper, the most secret workings of our hearts, the weakness of any or all our virtues, is with a noonday clearness forced to be seen, as soon as the heart is made our prayer book, and we pray nothing, but according to what we read, and find there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chemists employed by the police can do remarkable things with blood. They can find it in shreds of cloth, in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chemists employed by the police can do remarkable things with blood. They can find it in shreds of cloth, in the interstices of floor boards, on the iron of a heel, and can measure it and swear to it and weave it into a rope to hang a man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That man is thought a dangerous knave, Or zealot plotting crime,  Who for advancement of his kind   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53886]]></link><description><![CDATA[That man is thought a dangerous knave, Or zealot plotting crime,  Who for advancement of his kind   Is wiser than his time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the shadows of tree-trunks and shadows of leaves Interlace with low voices and footsteps and sunlight To divide us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32119]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the shadows of tree-trunks and shadows of leaves Interlace with low voices and footsteps and sunlight To divide us forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some of my best friends are illusions. Been sustaining me for years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some of my best friends are illusions. Been sustaining me for years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reality confronts man with a great many "musts," but all of them are conditional; the formula of realistic necessity is: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reality confronts man with a great many "musts," but all of them are conditional; the formula of realistic necessity is: "You must, if " and the "if" stands for man's choice]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He ne'er is crowned with immortality Who fears to follow where airy voices lead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20616]]></link><description><![CDATA[He ne'er is crowned with immortality Who fears to follow where airy voices lead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He cannot be vertuous that is not rigorous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49311]]></link><description><![CDATA[He cannot be vertuous that is not rigorous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we had one (prairie dog) die, it was right under the swing set - right there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28955]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we had one (prairie dog) die, it was right under the swing set - right there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For there's nothing we read of in torture's inventions, Like a well-meaning dunce, with the best of intentions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43256]]></link><description><![CDATA[For there's nothing we read of in torture's inventions, Like a well-meaning dunce, with the best of intentions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11899]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Software companies have sold off aggressively but some information technology managers have indicated a willingness to spend in that area. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Software companies have sold off aggressively but some information technology managers have indicated a willingness to spend in that area.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is an adventure in forgiveness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8425]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is an adventure in forgiveness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have culled about 20,000 birds. Until now they are still looking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29304]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have culled about 20,000 birds. Until now they are still looking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64611]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41594]]></link><description><![CDATA[The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have heard from many PUD customers that they prefer smaller, more frequent rate increases versus larger, occasional rate increases. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32822]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have heard from many PUD customers that they prefer smaller, more frequent rate increases versus larger, occasional rate increases.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Growing up in Brooklyn in the '40s and following the war in the papers and on the radio every day, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Growing up in Brooklyn in the '40s and following the war in the papers and on the radio every day, the world looked very different to us then.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love. What is love? No word can define it, it's something so great, only God could design it. Yes, love ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17413]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love. What is love? No word can define it, it's something so great, only God could design it. Yes, love is beyond, what man can define, for love is immortal, and God's gift is divine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Moral is that gardeners pine, Whene'er no pods adorn the vine.  Of all sad words experience gleans,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62048]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Moral is that gardeners pine, Whene'er no pods adorn the vine.  Of all sad words experience gleans,   The saddest are: "It might have beans."    (The did not make this up myself:     'Twas in a book upon my shelf.      It's witty, but I don't deny       It's rather Whittier than I.)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He had scarcely gone a short league, when Fortune, that was conducting his affairs from good to better, discovered to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20987]]></link><description><![CDATA[He had scarcely gone a short league, when Fortune, that was conducting his affairs from good to better, discovered to him the road, where he also espied an Inn. Sancho positively maintained it was an Inn, and his master that it was a castle; and the dispute lasted so long that they arrived there before it was determined.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never hold anyone by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never hold anyone by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling to hear you, you had better hold your tongue than them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46735]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remembrance of death saves one from this world's deceit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36716]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remembrance of death saves one from this world's deceit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Basically, they are taking care of me. Thank God they were there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Basically, they are taking care of me. Thank God they were there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14266]]></link><description><![CDATA[The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66494]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As much as I'm not a huge fan of the band Kiss, I totally appreciate what they did in creating ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32470]]></link><description><![CDATA[As much as I'm not a huge fan of the band Kiss, I totally appreciate what they did in creating a show. They wrote these simple, pretty crappy rock songs, but they created this huge image and this huge show. It was like this iconic thing, and I think that's really cool. I think that's something that we've always really appreciated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it's kind of been the plan to take it slow, make sure there's no setbacks. Make sure nothing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28378]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it's kind of been the plan to take it slow, make sure there's no setbacks. Make sure nothing bad happens. Be smart about it. But I definitely feel like I could have played, and I don't think it would've been an issue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only way Prescott is going to get through something to do with transport policy, is if the public think ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33233]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only way Prescott is going to get through something to do with transport policy, is if the public think there are too many damn things on the road, and use the railways.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SELFISH, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55083]]></link><description><![CDATA[SELFISH, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult, to leave unsaid the wrong ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Dumont actor was considered to be too stilted - the way we Dumont actors used to speak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40636]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Dumont actor was considered to be too stilted - the way we Dumont actors used to speak.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All men think all men mortal, but themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20621]]></link><description><![CDATA[All men think all men mortal, but themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The delegates will see Omar as the best choice so, accordingly, Omar will win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32780]]></link><description><![CDATA[The delegates will see Omar as the best choice so, accordingly, Omar will win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To rebound from losing to Mansfield on Monday and to be down 10-3 at halftime, it would have been an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37361]]></link><description><![CDATA[To rebound from losing to Mansfield on Monday and to be down 10-3 at halftime, it would have been an easy thing for them to pack it in. We talked about some things at halftime and put it on their shoulders to come out in the second half and do it, and they did it one goal at a time. I'm really proud of them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56295]]></link><description><![CDATA[In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64889]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A substantial number of beneficiaries are already enrolled, but a lot turns on what those who are on the fence ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34059]]></link><description><![CDATA[A substantial number of beneficiaries are already enrolled, but a lot turns on what those who are on the fence decide to do between now and May 15. If they stay out for now, some could face financial penalties down the road if they later change their mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The unsunn'd heaps Of miser's treasures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42741]]></link><description><![CDATA[The unsunn'd heaps Of miser's treasures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh that the desert were my dwelling-place! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh that the desert were my dwelling-place!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's been the longest week ever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30259]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's been the longest week ever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43350]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43350</guid></item></channel></rss>