<?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[Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48188]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3347]]></link><description><![CDATA[The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was looking pretty desperate out here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40174]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was looking pretty desperate out here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We made him a substantial offer. He was a Kiwi player we really wanted. I was a bit worried he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38422]]></link><description><![CDATA[We made him a substantial offer. He was a Kiwi player we really wanted. I was a bit worried he was over-valued because of the leagues he's played in. Now he's gone to one of the most unstable clubs in the A-League.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[why can't the average citizen? That's what I've been promoting in the last several years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30922]]></link><description><![CDATA[why can't the average citizen? That's what I've been promoting in the last several years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I keep reading between the lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35884]]></link><description><![CDATA[I keep reading between the lies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your bones have been my bedframe and your flesh has been my pillow. And I'm waiting for sleep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your bones have been my bedframe and your flesh has been my pillow. And I'm waiting for sleep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Luke the Evangelist  No man dares to condemn the Christian faith today, because the Christian faith has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Luke the Evangelist  No man dares to condemn the Christian faith today, because the Christian faith has not been tried. Not until men get rid of the thought that it is a poor machine, an expedient for saving them from suffering and pain; not until they get the grand idea of it as the great power of God present in and through the lives of men; not until then does Christianity enter upon its true trial and become ready to show what it can do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24480]]></link><description><![CDATA[To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24480</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://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56865]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is apparently no surer way of turning a thing into its opposite than by exaggerating it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The less confident you are, the more serious you have to act. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63053]]></link><description><![CDATA[The less confident you are, the more serious you have to act.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24969]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every noble crown is, and on Earth will forever be, a crown of thorns. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54455]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every noble crown is, and on Earth will forever be, a crown of thorns.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20692]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neither head, nor feet. [Referring to anything very intricate.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48852]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neither head, nor feet. [Referring to anything very intricate.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The one good thing about the antiques business is the more, the better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40748]]></link><description><![CDATA[The one good thing about the antiques business is the more, the better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[John Wesley said that if you give up the witchcraft, you must give up the Bible. He is right. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53554]]></link><description><![CDATA[John Wesley said that if you give up the witchcraft, you must give up the Bible. He is right. The choice is easy for me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17618]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried. If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, and you don't branch out, you don't try-you don't take the risk.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tom Goodwin was an actor-man, Old Drury's pride and boast,  In all the light and spritely parts,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/435]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tom Goodwin was an actor-man, Old Drury's pride and boast,  In all the light and spritely parts,   Especially the ghost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The basic demand of young people and of employees is that the law be withdrawn. He has to respond to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35687]]></link><description><![CDATA[The basic demand of young people and of employees is that the law be withdrawn. He has to respond to the people in the street.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All human activity is prompted by desire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11988]]></link><description><![CDATA[All human activity is prompted by desire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Taste this, and be henceforth among the Gods thyself a Goddess. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58929]]></link><description><![CDATA[Taste this, and be henceforth among the Gods thyself a Goddess.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43951]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adam was looking for a comedian to do a 7 o'clock show. Two years ago, I was up for a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41010]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adam was looking for a comedian to do a 7 o'clock show. Two years ago, I was up for a 10 o'clock show at another hotel, but I didn't want a 10 o'clock show. It isn't my crowd and I didn't think it would work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How do you survive Christmas? You drink a lot. And drink a lot, right. Drink a lot and drink a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31778]]></link><description><![CDATA[How do you survive Christmas? You drink a lot. And drink a lot, right. Drink a lot and drink a lot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For some extraordinary reason, the Church moves in an atmosphere of antiquity. I have no doubt that it makes for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7901]]></link><description><![CDATA[For some extraordinary reason, the Church moves in an atmosphere of antiquity. I have no doubt that it makes for dignity; I have also no coubt that there are times when it makes for complete irrelevance; for, if there is one thing that is true of religion it is that it must always be expressible in contemporary terms. Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are playing possibly the best, if not the best, team we've seen all year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36192]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are playing possibly the best, if not the best, team we've seen all year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They appear but here and there swimming in the vasty deep. [The portions of some books really worth notice are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51831]]></link><description><![CDATA[They appear but here and there swimming in the vasty deep. [The portions of some books really worth notice are few and far between.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While Elvis was a country boy who sang 'black' . . . Chuck Berry provided the mirror image where country ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32022]]></link><description><![CDATA[While Elvis was a country boy who sang 'black' . . . Chuck Berry provided the mirror image where country music was filtered through an R&B sensibility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The central paradox of the machines that have made our lives so much brighter, quicker, longer and healthier is that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64411]]></link><description><![CDATA[The central paradox of the machines that have made our lives so much brighter, quicker, longer and healthier is that they cannot teach us how to make the best use of them; the information revolution came without an instruction manual.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neither praise nor dispraise thy selfe, thy actins serve the turne. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neither praise nor dispraise thy selfe, thy actins serve the turne.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44660]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14694]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Communism is a Christian heresy ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9083]]></link><description><![CDATA[Communism is a Christian heresy]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue: he approaches nearest to the Gods, who knows how to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56293]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue: he approaches nearest to the Gods, who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A great unrecognized incapacity. [Fr., Une grande incapacite inconnue.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5633]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great unrecognized incapacity. [Fr., Une grande incapacite inconnue.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47653]]></link><description><![CDATA[Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the proteins look very similar. Without the labeling, it would be like trying to find a specific potato within ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41360]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the proteins look very similar. Without the labeling, it would be like trying to find a specific potato within a couple hundred thousand of them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm really happy with the set-up (of the car). We worked on different aspects in each session. I hope it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42298]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm really happy with the set-up (of the car). We worked on different aspects in each session. I hope it will be a clean race.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are so close to Mexico, your Spanish needs to be great, better than great. It has to be perfect. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39246]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are so close to Mexico, your Spanish needs to be great, better than great. It has to be perfect. You have to have excellent knowledge of the game and knowledge of the language. If not, the people will let you know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53768]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; Every man's work shall be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52832]]></link><description><![CDATA[In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are still committed to calm, but the calm is fading with the wind as a result of the Zionist ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28317]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are still committed to calm, but the calm is fading with the wind as a result of the Zionist violations. When they hit us, we will respond with an earthquake-like reaction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stop not, unthinking, every friend you meet To spin your wordy fabric in the street;  While you are emptying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58612]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stop not, unthinking, every friend you meet To spin your wordy fabric in the street;  While you are emptying your colloquial pack,   The fiend Lumbago jumps upon his back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our wills are ours, we know not how; Our wills are ours, to make them thine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61608]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our wills are ours, we know not how; Our wills are ours, to make them thine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Results! Why man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know severalthousand things that won't work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21225]]></link><description><![CDATA[Results! Why man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know severalthousand things that won't work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase!) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace,  And say, within ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12878]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase!) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace,  And say, within the moonlight in his room,   Making it rich, and like a lily in bloom,    An angel, writing in a book of gold;     Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold,      And to the presence in the room he said--       "What writest thou?" The Vision raised its head,        And, with a look made all of sweet accord,         Answered, "The names of those who love the Lord."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1180]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to make a good deal is to have the ability to walk away from it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11144]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to make a good deal is to have the ability to walk away from it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11144</guid></item></channel></rss>