<?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[The power of God is the worship He inspires. That religion is strong which in its ritual and its modes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7025]]></link><description><![CDATA[The power of God is the worship He inspires. That religion is strong which in its ritual and its modes of thought evokes an apprehension of the commanding vision. The worship of God is not a rule of safety: it is an adventure of the spirit, a flight after the unattainable. The death of religion comes with the repression of the high hope of adventure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15910]]></link><description><![CDATA[Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once he saw a youth blushing, and addressed him, "Courage, my boy; that is the complexion of virtue." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4377]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once he saw a youth blushing, and addressed him, "Courage, my boy; that is the complexion of virtue."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every madman considers everyone else a madman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51594]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every madman considers everyone else a madman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the bookseller happens to desire a privilege for his merchandise, whether he is selling Rabelais or the Fathers of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52525]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the bookseller happens to desire a privilege for his merchandise, whether he is selling Rabelais or the Fathers of the Church, the magistrate grants the privilege without answering for the contents of the book.   - Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've gone for each type: the rough guy; the nerdy, sweet, lovable guy; and the slick guy. I don't really ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37795]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've gone for each type: the rough guy; the nerdy, sweet, lovable guy; and the slick guy. I don't really have a type. Men in general are a good thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sense is our helmet, wit is but the plume; The plume exposes, 'tis our helmet saves.  Sense is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55114]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sense is our helmet, wit is but the plume; The plume exposes, 'tis our helmet saves.  Sense is the diamond, weighty, solid, sound;   When cut by wit, it casts a brighter beam;    Yet, wit apart, it is a diamond still.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I loved all the Aaron Spelling shows, ‘Beverly Hills 90210' and ‘Models Inc.' At that time, I had pet rats ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46444]]></link><description><![CDATA[I loved all the Aaron Spelling shows, ‘Beverly Hills 90210' and ‘Models Inc.' At that time, I had pet rats I was raising and I always named all the baby rats after the characters in the shows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, the Communists at that moment were very strong in Italy and the Italian Communist Party was the biggest Communist ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35746]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, the Communists at that moment were very strong in Italy and the Italian Communist Party was the biggest Communist Party outside Soviet Union, there's no doubt about that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By retiring and going to Florida in the winter, it allows me to spend more time with my family. My ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34218]]></link><description><![CDATA[By retiring and going to Florida in the winter, it allows me to spend more time with my family. My wife and I wanted to have more time to ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mother said to her daughter, "Daughter, bid thy daughter tell her daughter that her daughter's daughter hath a daughter." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43202]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mother said to her daughter, "Daughter, bid thy daughter tell her daughter that her daughter's daughter hath a daughter."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wish I lived back in the old west days, because I'd save up my money for about twenty years ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11695]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wish I lived back in the old west days, because I'd save up my money for about twenty years so I could buy a solid-gold pick. Then I'd go out West and start digging for gold. When someone came up and asked what I was doing, I'd say, "Looking for gold, ya durn fool." He'd say, "Your pick is gold," and I'd say, "Well, that was easy." Good joke, huh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Paul's argument in First Corinthians 1:18-25 is equally relevant when we come to ask why men cannot understand the Bible. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7447]]></link><description><![CDATA[Paul's argument in First Corinthians 1:18-25 is equally relevant when we come to ask why men cannot understand the Bible. Any attempts to hide behind the excuse that it is too difficult, when what we mean is that its word is too hard for us to bear, meets the just remark of a pastor from Communist Germany: "How can they say that the Bible is difficult, when young Communists are poring over much more difficult and much more technical literature to discover what Communism is all about?" Sometimes the Biblical teaching is crystal-clear, but we dare not understand it. The Christian Church has a vested interest in its present forms, and Christian people, like others, have their pleasant prejudices. This unwillingness to hear some new thing, except in times of great disturbance, plays a bigger part in weakening the voice of God through the Bible than we are prepared to admit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience revels in misfortunes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50591]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience revels in misfortunes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was a place in childhood that I remember well, And there a voice of sweetest tone bright fairy tales ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43204]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was a place in childhood that I remember well, And there a voice of sweetest tone bright fairy tales did tell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Duke of Wellington brought to the post of first minister immortal fame; a quality of success which would almost ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15109]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Duke of Wellington brought to the post of first minister immortal fame; a quality of success which would almost seem to include all others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rich are different from you and me because they have more credit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15835]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rich are different from you and me because they have more credit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy the man, of mortals happiest he, Whose quiet mind from vain desires is free;  Whom neither hopes deceive, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9948]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy the man, of mortals happiest he, Whose quiet mind from vain desires is free;  Whom neither hopes deceive, nor fears torment,   But lives at peace, within himself content;    In thought, or act, accountable to none     But to himself, and to the gods alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To me, Judo is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers knock each other down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23551]]></link><description><![CDATA[To me, Judo is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers knock each other down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discharge is my first. I love Black Flag and all those guys. And Ramones, of course. And then I like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30692]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discharge is my first. I love Black Flag and all those guys. And Ramones, of course. And then I like Blondie,.. a little lighter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though fame is smoke, Its fumes are frankincense to human thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48772]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though fame is smoke, Its fumes are frankincense to human thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A master of straw eates a servant of steele. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49061]]></link><description><![CDATA[A master of straw eates a servant of steele.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/480]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it. [Lat., Saepe satius fuit dissimulare quam ulcisci.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22846]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it. [Lat., Saepe satius fuit dissimulare quam ulcisci.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By merit raised To that bad eminence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27389]]></link><description><![CDATA[By merit raised To that bad eminence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27306]]></link><description><![CDATA[If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No, misery makes sport to mock itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42772]]></link><description><![CDATA[No, misery makes sport to mock itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rome was not built in a day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rome was not built in a day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Labour Party has lost the last four elections. If they lose another, they get to keep the liberal party. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32023]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Labour Party has lost the last four elections. If they lose another, they get to keep the liberal party.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That man is successful who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much, who has gained the respect of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58172]]></link><description><![CDATA[That man is successful who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much, who has gained the respect of the intelligent men and the love of children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it; who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Passion costs me too much to bestow it on every trifle. (1640). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22712]]></link><description><![CDATA[Passion costs me too much to bestow it on every trifle. (1640).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God's delays are not God's denials. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21624]]></link><description><![CDATA[God's delays are not God's denials.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are the cause of women not loving one another. [Fr., Les hommes sont la cause que les femmes ne ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23157]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are the cause of women not loving one another. [Fr., Les hommes sont la cause que les femmes ne s'aiment point.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And it is time for those who talk about family values to start valuing families. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15190]]></link><description><![CDATA[And it is time for those who talk about family values to start valuing families.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am no longer a curmudgeon.I am a curmudgeon emeritus. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20113]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am no longer a curmudgeon.I am a curmudgeon emeritus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is in the American tradition to stand up for one's rights--even if the new way to stand up for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54280]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is in the American tradition to stand up for one's rights--even if the new way to stand up for one's rights is to sit down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29462]]></link><description><![CDATA[Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The brave find a home in every land. [Lat., Omne solum forti patria est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4864]]></link><description><![CDATA[The brave find a home in every land. [Lat., Omne solum forti patria est.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And on the flip side, they know us pretty well. There won't be any big secrets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31663]]></link><description><![CDATA[And on the flip side, they know us pretty well. There won't be any big secrets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To one that advised him to set up a democracy in Sparta, "Pray," said Lycurgus, "do you first set a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11876]]></link><description><![CDATA[To one that advised him to set up a democracy in Sparta, "Pray," said Lycurgus, "do you first set a democracy in your own house."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We say little if not egged on by vanity. [Fr., On parle peu quand la vanite ne fait pas parler.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60380]]></link><description><![CDATA[We say little if not egged on by vanity. [Fr., On parle peu quand la vanite ne fait pas parler.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues We write in water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51364]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues We write in water.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I went to the High School for Performing Arts, and to Howard University on a talent scholarship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29510]]></link><description><![CDATA[I went to the High School for Performing Arts, and to Howard University on a talent scholarship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hope that ultimately India will see reason and come to the negotiating table, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29814]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hope that ultimately India will see reason and come to the negotiating table,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Will the highways on the Internet become more few? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Will the highways on the Internet become more few?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which by interpretation is called Dorcas: this woman was full ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which by interpretation is called Dorcas: this woman was full of good works and almsdeeds which she did.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10767]]></link><description><![CDATA[The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We create our fate every day we live ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15363]]></link><description><![CDATA[We create our fate every day we live]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66598]]></link><description><![CDATA[For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5547]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5547</guid></item></channel></rss>