<?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[God keeps a niche In Heaven, to hold our idols; and albeit  He brake them to our faces, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19081]]></link><description><![CDATA[God keeps a niche In Heaven, to hold our idols; and albeit  He brake them to our faces, and denied   That our close kisses should impair their white,--    I know we shall behold them raised, complete,     The dust swept from their beauty, glorified,      New Memnons singing in the great God-light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This category is fraught with issues as to whether publishers can even say go ahead and use them because they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28963]]></link><description><![CDATA[This category is fraught with issues as to whether publishers can even say go ahead and use them because they may not have the rights.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57746]]></link><description><![CDATA[In life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to know the past to understand the present. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45658]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to know the past to understand the present.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enough is as good as a feast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20150]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enough is as good as a feast.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My friend has a baby. I'm recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3601]]></link><description><![CDATA[My friend has a baby. I'm recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25755]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Samuel & Henrietta Barnett, Social Reformers, 1913 & 1936   Evil can be interpreted as guilt only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Samuel & Henrietta Barnett, Social Reformers, 1913 & 1936   Evil can be interpreted as guilt only where human existence is understood as personal, and that means where the existence of man is understood to be in responsibility to the Divine Thou. This is the depth of human distress, that we are separated from God, that our communion with Him is destroyed, that man has emancipated himself (has taken himself out of the hand of God) and has become independent, his own master.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her silver voice Is the rich music of a summer bird,  Heard in the still night, with its passionate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60917]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her silver voice Is the rich music of a summer bird,  Heard in the still night, with its passionate cadence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64206]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the greater shadows fall from the lofty mountains. [Lat., Majoresque cadunt altis de montibus umbrae.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55303]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the greater shadows fall from the lofty mountains. [Lat., Majoresque cadunt altis de montibus umbrae.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Arrogance diminishes wisdom ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3116]]></link><description><![CDATA[Arrogance diminishes wisdom]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A line runs from the meditations of the heart to the words of the mouth. The meditations are not clear ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52183]]></link><description><![CDATA[A line runs from the meditations of the heart to the words of the mouth. The meditations are not clear to us until the mouth utters its words. If what the mouth utters is unclear or foolish or mendacious, it must be that the meditations are the same. But the line runs both ways. The words of the mouth will become the meditations of the heart, and the habit of loose talk loosens the fastenings of our understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I deserve respect for the things I did not do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47017]]></link><description><![CDATA[I deserve respect for the things I did not do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marry because you have drank with the king, And the king hath so graciously pledged you,  You shall no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marry because you have drank with the king, And the king hath so graciously pledged you,  You shall no more be called shoemakers.   But you and yours to the world's end    Shall be called the trade of the gentle craft.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66566]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20108]]></link><description><![CDATA[With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19656]]></link><description><![CDATA[Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three year waiting list.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I did a thing on Malcolm in the Middle which I loved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29912]]></link><description><![CDATA[I did a thing on Malcolm in the Middle which I loved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65786]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important thing in a relationship between a man and a woman is that one of them must be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27183]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important thing in a relationship between a man and a woman is that one of them must be good at taking orders.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A gentle heart is tyed with an easie thread. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49023]]></link><description><![CDATA[A gentle heart is tyed with an easie thread.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reverse side also has a reverse side. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51875]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reverse side also has a reverse side.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Television? The word is half Latin and half Greek. No good can come of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Television? The word is half Latin and half Greek. No good can come of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A weak man has doubts before a decision; a strong man has them afterwards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11602]]></link><description><![CDATA[A weak man has doubts before a decision; a strong man has them afterwards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22042]]></link><description><![CDATA[The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27274]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The remittances are for the early graduation expenses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41447]]></link><description><![CDATA[The remittances are for the early graduation expenses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When he came here and turned the program around, I'm talking about the whole city has galvanized behind him. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40586]]></link><description><![CDATA[When he came here and turned the program around, I'm talking about the whole city has galvanized behind him. The thing I like about it is he really brought the city together, the black and the white. You look up to the stands and you'd see all races up there. ... He brought the city together a lot. That's why a lot of people around here hate to see him go, because that electricity seems like it's died down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The interest is so intense at some Southern California schools that students might start rioting if their school didn't have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37994]]></link><description><![CDATA[The interest is so intense at some Southern California schools that students might start rioting if their school didn't have an academic decathlon coach. At many of these schools, students begin studying the materials when they come out in May. They've been pushing decathlon at these schools for years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48641]]></link><description><![CDATA[A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving infant's life, she will choose to save ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57681]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there is a man on base.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2346]]></link><description><![CDATA[A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is not a static thing. The only people who do notchange their minds are incompetents in asylums who can't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21785]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is not a static thing. The only people who do notchange their minds are incompetents in asylums who can't and those incemeteries.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The teachings of elegant sayings should be collected when one can. For the supreme gift of words of wisdom, any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52849]]></link><description><![CDATA[The teachings of elegant sayings should be collected when one can. For the supreme gift of words of wisdom, any price will be paid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rigid judgmentalopinionscan block descentof Spirit's pinions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48116]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rigid judgmentalopinionscan block descentof Spirit's pinions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't characterize the recess, but a recess in collective bargaining is not rare and is often called for various ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38700]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't characterize the recess, but a recess in collective bargaining is not rare and is often called for various reasons.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's teaching them that they can save up their money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31152]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's teaching them that they can save up their money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fall of dropping water wears away the stone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46180]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fall of dropping water wears away the stone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would seem to favor the community colleges, to the detriment of students who would prefer to attend a university. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42513]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would seem to favor the community colleges, to the detriment of students who would prefer to attend a university. Some kids are better served at community colleges, and some kids are better served at universities. That decision should be based on academic reasons, not economic reasons.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23063]]></link><description><![CDATA[The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/230]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are born into this world unarmed---our mind is our only weapon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27528]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are born into this world unarmed---our mind is our only weapon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22124]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more they drink the more they thirst. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50773]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more they drink the more they thirst.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst thing about work in the house or home is that whatever you do is destroyed, laid waste or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19641]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst thing about work in the house or home is that whatever you do is destroyed, laid waste or eaten within twenty four hours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I guess I kinda lost control, because in the middle of the play I ran up and lit the evil ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11693]]></link><description><![CDATA[I guess I kinda lost control, because in the middle of the play I ran up and lit the evil puppet villain on fire. No, I didn't. Just kidding. I just said that to help illustrate one of the human emotions, which is freaking out. Another emotion is greed, as when you kill someone for money, or something like that. Another emotion is generosity, as when you pay someone double what he paid for his stupid puppet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5975]]></link><description><![CDATA[A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought we had a chance despite what I thought was one of the most uninspiring performances by my team ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34668]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought we had a chance despite what I thought was one of the most uninspiring performances by my team since I've been the head coach here. But of course, the two things that have hurt us all season, turnovers and poor shooting percentage, cost us at the end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25427]]></link><description><![CDATA[Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25427</guid></item></channel></rss>