<?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[Then I heard this young veteran on TV speaking about the war. It was John Kerry. He put everything I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23293]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then I heard this young veteran on TV speaking about the war. It was John Kerry. He put everything I was feeling into words. Tonight, I'd like to let you know, that even before I met John Kerry, he was my brother. Even before I knew John Kerry, he was my friend. Even before I spoke with John Kerry, he gave me hope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What happens after the October meeting is far from clear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36603]]></link><description><![CDATA[What happens after the October meeting is far from clear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some folks can look so busy doing nothing that they seem indispensable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some folks can look so busy doing nothing that they seem indispensable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am deeply saddened and shocked by the death of Gene Pitney. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41406]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am deeply saddened and shocked by the death of Gene Pitney.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death! -Earl Wilson. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10382]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death! -Earl Wilson.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Edmund of the East Angles, Martyr, 870 Commemoration of Priscilla Lydia Sellon, a Restorer of the Religious Life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6738]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Edmund of the East Angles, Martyr, 870 Commemoration of Priscilla Lydia Sellon, a Restorer of the Religious Life in the Church of England, 1876   We take nothing to the grave with us, but a good or evil conscience... It is true, terrors of conscience cast us down; and yet without terrors of conscience we cannot be raised up again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fly away, pretty moth, to the shade Of the leaf where you slumbered all day;  Be content with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62195]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fly away, pretty moth, to the shade Of the leaf where you slumbered all day;  Be content with the moon and the stars, pretty moth,   And make use of your wings while you may.    . . . .     But tho' dreams of delight may have dazzled you quite,      They at last found it dangerous play;       Many things in this world that look bright, pretty moth,        Only dazzle to lead us astray.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44420]]></link><description><![CDATA[For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll have a fling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48623]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll have a fling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5165]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29542]]></link><description><![CDATA[With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear even when morbid is not cowardice. That is the label we reserve for something that a man does. What ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10514]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear even when morbid is not cowardice. That is the label we reserve for something that a man does. What passes through his mind is his own affair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48437]]></link><description><![CDATA[And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were notified by relatives who had not been able to contact the man, despite several tries. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34900]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were notified by relatives who had not been able to contact the man, despite several tries.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We wait all these years to find someone who understands us, I thought, someone who accepts us as we are, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55070]]></link><description><![CDATA[We wait all these years to find someone who understands us, I thought, someone who accepts us as we are, someone with a wizard's power to melt stone to sunlight, who can bring us happiness in spite of trials, who can face our dragons in the night, who can transform us into the soul we choose to be. Just yesterday I found that magical Someone is the face we see in the mirror: It's us and our homemade masks. -Richard Bach.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20714]]></link><description><![CDATA[The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are what you do. It’s about actions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/538]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are what you do. It’s about actions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Up front, the quarter was fantastic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38448]]></link><description><![CDATA[Up front, the quarter was fantastic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Matthias the Apostle  If the ordinary canons of history, used in every other case, hold good in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6217]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Matthias the Apostle  If the ordinary canons of history, used in every other case, hold good in this case, Jesus is undoubtedly an historical person. If he is not an historical person, the only alternative is that there is no such thing as history at all -- it is delirium, nothing else; and a rational being would be better employed in the collection of snuff-boxes. And if history is impossible, so is all other knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Eglantine Jebb, Social Reformer, Founder of 'Save the Children', 1928   Following the way of Jesus Christ ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7443]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Eglantine Jebb, Social Reformer, Founder of 'Save the Children', 1928   Following the way of Jesus Christ and doing all we can for His cause and for our fellow men expresses something of our worship in action. But how to give Him a present to express our love is a bit of a problem. How can you give God anything when He owns everything? But does He? How about that power to choose, that precious free will that He has given to every living personality and which He so greatly respects? That is the only present we can give -- our selves, with all our powers of spirit, mind, and body, willingly, freely given because we love Him. That is the best and highest worship that you and I can offer, and I am sure that it is this above all that God most highly appreciates.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now fitted the halter, now travers'd the cart, And often took leave; but was loth to part. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45570]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now fitted the halter, now travers'd the cart, And often took leave; but was loth to part.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are many who find a good alibi far more attractive than an achievement. For an achievement does not settle ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52257]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are many who find a good alibi far more attractive than an achievement. For an achievement does not settle anything permanently. We still have to prove our worth anew each day: we have to prove that we are as good today as we were yesterday. But when we have a valid alibi for not achieving anything we are fixed, so to speak, for life. Moreover, when we have an alibi for not writing a book, painting a picture, and so on, we have an alibi for not writing the greatest book and not painting the greatest picture. Small wonder that the effort expended and the punishment endured in obtaining a good alibi often exceed the effort and grief requisite for the attainment of a most marked achievement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is natural for man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20470]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is natural for man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts... For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth, to know the worst, and to provide for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She who from April dates her years, Diamonds should wear, lest bitter tears  For vain repentance flow; this stone, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2975]]></link><description><![CDATA[She who from April dates her years, Diamonds should wear, lest bitter tears  For vain repentance flow; this stone,   Emblem of innocence is known.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In quarreling the truth is always lost ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52692]]></link><description><![CDATA[In quarreling the truth is always lost]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dignity is like a perfume; those who use it are scarcely conscious of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12280]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dignity is like a perfume; those who use it are scarcely conscious of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the Armes of England will not arme feare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49108]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the Armes of England will not arme feare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suit the action to the word, the word to the action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62026]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22103]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17857]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hildegard, Abbess of Bingen, Visionary, 1179   (Peter) Waldo, a business-man in Lyons, France, in about A.D. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hildegard, Abbess of Bingen, Visionary, 1179   (Peter) Waldo, a business-man in Lyons, France, in about A.D. 1170 became intensely curious as to the content of the Scriptures. But he could not read Latin, and so the Scriptures were a closed book to him. However, he hired two money-minded priests, who, in violation of strict regulations, translated the Bible for him into Provençal, the language of southern France. The content of the Word of God made such an impression upon this earnest man that he gave up his business, took upon himself a vow of poverty, and dedicated himself to the simple preaching of the contents of God's Word.  The Latin of the Church only mystified its hearers [but] Waldo's humble preaching edified the souls of men. His words were not spectacular but powerful, as he pleaded with them to repent. Much of his preaching and that of his followers consisted in reciting long passages of Scripture in the vernacular. Many of them could not afford an expensive handwritten copy of the Bible, and the ecclesiastical authorities could too easily rob them of such a book; but they could not erase the words which were treasured in the heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We didn't get it together in the first half. In the second, Real came at us but we fortunately played ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37407]]></link><description><![CDATA[We didn't get it together in the first half. In the second, Real came at us but we fortunately played better. We may have won but, to be fair, we didn't play well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As for the brandy, "nothing extenuate"; and the water, put nought in in malice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25155]]></link><description><![CDATA[As for the brandy, "nothing extenuate"; and the water, put nought in in malice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes a breakdown can be the beginning of a kind of breakthrough, a way of living in advance through a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54675]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes a breakdown can be the beginning of a kind of breakthrough, a way of living in advance through a trauma that prepares you for a future of radical transformation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I got off the soap I got offered all these, you know, 'women in jeopardy' -- I call them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23213]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I got off the soap I got offered all these, you know, 'women in jeopardy' -- I call them 'disease of the week' movies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29546]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the duty of righteous men to make war on all undeserved privilege, but one must not forget that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47176]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the duty of righteous men to make war on all undeserved privilege, but one must not forget that this is a war without end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each year, one vicious habit rooted out, in time ought to make the worst man good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18556]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each year, one vicious habit rooted out, in time ought to make the worst man good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot endure to be so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62446]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot endure to be so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now they have come to the place where their faith can no longer feed on the bread of repression and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now they have come to the place where their faith can no longer feed on the bread of repression and violence. They ask for the bread of liberty, of public equality, and public responsibility. It must not be denied them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Music hath charms to soothe the savage beast," And therefore proper at a sheriff's feast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43437]]></link><description><![CDATA["Music hath charms to soothe the savage beast," And therefore proper at a sheriff's feast.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64851]]></link><description><![CDATA[I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let's live with that small pittance which we have; Who covets more is evermore a slave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9950]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let's live with that small pittance which we have; Who covets more is evermore a slave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no ugly women, only lazy ones ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4044]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no ugly women, only lazy ones]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing happens until something moves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing happens until something moves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mom hates dad, Dad hates mom, it all makes you feel so sad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12602]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mom hates dad, Dad hates mom, it all makes you feel so sad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would be pure speculation at this point to say anything about the cause of the accident. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36629]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would be pure speculation at this point to say anything about the cause of the accident.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such words fall to often on our cold and careless ears with the triteness of long familiarity; but to Octavia ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58288]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such words fall to often on our cold and careless ears with the triteness of long familiarity; but to Octavia . . . they seemed to be written in sunbeams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58288</guid></item></channel></rss>