<?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[It was an accident, although I’ve been involved in some kind of theatrical function or other since I was a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44403]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was an accident, although I’ve been involved in some kind of theatrical function or other since I was a child – in school, music, athletics. To me, acting is the most logical way for people’s neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves. To my way of thinking, an actor’s course is set even before he’s out of the cradle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether drugs lead to illumination or degradation depends on the spirit in which one takes them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether drugs lead to illumination or degradation depends on the spirit in which one takes them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art begins with resistance-at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art begins with resistance-at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35550]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18174]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the scripture saith, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn. And, The labourer is worthy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23921]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the scripture saith, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn. And, The labourer is worthy of his reward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The class of those who have the ability to think their own thoughts is separated by an unbridgeable gulf from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52020]]></link><description><![CDATA[The class of those who have the ability to think their own thoughts is separated by an unbridgeable gulf from the class of those who cannot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always be sincere, whether you mean it or not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always be sincere, whether you mean it or not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55131]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any time you seem to gain momentum, they snatch it right back with a big shift right away or a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28810]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any time you seem to gain momentum, they snatch it right back with a big shift right away or a couple of shifts later. They turn things around so quickly, it's frustrating.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absence - that common cure of love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/137]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absence - that common cure of love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not put on this earth for ourselves, but are placed here for each other. If you are there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55234]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not put on this earth for ourselves, but are placed here for each other. If you are there always for others, then in time of need, someone will be there for you. -Jeff Warner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His house was known to all the vagrant train, He chid their wanderings but reliev'd their pain;  The long ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46457]]></link><description><![CDATA[His house was known to all the vagrant train, He chid their wanderings but reliev'd their pain;  The long remembered beggar was his guest,   Whose beard descending swept his aged breast.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obviously, a little more tepid than what markets were expecting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34921]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obviously, a little more tepid than what markets were expecting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deep calleth upon deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44875]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deep calleth upon deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hail, O bleeding Head and wounded, With a crown of thorns surrounded,  Buffeted, and bruised and battered,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6122]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hail, O bleeding Head and wounded, With a crown of thorns surrounded,  Buffeted, and bruised and battered,   Smote with reed by striking shattered,    Face with spittle vilely smeared!     Hail, whose visage sweet and comely,      Marred by fouling stains and homely,       Changed as to its blooming color,        All now turned to deathly pallor,         Making heavenly hosts affeared!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The winds that never moderation knew, Afraid to blow too much, too faintly blew;  Or out of breath with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61642]]></link><description><![CDATA[The winds that never moderation knew, Afraid to blow too much, too faintly blew;  Or out of breath with joy, could not enlarge   Their straighten'd lungs or conscious of their charge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wouldn't trade him for any other player in Tucson. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40607]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wouldn't trade him for any other player in Tucson.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We seem to gain wisdom more readily through our failures than through our successes. We always think of failure as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61740]]></link><description><![CDATA[We seem to gain wisdom more readily through our failures than through our successes. We always think of failure as the antithesis of success, but it isn't. Success often lies just the other side of failure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you think means more than anything else in your life. More than what you earn, more than where you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35517]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you think means more than anything else in your life. More than what you earn, more than where you live, more than your social position, and more than what anyone else may think about you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43971]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they have the management ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11861]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they have the management skills of celery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3755]]></link><description><![CDATA[Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My mother speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34410]]></link><description><![CDATA[My mother speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, etc. By the same post I had several letters from anxious relatives, telling me that it was my duty to come home and thus ease my mother's anxiety.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While it is right to stress the dangers of the permissive society, the argument from danger is not in itself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7562]]></link><description><![CDATA[While it is right to stress the dangers of the permissive society, the argument from danger is not in itself a good argument, because it seems to imply that, if the danger could be removed, if there was no risk of a child and no peril of infection, then the objection would be removed, too. It tends to imply that the objection is to the attendant dangers and not to the thing itself. But if sexual intercourse before and outside marriage is against the teaching of Jesus, then the thing is not only dangerous, it is wrong in itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All soils are not fertile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48826]]></link><description><![CDATA[All soils are not fertile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As creeping ivy clings to wood or stone, And hides the ruin that it feeds upon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23108]]></link><description><![CDATA[As creeping ivy clings to wood or stone, And hides the ruin that it feeds upon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through her re-enactments of the stereotypical ways in which women and the female body have typically been depicted, she drew ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34432]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through her re-enactments of the stereotypical ways in which women and the female body have typically been depicted, she drew attention to the power of media images to shape ideas of female identity,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I have attempted to join myself to others by services, it proved an intellectual trick,--no more. They eat your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55214]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I have attempted to join myself to others by services, it proved an intellectual trick,--no more. They eat your service like apples, and leave you out. But love them, and they feel you, and delight in you all the time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes silence is not golden--just yellow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56304]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes silence is not golden--just yellow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In listening mood she seemed to stand, The guardian Naiad of the strand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25169]]></link><description><![CDATA[In listening mood she seemed to stand, The guardian Naiad of the strand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is the author, men are only the players. These grand pieces which are played upon earth have been composed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62194]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is the author, men are only the players. These grand pieces which are played upon earth have been composed in heaven. [Fr., Dieu est le poete, les hommes ne sont que les acteurs. Ces grandes pieces qui se jouent sur la terre ont ete composees dans le ciel.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suicide would be my way of telling God that I quit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11357]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suicide would be my way of telling God that I quit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26475]]></link><description><![CDATA[A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[what power had I before I learned to yield? Shatter me Great Wind! I shall possess the field!from the poem ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58380]]></link><description><![CDATA[what power had I before I learned to yield? Shatter me Great Wind! I shall possess the field!from the poem To A Milkweed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise man needes not blush for changing his purpose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49087]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise man needes not blush for changing his purpose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47303]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dancing in the chequer'd shade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11041]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dancing in the chequer'd shade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It doesn't matter where we play. Our guys love a tough crowd. Hopefully, Lawrence will provide that. I'm sure they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39638]]></link><description><![CDATA[It doesn't matter where we play. Our guys love a tough crowd. Hopefully, Lawrence will provide that. I'm sure they will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Making a different mistake every day is not only acceptable, it is the definition of progress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62846]]></link><description><![CDATA[Making a different mistake every day is not only acceptable, it is the definition of progress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the consciousness of the end is the limitation ofthe moment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22781]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the consciousness of the end is the limitation ofthe moment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a great win for Cliff. His opponent is a tough guy from a tough gym and is one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32263]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a great win for Cliff. His opponent is a tough guy from a tough gym and is one of the top fighters at that gym, but Cliff had the endurance. He had a lot of heart and persevered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was introduced to the crew on the first occasion, I told them I didn't expect to enhance it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42540]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was introduced to the crew on the first occasion, I told them I didn't expect to enhance it - I'd just try not to damage it!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The uncertainty lies always in the intellectual region, never in the practical. What Paul cares about is plain enough to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8146]]></link><description><![CDATA[The uncertainty lies always in the intellectual region, never in the practical. What Paul cares about is plain enough to the true heart, however far from plain to the man whose desire to understand goes ahead of his obedience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The International Brigades and the British volunteers were, numerically, only a small part of the Republican forces, but nearly all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30175]]></link><description><![CDATA[The International Brigades and the British volunteers were, numerically, only a small part of the Republican forces, but nearly all had accepted the need for organization and order in civilian life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47859]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Polar Express , ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31619]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Polar Express ,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace is obtained by war. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50696]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace is obtained by war.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OUR SUNDAY-SCHOOL TEACHERS  Often, though not always, they work in inadequate buildings, with limited budgets, with insufficient backing from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6541]]></link><description><![CDATA[OUR SUNDAY-SCHOOL TEACHERS  Often, though not always, they work in inadequate buildings, with limited budgets, with insufficient backing from church officers, with indifferent support from parents, and at times even under a minister who cares for none of these things. Usually the workers themselves have had insufficient training for the job they are asked to perform. And always they work in a secularized culture, in the midst of spiritual illiteracy, where the most commonplace terms in the Bible and the most elemental ideas concerning the Kingdom of God sound strange even to otherwise well-educated adults.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a way of life, not just a job. You have to want to do it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40456]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a way of life, not just a job. You have to want to do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40456</guid></item></channel></rss>