<?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[Whistle, and she'll come to you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48625]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whistle, and she'll come to you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Lion in LoveA lion demanded the daughter of a woodcutter in marriage. The Father, unwilling to grant, and yet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1551]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Lion in LoveA lion demanded the daughter of a woodcutter in marriage. The Father, unwilling to grant, and yet afraid to refuse his request, hit upon this expedient to rid himself of his importunities. He expressed his willingness to accept the Lion as the suitor of his daughter on one condition: that he should allow him to extract his teeth, and cut off his claws, as his daughter was fearfully afraid of both. The Lion cheerfully assented to the proposal. But when the toothless, clawless Lion returned to repeat his request, the Woodman, no longer afraid, set upon him with his club, and drove him away into the forest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The goal of yesterday will be our starting-point to-morrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48799]]></link><description><![CDATA[The goal of yesterday will be our starting-point to-morrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His nature is too noble for the world. He would not flatter Neptune for his trident,  Or Jove for's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44584]]></link><description><![CDATA[His nature is too noble for the world. He would not flatter Neptune for his trident,  Or Jove for's power to thunder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I told her it was the best she'd ever played: 1 for 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37390]]></link><description><![CDATA[I told her it was the best she'd ever played: 1 for 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23732]]></link><description><![CDATA[My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[represented the generation of young Scots who fought in the First World War, and endured unimaginable horrors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28882]]></link><description><![CDATA[represented the generation of young Scots who fought in the First World War, and endured unimaginable horrors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No adultery is bloodless. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20812]]></link><description><![CDATA[No adultery is bloodless.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27622]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you happen to be one of the fretful minority who can do creative work, never force an idea; you'll ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52232]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you happen to be one of the fretful minority who can do creative work, never force an idea; you'll abort it if you do. Be patient and you'll give birth to it when the time is ripe. Learn to wait.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, For gentle ways are best, and keep aloof  From sharp ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9965]]></link><description><![CDATA[But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, For gentle ways are best, and keep aloof  From sharp contentions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Patrick, Bishop of Armagh, Missionary, Patron of Ireland, c.460 Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  As a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Patrick, Bishop of Armagh, Missionary, Patron of Ireland, c.460 Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  As a physician, I have seen men, after all other therapy has failed, lifted out of disease and melancholy by the serene effort of prayer. It is the only power in the world that seems to overcome the so-called "laws of nature"; the occasions on which prayer has dramatically done this have been termed "miracles". But a constant, quieter miracle takes place hourly in the hearts of men and women who have discovered that prayer supplies them with a steady flow of sustaining power in their daily lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn on how little man may live, and how small a portion nature requires. [Lat., Discite quam parvo liceat producere ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44051]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn on how little man may live, and how small a portion nature requires. [Lat., Discite quam parvo liceat producere vitam,  Et quantum natura petat.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54783]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58423]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mural was going through some tough times and the Art Guild actually thought about just letting it go. Mural ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37263]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mural was going through some tough times and the Art Guild actually thought about just letting it go. Mural Preservation Inc. was formed then and has a single purpose of maintaining the mural.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joel, I'm not a concept. I want you to just keep that in your head. Too many guys think I'm ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20723]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joel, I'm not a concept. I want you to just keep that in your head. Too many guys think I'm a concept or I complete them or I'm going to make them alive, but I'm just a fucked-up girl who is looking for my own peace of mind. Don't assign me yours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do you know why the Lord withheld the sense of humor from women? So that we may love you instead ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59014]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do you know why the Lord withheld the sense of humor from women? So that we may love you instead of laugh at you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm really exciting. I smile a lot, I win a lot, and I'm really sexy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66449]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm really exciting. I smile a lot, I win a lot, and I'm really sexy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14046]]></link><description><![CDATA[How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10760]]></link><description><![CDATA[Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46155]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Act of God designation on all insurance policies; which means, roughly, that you cannot be insured for the accidents ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/310]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Act of God designation on all insurance policies; which means, roughly, that you cannot be insured for the accidents that are most likely to happen to you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27722]]></link><description><![CDATA[The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis light translateth night; 'tis inspiration Expounds experience; 'tis the west explains  The east; 'tis time unfolds Eternity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9139]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis light translateth night; 'tis inspiration Expounds experience; 'tis the west explains  The east; 'tis time unfolds Eternity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2971]]></link><description><![CDATA[As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29574]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63912]]></link><description><![CDATA[By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I swear, if you existed I'd divorce you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28025]]></link><description><![CDATA[I swear, if you existed I'd divorce you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29457]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I happen to agree with many of the liberal emphasis on compassion, justice and equality. I just disagree that it's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65226]]></link><description><![CDATA[I happen to agree with many of the liberal emphasis on compassion, justice and equality. I just disagree that it's the government's role to provide everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As ofthis second, quit doing less-than-excellent work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22234]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As ofthis second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience lightens the burthen we cannot avert. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience lightens the burthen we cannot avert.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12359]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[At the Old-Time Radio Convention, which expects 600 attendees this weekend, leaders have begun inviting television stars -- over the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29667]]></link><description><![CDATA[[At the Old-Time Radio Convention, which expects 600 attendees this weekend, leaders have begun inviting television stars -- over the objections of purists who argue that only radio performers should be welcome.] If it becomes 'Friends of Old-Time Television,' I'm out of there, ... Let's Pretend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What makes life worth living is the mutual enrichment of people through understanding, intelligence and affection. It is just here ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6542]]></link><description><![CDATA[What makes life worth living is the mutual enrichment of people through understanding, intelligence and affection. It is just here that our awareness that Jesus is our contemporary and that Calvary is relevant to our present human situation ought to help us greatly. And that is not merely because in his relationships with others during his earthly life in Palestine Jesus exemplified all that I have tried to say about human relationships. In every genuine human encounter with another person we may become aware of Jesus, and meet with him. This may sound fanciful, but there is much in the Scriptures and in Christian experience which suggests that Jesus is frequently met in the traffic of person with person, provided that there is a genuine encounter between them. Jesus himself showed that for this to happen demands courage and a willingness to move from a life that is centred in itself. So if we are to pass out of that lonely world of isolation then we must be prepared to take the risks that are always involved when we allow persons to confront us as persons and do not regard them as things. Yet, dangerous though it may be to live in this way, it is the only way to live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54580]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5507]]></link><description><![CDATA[Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Slowly those who create the wealth of the world are permitted to share it. The future is in labor's strong, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23951]]></link><description><![CDATA[Slowly those who create the wealth of the world are permitted to share it. The future is in labor's strong, rough hands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blessed are those that nought expect, For they shall not be disappointed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14638]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blessed are those that nought expect, For they shall not be disappointed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4565]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27192]]></link><description><![CDATA[The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Promising is the very air o' th' time; it opens the eyes of expectation. Performance is ever duller for his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14633]]></link><description><![CDATA[Promising is the very air o' th' time; it opens the eyes of expectation. Performance is ever duller for his act; and, but in the plainer and simpler kind of people, the deed of saying is quite out of use. To promise is most courtly and fashionable; performance is a kind of will or testament which argues a great sickness in his judgment that makes it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11805]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have this running quandary about Christmas. I get upset about it, because I feel that we American Christians make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7997]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have this running quandary about Christmas. I get upset about it, because I feel that we American Christians make too much of it, and too little. Too little of it, because we pile all sorts of other things onto it, including some that have only the feeblest connection with the Event it is supposed to commemorate. If God did become a man, in any real sense, it is the most important thing that ever happened. Surely we, who believe it, could well devote one day a year to uninterrupted contemplation of the fact, and let Saturnalia fall on the winter solstice, where it belongs.   On the other hand, we make so much of the actual birth, and forget the things that make it more than just the birth of a baby (though even that is, in Walt Whitman's phrase, "miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels") -- more, even, than the birth of the greatest man who ever lived. We forget the promise to Eve of a descendant who will solve the problem of Evil; the promise to Abraham of one by whom all mankind will be blessed; the promise to Moses of a greater prophet than he, to arise from his people; and the promise to David of a Son who would be his Master. We forget about the eternal Purpose behind it all: it's like telling a story and leaving out the point. Yes, it is true that God gave us His Son, and so maybe we ought also to give gifts -- but what, and to whom? It is also true that God gave us Himself, and the only sensible response to that is to give ourselves to Him. There is nothing else that He wants from us, or, if there is something, He can take it. Only I, my ego, my heart, is truly mine to give or to withhold -- and is therefore the appropriate gift to Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To know oneself, one should assert oneself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64178]]></link><description><![CDATA[To know oneself, one should assert oneself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17943]]></link><description><![CDATA[That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Government is beating into submission, imprisoning, and killing...The authority of man-made law is entirely due to weapons of the constables ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47170]]></link><description><![CDATA[Government is beating into submission, imprisoning, and killing...The authority of man-made law is entirely due to weapons of the constables who enforce obedience to its provisions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45623]]></link><description><![CDATA[I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45623</guid></item></channel></rss>