<?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[If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that’s ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63071]]></link><description><![CDATA[If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that’s his problem. Love and peace are eternal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17019]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In extreme danger fear feels no pity. [Lat., In summo periculo timor miericordiam non recipit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15502]]></link><description><![CDATA[In extreme danger fear feels no pity. [Lat., In summo periculo timor miericordiam non recipit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The alligator's popular, ... We're the only Cajun booth out here, and people like Cajun food. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37958]]></link><description><![CDATA[The alligator's popular, ... We're the only Cajun booth out here, and people like Cajun food.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think he did a super job. He left the program in much better shape than when he took over. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32231]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think he did a super job. He left the program in much better shape than when he took over.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once you can laugh at your own weaknesses, you can move forward. Comedy breaks down walls. It opens up people. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59995]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once you can laugh at your own weaknesses, you can move forward. Comedy breaks down walls. It opens up people. If you're good, you can fill up those openings with something positive. Maybe you can combat some of the ugliness in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11345]]></link><description><![CDATA[One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the point of view of the playwright, then, the essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42317]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the point of view of the playwright, then, the essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, is the spiritual awakening, or regeneration, of his hero.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to corral him, keep him in the pocket and make him beat us with his arm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38184]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to corral him, keep him in the pocket and make him beat us with his arm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53768]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world, the flesh, the devil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14297]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world, the flesh, the devil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By the work one knows the workmen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52661]]></link><description><![CDATA[By the work one knows the workmen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you hire people who are smarter than you are, you prove you aresmarter than they are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22082]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you hire people who are smarter than you are, you prove you aresmarter than they are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The eyes see not what is before them when the mind is intent on other matters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51633]]></link><description><![CDATA[The eyes see not what is before them when the mind is intent on other matters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is hateful to thyself do not do to another. That is the whole Law, the rest is Commentary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47331]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is hateful to thyself do not do to another. That is the whole Law, the rest is Commentary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62403]]></link><description><![CDATA[A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is the art of controlling your environment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63573]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is the art of controlling your environment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60238]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sounding jargon of the schools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58738]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sounding jargon of the schools.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Margaret, Queen of Scotland, Philanthropist, Reformer of the Church, 1093 Commemoration of Edmund Rich of Abingdon, Archbishop of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Margaret, Queen of Scotland, Philanthropist, Reformer of the Church, 1093 Commemoration of Edmund Rich of Abingdon, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1240  If 'religion' is understood... as man's search for God on man's own terms, as his effort to make some kind of adjustment to the 'ground of being' on a level less radical than that of the self-forgetful commitment of faith, it clearly can become faith's greatest enemy, the last bastion of human pride to hold out against God. The experience of the Jews in relation to Jesus, and of the churches throughout the ages, demonstrates that this is the most persistent and far-reaching temptation which confronts men. To call attention to this is always an urgently necessary part of the prophetic ministry within the Church.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They wanted to do more maps for other areas along the Gulf Coast, but no one wanted to pay for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40557]]></link><description><![CDATA[They wanted to do more maps for other areas along the Gulf Coast, but no one wanted to pay for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53569]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that hath not the craft, let him shut up shop. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49356]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that hath not the craft, let him shut up shop.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What thin partitions sense from thought divide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55108]]></link><description><![CDATA[What thin partitions sense from thought divide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the waiting time, my brothers, Is the hardest time of all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45717]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the waiting time, my brothers, Is the hardest time of all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58770]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But in every matter the consensus of opinion among all nations is to be regarded as the law of nature. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44937]]></link><description><![CDATA[But in every matter the consensus of opinion among all nations is to be regarded as the law of nature. [Lat., Omni autem in re consensio omnium gentium lex naturae putanda est.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grief drives men into habits of serious reflection, sharpens the understanding, and softens the heart ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grief drives men into habits of serious reflection, sharpens the understanding, and softens the heart]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. -Anais Nin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10358]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. -Anais Nin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O for a lodge in a garden of cucumbers! O for an iceberg or two at control!  O for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58264]]></link><description><![CDATA[O for a lodge in a garden of cucumbers! O for an iceberg or two at control!  O for a vale that at midday the dew cumbers!   O for a pleasure trip up to the pole!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up, there's no law against whacking them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9530]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up, there's no law against whacking them around a little.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[John Bunyan understood the Gospel when he wrote that tract, "The Jerusalem Sinner Saved." He knew that every sinner is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7652]]></link><description><![CDATA[John Bunyan understood the Gospel when he wrote that tract, "The Jerusalem Sinner Saved." He knew that every sinner is a Jerusalem sinner who has crucified the Lord of Glory; and to whom, notwithstanding all this, the grace of God is exceedingly abundant with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. Therefore the Apostle Paul himself is a pattern... of the grace of God abounding to the Christ-crucifiers. A new covenant is made with those who transgressed the first covenant. It is the brethren of Joseph, who have sold him into Egypt, who are made the partakers of Joseph's power and of Joseph's riches.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't be afraid of opposition. Remember that a kite rises against - not with - the wind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23891]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't be afraid of opposition. Remember that a kite rises against - not with - the wind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66285]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Climate change is real. The science is compelling. And the longer we wait, the harder the problem will be to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8882]]></link><description><![CDATA[Climate change is real. The science is compelling. And the longer we wait, the harder the problem will be to solve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29855]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10266]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If they raise 25 basis points and sound worried about inflation the market may get demoralized, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37907]]></link><description><![CDATA[If they raise 25 basis points and sound worried about inflation the market may get demoralized,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accommodated; that is, when a man is, as they say, accommodated; or when a man is, being, whereby a' may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accommodated; that is, when a man is, as they say, accommodated; or when a man is, being, whereby a' may be thought to be accommodated,—which is an excellent thing. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2203]]></link><description><![CDATA[Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Way down upon de Swanee Ribber, Far, far away,  Dere's whar ma heart am turning ebber,   Dere's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Way down upon de Swanee Ribber, Far, far away,  Dere's whar ma heart am turning ebber,   Dere's whar de old folks stay.    All up and down de whole creation,     Sadly I roam,      Still longing for de old plantation,       And for de old folks at home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Astrology, or when the stars enlighten illuminated who dazzle a bunch of lunatics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Astrology, or when the stars enlighten illuminated who dazzle a bunch of lunatics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is by chance that we met, by choice that we became friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5474]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is by chance that we met, by choice that we became friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3225]]></link><description><![CDATA[Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hatred is blind, as well as love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18838]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hatred is blind, as well as love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While twilight's curtain gathering far, Is pinned with a single diamond star. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57830]]></link><description><![CDATA[While twilight's curtain gathering far, Is pinned with a single diamond star.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57830</guid></item></channel></rss>