<?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[The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56762]]></link><description><![CDATA[The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The weakest link in a chain is the strongest because it can break it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57967]]></link><description><![CDATA[The weakest link in a chain is the strongest because it can break it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But from the hoop's bewitching round, He very shoe has power to wound. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56220]]></link><description><![CDATA[But from the hoop's bewitching round, He very shoe has power to wound.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17403]]></link><description><![CDATA[The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The entire essence of America is the hope to first make money -- then make money with money -- then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15828]]></link><description><![CDATA[The entire essence of America is the hope to first make money -- then make money with money -- then make lots of money with lots of money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64523]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think anybody could say with a straight face that there hasn't been some of the flow of work ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37694]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think anybody could say with a straight face that there hasn't been some of the flow of work hasn't been more challenging. Leadership challenges can rub emotions raw and strain relationships.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64819]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures. [Fr., Le fruit du travail est le plus doux des ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62154]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures. [Fr., Le fruit du travail est le plus doux des plaisirs.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science... never solves a problem without creating ten more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9489]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science... never solves a problem without creating ten more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There, at the moated grange, resides this dejected Mariana. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55395]]></link><description><![CDATA[There, at the moated grange, resides this dejected Mariana. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can lay down and die, or you can get up and fight, but that's it -- there's no turning ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22306]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can lay down and die, or you can get up and fight, but that's it -- there's no turning back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anybody can become angry - that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2578]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anybody can become angry - that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had a long time in the hot seat (race lead), and I did kind of hope to hold on. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40268]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had a long time in the hot seat (race lead), and I did kind of hope to hold on. But I'm just happy to be up here with Joane and Karin. I look up to both of them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is therefore always represented as blind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23631]]></link><description><![CDATA[Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is therefore always represented as blind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cow is nothing but a machine which makes grass fit for us people to eat ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26177]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cow is nothing but a machine which makes grass fit for us people to eat]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For take thy ballaunce if thou be so wise, And weigh the winds that under heaven doth blow;  Or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53193]]></link><description><![CDATA[For take thy ballaunce if thou be so wise, And weigh the winds that under heaven doth blow;  Or weigh the light that in the east doth rise;   Or weigh the thought that from man's mind doth flow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9033]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thank God, our Christian chance is not permanently gone from us [in world affiars]. Ecclesiastics seems for the most part ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6695]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thank God, our Christian chance is not permanently gone from us [in world affiars]. Ecclesiastics seems for the most part to have failed, failed both man and God; but God has not failed, Jesus has not failed. The God-man still remains the only leader into cooperation whose wisdom is sufficient for a permanent, competent, and free Society. The dictators and would-be dictators will not do. They overreach themselves. Eventually they will destroy one another, and kill off most of us. But even that disaster will not eradicate the desire of men and women to lay down lives for that which is more than themselves. Men will continue to demand not the freedom from that degree of unity for which the dictatorships stand, but rather a finer, more noble, more perceptive kind of unity: a human solidarity which is not nationalistic but world-embracing, a human integration which in aim and purpose is not secularist but spiritual. What the world unwittingly is groping after is allegiance to the eternal, the compassionate, the completely integrating Christ.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health, and is as friendly to the mind as to the body. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health, and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[G-- knows I'm no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be,  But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53469]]></link><description><![CDATA[G-- knows I'm no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be,  But twenty times I rather would be   An atheist clean,    Than under gospel colours hid be,     Just for a screen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nationals were held here in 1960, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29295]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nationals were held here in 1960,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we laugh a little too much before games when we are warming up. We just need to focus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32607]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we laugh a little too much before games when we are warming up. We just need to focus on what we are doing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23153]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To satisfy the sharp desire I had Of tasting those fair apples, I resolv'd  Not to defer; hunger and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2946]]></link><description><![CDATA[To satisfy the sharp desire I had Of tasting those fair apples, I resolv'd  Not to defer; hunger and thirst at once   Powerful persuaders, quicken'd at the scent    Of that alluring fruit, urged me so keen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real reason for comedy is to hide the pain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20091]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real reason for comedy is to hide the pain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To laugh at men of sense is the privilege of fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28068]]></link><description><![CDATA[To laugh at men of sense is the privilege of fools.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So the gods bless me, When all our offices have been oppressed  With riotous feeders, when our vaults have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27418]]></link><description><![CDATA[So the gods bless me, When all our offices have been oppressed  With riotous feeders, when our vaults have wept   With drunken spilth of wine, when every room    Hath blazed with lights and brayed with minstrelsy,     I have retired me to a wasteful cock      And set mine eyes at flow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Political campaigns are designedly made into emotional orgies which endeavor to distract attention from the real issues involved, and they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47018]]></link><description><![CDATA[Political campaigns are designedly made into emotional orgies which endeavor to distract attention from the real issues involved, and they actually paralyze what slight powers of cerebration man can normally muster.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With something that's more emotionally based, you can't sort of screw the line up a little bit and adlib and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37945]]></link><description><![CDATA[With something that's more emotionally based, you can't sort of screw the line up a little bit and adlib and something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As with a little girl playing with her nurse, the toy which she eagerly sought she soon tires of and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50189]]></link><description><![CDATA[As with a little girl playing with her nurse, the toy which she eagerly sought she soon tires of and discards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bird that hath been limed in a bush With trembling wing misdoubteth every bush. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51329]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bird that hath been limed in a bush With trembling wing misdoubteth every bush.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Michael & All Angels  The nominal Christian, then, will see Jesus as a name, a representative, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6575]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Michael & All Angels  The nominal Christian, then, will see Jesus as a name, a representative, a symbol, a personification, a prototype, a figure, a model, an exemplar for something else. The nominal Christian pays homage to something about Jesus, rather than worshipping the man himself. For this reason, nominal Christians will extol the moral teachings of Jesus, the faith of Jesus, the personality of Jesus, the compassion of Jesus, the world view of Jesus, the self-understanding of Jesus, etc. None of these worships Jesus as the Christ, but only something about him, something peripheral to the actual flesh-and-blood man. This is why when the almighty God came into the world in Jesus, he came as the lowest of the low, as weakness itself, as a complete and utter nothing, in order that men would be forced into the crucial decision about him alone and would not be able to worship anything about him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14565]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The side played sensationally. Wherever that leaves us in the table, we can be happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40190]]></link><description><![CDATA[The side played sensationally. Wherever that leaves us in the table, we can be happy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54314]]></link><description><![CDATA[In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43220]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She has been a pretty strong presence at the company for a long time, and was obviously a big driver ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33981]]></link><description><![CDATA[She has been a pretty strong presence at the company for a long time, and was obviously a big driver in the launch of Weekend Edition. The fact that she's leaving by mutual agreement indicates that the board is becoming more active, and is willing to make tougher decisions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The self-centered regret which a man feels when his sin has found him out -- the wish, compounded of pride, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7564]]></link><description><![CDATA[The self-centered regret which a man feels when his sin has found him out -- the wish, compounded of pride, shame, and anger at his own inconceivable folly, that he had not done it: these are spoken of as repentance. But they are not repentance at all... It is the simple truth that that sorrow of heart, that healing and sanctifying pain in which sin is really put away, is not ours in independence of God; it is a saving grace which is begotten in the soul under the impression of sin it owes to the revelation of God in Christ. A man can no more repent than he can do anything else without a motive; and the motive which makes evangelic repentance possible does not enter into his world till he sees God as God makes Himself known in the death of Christ. All true penitents are children of the Cross. Their penitence is not their own creation: it is the reaction towards God produced in their souls by this demonstration of what sin is to Him, and of what His love does to reach and win the sinful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46427]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Informal relationships are not mere minor interstitial supplements to the major institutions of society. These informal relationships not only include ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52181]]></link><description><![CDATA[Informal relationships are not mere minor interstitial supplements to the major institutions of society. These informal relationships not only include important decision-making processes, such as the family, but also produce much of the background social capital without which the other major institutions of society could not function nearly as effectively as they do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Murder may pass unpunish'd for a time, But tardy justice will o'ertake the crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43390]]></link><description><![CDATA[Murder may pass unpunish'd for a time, But tardy justice will o'ertake the crime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63555]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not improbable that a man may receive more solid satisfaction from pudding while he is alive than from praise ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51002]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not improbable that a man may receive more solid satisfaction from pudding while he is alive than from praise after he is dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest power of ruling consists in the exercise of self-control. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51191]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest power of ruling consists in the exercise of self-control.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love the language, that soft bastard Latin, Which melts like kisses from a female mouth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25122]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love the language, that soft bastard Latin, Which melts like kisses from a female mouth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25122</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[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><item><title><![CDATA[You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64442]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Sye," he seyd, "be the same hatte I can knowe yf my wyfe be badde  To me by eny ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18881]]></link><description><![CDATA["Sye," he seyd, "be the same hatte I can knowe yf my wyfe be badde  To me by eny other man;   If my floures ouver fade or falle,    Then doth my wyfe me wrong wyth alle     As many a woman can."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18881</guid></item></channel></rss>