<?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[Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52848]]></link><description><![CDATA[Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frederick Buechner,'Whistling in the Dark' When a child is born, a father is born. A mother is born, too of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45524]]></link><description><![CDATA[Frederick Buechner,'Whistling in the Dark' When a child is born, a father is born. A mother is born, too of course, but at least for her it's a gradual process. Body and soul, she has nine months to get used to what's happening. She becomes what's happening. But for even the best-prepared father, it happens all at once. On the other side of a plate-glass window, a nurse is holding up something roughly the size of a loaf of bread for him to see for the first time. Even if he should decide to abandon it forever ten minutes later, the memory will nag him to the grave. He has seen the creation of the world. It has his mark on it. He has its mark on him. Both marks are, for better or for worse, indelible. All sons, like all daughters, are prodigals if they're smart. Assuming the Old Man doesn't run out on them first, they will run out on him if they are to survive, and if he's smart he won't put up too much of a fuss. A wise father sees all this coming, and maybe that's why he keeps his distance from the start. He must survive too. Whether they ever find their way home again, none can say for sure, but it's the risk he must take if they're ever to find their way at all. In the meantime, the world tends to have a soft spot in its heart for lost children. Lost fathers have to fend for themselves. Even as the father lays down the law, he knows that someday his children will break it as they need to break it if ever they're to find something better than law to replace it. Until and unless that happens, there's no telling the scrapes they will get into trying to lose him and find themselves. Terrible blnders will be made-dissapointments and failures, hurts and losses of every kind. And they'll keep making them even after they've found themselves too, of course, because growing up is a process that goes on and on. And every hard knock they ever get, knocks the father even harder still, if that's possible, and if and when they finally come through more or less in one piece at the end, there's maybe no rejoicing greater than his in all creation. -Fatherhood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1805]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are easy to get but hard to keep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are easy to get but hard to keep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God the Father, the supreme Architect, had already built this cosmic home we behold, the most sacred temple of His ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66606]]></link><description><![CDATA[God the Father, the supreme Architect, had already built this cosmic home we behold, the most sacred temple of His godhead, by the laws of His mysterious wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A politician thinks of the next election -- a statesman, of the next generation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17235]]></link><description><![CDATA[A politician thinks of the next election -- a statesman, of the next generation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He can feel no little wants who is in pursuit of grandeur. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61096]]></link><description><![CDATA[He can feel no little wants who is in pursuit of grandeur.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of times, people think that this is New York, and you're never going to find an honest person ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40695]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of times, people think that this is New York, and you're never going to find an honest person who's going to turn something in. But people are honest. They really are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In giving, a man receives more than he gives, and the more is in proportion to the worth of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17448]]></link><description><![CDATA[In giving, a man receives more than he gives, and the more is in proportion to the worth of the thing given.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24920]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. -Carl Sandburg.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know you're getting old when you look at a beautiful 19-year-old girl and you find yourself thinking, "Gee, I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13680]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know you're getting old when you look at a beautiful 19-year-old girl and you find yourself thinking, "Gee, I wonder what her mother looks like]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47020]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In all labour there is profit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48646]]></link><description><![CDATA[In all labour there is profit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16651]]></link><description><![CDATA[When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2059]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have too much respect upon the world: They lose it that do buy it with much care. -The Merchant ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55541]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have too much respect upon the world: They lose it that do buy it with much care. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modesty once lost, never returns into favour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51624]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modesty once lost, never returns into favour.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The London attack is one of the attacks that al Qaeda ... had the honour of carrying out against Zionist, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29806]]></link><description><![CDATA[The London attack is one of the attacks that al Qaeda ... had the honour of carrying out against Zionist, British arrogance, the aggression of the crusader British against the Muslim nation for over a hundred years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ilk cowslip cup shall kep a tear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10536]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ilk cowslip cup shall kep a tear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is what happens to you while you are busy making other plans. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21136]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is what happens to you while you are busy making other plans.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take a look at your natural river. What are you? Stop playing games with yourself. Where's your river going? Are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46299]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take a look at your natural river. What are you? Stop playing games with yourself. Where's your river going? Are you riding with it? Or are you rowing against it? Don't you see that there is no effort if you're riding with your river?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47564]]></link><description><![CDATA[Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Watteau is no less an artist for having painted a fascia board while Sainsbury's is no less effective a business ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27919]]></link><description><![CDATA[Watteau is no less an artist for having painted a fascia board while Sainsbury's is no less effective a business for producing advertisements which entertain and educate instead of condescending and exploiting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maturity is knowing when to be immature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maturity is knowing when to be immature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17819]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16827]]></link><description><![CDATA[The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21533]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are, to whom my satire seems too bold; Scarce to wise Peter complaisant enough,  And something said of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54712]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are, to whom my satire seems too bold; Scarce to wise Peter complaisant enough,  And something said of Chartres much too rough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46367]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language. - Aphorisms from His Bedside Teachings and Writings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Situations in low-rated schools like Jasper (County) are very frustrating, ... We spend an awful lot of money training people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Situations in low-rated schools like Jasper (County) are very frustrating, ... We spend an awful lot of money training people and developing them in these underperforming schools, but at the end of the year, these teachers are taking the training and experience and moving on to better districts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/690]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't care. I've been saying that the whole time. We're blessed to be playing in this tournament regardless. I'd ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41878]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't care. I've been saying that the whole time. We're blessed to be playing in this tournament regardless. I'd love to [get a chance to] play [Villanova], because I think we can show our toughness. I look forward to the challenge. We worked hard to get here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My London constituency in Hackney has one of the highest levels of gun crime in the country. But the problem ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33568]]></link><description><![CDATA[My London constituency in Hackney has one of the highest levels of gun crime in the country. But the problem is no longer confined to inner city areas. Gun crime has spread to communities all over Britain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have found (to my regret) that the degrees of shame and disgust which I actually feel at my own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8523]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have found (to my regret) that the degrees of shame and disgust which I actually feel at my own sins do not at all correspond to what my reason tells me about their comparative gravity. Just as the degree to which, in daily life, I feel the emotion of fear has very little to do with my rational judgment of the danger. I'd sooner have really nasty seas when I'm in an open boat than look down in perfect (actual) safety from the edge of a cliff. Similarly, I have confessed ghastly uncharities with less reluctance than small unmentionables -- or those sins which happen to be ungentlemanly as well as unchristian. Our emotional reactions to our own behaviour are of limited ethical significance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The staff has been great to work with, and Coach Martin has treated me great and allows me to grow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36641]]></link><description><![CDATA[The staff has been great to work with, and Coach Martin has treated me great and allows me to grow as a coach everyday,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wisp of gossamer, about the size and substance of a spider's web. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15356]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wisp of gossamer, about the size and substance of a spider's web.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957  Above all, desire to please Christ; dread ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957  Above all, desire to please Christ; dread his disapproval above everything else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jesus saw a man use his hand to cupwater from a stream and Jesus threw away his cup. Jesus saw ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56352]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jesus saw a man use his hand to cupwater from a stream and Jesus threw away his cup. Jesus saw a woman comb her hair with her fingersand Jesus threw away his last possession: his comb.fromThe Islamic Jesus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When all is said and done, what you'll probably see is some sort of negotiated settlement here, whether it's a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35052]]></link><description><![CDATA[When all is said and done, what you'll probably see is some sort of negotiated settlement here, whether it's a breakup fee, or lower purchase price,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61248]]></link><description><![CDATA[First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58889]]></link><description><![CDATA[The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14493]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't fear change, embrace it. -Anthony J. D'Angelo. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't fear change, embrace it. -Anthony J. D'Angelo.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've gotta be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3249]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've gotta be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be yourself. Above all, let who you are, what you are, what you believe, shine through every sentence you write, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20764]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be yourself. Above all, let who you are, what you are, what you believe, shine through every sentence you write, every piece you finish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let no man deceive you with vain words or vain hopes or false notions of a slight and sudden repentance. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6882]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let no man deceive you with vain words or vain hopes or false notions of a slight and sudden repentance. As if heaven were a hospital founded on purpose to receive all sick and maimed persons that, when they can live no longer to the lusts of the flesh and the sinful pleasures of this world, can but put up a cold and formal petition to be admitted there. No, no, as sure as God is true, they shall never see the Kingdom of God who, instead of seeking it in the first place, make it their last refuge and retreat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We thought we would be a playoff team when the season began. We had 17 games decided by less than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34117]]></link><description><![CDATA[We thought we would be a playoff team when the season began. We had 17 games decided by less than 10 points and suffered nine league losses by five (points) or less. We could never get over the hump.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An audience is so important. I would never have had the guts to dub in that big a laugh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33533]]></link><description><![CDATA[An audience is so important. I would never have had the guts to dub in that big a laugh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wisest have the most authority ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3483]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wisest have the most authority]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65388]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65388</guid></item></channel></rss>