<?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[I would prefer to have no money but to have a nice family and good friends around. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66398]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would prefer to have no money but to have a nice family and good friends around.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Waiting, are they? Waiting, are they? Well, goddam 'em, let 'em wait!"[Ethan Allen, to his physician who said "General, I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34744]]></link><description><![CDATA["Waiting, are they? Waiting, are they? Well, goddam 'em, let 'em wait!"[Ethan Allen, to his physician who said "General, I fear the angels are waiting for you", quoted in Saturday Review, April 5, 1958]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11336]]></link><description><![CDATA[What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The snow has at last melted, the fields regain their herbage, and the trees their leaves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50356]]></link><description><![CDATA[The snow has at last melted, the fields regain their herbage, and the trees their leaves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44130]]></link><description><![CDATA[A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The female of the species is more deadly than the male. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59012]]></link><description><![CDATA[The female of the species is more deadly than the male.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[T]he music's pure algebra of enchantment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43424]]></link><description><![CDATA[[T]he music's pure algebra of enchantment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21328]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45540]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After the first blush of sin comes its indifference. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20752]]></link><description><![CDATA[After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, & his sister Macrina, Teachers, c.394 & c.379  Humility is the root, mother, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6256]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, & his sister Macrina, Teachers, c.394 & c.379  Humility is the root, mother, nurse, foundation, and bond of all virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So much greater is our thirst for glory than for virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50484]]></link><description><![CDATA[So much greater is our thirst for glory than for virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know a baseball star who wouldn't report the theft of his wife's credit cards because the thief spends less ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59076]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know a baseball star who wouldn't report the theft of his wife's credit cards because the thief spends less than she does.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42063]]></link><description><![CDATA[The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people of this city have lost a great warrior, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33475]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people of this city have lost a great warrior,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your flag and my flag, And how it flies today  In your land and my land   And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your flag and my flag, And how it flies today  In your land and my land   And half a world away!    Rose-red and blood-red     The stripes forever gleam;      Snow-white and soul-white--       The good forefathers' dream;        Sky-blue and true-blue, with stars to gleam aright--         The gloried guidon of the day, a shelter through the night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1776]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people are scared of technology ... And children to learn in various ways, and for some children this is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34343]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people are scared of technology ... And children to learn in various ways, and for some children this is a really good way, a good tool to be able to access information and learn from.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As soon as we change the first light bulb, they'll start saving money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34192]]></link><description><![CDATA[As soon as we change the first light bulb, they'll start saving money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17055]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will not allow violence and we will not allow terrorists to derail this process here in Iraq, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29774]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will not allow violence and we will not allow terrorists to derail this process here in Iraq,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19328]]></link><description><![CDATA[History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever you do, do it in moderation ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42867]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever you do, do it in moderation]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This cost reduction initiative is absolutely critical to our reorganization, ... We had no alternative but to take this action. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36966]]></link><description><![CDATA[This cost reduction initiative is absolutely critical to our reorganization, ... We had no alternative but to take this action. The company continues to take the steps necessary to return to financial health and regain the confidence of its many stakeholders.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54791]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward. As arrows are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5894]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward. As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth.  Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spiritual writer, 1893   The Bible is like a telescope. If a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spiritual writer, 1893   The Bible is like a telescope. If a man looks through his telescope, then he sees worlds beyond; but if he looks at his telescope, then he does not see anything but that. The Bible is a thing to be looked through, to see that which is beyond.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think like a man of action and act like a man of thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/527]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think like a man of action and act like a man of thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is troubled not by events, but by the meaning he gives them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14277]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is troubled not by events, but by the meaning he gives them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Christian is not one who has gone all the way with Christ. None of us has. The Christian is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31370]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Christian is not one who has gone all the way with Christ. None of us has. The Christian is one who has found the right road.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A stone thrown at the right time is better than a stone thrown at the wrong time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62445]]></link><description><![CDATA[A stone thrown at the right time is better than a stone thrown at the wrong time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not in a rush to get divorced because of this health coverage issue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32218]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not in a rush to get divorced because of this health coverage issue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Old-Testament doctrine of salvation gives us no encouragement, on strictly hermeneutical grounds, to argue from what was true politically ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6719]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Old-Testament doctrine of salvation gives us no encouragement, on strictly hermeneutical grounds, to argue from what was true politically of Israel to what could or should be true of any modern political state. Even if we were first to grant the presence of a "Christendom" situation [where] Church and State would be virtually coextensive, the nation of Israel would still remain unique. The focus of salvation is on the historical action of God in forming a people for Himself, and there is no indication anywhere in the Bible that God promises political salvation even inside the context of the full salvation of His people, let alone outside it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, 988   In coming to know Jesus, you have come to know yourself, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7020]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, 988   In coming to know Jesus, you have come to know yourself, too: naturally, this is more pleasant for some than for others, but to see yourself as you really are can never be entirely pleasant. And when a Christian fails at something he ought to have done, it isn't just the failure that hurts -- there is also the knowledge that he has let Jesus down. And those little shortcomings of ours, that used to matter so little, compared with the glaring faults of others: we know now that our temper, or our gloom, or our selfishness, reflects on Jesus; and knowing that people are judging your Lord by you is not always a joyous thought to live with. Even the growing up to His measure is hard on a man: we have so little aptitude for such a transformation that it always means conflict, and often rebellion. And temptations hurt as they never did before: not just in the conscience, but in the heart. The assaults of temptation are not on our prudence now, or even on our morals, but on the love for Jesus. His love for us has made Him quite defenseless against our hurting Him, and so temptation is no longer an urge to do a bad thing but an urge to hurt a loving Person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54924]]></link><description><![CDATA[All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer. art is an action against death. It is a denial of death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists ... in the loved one, perfection. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2098]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists ... in the loved one, perfection.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To win without risk is to triumph without glory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54296]]></link><description><![CDATA[To win without risk is to triumph without glory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shun an inquisitive man, he is invariably a tell-tale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50323]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shun an inquisitive man, he is invariably a tell-tale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O that my tongue were in the thunder's mouth! Then with passion would I shake the world,  And rouse ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45616]]></link><description><![CDATA[O that my tongue were in the thunder's mouth! Then with passion would I shake the world,  And rouse from sleep that fell anatomy   Which cannot hear a lady's feeble voice,    Which scorns a modern invocation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knight without fear and without reproach. [Fr., Chevalier sans peur et sans reproche.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5626]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knight without fear and without reproach. [Fr., Chevalier sans peur et sans reproche.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accursed be he who plays with the devil. [Ger., Verflucht wer mit dem Teufel spielt.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accursed be he who plays with the devil. [Ger., Verflucht wer mit dem Teufel spielt.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Hamlet, what a falling-off was there, From me, whose love was of that dignity  That it went hand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12076]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Hamlet, what a falling-off was there, From me, whose love was of that dignity  That it went hand in hand even with the vow   I made to her in marriage, and to decline    Upon a wretch whose natural gifts were poor     To those of mine!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Punishment follows close on crime. [Lat., Culpam poena premit comes.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Punishment follows close on crime. [Lat., Culpam poena premit comes.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10076]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A certain amount of distrust is wholesome, but not so much of others as of ourselves; neither vanity not conceit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12576]]></link><description><![CDATA[A certain amount of distrust is wholesome, but not so much of others as of ourselves; neither vanity not conceit can exist in the same atmosphere with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66689]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So glistered the dire Snake, and into fraud Led Eve, our credulous mother, to the Tree  Of Prohibition, root ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16635]]></link><description><![CDATA[So glistered the dire Snake, and into fraud Led Eve, our credulous mother, to the Tree  Of Prohibition, root of all our woe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18607]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18607</guid></item></channel></rss>