<?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[He said he believed that she, quote, 'Fought like hell. He also believes that the killer or killers cleaned up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32382]]></link><description><![CDATA[He said he believed that she, quote, 'Fought like hell. He also believes that the killer or killers cleaned up the crime scene.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had to stop driving my car for a while... the tires got dizzy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13017]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had to stop driving my car for a while... the tires got dizzy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A liar is not believed even though he tell the truth. [Lat., Mendaci homini ne verum quidem dicenti credere solemus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26117]]></link><description><![CDATA[A liar is not believed even though he tell the truth. [Lat., Mendaci homini ne verum quidem dicenti credere solemus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rust of the mind is the destruction of genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51194]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rust of the mind is the destruction of genius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I spend a lot of time writing in New York. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39912]]></link><description><![CDATA[I spend a lot of time writing in New York.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you think nobody cares if you are alive, try missing a couple of carpayments. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21918]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you think nobody cares if you are alive, try missing a couple of carpayments.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything is a gift of the universe -- even joy, anger, jealously, frustration, or separateness. Everything is perfect either for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18407]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything is a gift of the universe -- even joy, anger, jealously, frustration, or separateness. Everything is perfect either for our growth or our enjoyment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't write a scene unless I've visualized it. Unless I can actually see it, and that's why a lot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65367]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't write a scene unless I've visualized it. Unless I can actually see it, and that's why a lot of reviewers have said my books are very cinematic, because I actually do see them before I write them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Wilberforce, Social Reformer, 1833   A just pride, a proper and becoming pride, are terms which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Wilberforce, Social Reformer, 1833   A just pride, a proper and becoming pride, are terms which we daily hear from Christian lips. To possess a high spirit, to behave with proper spirit when used ill -- by which is meant, a quick feeling of injuries, and a promptness in resenting them -- entitles to commendation; and a meek-spirited disposition, the highest Scripture eulogium, expresses ideas of disapprobation and contempt. Vanity and vainglory are suffered without interruption to retain their natural possession of the heart.   ... William Wilberforce, A Practical View  July 31, 2000 Commemoration of Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus, 1556  Jesus used the term abba (which means father or "daddy" in his Aramaic mother tongue), as an address in his prayers to God. There are no other examples of this usage in contemporary Judaism, but Jesus always addressed God in this way. The others perhaps regarded it as child's talk, a form of expression too disrespectful to be so used. But for Jesus, abba expressed the filial intimacy he felt toward his Father. As the divine Son of the Father, Jesus enjoyed a unique relationship with him, and his mission in the world consisted in opening up the blessings of sonship to those who believe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367 Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bishop in Strathclyde & Cumbria, 603  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8479]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367 Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bishop in Strathclyde & Cumbria, 603  He enters by the door who enters by Christ, who imitates the suffering of Christ, who is acquainted with the humility of Christ so as to feel and know that, if God became man for us, men should not think themselves God, but men. He who, being man, wishes to appear God, does not imitate Him who, being God, became man. Thou art not bid to think less of thyself than thou art, but to know what thou art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The case has been going on for so long that I've forgotten whether I'm really innocent or guilty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24291]]></link><description><![CDATA[The case has been going on for so long that I've forgotten whether I'm really innocent or guilty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10157]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Logic is like the sword--those who appeal to it shall perish by it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25429]]></link><description><![CDATA[Logic is like the sword--those who appeal to it shall perish by it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It shows a weak mind not to bear prosperity as well as adversity with moderation. [Lat., Ut adversas res, secundas ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48484]]></link><description><![CDATA[It shows a weak mind not to bear prosperity as well as adversity with moderation. [Lat., Ut adversas res, secundas immoderate ferre, levitatis est.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48484</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[As ill-luck would have it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26008]]></link><description><![CDATA[As ill-luck would have it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64692]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I saw one at $3.09, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38466]]></link><description><![CDATA[I saw one at $3.09,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's best things are nearest him, Lie close about his feet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4319]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's best things are nearest him, Lie close about his feet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I definitely haven't given up my aspirations of being a rock star, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42723]]></link><description><![CDATA[I definitely haven't given up my aspirations of being a rock star,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48575]]></link><description><![CDATA[And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28020]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To find a friend one must close one eye -- to keep him, two. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16779]]></link><description><![CDATA[To find a friend one must close one eye -- to keep him, two.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their pitchers did a very good job of pitching to us and we didn't have the hits, but when you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their pitchers did a very good job of pitching to us and we didn't have the hits, but when you don't have the hits you have to try find another way to win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being on sea saile, being on land settle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49153]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being on sea saile, being on land settle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Christian marriage is [not] one with no problems or even a marriage with fewer problems. (It may well mean ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6538]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Christian marriage is [not] one with no problems or even a marriage with fewer problems. (It may well mean more problems.) But it does mean a life in which two people are able to accept each other and love each other in the midst of problems and fears. It means a marriage in which selfish people can accept selfish people without constantly trying to change them -- and even accept themselves, because they realize personally that they have been accepted by Christ.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's all got to be cleaned up. The stock market's going to struggle until that happens, and the economy at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42250]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's all got to be cleaned up. The stock market's going to struggle until that happens, and the economy at large will feel like it's moving through molasses, even though it will be moving forward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A second Daniel, a Daniel, Jew! Now, infidel, I have you on the hip. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55610]]></link><description><![CDATA[A second Daniel, a Daniel, Jew! Now, infidel, I have you on the hip. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The basis for optimism is sheer terror. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45202]]></link><description><![CDATA[The basis for optimism is sheer terror.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes it seems that we are successful only because we have not tried hard enough for our best. We do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42247]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes it seems that we are successful only because we have not tried hard enough for our best. We do the hard thing, and one day we succeed, and many things are made plain to us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O happy skylark springing Up to the broad, blue sky,  Too fearless in thy winging,   Too gladsome ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24102]]></link><description><![CDATA[O happy skylark springing Up to the broad, blue sky,  Too fearless in thy winging,   Too gladsome in thy singing,    Thou also soon shalt lie     Where no sweet notes are ringing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instead of trying to build newer and bigger weapons of destruction, we should be thinking about getting more use out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11712]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instead of trying to build newer and bigger weapons of destruction, we should be thinking about getting more use out of the ones we already have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11712</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[The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark When neither is attended; and I think  The nightingale, if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10774]]></link><description><![CDATA[The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark When neither is attended; and I think  The nightingale, if she should sing by day   When every goose is cackling, would be thought    No better a musician than the wren.     How many thing by season seasoned are      To their right praise and true perfection!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An habitation giddy and unsure Hath he that buildeth on the vulgar heart. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55917]]></link><description><![CDATA[An habitation giddy and unsure Hath he that buildeth on the vulgar heart. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If my fans think I can do everything I say I can do, then they're crazier than I am. After ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57707]]></link><description><![CDATA[If my fans think I can do everything I say I can do, then they're crazier than I am. After one of his fight predictions turned out to be wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All Nature seems at work, slugs leave their lair-- The bees are stirring--birds are on the wing--  And Winter, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62094]]></link><description><![CDATA[All Nature seems at work, slugs leave their lair-- The bees are stirring--birds are on the wing--  And Winter, slumbering in the open air,   Wears on his smiling face a dream of Spring!    And I the while, the sole unbusy thing,     Nor honey make, nor pair, nor build, nor sing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60150]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth hath a quiet breast. -King Richard II. Act i. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55810]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth hath a quiet breast. -King Richard II. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42862]]></link><description><![CDATA[A crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66426]]></link><description><![CDATA[By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The integrative tendencies of the individual operate through the mechanisms of empathy, sympathy, projection, introjection, identification, worship- all of which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56794]]></link><description><![CDATA[The integrative tendencies of the individual operate through the mechanisms of empathy, sympathy, projection, introjection, identification, worship- all of which make him feel that he is a part of some larger entity which transcends the boundaries of the individual self. This psychological urge to belong, to participate, to commune is as primary and real as its opposite. The all-important question is the nature of that higher entity of which the individual feels himself a part.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today the world is the victim of propaganda because people are not intellectually competent. More than anything the United States ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today the world is the victim of propaganda because people are not intellectually competent. More than anything the United States needs effective citizens competent to do their own thinking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48421</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[Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3445]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's time for me to make a mark in this league. I'm getting chances; that is the good thing. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29678]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's time for me to make a mark in this league. I'm getting chances; that is the good thing. I just need to keep doing it on a more consistent basis.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No injury can be complained of by a consenting party. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50555]]></link><description><![CDATA[No injury can be complained of by a consenting party.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know, you could live a thousand lifetimes and not deserve him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66058]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know, you could live a thousand lifetimes and not deserve him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66058</guid></item></channel></rss>