<?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[Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5155]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let me be cruel, not unnatural; I will speak daggers to her, but use none.  My tongue and soul ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20234]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let me be cruel, not unnatural; I will speak daggers to her, but use none.  My tongue and soul in this be hypocrites:   How in my words somever she be shent,    To give them seals never, my soul, consent!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tap'ring pyramid, the Egyptian's pride, And wonder of the world, whose spiky top  Has wounded the thick cloud. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43035]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tap'ring pyramid, the Egyptian's pride, And wonder of the world, whose spiky top  Has wounded the thick cloud.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10513]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is my peace message in one sentence: This is the way ofpeace-overcome evil with good, and falsehood with truth, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21149]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is my peace message in one sentence: This is the way ofpeace-overcome evil with good, and falsehood with truth, and hatred withlove.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought Old Mill outplayed us in all faucets of the game. Quite frankly, they were the better team at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32739]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought Old Mill outplayed us in all faucets of the game. Quite frankly, they were the better team at the end of the day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps the reward of the spirit who tries is not the goal but the exercise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps the reward of the spirit who tries is not the goal but the exercise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy - the smile that accepts a lover before words are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3608]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy - the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother's love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57386]]></link><description><![CDATA[One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the history of mankind, fanaticism has caused more harm than vice ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15257]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the history of mankind, fanaticism has caused more harm than vice]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53517]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1680]]></link><description><![CDATA[To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since every death diminishes us a little, we grieve - not so much for the death as for ourselves ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11462]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since every death diminishes us a little, we grieve - not so much for the death as for ourselves]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65452]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we are in hand-to-hand conflict with the world, the flesh, and the devil himself, neat little Biblical confectionery is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6810]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we are in hand-to-hand conflict with the world, the flesh, and the devil himself, neat little Biblical confectionery is like shooting lions with a pea-shooter; God needs a man who will let go and deliver blows right and left as hard as he can hit, in the power of the Holy Ghost. Nothing but forked-lightning Christians will count.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63715]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63726]]></link><description><![CDATA[An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disapproval is a very important factor in all progress. There has really never been any progress without it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Disapproval is a very important factor in all progress. There has really never been any progress without it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are solutions to those problems. We have smart growth here already. There will be benefits to having foot traffic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34560]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are solutions to those problems. We have smart growth here already. There will be benefits to having foot traffic for merchants on Main Street, increased tax revenue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of James the Apostle  When Jesus calls his disciples "brothers" and "friends", he is contradicting general Jewish usage ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6259]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of James the Apostle  When Jesus calls his disciples "brothers" and "friends", he is contradicting general Jewish usage and breaking through into a new concept of brotherhood which is not tribal, but open to any person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's been very helpful and accommodating, and I like coming to a local business, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34449]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's been very helpful and accommodating, and I like coming to a local business,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I suppose that every age has its own particular fantasy: ours is science. A seventeenth-century man like Blaise Pascal, who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7019]]></link><description><![CDATA[I suppose that every age has its own particular fantasy: ours is science. A seventeenth-century man like Blaise Pascal, who thought himself a mathematician and scientist of genius, found it quite ridiculous that anyone should suppose that rational processes could lead to any ultimate conclusions about life, but easily accepted the authority of the Scriptures. With us, it is the other way `round.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said. -Unknown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45523]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said. -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was happy that right away we played Tennessee, I was happy that we played Oklahoma right off the top. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41474]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was happy that right away we played Tennessee, I was happy that we played Oklahoma right off the top. Those games certainly helped me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The one who overcomes egotism rids themselves of the most stubborn obstacle that blocks the way to all true greatness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13671]]></link><description><![CDATA[The one who overcomes egotism rids themselves of the most stubborn obstacle that blocks the way to all true greatness and all true happiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We just want to write songs. I think if you start taking into consideration those kind of outside perspectives, like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32462]]></link><description><![CDATA[We just want to write songs. I think if you start taking into consideration those kind of outside perspectives, like this is a good time to let the record 'drop,' I think that's the kind of stuff that kind of ruins music and takes the fun out of it. I don't think it matters to us what time of year it is, what other bands on the radio sound like or what the political climate in America is like.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I didn't have this affliction, I would be the first. As a rule the if-clause contains an unfulfillable condition, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1654]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I didn't have this affliction, I would be the first. As a rule the if-clause contains an unfulfillable condition, or the patient's own arrangement, which only he can change.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where you thinke there is bacon, there is no Chimney. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where you thinke there is bacon, there is no Chimney.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex. . . . It takes a touch of genius--and a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex. . . . It takes a touch of genius--and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64042]]></link><description><![CDATA[To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm a Hollywood Trainwreck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19589]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm a Hollywood Trainwreck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Washington is the only state with a positive balance of trade with China, something we are very proud of. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36571]]></link><description><![CDATA[Washington is the only state with a positive balance of trade with China, something we are very proud of.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 651 Commemoration of Cuthburga, Founding Abbess of Wimborne, c.725 Commemoration of John Bunyan, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7742]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 651 Commemoration of Cuthburga, Founding Abbess of Wimborne, c.725 Commemoration of John Bunyan, Spiritual Writer, 1688  Here in Pilgrim's Progress there is the ultimate human nostalgia for the City of God, which is the restless heart's true home. And even the cynical, the unbelieving and half-believing reader who goes with Christian to the end of the road must be a little shaken, may tremble to see something like a gate and also some of the glory of the place, and, glimpsing something of the company within the golden gates, may wish himself among them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your best teacher is your last mistake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66609]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your best teacher is your last mistake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The final war will be between Pavlov's dog and Schoedinger's Cat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61157]]></link><description><![CDATA[The final war will be between Pavlov's dog and Schoedinger's Cat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're working on this, but weren't hired specifically for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34173]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're working on this, but weren't hired specifically for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think there are perhaps four playwrights of the 20th century that we could not have done without: Chekhov, Pirandello, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34296]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think there are perhaps four playwrights of the 20th century that we could not have done without: Chekhov, Pirandello, Brecht and Beckett. If you've got those four, you've got the century covered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My advice is wait for the [industry] reports and strike up a dialogue with your utility at the local level. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38969]]></link><description><![CDATA[My advice is wait for the [industry] reports and strike up a dialogue with your utility at the local level.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The investigation continues. ... There has been no final ruling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33806]]></link><description><![CDATA[The investigation continues. ... There has been no final ruling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We love dance. We want everybody, dancers and non-dancers alike, to have access to this beautiful art form. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33310]]></link><description><![CDATA[We love dance. We want everybody, dancers and non-dancers alike, to have access to this beautiful art form.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the under-wood and the over-wood There is murmur and trill this day,  For every bird is in lyric ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26617]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the under-wood and the over-wood There is murmur and trill this day,  For every bird is in lyric mood,   And the wind will have its way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It goes much against my stomach. Hast any philosophy in thee, shepherd? -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55661]]></link><description><![CDATA[It goes much against my stomach. Hast any philosophy in thee, shepherd? -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27583]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[when all this started, I asked myself, 'Am I going to withdraw from the world, like most people do, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12264]]></link><description><![CDATA[when all this started, I asked myself, 'Am I going to withdraw from the world, like most people do, or am I going to live?' I decided I am going to live-or at least try to live-the way I want, with dignity, with courage, with humor, with composure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the beauty of what you love be what you do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66786]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As to virtue . . . it is an act of the will, a habit which increases the quantity, intensity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52676]]></link><description><![CDATA[As to virtue . . . it is an act of the will, a habit which increases the quantity, intensity and quality of life. It builds up, strengthens and vivifies personality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Football is a game of cliches, and I believe in every one of them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57738]]></link><description><![CDATA[Football is a game of cliches, and I believe in every one of them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57738</guid></item></channel></rss>