<?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[Income and sales taxes are both collected in dribs and drabs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30168]]></link><description><![CDATA[Income and sales taxes are both collected in dribs and drabs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The march of intellect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22886]]></link><description><![CDATA[The march of intellect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These are days when no one should rely unduly on his "competence." Strength lies in improvisation. All the decisive blows ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1067]]></link><description><![CDATA[These are days when no one should rely unduly on his "competence." Strength lies in improvisation. All the decisive blows are struck left-handed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is restful, tragedy, because one knows that there is no more lousy hope left. You know you're caught, caught ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37512]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is restful, tragedy, because one knows that there is no more lousy hope left. You know you're caught, caught at last like a rat with all the world on its back. And the only thing left to do is shout -- not moan, or complain, but yell out at the top of your voice whatever it was you had to say. What you've never said before. What perhaps you don't even know till now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All great virtues become great men. [Fr., Toutes grandes vertus conviennent aux grands hommes.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60781]]></link><description><![CDATA[All great virtues become great men. [Fr., Toutes grandes vertus conviennent aux grands hommes.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/384]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The game is my life. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3792]]></link><description><![CDATA[The game is my life. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When clouds are seen wise men put on their cloaks; When great leaves fall then winter is at hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51513]]></link><description><![CDATA[When clouds are seen wise men put on their cloaks; When great leaves fall then winter is at hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason. [Lat., Nam et Socrati objiciunt comici, docere ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53109]]></link><description><![CDATA[For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason. [Lat., Nam et Socrati objiciunt comici, docere eum quomodo pejorem causam meliorem faciat.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boys don't make passes at female smart-asses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4810]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boys don't make passes at female smart-asses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To make a mountain of a mole-hill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43299]]></link><description><![CDATA[To make a mountain of a mole-hill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought the biggest thing of the game tonight for our guys, and I give them a lot of credit, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34470]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought the biggest thing of the game tonight for our guys, and I give them a lot of credit, was after [Virginia] got the two runs off Andrew. Knowing how tough Doolittle is - he one of the toughest pitchers in this league - to bounce right back out there and get two runs, that to me was a big point in this game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46591]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute-and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is none, In all this cold and hollow world, no fount  Of deep, strong, deathless love, save that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43201]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is none, In all this cold and hollow world, no fount  Of deep, strong, deathless love, save that within   A mother's heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thought is action in rehearsal ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59161]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thought is action in rehearsal]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ovid's a rake, as half his verses show him, Anacreon's morals are a still worse sample,  Catullus scarcely has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46849]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ovid's a rake, as half his verses show him, Anacreon's morals are a still worse sample,  Catullus scarcely has a decent poem,   I don't think Sappho's Ode a good example,    Although Longinus tells us there is no hymn     Where the sublime soars forth on wings more ample;      But Virgil's songs are pure, except that horrid one       Being with "Formosum Pastor Corydon."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55089]]></link><description><![CDATA[Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Follow pleasure, and then will pleasure flee, Flee pleasure, and pleasure will follow thee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Follow pleasure, and then will pleasure flee, Flee pleasure, and pleasure will follow thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20287]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14754]]></link><description><![CDATA[We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started... and know the place for the first time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46395]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the first quarter we were a little slow to get into our motion. Our job is to come off ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31056]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the first quarter we were a little slow to get into our motion. Our job is to come off the bench and provide energy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9979]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2032]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know what it is like to be devastated and lose everything, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36873]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know what it is like to be devastated and lose everything,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48439]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65876]]></link><description><![CDATA[Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pen became a clarion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46020]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pen became a clarion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else, and it'll ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60971]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else, and it'll become like a wildfire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63283]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we made today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labour and to wait. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45724]]></link><description><![CDATA[Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labour and to wait.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so;  But you with pleasure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so;  But you with pleasure own your errors past,   And make each day a critique on the last.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/452]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46817]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43470]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer to that would be, 'No.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49852]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will hereafter believe less history than ever, now that we have seen how it is made. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19397]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will hereafter believe less history than ever, now that we have seen how it is made.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will attempt no historical or theological classification of [George] Macdonald's thought, partly because I have not the learning to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8517]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will attempt no historical or theological classification of [George] Macdonald's thought, partly because I have not the learning to do so, still more because I am no great friend to such pigeon-holing. One very effective way of silencing the voice of conscience is to impound in an Ism the teacher through whom it speaks; the trumpet no longer seriously disturbs our rest when we have murmured '..Thomist', 'Barthian', or 'Existentialist'. And in Macdonald it is, always the voice of conscience that speaks. He addresses the will: the demand for obedience, for "something to be neither more nor less nor other than done" is incessant. Yet in that very voice of conscience every other faculty somehow speaks as well -- intellect and imagination and humour and fancy and all the affections; and no man in modern times was perhaps more aware of the distinction between Law and Gospel, the inevitable failure of mere morality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no simplistic approach to worthwhile achievement in human affairs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/377]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no simplistic approach to worthwhile achievement in human affairs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is to be feared lest our long quarrels about the manner of His presence cause the matter of His ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7705]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is to be feared lest our long quarrels about the manner of His presence cause the matter of His absence, for our want of charity to receive Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who disdains the fall in infant mortality and the gradual disappearance of famines and plagues may cast the first ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15192]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who disdains the fall in infant mortality and the gradual disappearance of famines and plagues may cast the first stone upon the materialism of the economists.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lunatics have taken charge of the asylum.   - Richard Rowland, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10050]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lunatics have taken charge of the asylum.   - Richard Rowland,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13599]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the kind of intractable problem that can probably only be resolved through negotiations, and those negotiations may have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37502]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the kind of intractable problem that can probably only be resolved through negotiations, and those negotiations may have to include the Boeing- Airbus dispute - which, given its complexity, should be settled through negotiations anyway.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no limit to the power of loving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63508]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no limit to the power of loving.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet I will look upon thy face again, My own romantic Bronx, and it will be  A face more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54320]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet I will look upon thy face again, My own romantic Bronx, and it will be  A face more pleasant than the face of men.   Thy waves are old companions, I shall see    A well remembered form in each old tree     And hear a voice long loved in thy wild minstrelsy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11376]]></link><description><![CDATA[The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Benedict of Nursia, Father of Western Monasticism, c.550  It might help us in our thinking if we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8261]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Benedict of Nursia, Father of Western Monasticism, c.550  It might help us in our thinking if we drew a distinction between preaching, which the New Testament talks about as a continuing activity in society at large, and sermonising, which we have made into a special activity in the church premises... A great many people sermonising in our churches today would be better off and of greater service if they absolved themselves from the bondage and disciplines of the pulpit and came down among their congregations, teaching informally on sounder educational principles. After all, the vital matter in the ministry of the Word is not that a clergyman delivers himself of a discourse but that the people to whom he ministers end up being taught something. The tragedy is that the professional clergy have been trained to sermonise and they seem overwhelmed with fears and a sense of insecurity when they contemplate other methods. A further problem, of course, is that most of our churches contain a significant number of people who become emotionally disturbed at any departure from what they have always done in the past. To them, the sermon is part of their Christianity -- even if it bores them stiff!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we acknowledge that all of life is sacred and that each act is an act of choice and therefore ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22515]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we acknowledge that all of life is sacred and that each act is an act of choice and therefore sacred, then life is a sacred dance lived consciously each moment. When we live at this level, we participate in the creation of a better world. [The Circle is Sacred].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've been in Vegas. That's where you get into the money thing. Boy, you get greedy in Vegas, you know. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41019]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've been in Vegas. That's where you get into the money thing. Boy, you get greedy in Vegas, you know. That's the only place that you can bet $25, get it up to $500 and refuse to quit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41019</guid></item></channel></rss>