<?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[We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18798]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The foolish ofttimes teach the wise: I strain too much this string of life, belike,  Meaning to make such ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19153]]></link><description><![CDATA[The foolish ofttimes teach the wise: I strain too much this string of life, belike,  Meaning to make such music as shall save.   Mine eyes are dim now that they see the truth,    My strength is waned now that my need is most;     Would that I had such help as man must have,      For I shall die, whose life was all men's hope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shows like 'CSI' are teaching people that without forensic evidence you can't convict anybody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shows like 'CSI' are teaching people that without forensic evidence you can't convict anybody.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are what their mothers made them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12105]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are what their mothers made them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ordinary people believe only in the possible. Extraordinary people visualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22230]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ordinary people believe only in the possible. Extraordinary people visualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is impossible. And by visualizing the impossible, they begin to see it as possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what youshouldn't-it just keeps you from enjoying it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21712]]></link><description><![CDATA[The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what youshouldn't-it just keeps you from enjoying it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ext to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66888]]></link><description><![CDATA[ext to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None but a mule denies his family. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15177]]></link><description><![CDATA[None but a mule denies his family.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What passing bells for these who die as cattle?Only the monstrous anger of the guns.Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattleCan ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25352]]></link><description><![CDATA[What passing bells for these who die as cattle?Only the monstrous anger of the guns.Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattleCan patter out their hasty orisons. - Anthem for Doomed Youth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22002]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself. - All About Ourselves and Other Essays.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everywhere you look in science, the harder it becomes to understand theuniverse without God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22774]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everywhere you look in science, the harder it becomes to understand theuniverse without God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo. You're judged by how you look, not by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41619]]></link><description><![CDATA[In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo. You're judged by how you look, not by what you are. Hollywood's a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for kiss, and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned do]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Methinks a father Is at the nuptial of his son a guest  That best becomes the table. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18434]]></link><description><![CDATA[Methinks a father Is at the nuptial of his son a guest  That best becomes the table.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything is twice as large, measured on a three-year-old's three-foot scale on a thirty-year-old's six-foot scale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything is twice as large, measured on a three-year-old's three-foot scale on a thirty-year-old's six-foot scale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12282]]></link><description><![CDATA[No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are in such a slump that even the ones that are drinking aren't hitting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10703]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are in such a slump that even the ones that are drinking aren't hitting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would like to say that the officials, our school administration and our school police did an outstanding job of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42467]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would like to say that the officials, our school administration and our school police did an outstanding job of controlling the situation. I thought everyone did a great job in preventing the situation from becoming much worse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a lot of overlap in his plan. You might as well hold an index fund. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35061]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a lot of overlap in his plan. You might as well hold an index fund.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the investigation implicates Syria, are we going to wage war on it? And if it acquits it, are we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42609]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the investigation implicates Syria, are we going to wage war on it? And if it acquits it, are we going to invite Syria back here again?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2626]]></link><description><![CDATA[Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25346]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We bank on getting those big runs. When we get rolling like that, it takes the wind out of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33044]]></link><description><![CDATA[We bank on getting those big runs. When we get rolling like that, it takes the wind out of the other team's sails.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We changed our offense, spread it out. McCarthy stepped up offensively and Rooney played well. We were more consistent on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30912]]></link><description><![CDATA[We changed our offense, spread it out. McCarthy stepped up offensively and Rooney played well. We were more consistent on defense, especially Brian in goal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61501]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good taste in men!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[and once it leaves their hands it's someone else's problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34743]]></link><description><![CDATA[and once it leaves their hands it's someone else's problem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16963]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. -Edgar Watson Howe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deep down even the most hardened criminal is starving for the same thing that motivates the innocent baby: Love and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/275]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deep down even the most hardened criminal is starving for the same thing that motivates the innocent baby: Love and acceptance]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The aim of law is the maximum gratification of the nervous system of man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24296]]></link><description><![CDATA[The aim of law is the maximum gratification of the nervous system of man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The union of a sect within itself is a pitiful charity; it's no concord of Christians, but a conspiracy against ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7539]]></link><description><![CDATA[The union of a sect within itself is a pitiful charity; it's no concord of Christians, but a conspiracy against Christ; and they that love one another for their opinionative concurrence, love for their own sakes, not their Lord's.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9477]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unhappiness is in not knowing what we want and killing ourselves toget it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21304]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unhappiness is in not knowing what we want and killing ourselves toget it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even as a Surgeon, minding off to cut Some cureless limb, before in use he put  His violent Engins ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26691]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even as a Surgeon, minding off to cut Some cureless limb, before in use he put  His violent Engins on the vicious member,   Bringeth his Patient in a senseless slumber,    And grief-less then (guided by use and art),     To save the whole, sawes off th' infected part.   - Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64910]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet Spring, full of sweet dayes and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie,  My musick shows ye have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57795]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet Spring, full of sweet dayes and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie,  My musick shows ye have your closes,   And all must die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man can live happily who regards himself alone, who turns everythingto his own advantage. Thou must live for another, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21279]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man can live happily who regards himself alone, who turns everythingto his own advantage. Thou must live for another, if thou wishest to livefor thyself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, I have suffered With those that I saw suffer! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, I have suffered With those that I saw suffer!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What the law will compel you to do, do of your own free will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51753]]></link><description><![CDATA[What the law will compel you to do, do of your own free will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[John Bunyan understood the Gospel when he wrote that tract, "The Jerusalem Sinner Saved." He knew that every sinner is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7652]]></link><description><![CDATA[John Bunyan understood the Gospel when he wrote that tract, "The Jerusalem Sinner Saved." He knew that every sinner is a Jerusalem sinner who has crucified the Lord of Glory; and to whom, notwithstanding all this, the grace of God is exceedingly abundant with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. Therefore the Apostle Paul himself is a pattern... of the grace of God abounding to the Christ-crucifiers. A new covenant is made with those who transgressed the first covenant. It is the brethren of Joseph, who have sold him into Egypt, who are made the partakers of Joseph's power and of Joseph's riches.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yes great people are always subject to persecution and always getting into straits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46150]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yes great people are always subject to persecution and always getting into straits.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The economic and technological triumphs of the past few years have not solved as many problems as we thought they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47674]]></link><description><![CDATA[The economic and technological triumphs of the past few years have not solved as many problems as we thought they would, and, in fact, have brought us new problems we did not foresee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Teresa of Avila, Mystic, Teacher, 1582  It was no exceptional thing for Jesus to withdraw Himself "into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6580]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Teresa of Avila, Mystic, Teacher, 1582  It was no exceptional thing for Jesus to withdraw Himself "into the wilderness to pray." He was never for one moment of any day out of touch with God. He was speaking and listening to the Father all day long; and yet He, who was in such constant touch with God, felt the need, as well as the joy, of more prolonged and more quiet communion with Him... Most of the reasons that drive us to pray for strength and forgiveness could never have driven Him; and yet He needed prayer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the viewpoint of absolute truth, what we feel and experience in our ordinary daily life is all delusion. Of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12469]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the viewpoint of absolute truth, what we feel and experience in our ordinary daily life is all delusion. Of all the various delusions, the sense of discrimination between oneself and others is the worst form, as it creates nothing but unpleasant]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it is the love of that which your work represents--if, being a landscape painter, it is love of hills ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45432]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it is the love of that which your work represents--if, being a landscape painter, it is love of hills and trees that moves you--if, being a figure painter, it is love of human beauty, and human soul that moves you--if, being a flower or animal painter, it is love, and wonder, and delight in petal and in limb that move you, then the Spirit is upon you, and the earth is yours, and the fullness thereof.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being relaxed, at peace with yourself, confident, emotionally neutral, loose, and free-floating - these are the keys to successful performance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64016]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being relaxed, at peace with yourself, confident, emotionally neutral, loose, and free-floating - these are the keys to successful performance in almost everything you do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Language achieves soul only when it's applied as a tool, used by those who imbue it with what they have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Language achieves soul only when it's applied as a tool, used by those who imbue it with what they have had the courage and honesty to perceive and feel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Barbarian invasions would be superfluous: we are our own Huns. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56816]]></link><description><![CDATA[Barbarian invasions would be superfluous: we are our own Huns.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death would not be called bad, O people, if one knew how to truly die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death would not be called bad, O people, if one knew how to truly die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hizbullah is not a militia. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29885]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hizbullah is not a militia.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18066</guid></item></channel></rss>