<?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[Whenever I felt like slitting my wrists I used to like listening to depressed singers from the 1970s. It was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33570]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever I felt like slitting my wrists I used to like listening to depressed singers from the 1970s. It was great music for a misunderstood teenager. And when I'm feeling misunderstood these days, I'll stick on a bit of Leonard Cohen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53498]]></link><description><![CDATA[True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give--which is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give--which is everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything is going well. I'm getting a lot of positive interest, and I'm pleased with the interest thus far. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36076]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything is going well. I'm getting a lot of positive interest, and I'm pleased with the interest thus far.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Allen Gardiner, founder of the South American Missionary Society, 1851 Commemoration of Albert Schweitzer, Teacher, Physician, Missionary, 1965 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Allen Gardiner, founder of the South American Missionary Society, 1851 Commemoration of Albert Schweitzer, Teacher, Physician, Missionary, 1965  As we look out upon history and the world, it is with the same vision of all things in Christ which dominates the perceptions of all believers, without distinction of age, or race, or Church. Not a saint, a thinker, a hero, or a martyr of the Church, but we claim a share in his character, influence and achievements, by confessing the debt we owe to the great tradition which he has enriched by saintly consecration, true thought, or noble conduct.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it doen't make sense, you should find for the defense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23653]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it doen't make sense, you should find for the defense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An inordinate passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62524]]></link><description><![CDATA[An inordinate passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had them lay on the ground until the sheriff's department got there, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38671]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had them lay on the ground until the sheriff's department got there,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person's treatment of money is the most decisive test of his character, how they make it and how they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42992]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person's treatment of money is the most decisive test of his character, how they make it and how they spend it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cause ceasing, the effect ceases also. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48911]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cause ceasing, the effect ceases also.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As soon Seek roses in December--ice in June,  Hope, constancy in wind, or corn in chaff;   Believe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10729]]></link><description><![CDATA[As soon Seek roses in December--ice in June,  Hope, constancy in wind, or corn in chaff;   Believe a woman or an epitaph,    Or any other thing that's false, before     You trust in critics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The belly (i.e. necessity) is the teacher of art and the liberal bestower of wit. [Lat., Magister artis ingenique largitor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13244]]></link><description><![CDATA[The belly (i.e. necessity) is the teacher of art and the liberal bestower of wit. [Lat., Magister artis ingenique largitor Venter.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2705]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901  If ever we intend to take one step towards ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7089]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901  If ever we intend to take one step towards any agreement or unity, it must be by fixing this principle in the minds of all men -- that it is of no advantage to any man whatever church or way in Christian religion he be of, unless he personally believe the promises, and live in obedience unto all the precepts of Christ; and that for him who doth so, it is a trampling of the whole gospel under foot to say that his salvation could be endangered by his not being of this or that church or way, especially considering how much of the world hath inmixed itself into all the known ways that are in it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you shoot at a king you must kill him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24487]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you shoot at a king you must kill him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell tales out of school. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17884]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tell tales out of school.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It needs to be solved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39825]]></link><description><![CDATA[It needs to be solved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any communication or marketing professional needs cross-cultural research and communication skills to be able to succeed in the future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26385]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any communication or marketing professional needs cross-cultural research and communication skills to be able to succeed in the future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The How To Book of Teen Self Discovery -Doc Childre. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5245]]></link><description><![CDATA[The How To Book of Teen Self Discovery -Doc Childre.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12890]]></link><description><![CDATA[The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humans have the ability to shift perspective. We can experience the world through our senses. Or we can remove ourselves ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/935]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humans have the ability to shift perspective. We can experience the world through our senses. Or we can remove ourselves from our senses and experience the world even less directly. We can think about our life, rather than thinking in our life. We can think about what we think about our life, and we can think about what we think about that. We can shift perceptual positions many times over.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62650]]></link><description><![CDATA[Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23698]]></link><description><![CDATA[If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good, and the very gentle, and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too, but there will be no special hurry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue. They are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60754]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue. They are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After my death I wish no other herald, No other speaker of my living actions, To keep mine honour from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56057]]></link><description><![CDATA[After my death I wish no other herald, No other speaker of my living actions, To keep mine honour from corruption, But such an honest chronicler as Griffith. -King Henry VIII. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are haunters of the silence, ghosts that hold the heart and brain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56279]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are haunters of the silence, ghosts that hold the heart and brain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We who revel in nature's diversity and feel instructed by every animal tend to brand Homo sapiens as the greatest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43846]]></link><description><![CDATA[We who revel in nature's diversity and feel instructed by every animal tend to brand Homo sapiens as the greatest catastrophe since the Cretaceous extinction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best is the cheapest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52672]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best is the cheapest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22156]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love: the delusion that one woman differs from another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25668]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love: the delusion that one woman differs from another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66177]]></link><description><![CDATA[The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The closing years of life are like a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24869]]></link><description><![CDATA[The closing years of life are like a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's a very good guy, he's a great teammate. He's good in the bullpen with the younger guys and he's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30290]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's a very good guy, he's a great teammate. He's good in the bullpen with the younger guys and he's free with his advice and he speaks his mind and sometimes it isn't always a kind remark. To be a true teammate, something needs to be said when it needs to be said. He's the type of person who will do that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No answer is a clear answer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18444]]></link><description><![CDATA[No answer is a clear answer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When will the public cease to insult the teacher's calling with empty flattery? When will men who would never for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22852]]></link><description><![CDATA[When will the public cease to insult the teacher's calling with empty flattery? When will men who would never for a moment encourage their own sons to enter the work of the public schools cease to tell us that education is the greatest and noblest of all human callings?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8235]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who never ate his bread in sorrow, Who never spent the darksome hours  Weeping, and watching for the morrow,-- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57248]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who never ate his bread in sorrow, Who never spent the darksome hours  Weeping, and watching for the morrow,--   He knows ye not, ye gloomy Powers.    [Ger., Wer nie sein Brod mit Thranen ass,     Wer nicht die kummervollen Nachte      Auf seinem Bette weinend sass,       Der kennt euch nicht, ihr himmlischen Machte.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[May be he is not well. Infirmity doth neglect all office  Whereto our health is bound. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18928]]></link><description><![CDATA[May be he is not well. Infirmity doth neglect all office  Whereto our health is bound.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gray hair is God's graffiti. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gray hair is God's graffiti.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely-read man never quotes accurately, for the rather ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52871]]></link><description><![CDATA[Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely-read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17464]]></link><description><![CDATA[A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever hath an interest in any one promise hath an interest in them all, and in the fountain-love from whence ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7068]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever hath an interest in any one promise hath an interest in them all, and in the fountain-love from whence they flow. He to whom any drop of their sweetness floweth may follow it up into the spring. Were we wise, each taste of mercy would lead us to the ocean of love. Have we any hold on a promise? We may get upon it, and it will bring us to the main, Christ Himself and the Spirit, and so into the bosom of the Father. It is our folly to abide upon a little, which is given us merely to make us press for more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's interesting that astronomy can do this. And it's great that there's this ongoing interest in Ansel. We're planning to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42178]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's interesting that astronomy can do this. And it's great that there's this ongoing interest in Ansel. We're planning to go out and see it for curiosity's sake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words are weapons, and it is dangerous . . . to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61477]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words are weapons, and it is dangerous . . . to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27555]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Last week was the most consistent they've been. They were coming off the ball every play and controlling the line ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41956]]></link><description><![CDATA[Last week was the most consistent they've been. They were coming off the ball every play and controlling the line of scrimmage and we need them to do that again to allow our linebackers to make plays.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science is facts. Just as houses are made of stones, so science is made of facts. But a pile of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56898]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science is facts. Just as houses are made of stones, so science is made of facts. But a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56898</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></channel></rss>