<?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[Actors become actors because they loved entertaining their family by putting on the lampshade and dancing around as a kid, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/556]]></link><description><![CDATA[Actors become actors because they loved entertaining their family by putting on the lampshade and dancing around as a kid, ... That's not my personality. For me, the fun part of making movies is seeing it as a director sees it. I like the architecture of movies. I like knowing what's coming and working to set that up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People generally quarrel because they cannot argue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52685]]></link><description><![CDATA[People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hilda, Abbess of Whitby, 680 Commemoration of Elizabeth, Princess of Hungary, Philanthropist, 1231 Commemoration of Mechtild, Bèguine of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6596]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hilda, Abbess of Whitby, 680 Commemoration of Elizabeth, Princess of Hungary, Philanthropist, 1231 Commemoration of Mechtild, Bèguine of Magdeburg, Mystic, Prophet, 1280 JESUS, the infinite I AM, With God essentially the same, With him enthroned above all height, As God of God, and Light of Light, Thou art by thy great Father known, From all eternity his Son. Thou only dost the Father know, And wilt to all thy followers show, Who cannot doubt thy gracious will His glorious Godhead to reveal; Reveal him now, if thou art he, And live, eternal Life, in me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Paul's argument in First Corinthians 1:18-25 is equally relevant when we come to ask why men cannot understand the Bible. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7447]]></link><description><![CDATA[Paul's argument in First Corinthians 1:18-25 is equally relevant when we come to ask why men cannot understand the Bible. Any attempts to hide behind the excuse that it is too difficult, when what we mean is that its word is too hard for us to bear, meets the just remark of a pastor from Communist Germany: "How can they say that the Bible is difficult, when young Communists are poring over much more difficult and much more technical literature to discover what Communism is all about?" Sometimes the Biblical teaching is crystal-clear, but we dare not understand it. The Christian Church has a vested interest in its present forms, and Christian people, like others, have their pleasant prejudices. This unwillingness to hear some new thing, except in times of great disturbance, plays a bigger part in weakening the voice of God through the Bible than we are prepared to admit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61688]]></link><description><![CDATA[A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . th' approach of night The skies yet blushing with departing light,  When falling dews with spangles ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59930]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . th' approach of night The skies yet blushing with departing light,  When falling dews with spangles deck'd the glade,   And the low sun had lengthen'd ev'ry shade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63060]]></link><description><![CDATA[If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57860]]></link><description><![CDATA[Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14121]]></link><description><![CDATA[Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it is intolerable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45349]]></link><description><![CDATA[The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it is intolerable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be good and you will be lonely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25480]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be good and you will be lonely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. . . . Decency is very ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11574]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. . . . Decency is very good. Better decent than indecent. But I don't think it's enough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's an opportunity for citizens who care about issues to communicate with lawmakers about what's happening in their communities. Without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33566]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's an opportunity for citizens who care about issues to communicate with lawmakers about what's happening in their communities. Without that input, lawmakers might not be able to make informed decisions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14375]]></link><description><![CDATA[Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12551]]></link><description><![CDATA[The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's always a fun game to watch. Two good programs go out and it's a battle like it was tonight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38213]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's always a fun game to watch. Two good programs go out and it's a battle like it was tonight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60758]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10010]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65449]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5806]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one cannot attain the Science of Life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It looked like [SBVC was] bothered [by the conditions]. Our guys are conditioned, and we used that to our advantage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33631]]></link><description><![CDATA[It looked like [SBVC was] bothered [by the conditions]. Our guys are conditioned, and we used that to our advantage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Steadfastness is a noble quality, but unguided by knowledge or humility it becomes rashness or obstinacy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Steadfastness is a noble quality, but unguided by knowledge or humility it becomes rashness or obstinacy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For what one has in black and white, One can carry home in comfort.  [Ger., Denn was man schwarz ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47765]]></link><description><![CDATA[For what one has in black and white, One can carry home in comfort.  [Ger., Denn was man schwarz auf weiss besitzt,   Kann man getrost nach Hause tragen.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24987]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't test courage cautiously. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10318]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't test courage cautiously.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[but it is only a small snapshot of what is going on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39734]]></link><description><![CDATA[but it is only a small snapshot of what is going on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18562]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God rest ye, little children; let nothing you affright, For Jesus Christ, your Saviour, was born this happy night;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8643]]></link><description><![CDATA[God rest ye, little children; let nothing you affright, For Jesus Christ, your Saviour, was born this happy night;  Along the hills of Galilee the white flocks sleeping lay,   When Christ, the Child of Nazareth, was born on Christmas Day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This has been very stressful for the people involved, particularly for class representatives who had counterclaims brought against them. This ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37240]]></link><description><![CDATA[This has been very stressful for the people involved, particularly for class representatives who had counterclaims brought against them. This is a huge relief to them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is the transmission of civilization. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13494]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is the transmission of civilization.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no proverb which is not true. [Sp., No hay refran que no sea verdadero.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51894]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no proverb which is not true. [Sp., No hay refran que no sea verdadero.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Psychoanalysis has changed American psychology from a diagnostic to a therapeutic science, not because so many patients are cured by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52033]]></link><description><![CDATA[Psychoanalysis has changed American psychology from a diagnostic to a therapeutic science, not because so many patients are cured by the psychoanalytic technique, but because of the new understanding of psychiatric patients it has given us, and the new and different concept of illness and health.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65510]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(The hype) speaks for itself. It's a big game, and we're going to be prepared. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36370]]></link><description><![CDATA[(The hype) speaks for itself. It's a big game, and we're going to be prepared.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All green was vanished save of pine and yew, That still displayed their melancholy hue;  Save the green holly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19583]]></link><description><![CDATA[All green was vanished save of pine and yew, That still displayed their melancholy hue;  Save the green holly with its berries red,   And the green moss that o'er the gravel spread.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same state or principle in which you are; a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58743]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same state or principle in which you are; a transfusion takes place; he is you, and you are he; there is a teaching; and by no unfriendly chance or bad company can he ever quite lose the benefit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dry bread at home is better then rost meate abroad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49205]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dry bread at home is better then rost meate abroad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I expect he will be set free soon, but not within days. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29828]]></link><description><![CDATA[I expect he will be set free soon, but not within days.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am a tainted wether of the flock, Meetest for death: the weakest kind of fruit Drops earliest to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55602]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am a tainted wether of the flock, Meetest for death: the weakest kind of fruit Drops earliest to the ground. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take thou some new infection to thy eye, And the rank poison of the old will die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51465]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take thou some new infection to thy eye, And the rank poison of the old will die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like the sun, truth is self luminescent.It is reality, self evident, needing no external defense.It is immediately recognized by resonant ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59866]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like the sun, truth is self luminescent.It is reality, self evident, needing no external defense.It is immediately recognized by resonant hearts.It can be hidden for a short time by cloudsor by imprisoning others indoors..but inevitably truth conquers all,as does love.God whose name is Truth whose name is Love is endingthe violence in the world now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to believe a lie that one has heard a thousand times than to believe a fact that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14887]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to believe a lie that one has heard a thousand times than to believe a fact that no one has heard before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes adversity impels a person to greater heights, and sometimes it provides the opportunity for that person to be a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/719]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes adversity impels a person to greater heights, and sometimes it provides the opportunity for that person to be a blessing in the lives of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flowery oratory he [Walpole] despised. He ascribed to the interested views of themselves or their relatives the declarations of pretended ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4900]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flowery oratory he [Walpole] despised. He ascribed to the interested views of themselves or their relatives the declarations of pretended patriots, of whom he said, "All those men have their price."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that is throwne would ever wrestle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49458]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that is throwne would ever wrestle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once let good faith be abandoned, and all social existence would perish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once let good faith be abandoned, and all social existence would perish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bridget of Sweden, Abbess of Vadstena, 1373  Faith is not a refuge from reality. It is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bridget of Sweden, Abbess of Vadstena, 1373  Faith is not a refuge from reality. It is a demand that we face reality, with all its difficulties, opportunities, and implications. The true subject matter of religion is not our own little souls, but the Eternal God and His whole mysterious purpose, and our solemn responsibility to Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27975]]></link><description><![CDATA[They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who build beneath the stars build too low. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66142]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who build beneath the stars build too low.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66142</guid></item></channel></rss>