<?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[Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43162]]></link><description><![CDATA[Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43162</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[Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66281]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now it's simply (about) getting the financial resources to get this thing finished. You'll never get another chance like this. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now it's simply (about) getting the financial resources to get this thing finished. You'll never get another chance like this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We just want to be steady. Play consistent defense, swing consistent and give ourselves a chance to win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38205]]></link><description><![CDATA[We just want to be steady. Play consistent defense, swing consistent and give ourselves a chance to win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mad as a March hare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21015]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mad as a March hare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12326]]></link><description><![CDATA[A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For it is most true that a natural and secret hatred and aversation towards society in any man, hath somewhat ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56757]]></link><description><![CDATA[For it is most true that a natural and secret hatred and aversation towards society in any man, hath somewhat of the savage beast.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hushed winds wail with feeble moan Like infant charity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61629]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hushed winds wail with feeble moan Like infant charity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is not given but exchanged. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18662]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is not given but exchanged.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9981]]></link><description><![CDATA[We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cruelty and fear shake hands together ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cruelty and fear shake hands together]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31754]]></link><description><![CDATA[And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You need three things in the theater - the play, the actors and the audience, - and each must give ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59036]]></link><description><![CDATA[You need three things in the theater - the play, the actors and the audience, - and each must give something]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of the people who were at that board meeting, can I see a show of hands of those who heard ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40109]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of the people who were at that board meeting, can I see a show of hands of those who heard her cuss me out?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are deeply sorry that this happened. Sometimes you can't control it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39235]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are deeply sorry that this happened. Sometimes you can't control it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a great opportunity for our high school youth to give back to the community. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40825]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a great opportunity for our high school youth to give back to the community.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63015]]></link><description><![CDATA[Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Void of all honor, avaricious, rash, The daring tribe compound their boasted trash--  Tincture of syrup, lotion, drop, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52618]]></link><description><![CDATA[Void of all honor, avaricious, rash, The daring tribe compound their boasted trash--  Tincture of syrup, lotion, drop, or pill;   All tempt the sick to trust the lying bill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some remedies are worse than the disease itself. [Lat., Graviora quaedam sunt remedia periculis.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12501]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some remedies are worse than the disease itself. [Lat., Graviora quaedam sunt remedia periculis.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To believe Christ's cross to be a friend, as he himself is a friend, is also a special act of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6381]]></link><description><![CDATA[To believe Christ's cross to be a friend, as he himself is a friend, is also a special act of faith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4716]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1971]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jests that give pains are no jests ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23216]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jests that give pains are no jests]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ethelburga, Abbess of Barking, 675  The valley of the shadow of death holds no darkness for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ethelburga, Abbess of Barking, 675  The valley of the shadow of death holds no darkness for the child of God. There must be light, else there could be no shadow. Jesus is the light. He has overcome death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52486]]></link><description><![CDATA[The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep yourfoot on first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21924]]></link><description><![CDATA[Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep yourfoot on first.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is one difference between a tax collector and a taxidermist - the taxidermist leaves the hide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5097]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is one difference between a tax collector and a taxidermist - the taxidermist leaves the hide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a sign of your own worth sometimes if you are hated by the right people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18805]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a sign of your own worth sometimes if you are hated by the right people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If people gathered to a political meeting, and the chief speaker spoke to them only for some quarter of an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7848]]></link><description><![CDATA[If people gathered to a political meeting, and the chief speaker spoke to them only for some quarter of an hour, they would be annoyed, would feel with some resentment that he had not taken them seriously, had dealt much too cavalierly with the question of the hour, an Ulster boundary, or such like. But the things of the soul are far more momentous, and to be asked to deal with huge, unfathomable facts like the Cross in a few minutes, means that people are not really interested in these things. This is, of course, a snippety age, with a snippety press, and snippety novels. But must we preachers follow and be snippety, too?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace with a club in hand is war. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace with a club in hand is war.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The family is the school of duties... founded on love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15158]]></link><description><![CDATA[The family is the school of duties... founded on love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clever men are sometimes the dupes of their own cleverness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62827]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clever men are sometimes the dupes of their own cleverness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I must govern the clock, not be governed by it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64269]]></link><description><![CDATA[I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When people leave their controlled burns, they should be sticking their hands in there to make sure its cold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32756]]></link><description><![CDATA[When people leave their controlled burns, they should be sticking their hands in there to make sure its cold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tread Of coming footsteps cheats the midnight watcher  Who holds her heart and waits to hear them pause, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16409]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tread Of coming footsteps cheats the midnight watcher  Who holds her heart and waits to hear them pause,   And hears them never pause, but pass and die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I admit that the generation which produced Stalin, Auschwitz and Hiroshima will take some beating; but the radical and universal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53642]]></link><description><![CDATA[I admit that the generation which produced Stalin, Auschwitz and Hiroshima will take some beating; but the radical and universal consciousness of the death of God is still ahead of us; perhaps we shall have to colonize the stars before it is finally borne in upon us that God is not out there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas for him who never sees The stars shine through his cypress-trees  Who, hopeless, lays his dead away,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12022]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas for him who never sees The stars shine through his cypress-trees  Who, hopeless, lays his dead away,   Nor looks to see the breaking day    Across the mournful marbles play!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreaming only makes reality seem worse! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53042]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreaming only makes reality seem worse!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was perhaps inevitable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58828]]></link><description><![CDATA[And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was perhaps inevitable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We knew it would rain, for the poplars showed The white of their leaves, the amber grain  Shrunk in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52929]]></link><description><![CDATA[We knew it would rain, for the poplars showed The white of their leaves, the amber grain  Shrunk in the wind,--and the lightning now   Is tangled in tremulous skeins of rain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jews don't go to confession. They don't want to relieve the guilt.screenwriter of FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jews don't go to confession. They don't want to relieve the guilt.screenwriter of FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10516]]></link><description><![CDATA[A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never let a day pass that you will have cause to say, I will do better tomorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never let a day pass that you will have cause to say, I will do better tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27283]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are apparently based on the ludicrous assumption that _men_ know how to fix things, when in fact all they know how to do is _look_ at things in a certain squinty-eyed manner, which they learned in Wood Shop; eventually, when enough things in the home are broken, they take a job requiring them to transfer to another home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11480]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The one good thing about the antiques business is the more, the better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40748]]></link><description><![CDATA[The one good thing about the antiques business is the more, the better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2116]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning is finding out what you already know -Richard Bach. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13566]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning is finding out what you already know -Richard Bach.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13566</guid></item></channel></rss>