<?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[An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20268]]></link><description><![CDATA[An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation. •George Bernard Shaw    It is better to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52880]]></link><description><![CDATA[I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation. •George Bernard Shaw    It is better to be quotable than to be honest. •Tom Stoppard    Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations. •Orson Welles    Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In much of the West, the well educated have been taught to believe that they can know nothing and that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14746]]></link><description><![CDATA[In much of the West, the well educated have been taught to believe that they can know nothing and that they can draw no independent conclusions about truth, unless they cite a study and "experts" have affirmed it. "Studies show" is to the modern secular college graduate what "Scripture says" is to the religious fundamentalist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66277]]></link><description><![CDATA[The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was no interest at all. My friend asked me to go, so I did. He must have been tired ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39364]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was no interest at all. My friend asked me to go, so I did. He must have been tired or something, because he didn't speak a word. So I thought, 'What a boring guy.' I actually left pretty early.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26605]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't expect to prevent negative feelings altogether. And you can't expect to experience positive feelings all the time. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2046]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't expect to prevent negative feelings altogether. And you can't expect to experience positive feelings all the time. The Law of Emotional Choice directs us to acknowledge our feelings but also to refuse to get stuck in the negative ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That faith alone will never forsake Christ which springs out of or is built upon a conviction of the need ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7197]]></link><description><![CDATA[That faith alone will never forsake Christ which springs out of or is built upon a conviction of the need for Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yes, I had two strings to my bow; both golden ones, egad! and both cracked. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51969]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yes, I had two strings to my bow; both golden ones, egad! and both cracked.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John, Apostle & Evangelist  [Eternal life is] naught else than that blessed regard wherewith Thou never ceasest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6682]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John, Apostle & Evangelist  [Eternal life is] naught else than that blessed regard wherewith Thou never ceasest to behold me, yea, even the secret places of my soul. With Thee, to behold is to give life: It is unceasingly to impart sweetest love of Thee; 'tis to inflame me to love of Thee by love's imparting, and to feed me by inflaming, and by feeding to kindle my yearning, and by kindling to make me drink of the dew of gladness, and by drinking to infuse in me a fountain of life, and by infusing to make it increase and endure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is politically defined as economic "planning" is the forcible superseding of other people's plans by government officials. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47188]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is politically defined as economic "planning" is the forcible superseding of other people's plans by government officials.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The moon is made of a green cheese. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51026]]></link><description><![CDATA[The moon is made of a green cheese.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prevention is better than cure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48184]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prevention is better than cure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exceeding fair she was not; and yet fair In that she never studied to be fairer  Than Nature made ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Exceeding fair she was not; and yet fair In that she never studied to be fairer  Than Nature made her; her beauty cost her nothing,   Her virtues were so rare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm sure this agreement is a fair solution for the clubs involved and for the player. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40192]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm sure this agreement is a fair solution for the clubs involved and for the player.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It just frees you to be more honest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39264]]></link><description><![CDATA[It just frees you to be more honest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have written to them and asked them for statements. If I need to call them (to testify), I will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38436]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have written to them and asked them for statements. If I need to call them (to testify), I will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Antony of Egypt, Abbot, 356 Commemoration of Charles Gore, Bishop, Teacher, Founder of the Community of the Resurrection, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7684]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Antony of Egypt, Abbot, 356 Commemoration of Charles Gore, Bishop, Teacher, Founder of the Community of the Resurrection, 1932  Do we habitually remember how it offends our Lord to see divisions in the Christian Church, nations nominally Christian armed to the teeth against one another, class against class and individual against individual in fierce and relentless competition, jealousies among clergy and church-workers, communicants who forget that the sacrament of union with Christ is the sacrament of union with their fellow men? Christians are to be the makers of Christ's peace. Something we can all do is to reconcile individuals, families, classes, churches, nations. The question is, Are we, as churchmen and citizens, by work and by prayer, in our private conduct and our public action, doing our utmost with deliberate, unsparing effort! If so, our benediction is of the highest: it is to be, and to be acknowledged as being, sons of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're not going to see a (buying and selling) frenzy. For the time being it should ... give investors some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34229]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're not going to see a (buying and selling) frenzy. For the time being it should ... give investors some comfort there is some value out there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But I do hate him as I hate the devil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18856]]></link><description><![CDATA[But I do hate him as I hate the devil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61700]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20166]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mark of rank in nature is capacity for pain, And the anguish of the singer marks the sweetness of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45374]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mark of rank in nature is capacity for pain, And the anguish of the singer marks the sweetness of the strain.   - Sarah Williams ("Saidie"),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66091]]></link><description><![CDATA[If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A coward calls himself cautious, a miser thrifty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51125]]></link><description><![CDATA[A coward calls himself cautious, a miser thrifty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have one message for those cowards, the killers that actually did what they did last week: There's no place ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29717]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have one message for those cowards, the killers that actually did what they did last week: There's no place you could hide; there's no place in this region where it's going to be safe for you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1878]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can tag yourself into glass. It's a new scourge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29235]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can tag yourself into glass. It's a new scourge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man-like is it to fall into sin, Fiend-like is it to dwell therein,  Christ-like is it for sin to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56384]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man-like is it to fall into sin, Fiend-like is it to dwell therein,  Christ-like is it for sin to grieve,   God-like is it all sin to leave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity. [Lat., Ut saepe summa ingenia in occulto latent!] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44767]]></link><description><![CDATA[How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity. [Lat., Ut saepe summa ingenia in occulto latent!]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11963]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will be in the national light as a historic property in need of preservation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31497]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will be in the national light as a historic property in need of preservation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hind that would be mated by the lion Must die for love. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55714]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hind that would be mated by the lion Must die for love. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[October is a fine and dangerous season in America . . . a wonderful time to begin anything at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44900]]></link><description><![CDATA[October is a fine and dangerous season in America . . . a wonderful time to begin anything at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the rain it raineth every day. -Twelfth Night. Act v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55771]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the rain it raineth every day. -Twelfth Night. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a familiar beast to man, and signifies love. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55344]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a familiar beast to man, and signifies love. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've built crude supplies far in excess of what the market is expecting and that should weigh on prices. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28413]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've built crude supplies far in excess of what the market is expecting and that should weigh on prices.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A valiant mans looke is more then a cowards sword. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49082]]></link><description><![CDATA[A valiant mans looke is more then a cowards sword.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aerial spirits, by great Jove design'd To be on earth the guardians of mankind:  Invisible to mortal eyes they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Aerial spirits, by great Jove design'd To be on earth the guardians of mankind:  Invisible to mortal eyes they go,   And mark our actions, good or bad, below:    The immortal spies with watchful care preside,     And thrice ten thousand round their charges glide:      They can reward with glory or with gold,       A power they by Divine permission hold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Charles Simeon, Pastor, Teacher, 1836   The Church seems to have lost heart somewhat, has allowed the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7548]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Charles Simeon, Pastor, Teacher, 1836   The Church seems to have lost heart somewhat, has allowed the old assurance and enthusiasm to cool below the temperature at which big things get done, is always whimpering and complaining about something, has developed a foolish trick of gathering into corners in discouraged groups and bleating disconsolately that God seems to be strangely little in our day, the very mood that so maddened the Hebrew prophets that they itched to lay violent hands upon their countrymen, and literally shake it out of them. We Church people have become so prone to loud and abusive self-depreciation that the thing amounts to a disease... and though these doleful spirits are not altogether serious, the world is listening, and takes us, not unnaturally, at our own dismal and unflattering valuation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/516]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius is the recovery of childhood at will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65937]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a way, this election is the rebirth of Liberia. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28282]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a way, this election is the rebirth of Liberia.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The claim that Religious believers have a happier outlook on life than Religious skeptics is like saying a drunken man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32970]]></link><description><![CDATA[The claim that Religious believers have a happier outlook on life than Religious skeptics is like saying a drunken man is happier than a sober man. We should all value intellectual sobriety.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is the child of audacity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58148]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is the child of audacity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would seem to favor the community colleges, to the detriment of students who would prefer to attend a university. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42513]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would seem to favor the community colleges, to the detriment of students who would prefer to attend a university. Some kids are better served at community colleges, and some kids are better served at universities. That decision should be based on academic reasons, not economic reasons.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14540]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14540</guid></item></channel></rss>