<?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[In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1216]]></link><description><![CDATA[In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest. - The Books in My Life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15033]]></link><description><![CDATA[The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful must take himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable, renascent errors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27465]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No woman wants an abortion as she wants an ice cream cone or a Porsche. She wants an abortion as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/126]]></link><description><![CDATA[No woman wants an abortion as she wants an ice cream cone or a Porsche. She wants an abortion as an animal caught in a trap wants to gnaw off its own leg.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63734]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None is borne Master. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49659]]></link><description><![CDATA[None is borne Master.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But truths on which depends our main concern, That 'tis our shame and misery not to learn,  Shine by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53005]]></link><description><![CDATA[But truths on which depends our main concern, That 'tis our shame and misery not to learn,  Shine by the side of every path we tread   With such a lustre he that runs may read.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I used to make original snowmen, but it was time consuming, hard work. So I said, heck, this is crazy! ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20567]]></link><description><![CDATA[I used to make original snowmen, but it was time consuming, hard work. So I said, heck, this is crazy! Now I crank out crude imitations of what's already popular! It takes no time or thought, and most people don't care about the difference, anyway! And what good is originality if you can't crank it out?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, woman, perfect woman! what distraction Was meant to mankind when thou wast made a devil!  What an inviting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61928]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, woman, perfect woman! what distraction Was meant to mankind when thou wast made a devil!  What an inviting hell invented.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a very bad crash. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34834]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a very bad crash.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Know and believe in yourself, and what others think won't disturb you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21714]]></link><description><![CDATA[Know and believe in yourself, and what others think won't disturb you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66401]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confidential. Do I want it back? Absolutely not. Obviously the sled works for her. Did it work for me? Yes, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40775]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confidential. Do I want it back? Absolutely not. Obviously the sled works for her. Did it work for me? Yes, it did. But I was looking for other options.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It wouldn’t be New Year’s if I didn’t have regrets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62720]]></link><description><![CDATA[It wouldn’t be New Year’s if I didn’t have regrets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Farmer and the StorkA farmer placed nets on his newly-sown plowlands and caught a number of Cranes, which came ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1526]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Farmer and the StorkA farmer placed nets on his newly-sown plowlands and caught a number of Cranes, which came to pick up his seed. With them he trapped a Stork that had fractured his leg in the net and was earnestly beseeching the Farmer to spare his life. Pray save me, Master, he said, and let me go free this once. My broken limb should excite your pity. Besides, I am no Crane, I am a Stork, a bird of excellent character; and see how I love and slave for my father and mother. Look too, at my feathers-- they are not the least like those of a Crane.  The Farmer laughed aloud and said, It may be all as you say, I only know this: I have taken you with these robbers, the Cranes, and you must die in their company. Birds of a feather flock together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45317]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then westward ho! Grace and good disposition attend your ladyship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then westward ho! Grace and good disposition attend your ladyship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8826]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow'd perhaps by a smile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58794]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow'd perhaps by a smile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All gold and silver rather turn to dirt, An 'tis no better reckoned but of these  Who worship dirty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61423]]></link><description><![CDATA[All gold and silver rather turn to dirt, An 'tis no better reckoned but of these  Who worship dirty gods.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between a divorce and a legal separation is that a legal separation gives a husband time to hide ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55188]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between a divorce and a legal separation is that a legal separation gives a husband time to hide his money]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One may be humble out of pride. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20027]]></link><description><![CDATA[One may be humble out of pride.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sure, we got a couple lucky bounces at the end of the game, but we had to put ourselves in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sure, we got a couple lucky bounces at the end of the game, but we had to put ourselves in a position to take advantage of them. We never would have been there if we hadn't awoken from the funk we were in at the start.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scientists tell us that the fastest animal on earth, with a top speed of 120 ft/sec, is a cow that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57048]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scientists tell us that the fastest animal on earth, with a top speed of 120 ft/sec, is a cow that has been dropped out of a helicopter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4759]]></link><description><![CDATA[A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every theory of love, from Plato down teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27185]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every theory of love, from Plato down teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25278]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To get thine ends, lay bashfulnesse aside; Who fears to aske, doth teach to be deny'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3924]]></link><description><![CDATA[To get thine ends, lay bashfulnesse aside; Who fears to aske, doth teach to be deny'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never knew what real happiness was until I got married. And by then it was too late. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26423]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never knew what real happiness was until I got married. And by then it was too late.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we keep building mixed-use projects that have retail on the ground floor, every new chunk of retail takes away ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36386]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we keep building mixed-use projects that have retail on the ground floor, every new chunk of retail takes away from the demand potential that exists for City Center. We have to cut that out because if you go that way, it's like death by a thousand cuts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We believe we can get to the final. Paradoxically losing 1-0 in the first leg will help us play with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31003]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe we can get to the final. Paradoxically losing 1-0 in the first leg will help us play with greater freedom and relaxation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though sympathizing with the revolutionaries' analysis of what was wrong with society and in fact being mistaken for a revolutionary ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6323]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though sympathizing with the revolutionaries' analysis of what was wrong with society and in fact being mistaken for a revolutionary himself by the political authorities of his day, nevertheless Jesus did not advocate a new political regime to be established by force through revolutionary action. He called for the love of our enemies, not their destruction; ... for readiness to suffer instead of using force; for forgiveness instead of hate and revenge. One might even say [that] Jesus was more revolutionary than the revolutionaries, or revolutionary in a very different way. The revolution he had in mind was a radical change of heart on the part of mankind, involving conversion away from selfishness and toward the willing service of God and of people in general.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is the whole trouble with being a heretic. One usually must think out everything for oneself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56989]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is the whole trouble with being a heretic. One usually must think out everything for oneself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The force of truth that a statement imparts, then, its prominence among the hordes of recorded observations that I may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2131]]></link><description><![CDATA[The force of truth that a statement imparts, then, its prominence among the hordes of recorded observations that I may optionally apply to my own life, depends, in addition to the sense that it is argumentatively defensible, on the sense that someone like me, and someone I like, whose voice is audible and who is at least notionally in the same room with me, does or can possibly hold it to be compellingly true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2131</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[If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18835]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes he caught himself listening to the sound of his own voice. He thought that in her eyes he would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes he caught himself listening to the sound of his own voice. He thought that in her eyes he would ascent to an angelical stature; and, as he attached the fervent nature of his companion more and more closely to him, he heard the strange impersonal voice which he recognised as his own, insisting on the soul's incurable lonliness. We cannot give ourselves, it said: we are our own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In teaching the medical student the primary requisite is to keep him awake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27606]]></link><description><![CDATA[In teaching the medical student the primary requisite is to keep him awake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the psychological point of view, the self-asserting emotions, derived from emergency reactions, involve a narrowing of consciousness; the participatory ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52007]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the psychological point of view, the self-asserting emotions, derived from emergency reactions, involve a narrowing of consciousness; the participatory emotions an expansion of consciousness by identificatory processes of various kinds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing. -George Bernard Shaw. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16552]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing. -George Bernard Shaw.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have great faith in fools--self-confidence my friends call it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9707]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have great faith in fools--self-confidence my friends call it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51186]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that's laughable is vanity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60404]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that's laughable is vanity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There have always been two kinds of Christianity -- man's and Christ's. Does anyone today remember how the emperor Constantine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7826]]></link><description><![CDATA[There have always been two kinds of Christianity -- man's and Christ's. Does anyone today remember how the emperor Constantine made Christianity the official religion? It is said that he had a vision -- saw a cross in the sky with the inscription, "In this sign shalt thou conquer." He accepted the new faith promptly, because he thought it would defeat his enemies for him. That is man's Christianity, a means to earthly triumph. And in our present crisis we are appealing to it to defeat the Russians for us. We hear of the life-and-death struggle between Christianity and Communism, the necessity of "keeping God alive as a social force" -- as if our Lord could not survive a Soviet victory! It is a poor sort of faith that imagines Christ defeated by anything men can do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rabbi Zusya said that on the Day of Judgment, God would ask him, not why he had not been Moses, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rabbi Zusya said that on the Day of Judgment, God would ask him, not why he had not been Moses, but why he had not been Zusya.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35529]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63440]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43581]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5946]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I see myself as an intelligent, sensitive human, with the soul of a clown which forces me to blow it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8926]]></link><description><![CDATA[I see myself as an intelligent, sensitive human, with the soul of a clown which forces me to blow it at the most important moments.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8926</guid></item></channel></rss>