<?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[Cricket is basically baseball on valium. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10629]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cricket is basically baseball on valium.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not going to get involved in the contractual details. I don't want to do that. One of the reasons ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30670]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not going to get involved in the contractual details. I don't want to do that. One of the reasons I came into the job was to get away from that sort of thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frigidity is desire imagined by a woman who doesn't desire the man offering himself to her. It's the desire of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17006]]></link><description><![CDATA[Frigidity is desire imagined by a woman who doesn't desire the man offering himself to her. It's the desire of a woman for a man who hasn't yet come to her, whom she doesn't yet know. She's faithful to this stranger even before she belongs to him. Frigidity is the non-desire for whatever is not him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Cock and the Jewel A COCK, scratching for food for himself and his hens, found a precious stone and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1514]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Cock and the Jewel A COCK, scratching for food for himself and his hens, found a precious stone and exclaimed: If your owner had found thee, and not I, he would have taken thee up, and have set thee in thy first estate; but I have found thee for no purpose. I would rather have one barleycorn than all the jewels in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many people treat their bodies as if they were rented from Hertz-something they are using to get around in but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4436]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many people treat their bodies as if they were rented from Hertz-something they are using to get around in but nothing they genuinely care about understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14486</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[My windows open to the autumn night, In vain I watched for sleep to visit me, How should sleep dull ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7969]]></link><description><![CDATA[My windows open to the autumn night, In vain I watched for sleep to visit me, How should sleep dull mine ears, and dim my sight, Who saw the stars, and listened to the sea? Ah, how the City of our God is fair! If, without sea, and starless though it be, For joy of the majestic beauty there, Men shall not miss the stars, nor mourn the sea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25759]]></link><description><![CDATA[How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace. I love thee to the level of everyday's Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light. I love thee freely, as men strive for Right; I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise. I love thee with the passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints, -I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise man struggling with adversity is said by some heathen writer to be a spectacle on which the gods ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/707]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise man struggling with adversity is said by some heathen writer to be a spectacle on which the gods might look down with pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all feel responsible to listen to the other three, ... We go by consensus. If we all agree, we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42110]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all feel responsible to listen to the other three, ... We go by consensus. If we all agree, we know it's good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25387]]></link><description><![CDATA[Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The now wherein God made the first man, and the now wherein the last man disappears, and the now I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8387]]></link><description><![CDATA[The now wherein God made the first man, and the now wherein the last man disappears, and the now I am speaking in, all are the same in God, where this is but the now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Babies are such a nice way to start people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3619]]></link><description><![CDATA[Babies are such a nice way to start people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22214]]></link><description><![CDATA[There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64643]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57621]]></link><description><![CDATA[You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4771]]></link><description><![CDATA[By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46354]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all of life's realities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27612]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53439]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a private conversation between myself and another elected official, and that's the end of it. We can work ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38122]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a private conversation between myself and another elected official, and that's the end of it. We can work on other issues.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, ifhe is to be ultimately at peace ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21379]]></link><description><![CDATA[A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, ifhe is to be ultimately at peace with himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's always a highlight of the year for our kids. It's a fun time. The weather should be good Monday ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32151]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's always a highlight of the year for our kids. It's a fun time. The weather should be good Monday through Thursday so the playing conditions should be good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have had three really good meetings and we are still visiting. There will be an announcement next week. That ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31712]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have had three really good meetings and we are still visiting. There will be an announcement next week. That was at my request because I want this recruiting class to get all of the attention it deserves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it. [Lat., Aspere facetiae, ubi ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23246]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it. [Lat., Aspere facetiae, ubi nimis ex vero traxere,  Acram sui memoriam relinquunt.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let God operate in thee; Hand the work over to Him and do not disquiet thyself as to whether or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let God operate in thee; Hand the work over to Him and do not disquiet thyself as to whether or no He is working with nature or above nature, for His are both nature and grace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Lucy, Martyr at Syracuse, 304 Commemoration of Samuel Johnson, Writer, Moralist, 1784  A student may easily exhaust ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Lucy, Martyr at Syracuse, 304 Commemoration of Samuel Johnson, Writer, Moralist, 1784  A student may easily exhaust his life in comparing divines and moralists without any practical regard to morals and religion; he may be learning not to live but to reason... while the chief use of his volumes is unthought of, his mind is unaffected, and his life is unreformed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For some, pleasure is a fever they can't shake. For others, it's a disease they cannot seem to catch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62899]]></link><description><![CDATA[For some, pleasure is a fever they can't shake. For others, it's a disease they cannot seem to catch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Augustus Muhlenberg of New York, Priest, 1877  Nobody seriously believes the universe was made by God ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8045]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Augustus Muhlenberg of New York, Priest, 1877  Nobody seriously believes the universe was made by God without being persuaded that He takes care of His works.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Respect yourself if you would have others respect you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am as frustrated with society as a pyromaniac in a petrified forest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17024]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am as frustrated with society as a pyromaniac in a petrified forest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you commit a crime, you're guilty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21549]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you commit a crime, you're guilty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's an honor for the organization, an honor for me and an honor for my family. It's nice for our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35769]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's an honor for the organization, an honor for me and an honor for my family. It's nice for our fans to get to enjoy having an All-Star that's representing their city.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not that it is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43134]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not that it is a pragmatic necessity for us to have it, but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, then is when we join the fashionable madmen, and then is when the thin whine of hysteria is heard in the land, and then is when we are in bad trouble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15243]]></link><description><![CDATA[This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us. -- Western Union internal memo, 1876.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it in full. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58218]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it in full.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shadows are in reality, when the sun is shining, the most conspicuous thing in a landscape, next to the highest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55298]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shadows are in reality, when the sun is shining, the most conspicuous thing in a landscape, next to the highest lights.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Necessity is the last and strongest weapon. [Lat., Necessitas ultimum et maximum telum est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44050]]></link><description><![CDATA[Necessity is the last and strongest weapon. [Lat., Necessitas ultimum et maximum telum est.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't understand your limitations you won't achieve much in your life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65268]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't understand your limitations you won't achieve much in your life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed. [Lat., Facito aliquid operis, ut semper ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed. [Lat., Facito aliquid operis, ut semper te diabolus inveniat occupatum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The history of every individual man should be a Bible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54916]]></link><description><![CDATA[The history of every individual man should be a Bible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The church has failed to follow her appointed pathway of separation, holiness, heavenliness and testimony to an absent but coming ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6339]]></link><description><![CDATA[The church has failed to follow her appointed pathway of separation, holiness, heavenliness and testimony to an absent but coming Christ; she has turned aside from that purpose to the work of civilizing the world, building magnificent temples, and acquiring earthly power and wealth, and, in this way, has ceased to follow in the footsteps of Him who had not where to lay His head.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1099]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mark did a good job managing the game and getting the ball where it needed to be. This type of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mark did a good job managing the game and getting the ball where it needed to be. This type of performance is what he can give us and what we need each and every night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2291]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23175]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27466]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27466</guid></item></channel></rss>