<?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[The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43708]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Benedict of Nursia, Father of Western Monasticism, c.550  It might help us in our thinking if we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8261]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Benedict of Nursia, Father of Western Monasticism, c.550  It might help us in our thinking if we drew a distinction between preaching, which the New Testament talks about as a continuing activity in society at large, and sermonising, which we have made into a special activity in the church premises... A great many people sermonising in our churches today would be better off and of greater service if they absolved themselves from the bondage and disciplines of the pulpit and came down among their congregations, teaching informally on sounder educational principles. After all, the vital matter in the ministry of the Word is not that a clergyman delivers himself of a discourse but that the people to whom he ministers end up being taught something. The tragedy is that the professional clergy have been trained to sermonise and they seem overwhelmed with fears and a sense of insecurity when they contemplate other methods. A further problem, of course, is that most of our churches contain a significant number of people who become emotionally disturbed at any departure from what they have always done in the past. To them, the sermon is part of their Christianity -- even if it bores them stiff!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Amy Carmichael, Founder of the Dohnavour Fellowship, 1951  To the dim and bewildered vision of humanity, God's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8149]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Amy Carmichael, Founder of the Dohnavour Fellowship, 1951  To the dim and bewildered vision of humanity, God's care is more evident in some instances than in others; and upon such instances men seize, and call them providences. It is well that they can; but it would be gloriously better if they could believe that the whole matter is one grand providence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64913]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Tennessee Titans played in Memphis until their stadium was ready in Nashville. The Carolina Panthers played in South Carolina ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36019]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Tennessee Titans played in Memphis until their stadium was ready in Nashville. The Carolina Panthers played in South Carolina at Clemson before moving to Charlotte, N.C. We're not looking that far ahead, but it's a possibility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1446]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This Tharsus, o'er which I have the government, A city on whom Plenty held full hand,  For Riches strewed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11843]]></link><description><![CDATA[This Tharsus, o'er which I have the government, A city on whom Plenty held full hand,  For Riches strewed herself even in her streets;   Whose towers bore heads so high they kissed the clouds,    And strangers ne'er beheld but wond'red at;     Whose men and dames so jetted and adorned,      Like one another's glass to trim them by;       Their tables were stored full, to glad the sight,        And not so much to feed on as delight;         All poverty was scorned, and pride so great          The name of help grew odious to repeat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most history is a record of the triumphs, disasters, and follies of top people. The black hole in it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19357]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most history is a record of the triumphs, disasters, and follies of top people. The black hole in it is the way of life of mute, inglorious men and women who make no nuisance of themselves in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lo! body and soul!--this land! Mighty Manhattan, with spires, and  The sparkling and hurrying tides, and the ships;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44445]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lo! body and soul!--this land! Mighty Manhattan, with spires, and  The sparkling and hurrying tides, and the ships;   The varied and ample land,--the South    And the North in the light--Ohio's shores, and flashing Missouri,     And ever the far-spreading prairies, covered with grass and corn.   - Walt Whitman,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're in a Manhattan building with 30 apartments that's one thing. But if you're the guy who parks your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39331]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're in a Manhattan building with 30 apartments that's one thing. But if you're the guy who parks your car in front of a suburban house in the middle of the night and you've got the screen from your laptop glowing, well...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Bergundy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39259]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Bergundy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Restive horses must be roughly dealt with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51018]]></link><description><![CDATA[Restive horses must be roughly dealt with.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think homosexuality is a choice. Society forces you to think it's a choice, but in fact, it's in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19652]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think homosexuality is a choice. Society forces you to think it's a choice, but in fact, it's in one's nature. The choice is whether one expresses one's nature truthfully or spends the rest of one's life lying about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In climes beyond the solar road. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58290]]></link><description><![CDATA[In climes beyond the solar road.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women complain about premenstrual syndrome, but I think of it as the only time of the month I can be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26895]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women complain about premenstrual syndrome, but I think of it as the only time of the month I can be myself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Society is like a lawn where every roughness is smoothed, every bramble eradicated, and where the eye is delighted by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57002]]></link><description><![CDATA[Society is like a lawn where every roughness is smoothed, every bramble eradicated, and where the eye is delighted by the smiling verdure of a velvet surface.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23091]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66691]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11623]]></link><description><![CDATA[One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of government, at least in democratic states, it may be said briefly that it is an agency engaged wholesale, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47501]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of government, at least in democratic states, it may be said briefly that it is an agency engaged wholesale, and as a matter of solemn duty, in the performance of acts which all self-respecting individuals refrain from as a matter of common decency.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!  Thou art ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43400]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!  Thou art the ruins of the noblest man   That ever lived in the tide of times.    Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He jests at scars that never felt a wound. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51470]]></link><description><![CDATA[He jests at scars that never felt a wound.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we asked for was to be kept whole basically. And to make up for the revenue that we would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42720]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we asked for was to be kept whole basically. And to make up for the revenue that we would have made had the ships been operated. And to pay for the expense of canceling 100,000 people and protecting travel agent commissions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambiguity in directors is a hard thing to deal with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64606]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambiguity in directors is a hard thing to deal with.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When mental energy is allowed to follow the line of least resistance and to fall into easy channels, it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37023]]></link><description><![CDATA[When mental energy is allowed to follow the line of least resistance and to fall into easy channels, it is called weakness]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education: A debt due from present to future generations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13496]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education: A debt due from present to future generations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When something is as remarkable as 'The Sopranos,' our audience would like to see it continue as long as possible, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31563]]></link><description><![CDATA[When something is as remarkable as 'The Sopranos,' our audience would like to see it continue as long as possible, so we are thrilled that David Chase felt there are more stories to be told,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47155]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is not that of the man who is taken unprepared, but of him who has prepared and is never taken. On a tragedy of that kind our national morality is duly silent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, while you live, tell truth, and shame the devil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51302]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, while you live, tell truth, and shame the devil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've got a strong urge to fly. But I got nowhere to fly to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15478]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've got a strong urge to fly. But I got nowhere to fly to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Splitting up the portfolio is more than an accounting measure. I've handled cases where the portfolios were really diverse. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35350]]></link><description><![CDATA[Splitting up the portfolio is more than an accounting measure. I've handled cases where the portfolios were really diverse. If I hadn't stepped in, the wife would have been stuck with capital gains that she had no clue about.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10486]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64261]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ill blows the wind that profits nobody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ill blows the wind that profits nobody.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64034]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're a young Mafia gangster out on your first date, I bet it's real embarrassing if someone tries to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11720]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're a young Mafia gangster out on your first date, I bet it's real embarrassing if someone tries to kill you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man,--whose heaven-erected face The smiles of love adorn,--  Man's inhumanity to man   Makes countless thousands mourn! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26264]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man,--whose heaven-erected face The smiles of love adorn,--  Man's inhumanity to man   Makes countless thousands mourn!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45818]]></link><description><![CDATA[You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing from my personal experiences with him would ever have led me to question his integrity, his morals, his honesty. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28826]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing from my personal experiences with him would ever have led me to question his integrity, his morals, his honesty. He was always regarded as someone with real integrity and somebody with a keen moral compass.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65632]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It never seems to occur to some people, that, like beauty, a sense of humor may sometimes be fatal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65113]]></link><description><![CDATA[It never seems to occur to some people, that, like beauty, a sense of humor may sometimes be fatal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Straight is the line of duty; Curved is the line of beauty;  Follow the straight line, thou shalt see ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13062]]></link><description><![CDATA[Straight is the line of duty; Curved is the line of beauty;  Follow the straight line, thou shalt see   The curved line ever follow thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A smile starts on the lips, A grin spreads to the eyes, A chuckle comes from the belly; But a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56653]]></link><description><![CDATA[A smile starts on the lips, A grin spreads to the eyes, A chuckle comes from the belly; But a good laugh bursts forth from the soul, Overflows, and bubbles all around]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16994]]></link><description><![CDATA[The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Know then, whatever cheerful and serene Supports the mind, supports the body too:  Hence, the most vital movement mortals ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19757]]></link><description><![CDATA[Know then, whatever cheerful and serene Supports the mind, supports the body too:  Hence, the most vital movement mortals feel   Is hope, the balm and lifeblood of the soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be;  Or standing long an oak, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18386]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be;  Or standing long an oak, three hundred year,   To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere:    A lily of a day     Is fairer far in May,      Although it falls and die that night--       It was the plant and flower of Light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18386</guid></item></channel></rss>