<?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[I figured maybe it was some sort of a surprise celebration for our new Teacher of the Year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29046]]></link><description><![CDATA[I figured maybe it was some sort of a surprise celebration for our new Teacher of the Year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . the great thing to learn about life is, first, not to do what you don't want to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41508]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . the great thing to learn about life is, first, not to do what you don't want to do, and, second, to do what you do want to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's special, especially in a team sport. It took a team effort to win. We weren't looking at this game ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31513]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's special, especially in a team sport. It took a team effort to win. We weren't looking at this game as his 300th win, we just looked at it as our first game of the season.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56633]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My heart that was rapt away by the wild cherry blossoms -- will it return to my body when they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3869]]></link><description><![CDATA[My heart that was rapt away by the wild cherry blossoms -- will it return to my body when they scatter?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Traveling is no fool's errand to him who carries his eyes and itinerary along with him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59607]]></link><description><![CDATA[Traveling is no fool's errand to him who carries his eyes and itinerary along with him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the devil drives, needs must. (Needs must when the devil drives.) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12147]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the devil drives, needs must. (Needs must when the devil drives.)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In isolated societies creeds can be preserved. It is where people of different traditions, outlook and creeds mingle freely and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53594]]></link><description><![CDATA[In isolated societies creeds can be preserved. It is where people of different traditions, outlook and creeds mingle freely and exchange ideas that religious beliefs begin to be eroded. No one changes his beliefs without some instigation, some novel experience, some modification of the customary course of things, and in a closed society people believe what all their fellows obviously believe. Only when they are brought into contact with persons whom they respect holding different views do they begin to look at their inherited beliefs critically.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History: An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65959]]></link><description><![CDATA[History: An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59895]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38666]]></link><description><![CDATA[The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61757]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Charity: a thing that begins at home, and usually stays there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Charity: a thing that begins at home, and usually stays there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good prayer is master of anothers purse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49031]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good prayer is master of anothers purse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I went to the copy machine, the medal went to the copy machine, too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35436]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I went to the copy machine, the medal went to the copy machine, too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51934]]></link><description><![CDATA[For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor. [Lat., Mutos enim nasci, et egere omni ratione satius fuisset, quam providentiae munera in mutuam perniciem convertere.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20281]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59318]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sacrifice, contrary to much popular opinion, was not to the Hebrew some crude, temporary and merely typical institution, nor simply ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8428]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sacrifice, contrary to much popular opinion, was not to the Hebrew some crude, temporary and merely typical institution, nor simply a substitute for that dispensation until better things were to be provided later. Sacrifice was then the only sufficient means of remaining in harmonious relation to God. No Hebrew dared neglect this obligation. It was adequate for the period in which God intended it should serve. This is not the same as saying, however, that Levitical sacrifice was on an equal with the sacrifice of Christ, nor that the blood of bulls and goats could, from God's side, take away sins; but it is recognizing the reality of the divine institution of Mosaic worship, and looking, as too often Old Testament interpreters fail to do, at sacrifice and priestly ritual from the viewpoint of the Hebrew in the Old Testament dispensation. Sacrifice, to the pious Hebrew, was not something insignificant, nor simply a perfunctory ritual, but it was an important element in his moral obedience to the revealed will of God. Sacrifice was by its very nature, which involved faith and repentance on the part of the worshiper and the putting to death of his substitute victim; intensely personal, ethical, moral, and spiritual, because it was intended to reflect the attitude of the heart and will toward God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life, to be thankful for a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27046]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life, to be thankful for a good one]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22085]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bit that one eates, no friend makes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49805]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bit that one eates, no friend makes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33589]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58144]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. •George S. Patton  Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful. •Benjamin Disraeli  Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. •William Feather  All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure. •Mark Twain  The reward of a thing well done is having done it. •Ralph Waldo Emerson  It takes time to succeed because success is merely the natural reward of taking time to do anything well. •Joseph Ross  Success is getting what you want, and happiness is wanting what you get. •Dave Gardner  If at first you don't succeed, assassinate everyone who knows you failed. •Anonymous  The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success. •Elbert Hubbard  Success is determined by those whom prove the impossible, possible. •James W. Pence   The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. •Vince Lombardi  or •Donald Kendall  The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Irving Berlin  The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed. •Nelson Boswell  The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made. •Jean Giraudoux  I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. •Bill Cosby  Why be a man when you can be a success? •Bertold Brecht  For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. •Richard Feynman  Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18097]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58191]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Necessity is the mother of invention, it is true -- but it's father is creativity, and knowledge is the midwife. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44068]]></link><description><![CDATA[Necessity is the mother of invention, it is true -- but it's father is creativity, and knowledge is the midwife.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can you picture my prophecy? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52964]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can you picture my prophecy?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and of our miseries. A marriage of love is pleasant, of interest, easy, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and of our miseries. A marriage of love is pleasant, of interest, easy, and where both meet, happy. A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendship, all the enjoyments of sense and reason, and,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would be pure speculation at this point to say anything about the cause of the accident. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36629]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would be pure speculation at this point to say anything about the cause of the accident.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45643]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth it's spark.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The stately Homes of England, How beautiful they stand!  Amidst their tall ancestral trees,   O'er all the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19627]]></link><description><![CDATA[The stately Homes of England, How beautiful they stand!  Amidst their tall ancestral trees,   O'er all the pleasant land.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labour of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18006]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labour of the industrious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody ever died of laughter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20111]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody ever died of laughter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every month when my check came we would do one nice thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30359]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every month when my check came we would do one nice thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...democracy can be interpreted to assert not only equality before the law but also essentialistic identity in all respects. This ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47578]]></link><description><![CDATA[...democracy can be interpreted to assert not only equality before the law but also essentialistic identity in all respects. This is expressed in the claim, "All men are created equal," which is something very different from the statement, "All men have equal rights and are equal before the law." Anyone who believes in the genetic uniqueness of every individual thereby believes in the conclusion, "No two individuals are created equal.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware the fury of a patient man. -John Dryden. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2589]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware the fury of a patient man. -John Dryden.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rapport? You mean like, 'You run as fast as you can, and I'll throw it as far as I can'? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52976]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rapport? You mean like, 'You run as fast as you can, and I'll throw it as far as I can'?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[School and education should not be confused; it is only school that can be made easy ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54775]]></link><description><![CDATA[School and education should not be confused; it is only school that can be made easy]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wish on everything. Pink cars are good, especially old ones. And stars of course, first stars and shooting stars. Planes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10924]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wish on everything. Pink cars are good, especially old ones. And stars of course, first stars and shooting stars. Planes will do if they are the first light in the sky and look like stars. Wish in tunnels, holding your breath and lifting your feet off the ground. Birthday candles. Baby teeth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every one thinkes his sacke heaviest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49223]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every one thinkes his sacke heaviest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right now it's just the evaluation process. I have a very supportive family who would like to see me coach ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37640]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right now it's just the evaluation process. I have a very supportive family who would like to see me coach again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63877]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How fading are the joys we dote upon! Like apparitions seen and gone;  But those which soonest take their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23433]]></link><description><![CDATA[How fading are the joys we dote upon! Like apparitions seen and gone;  But those which soonest take their flight   Are the most exquisite and strong;    Like angel's visits short and bright,     Mortality's too weak to bear them long.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let those love now, who never loved before, Let those who always loved, now love the more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50819]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let those love now, who never loved before, Let those who always loved, now love the more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hard beginning maketh a good ending. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3975]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hard beginning maketh a good ending.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Evelyn Underhill, Mystical Writer, 1941  As the Christian life in the individual is the work of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Evelyn Underhill, Mystical Writer, 1941  As the Christian life in the individual is the work of the Spirit, it follows that the corporate realization of that life, in the Church built upon the foundation of apostles and prophets, is also His creation... The great creative acts and significant turning-points were recognized, either by the Church or by its historian, as determined by the Spirit. The Spirit confirmed and preserved the community from the outset, by the descent at Pentecost (Acts 2:4). The extension of the Gospel beyond Judea and the first mission to the Gentiles were commanded and approved by the Spirit (Acts 8:29, 10:19, 44, 13:2, 4). Paul, on his journeys, was led by the Spirit (Acts 16:6, 7). He himself was especially conscious that his whole ministry was inspired by the Holy Ghost (Rom. 15:18,19). All the apostles were conspicuously men of the Spirit. (Continued tomorrow).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches the luxury of health. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45392]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches the luxury of health.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Agnes, Child Martyr at Rome, 304  A Christian man is most free lord of all, and subject ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8302]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Agnes, Child Martyr at Rome, 304  A Christian man is most free lord of all, and subject to none; a Christian man is the most dutiful servant of all, and subject to everyone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8302</guid></item></channel></rss>