<?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[You can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my ex-wives. Both of them are so rich ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57482]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my ex-wives. Both of them are so rich that neither of their husbands work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like life. It's something to do. Somewhere on this globe every 10 seconds there is a woman giving birth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24901]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like life. It's something to do. Somewhere on this globe every 10 seconds there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64773]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54854]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny....']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No more prizes for predicting rain. Prizes only for building arks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46666]]></link><description><![CDATA[No more prizes for predicting rain. Prizes only for building arks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can really make jelly out of anything if you have enough sugar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39273]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can really make jelly out of anything if you have enough sugar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And circumstance, that unspiritual god, And miscreator, makes and helps along  Our coming evils, with a critch-like rod,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8701]]></link><description><![CDATA[And circumstance, that unspiritual god, And miscreator, makes and helps along  Our coming evils, with a critch-like rod,   Whose touch turns hope to dust--the dust we all have trod.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64770]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't beat about the bush. Blair was a negative factor on the doorstep, time and time and time again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38874]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't beat about the bush. Blair was a negative factor on the doorstep, time and time and time again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was dehydrated. He's been on his feet all day just like everybody else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40483]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was dehydrated. He's been on his feet all day just like everybody else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45360]]></link><description><![CDATA[The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ones that are lost will probably be lost for good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35452]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ones that are lost will probably be lost for good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35452</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[Going in, I knew I wasn't one of the top ones, because I didn't even make the pre-season All-American team. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Going in, I knew I wasn't one of the top ones, because I didn't even make the pre-season All-American team. That shows you what people thought of me right there, so I knew I had to go to work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[FINANCE, n. The art or science of managing revenues and resources for the best advantage of the manager. The pronunciation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15678]]></link><description><![CDATA[FINANCE, n. The art or science of managing revenues and resources for the best advantage of the manager. The pronunciation of this word with the i long and the accent on the first syllable is one of America's most precious discoveries and possessions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15579]]></link><description><![CDATA[Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22586]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age. He can only get a vision of the unselfish forces in the world by appealing to them, and every appeal is a call to arms. If he fights he must fight, not one man, but a conspiracy. He is always at war with a civilization. On his side is proverbial philosophy, a galaxy of invisible saints and sages, and the half-developed consciousness and professions of everybody. Against him is the world, and every selfish passion in his own heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44336]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Questions show the mind's range, and answers its subtlety. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52786]]></link><description><![CDATA[Questions show the mind's range, and answers its subtlety.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Conob Indians of northern Guatemala... describe love as "my soul dies." Love is such that, without experiencing the joy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6400]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Conob Indians of northern Guatemala... describe love as "my soul dies." Love is such that, without experiencing the joy of union with the object of our love, there is a real sense in which "the soul dies." A man who loves God according to the Conob idiom would say "my soul dies for God." This not only describes the powerful emotion felt by the one who loves, but it should imply a related truth -- namely, that in true love there is no room for self. The man who loves God must die to self. True love is, of all emotions, the most unselfish, for it does not look out for self but for others. False love seeks to possess; true love seeks to be possessed. False love leads to cancerous jealousy; true love leads to a life-giving ministry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In solitude, when we are least alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57166]]></link><description><![CDATA[In solitude, when we are least alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When television is good, nothing is better. But when television is bad, nothing is worse. I invite you to sit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58835]]></link><description><![CDATA[When television is good, nothing is better. But when television is bad, nothing is worse. I invite you to sit down in front of your TV set and keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that you will observe a vast wasteland.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hardest people to reach with the love of God are not the bad people. They know they are bad. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31374]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hardest people to reach with the love of God are not the bad people. They know they are bad. They have no defense. The hardest ones to win for God are the self-righteous people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman that is like a German clock, Still a-repairing, ever out of frame,  And never going aright, being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23267]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman that is like a German clock, Still a-repairing, ever out of frame,  And never going aright, being a watch,   But being watched that it may still go right!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Macbeth:) Here's our chief guest. (Lady Macbeth:) If he had been forgotten,  It had been as a gap in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18432]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Macbeth:) Here's our chief guest. (Lady Macbeth:) If he had been forgotten,  It had been as a gap in our great feast,   And all-thing unbecoming.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43857]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They had some fantastic swimmers in the 400 free and we were tired. The adrenaline flow was so heavy early ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39250]]></link><description><![CDATA[They had some fantastic swimmers in the 400 free and we were tired. The adrenaline flow was so heavy early and by the end it was a struggle. It was a very draining meet in terms of emotion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mostly I am sorry for the way I thought of other people. Like a good general, I had treated everyone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40596]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mostly I am sorry for the way I thought of other people. Like a good general, I had treated everyone who wasn't with me as against me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I did not expect to hear that it could be, in an assembly convened for the propagation of Christian knowledge, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7956]]></link><description><![CDATA[I did not expect to hear that it could be, in an assembly convened for the propagation of Christian knowledge, a question whether any nation uninstructed in religion should receive instruction; or whether that, instruction should be imparted to them by a translation of the holy-books into their own language. If obedience to the will of GOD be necessary to happiness, and knowledge of his will be necessary to obedience, I know not how he that withholds this knowledge, or delays it, can be said to love his neighbour as himself. He, that voluntarily continues ignorance, is guilty of all the crimes which ignorance produces; as to him that should extinguish the tapers of a light-house, might justly be imputed the calamities of shipwrecks. (Continued tomorrow)   ... a letter from Samuel Johnson to William Drummond of Edinburgh, 1766  July 13, 2002   Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity; and as no man is good but as he wishes the good of others, so no man can be good in the highest degree, who wishes not to others the largest measures of the greatest good. To omit for a year, or for a day, the most efficacious method of advancing Christianity [i.e., the Bible], in compliance with any purposes that terminate this side of the grave, is a crime [the like] of which I know not that the world has yet had an example.   ... a letter from Samuel Johnson to William Drummond of Edinburgh, 1766  July 14, 2002 Feast of John Keble, Priest, Poet, Tractarian, 1866   The "good" man, the man whose god is righteousness, has as his life's ambition the keeping of rules and commandments and the keeping of himself uncontaminated by the world. This sounds admirable; but, as the truth of Christ showed, the whole of such living, the whole drive and ambition, the whole edifice, is self-centered. That entire process of effort must be abandoned if a man is to give himself in love to God and his fellows. He must lose his life if he is ever going to find it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[mayor of Capitol Hill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36851]]></link><description><![CDATA[mayor of Capitol Hill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Up springs the lark, Shrill-voiced, and loud, the messenger of morn;  Ere yet the shadows fly, he mounted sings ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24111]]></link><description><![CDATA[Up springs the lark, Shrill-voiced, and loud, the messenger of morn;  Ere yet the shadows fly, he mounted sings   Amid the dawning clouds, and from their haunts    Calls up the tuneful nations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63181]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah! were I sever'd from thy side, Where were thy friend and who my guide?  Years have not seen, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah! were I sever'd from thy side, Where were thy friend and who my guide?  Years have not seen, Time shall not see   The hour that tears my soul from thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58576]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Willie's a good guy. He's a tough competitor on the field. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30640]]></link><description><![CDATA[Willie's a good guy. He's a tough competitor on the field.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Safe in a ditch he bides, With twenty trenched gashes on his head,  The least a death to nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62368]]></link><description><![CDATA[Safe in a ditch he bides, With twenty trenched gashes on his head,  The least a death to nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Americans say they brought democracy -- yes, we have democracy, but on paper, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36677]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Americans say they brought democracy -- yes, we have democracy, but on paper,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27166]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They knocked out the roof in three hours. They knew what they were doing. That's God's miracle; he filled the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30024]]></link><description><![CDATA[They knocked out the roof in three hours. They knew what they were doing. That's God's miracle; he filled the need.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is better for the environment than the standard diesel we're using. And the second thing to consider is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31272]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is better for the environment than the standard diesel we're using. And the second thing to consider is the cost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spiritual writer, 1893  Orthodoxy is, in the Church, very much what prejudice ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spiritual writer, 1893  Orthodoxy is, in the Church, very much what prejudice is in the single mind. It is the premature conceit of certainty. It is the treatment of the imperfect as if it were the perfect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19681]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33583]]></link><description><![CDATA[A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is always in season for old men to learn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1439]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is always in season for old men to learn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence  Wielded at will that fierce democratie,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45240]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence  Wielded at will that fierce democratie,   Shook the Arsenal, and fulmined over Greece,    To Macedon, and Artaxerxes' throne.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If someone someday in this country Decides to raise a memorial to me, I give my consent to this festivity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29397]]></link><description><![CDATA[If someone someday in this country Decides to raise a memorial to me, I give my consent to this festivity But only on this condition - do not build it By the sea where I was born, I have severed my last ties with the sea...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For us, murder is once for all forbidden... It makes no difference whether one take away the life once born, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6698]]></link><description><![CDATA[For us, murder is once for all forbidden... It makes no difference whether one take away the life once born, or destroy it as it comes to birth. He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not only is life too short, it has acne and looks geeky in gym clothes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66351]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not only is life too short, it has acne and looks geeky in gym clothes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66351</guid></item></channel></rss>