<?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[Frederick Buechner,'Whistling in the Dark' When a child is born, a father is born. A mother is born, too of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45524]]></link><description><![CDATA[Frederick Buechner,'Whistling in the Dark' When a child is born, a father is born. A mother is born, too of course, but at least for her it's a gradual process. Body and soul, she has nine months to get used to what's happening. She becomes what's happening. But for even the best-prepared father, it happens all at once. On the other side of a plate-glass window, a nurse is holding up something roughly the size of a loaf of bread for him to see for the first time. Even if he should decide to abandon it forever ten minutes later, the memory will nag him to the grave. He has seen the creation of the world. It has his mark on it. He has its mark on him. Both marks are, for better or for worse, indelible. All sons, like all daughters, are prodigals if they're smart. Assuming the Old Man doesn't run out on them first, they will run out on him if they are to survive, and if he's smart he won't put up too much of a fuss. A wise father sees all this coming, and maybe that's why he keeps his distance from the start. He must survive too. Whether they ever find their way home again, none can say for sure, but it's the risk he must take if they're ever to find their way at all. In the meantime, the world tends to have a soft spot in its heart for lost children. Lost fathers have to fend for themselves. Even as the father lays down the law, he knows that someday his children will break it as they need to break it if ever they're to find something better than law to replace it. Until and unless that happens, there's no telling the scrapes they will get into trying to lose him and find themselves. Terrible blnders will be made-dissapointments and failures, hurts and losses of every kind. And they'll keep making them even after they've found themselves too, of course, because growing up is a process that goes on and on. And every hard knock they ever get, knocks the father even harder still, if that's possible, and if and when they finally come through more or less in one piece at the end, there's maybe no rejoicing greater than his in all creation. -Fatherhood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Preferment goes by letter and affection. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6074]]></link><description><![CDATA[Preferment goes by letter and affection.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was one of those deals where they had to spend it on somebody by Oct. 1 or give it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32074]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was one of those deals where they had to spend it on somebody by Oct. 1 or give it back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The point to remember is that what the Government gives it must first take away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18025]]></link><description><![CDATA[The point to remember is that what the Government gives it must first take away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20946]]></link><description><![CDATA[The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild harmless, rather ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SAP is the clear market leader in the U.S. Acquisitions won't be able to change that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40616]]></link><description><![CDATA[SAP is the clear market leader in the U.S. Acquisitions won't be able to change that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got to sing like you don't need the money. You've got to love like you'll never get hurt. You've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22315]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to sing like you don't need the money. You've got to love like you'll never get hurt. You've got to dance like there's nobody watching. You've got to come from the heart, if you want it to work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't run around, because that's when the seams are there and the holes are there. The tighter you can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40024]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't run around, because that's when the seams are there and the holes are there. The tighter you can stay, the more you can make them move it around and maybe take a shot they don't want to take, the better you're doing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The spirit or life spark which animates this manifestation could be called God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63959]]></link><description><![CDATA[The spirit or life spark which animates this manifestation could be called God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64946]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So when two dogs are fighting in the streets, When a third dog one of the two dogs meets:  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9963]]></link><description><![CDATA[So when two dogs are fighting in the streets, When a third dog one of the two dogs meets:  With angry teeth he bites him to the bone,   And this dog smarts for what that dog has done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63749]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a friendship set to music. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a friendship set to music.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[-Cel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55630]]></link><description><![CDATA[-Cel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From their folded mates they wander far, Their ways seem harsh and wild:  They follow the beck of a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5640]]></link><description><![CDATA[From their folded mates they wander far, Their ways seem harsh and wild:  They follow the beck of a baleful star,   Their paths are dream-beguiled.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is . . . sometimes easier to head an institute for the study of child guidance than it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18453]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is . . . sometimes easier to head an institute for the study of child guidance than it is to turn one brat into a decent human being.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whence is that knocking? How is't with me, when every noise appals me? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51382]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whence is that knocking? How is't with me, when every noise appals me?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They (Penn-Trafford) did everything perfect until the final three minutes. They really didn't deserve to lose this game. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32451]]></link><description><![CDATA[They (Penn-Trafford) did everything perfect until the final three minutes. They really didn't deserve to lose this game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thank God, ... I was more than 99 percent certain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35820]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thank God, ... I was more than 99 percent certain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To deceive ones selfe is very easie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50002]]></link><description><![CDATA[To deceive ones selfe is very easie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a designer, you have to solve a lot of problems. Even though people are wearing clothes that are supposed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32084]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a designer, you have to solve a lot of problems. Even though people are wearing clothes that are supposed to look beautiful, they'll have to do all kinds of things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We kind of got called out in our defensive-line meeting, ... They said that we're getting pressure, but we're not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37272]]></link><description><![CDATA[We kind of got called out in our defensive-line meeting, ... They said that we're getting pressure, but we're not putting the quarterback down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43466]]></link><description><![CDATA[I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt like de Kooning, who was asked to comment on a certain abstract painting, and answered in the negative. He was then told it was the work of a celebrated monkey. 'That's different. For a monkey, it's terrific.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the long run, the pessimist may be proven right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46434]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the long run, the pessimist may be proven right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62068]]></link><description><![CDATA[All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled hearing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It appears that radiation and winds from the massive star triggered new stars to form. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40970]]></link><description><![CDATA[It appears that radiation and winds from the massive star triggered new stars to form.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All currency is neurotic currency. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15826]]></link><description><![CDATA[All currency is neurotic currency.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace is the gift of God. Do you want peace? Go to God. Do you want peace in four families? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45902]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace is the gift of God. Do you want peace? Go to God. Do you want peace in four families? Go to God. Do you want peace to brood over your families? If you do, live your religion, and the very peace of God will dwell and abide with you, for that is where peace comes from, and it doesn't dwell anywhere else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought we made it real hard for them to enter the zone. Once they got it in, as soon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32048]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought we made it real hard for them to enter the zone. Once they got it in, as soon as we had a chance to force, we did. We were getting the puck out when we had a chance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wanted to be a writer from my early teenage years, but I never told anyone. Writers, in my opinion, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64136]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wanted to be a writer from my early teenage years, but I never told anyone. Writers, in my opinion, were god-like creatures, and to say I was striving to be a writer would be incredibly arrogant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44329]]></link><description><![CDATA[To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61841]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Firm and erect the Caledonian stood; Sound was his mutton, and his claret good;  "Let him drink port!" the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61666]]></link><description><![CDATA[Firm and erect the Caledonian stood; Sound was his mutton, and his claret good;  "Let him drink port!" the English statesman cried:   He drank the poison, and his spirit died.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It isn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57189]]></link><description><![CDATA[It isn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past.  Let it go, for it was imperfect, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64516]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past.  Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24559]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sence I've ben here, I've hired a chap to look about for me, To git me a transplantable an' thrifty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2498]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sence I've ben here, I've hired a chap to look about for me, To git me a transplantable an' thrifty fem'ly-tree.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you laid all our laws end to end, there would be no end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24274]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you laid all our laws end to end, there would be no end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My mom FedExes a red velvet cake she makes from scratch to me every birthday. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66387]]></link><description><![CDATA[My mom FedExes a red velvet cake she makes from scratch to me every birthday.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We would, and we would not. -Measure for Measure. Act iv. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55399]]></link><description><![CDATA[We would, and we would not. -Measure for Measure. Act iv. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13365]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one sees the personality not as an apparatus that is essentiallyconstructed by the time childhood is over, but as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21906]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one sees the personality not as an apparatus that is essentiallyconstructed by the time childhood is over, but as always in its essencedeveloping, then life at 25 or 30 or at the gateway to middle age willstimulate its own intrigue, surprise, and exhilaration of discovery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one tells the truth, one is sure sooner or later to be found out ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59790]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one tells the truth, one is sure sooner or later to be found out]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Telling someone the truth is a loving act. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21860]]></link><description><![CDATA[Telling someone the truth is a loving act.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43901]]></link><description><![CDATA[By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love makes a good eye squint. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love makes a good eye squint.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The power to tax involves the power to destroy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58675]]></link><description><![CDATA[The power to tax involves the power to destroy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drama if I sing, drama if I don't sing. What do you do? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64566]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drama if I sing, drama if I don't sing. What do you do?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4262]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4262</guid></item></channel></rss>