<?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[Let the motive be in the deed and not in the event. Be not one whose motive for action is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the motive be in the deed and not in the event. Be not one whose motive for action is the hope of reward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9998]]></link><description><![CDATA[Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a wise and a happy purchase.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neutrality, as a lasting principle, is an evidence of weakness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neutrality, as a lasting principle, is an evidence of weakness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This making of Christians will raise the price of hogs; if we grow all to be pork-eaters, we shall not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6175]]></link><description><![CDATA[This making of Christians will raise the price of hogs; if we grow all to be pork-eaters, we shall not shortly have a rasher on the coals for money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Understanding brings control. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2076]]></link><description><![CDATA[Understanding brings control.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Making bottles to meet Americans' demand for bottled water requires more than 1.5 million barrels of oil annually, enough to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Making bottles to meet Americans' demand for bottled water requires more than 1.5 million barrels of oil annually, enough to fuel some 100,000 U.S. cars for a year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pray to be perfect, though material leaven Forbid the spirit so on earth to be;  But if for any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48052]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pray to be perfect, though material leaven Forbid the spirit so on earth to be;  But if for any wish thou darest not pray,   Then pray to God to cast that wish away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble is that rich people, well-to-do people, very often don't really know who the poor are; and that is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59717]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble is that rich people, well-to-do people, very often don't really know who the poor are; and that is why we can forgive them, for knowledge can only lead to love, and love to service. And so, if they are not touched by them, it's because th]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I must end it. There's no hope left. I'll be at peace. No one had anything to do with this. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15234]]></link><description><![CDATA[I must end it. There's no hope left. I'll be at peace. No one had anything to do with this. My decision totally.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let nothing offensive to the ear or the eye enter these thresholds, within which youth dwells. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50464]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let nothing offensive to the ear or the eye enter these thresholds, within which youth dwells.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66278]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And, e'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart, distrusting, asks if this be joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23426]]></link><description><![CDATA[And, e'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart, distrusting, asks if this be joy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because it lacks the element of outrage, the modern church needs to be reminded that, if her life and institutions ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6385]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because it lacks the element of outrage, the modern church needs to be reminded that, if her life and institutions are being strangled by a dying culture, then she is choking on the very truths which she has herself betrayed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, wisdom is not truth, truth is not beauty, beauty is not love. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1385]]></link><description><![CDATA[Information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, wisdom is not truth, truth is not beauty, beauty is not love. -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I decided that I would be one of the biggest new names; and I actually had some little fancy business ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43671]]></link><description><![CDATA[I decided that I would be one of the biggest new names; and I actually had some little fancy business cards printed up to announce it, "Count Basie. Beware, the Count is Here."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a fine line between dreams and reality, it's up to you to draw it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12886]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a fine line between dreams and reality, it's up to you to draw it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64857]]></link><description><![CDATA[One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He did the best he could. I actually have to thank him for that, because he did compete hurt. He ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39831]]></link><description><![CDATA[He did the best he could. I actually have to thank him for that, because he did compete hurt. He was never 100 percent for about three-quarters of the season. He had high expectations for himself and he does everything at 100 percent. He really wanted to be a state wrestling champion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17397]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you live with another person for 50 years, all of your memories are invested in that person, like a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26908]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you live with another person for 50 years, all of your memories are invested in that person, like a bank account of shared memories. It’s not that you refer to them constantly. In fact, for people who do not live in the past, you almost never say, Do you remember that night we...? But you don’t have to. That is the best of all. You know that the other person does remember. Thus, the past is part of the present as long as the other person lives. It is better than any scrapbook, because you are both living scrapbooks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As certain as the Correggiosity of Correggio. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45412]]></link><description><![CDATA[As certain as the Correggiosity of Correggio.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ability to get along without an exceptional leader is the mark of social vigor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47597]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ability to get along without an exceptional leader is the mark of social vigor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have this running quandary about Christmas. I get upset about it, because I feel that we American Christians make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7997]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have this running quandary about Christmas. I get upset about it, because I feel that we American Christians make too much of it, and too little. Too little of it, because we pile all sorts of other things onto it, including some that have only the feeblest connection with the Event it is supposed to commemorate. If God did become a man, in any real sense, it is the most important thing that ever happened. Surely we, who believe it, could well devote one day a year to uninterrupted contemplation of the fact, and let Saturnalia fall on the winter solstice, where it belongs.   On the other hand, we make so much of the actual birth, and forget the things that make it more than just the birth of a baby (though even that is, in Walt Whitman's phrase, "miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels") -- more, even, than the birth of the greatest man who ever lived. We forget the promise to Eve of a descendant who will solve the problem of Evil; the promise to Abraham of one by whom all mankind will be blessed; the promise to Moses of a greater prophet than he, to arise from his people; and the promise to David of a Son who would be his Master. We forget about the eternal Purpose behind it all: it's like telling a story and leaving out the point. Yes, it is true that God gave us His Son, and so maybe we ought also to give gifts -- but what, and to whom? It is also true that God gave us Himself, and the only sensible response to that is to give ourselves to Him. There is nothing else that He wants from us, or, if there is something, He can take it. Only I, my ego, my heart, is truly mine to give or to withhold -- and is therefore the appropriate gift to Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's gotta make at least one bet a day, else he could be walking around lucky and never know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17160]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's gotta make at least one bet a day, else he could be walking around lucky and never know it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Literature is the immortality of speech. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Literature is the immortality of speech.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love and relationships are truly one of the most paradoxical aspects of being human. For it is in love that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25636]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love and relationships are truly one of the most paradoxical aspects of being human. For it is in love that we find the greatest of strengths and the deepest of sorrows. Love can seem to be so fleeting and unachievable yet it remains well within our reach if we only learn how to embrace it's power. To experience true love, we must be willing to open ourselves up and sacrifice part of our heart and part of our soul. We must be willing to give of ourselves freely, and we must be willing to suffer. It is only when we expose our inner selves to the white hot flame of rejection, that love can burn so brightly as to join to souls, melding the two into one, creating a bond that joins forever. It is from this bond that we draw strength eternal and power ever lasting. It is in this thing that we call love that we find the means to achieve greatness, both in ourselves and in our lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The delicate thought, that cannot find expression, For ruder speech too fair,  That, like thy petals, trembles in possession, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45441]]></link><description><![CDATA[The delicate thought, that cannot find expression, For ruder speech too fair,  That, like thy petals, trembles in possession,   And scatters on the air.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am the cygnet to this pale faint swan, Who chants a doleful hymn to his own death,  And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58459]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am the cygnet to this pale faint swan, Who chants a doleful hymn to his own death,  And from the organ-pipe of fraity sings   His soul and body to their lasting rest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the fireflies, Wah-wah-taysee, Waved their torches to mislead him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16030]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the fireflies, Wah-wah-taysee, Waved their torches to mislead him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13016]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47434]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1652]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So much to do, so little done, such things to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/382]]></link><description><![CDATA[So much to do, so little done, such things to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My philosophy? Simplicity plus variety. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60439]]></link><description><![CDATA[My philosophy? Simplicity plus variety.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's actually quite high. I do think people in small town Iowa love to talk about their town. On phone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39924]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's actually quite high. I do think people in small town Iowa love to talk about their town. On phone interviews, we could get through a survey in 20 minutes - [Yet] it [often] takes about an hour.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We Asians are the original Conservatives because for thousands of years we have believed in free enterprise… you have just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15765]]></link><description><![CDATA[We Asians are the original Conservatives because for thousands of years we have believed in free enterprise… you have just stolen our philosophy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The burning of an author's books, imprisonment for opinion's sake, has always been the tribute that an ignorant age pays ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39158]]></link><description><![CDATA[The burning of an author's books, imprisonment for opinion's sake, has always been the tribute that an ignorant age pays to the genius of its time]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47611]]></link><description><![CDATA[In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53596]]></link><description><![CDATA[The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clothe with life the weak intent, let me be the thing I meant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53971]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clothe with life the weak intent, let me be the thing I meant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absence makes the heart grow fonder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/138]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absence makes the heart grow fonder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18693]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've had quite a few vehicles slide off the highway. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30796]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've had quite a few vehicles slide off the highway.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old father antic the law. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55834]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old father antic the law. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yes, we have injected UF6 gas into a limited number of centrifuge machines, but it is even less than what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35717]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yes, we have injected UF6 gas into a limited number of centrifuge machines, but it is even less than what is needed for a pilot project.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Oswald, King of Northumbria, Martyr, 642  Slowly, all through the universe, that temple of God is being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7645]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Oswald, King of Northumbria, Martyr, 642  Slowly, all through the universe, that temple of God is being built. Wherever, in any world, a soul, by free-willed obedience, catches the fire of God's likeness, it is set into the growing walls, a living stone. When, in your hard fight, in your tiresome drudgery, or in your terrible temptation, you catch the purpose of your being and give yourself to God, and so give Him the chance to give Himself to you, your life -- a living stone -- is taken up and set into that growing wall. Wherever souls are being tried and ripened, in whatever commonplace and homely ways, there God is hewing out the pillars for His temple. Oh, if the stone can only have some vision of the temple of which it is to be a part forever, what patience must fill it as it feels the blows of the hammer, and knows that success for it is simply to let itself be wrought into what shape the Master wills.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was battling that at-bat. I had two strikes and some runners on base. I was just trying to hit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31540]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was battling that at-bat. I had two strikes and some runners on base. I was just trying to hit the ball hard somewhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first and last frosts are the worst. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49848]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first and last frosts are the worst.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49848</guid></item></channel></rss>