<?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 hold a wolf by the ears. [I am in a dilemma I have caught a Tartar.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51742]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hold a wolf by the ears. [I am in a dilemma I have caught a Tartar.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are really benefiting from this intervention. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28673]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are really benefiting from this intervention.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1853]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Thief and His MotherA boy stole a lesson-book from one of his schoolfellows and took it home to his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1588]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Thief and His MotherA boy stole a lesson-book from one of his schoolfellows and took it home to his Mother. She not only abstained from beating him, but encouraged him. He next time stole a cloak and brought it to her, and she again commended him. The Youth, advanced to adulthood, proceeded to steal things of still greater value. At last he was caught in the very act, and having his hands bound behind him, was led away to the place of public execution. His Mother followed in the crowd and violently beat her breast in sorrow, whereupon the young man said, I wish to say something to my Mother in her ear. She came close to him, and he quickly seized her ear with his teeth and bit it off. The Mother upbraided him as an unnatural child, whereon he replied, Ah! if you had beaten me when I first stole and brought to you that lesson-book, I should not have come to this, nor have been thus led to a disgraceful death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if you throw your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if you throw your heart over, the horse will go along too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They (religious conservatives) want to destroy us by going after every company that dares not treat gays like they're diseased ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38659]]></link><description><![CDATA[They (religious conservatives) want to destroy us by going after every company that dares not treat gays like they're diseased pariahs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For goodness' sake, why elevate AIDS over cancer? She shouldn't have filled out that questionnaire at all, ... President Bush ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31193]]></link><description><![CDATA[For goodness' sake, why elevate AIDS over cancer? She shouldn't have filled out that questionnaire at all, ... President Bush is asking us to have faith in things unseen. We only have that kind of faith in God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[and once it leaves their hands it's someone else's problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34743]]></link><description><![CDATA[and once it leaves their hands it's someone else's problem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God bless us every one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4316]]></link><description><![CDATA[God bless us every one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy man be his dole! -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55364]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy man be his dole! -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No matter how disastrously some policy has turned out, anyone who criticizes it can expect to hear: "But what would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47253]]></link><description><![CDATA[No matter how disastrously some policy has turned out, anyone who criticizes it can expect to hear: "But what would you replace it with?" When you put out a fire, what do you replace it with?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have not yet begun to fight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54153]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have not yet begun to fight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sinks my sad soul with sorrow to the grave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57251]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sinks my sad soul with sorrow to the grave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Advise none to marry or goe to warre. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Advise none to marry or goe to warre.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sly old fish, too cunning for the hook. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16067]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sly old fish, too cunning for the hook.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At halftime, I told them not to come out of the locker room unless they would come fight, scratch, claw, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33963]]></link><description><![CDATA[At halftime, I told them not to come out of the locker room unless they would come fight, scratch, claw, whatever they had to do until the end of the game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John & Henry Venn, Priests, Evangelical Divines, 1813, 1873  For Christian consciousness, paradise is the Kingdom of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8369]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John & Henry Venn, Priests, Evangelical Divines, 1813, 1873  For Christian consciousness, paradise is the Kingdom of Christ and is unthinkable apart from Christ. But this changes everything. The cross and the crucifixion enter into the bliss of paradise. The Son of God and the Son of Man descends into hell to free those who suffer there... To conquer evil, the good must crucify itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Join in the new game that's sweeping the country. It's called "Bureaucracy" Everybody stands in a circle. The first person ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4987]]></link><description><![CDATA[Join in the new game that's sweeping the country. It's called "Bureaucracy" Everybody stands in a circle. The first person to do anything loses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's good about the Lehigh Valley is that we are not dependent on a single industry. We now have a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39400]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's good about the Lehigh Valley is that we are not dependent on a single industry. We now have a variety of companies here, and we're not relying on the former Bethlehem Steel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature has placed mankind under the government of twosovereign masters, pain and pleasure...they govern us in all we do, in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21862]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature has placed mankind under the government of twosovereign masters, pain and pleasure...they govern us in all we do, in allwe say, in all we think: every effort we can make to throw off oursubjection, will serve but to demonstrate and confirm it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every one stretcheth his legges according to his coverlet. [Every one stretches his legs according to his coverlet.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49222]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every one stretcheth his legges according to his coverlet. [Every one stretches his legs according to his coverlet.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Committing yourself is a way of finding out who you are. A man finds his identity by identifying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20297]]></link><description><![CDATA[Committing yourself is a way of finding out who you are. A man finds his identity by identifying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dear to us are those who love us. . . but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53254]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dear to us are those who love us. . . but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add another life; they build a heaven before us whereof we had not dreamed, and thereby supply to us new powers out of the recesses of the spirit . . .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His right and left brain are talking to each other more these days. The one is an atheist Marxist and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9066]]></link><description><![CDATA[His right and left brain are talking to each other more these days. The one is an atheist Marxist and the other isa Christian socialist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53065]]></link><description><![CDATA[As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The planet's survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58399]]></link><description><![CDATA[The planet's survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a mad gamble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57970]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23348]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15077]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that will jeopardize ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23212]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that will jeopardize the future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In order to truly master the comfort zone, you have to learn to loveit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21443]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order to truly master the comfort zone, you have to learn to loveit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Propaganda replaces moral philosophy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48422]]></link><description><![CDATA[Propaganda replaces moral philosophy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55179]]></link><description><![CDATA[Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to do...but she's certain that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27289]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou art so witty, profligate and thin, At once we think thee Satan, Death and Sin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou art so witty, profligate and thin, At once we think thee Satan, Death and Sin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sin in this country has been always said to be rather calculating than impulsive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44253]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sin in this country has been always said to be rather calculating than impulsive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The one good thing about the antiques business is the more, the better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40748]]></link><description><![CDATA[The one good thing about the antiques business is the more, the better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance; you must stir it and stump ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27377]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance; you must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or, trust me, you haven't a chance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet this climate of peace needs the help of the US and the international community: For without sustained pressure on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet this climate of peace needs the help of the US and the international community: For without sustained pressure on the Israeli government to sit down and negotiate, Israel will only bolster those within Palestinian society who do not share the majority's desire for peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57151]]></link><description><![CDATA[The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prefer a loss to a dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22866]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prefer a loss to a dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He can give little to his servant, that lickes his knife. [He can give little to his servant that licks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49310]]></link><description><![CDATA[He can give little to his servant, that lickes his knife. [He can give little to his servant that licks his knife.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5190]]></link><description><![CDATA[If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of us have bad luck and good luck. The man who persists through the bad luck -- who keeps ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26028]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of us have bad luck and good luck. The man who persists through the bad luck -- who keeps right on going -- is the man who is there when the good luck comes -- and is ready to receive it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our target donor pool is individuals, families, businesses and organizations in Woodford County. 4-H really touches more people than just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34130]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our target donor pool is individuals, families, businesses and organizations in Woodford County. 4-H really touches more people than just the current members.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52920]]></link><description><![CDATA[To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Languages are no more than the keys of Sciences. He who despises one, slights the other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Languages are no more than the keys of Sciences. He who despises one, slights the other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25129</guid></item></channel></rss>