<?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 realized that ritual will always mean throwing away something; Destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53477]]></link><description><![CDATA[I realized that ritual will always mean throwing away something; Destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This used to be a government of checks and balances. Now it's all checks and no balances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35941]]></link><description><![CDATA[This used to be a government of checks and balances. Now it's all checks and no balances.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were there within six to seven minutes after we got the call. The students and faculty were already evacuated. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33809]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were there within six to seven minutes after we got the call. The students and faculty were already evacuated. We immediately called for mutual aid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But this swift business I must uneasy make, lest too light winning  Make the prize light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51491]]></link><description><![CDATA[But this swift business I must uneasy make, lest too light winning  Make the prize light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature cares nothing for logic, our human logic: she has her own, which we do not recognize and do not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25431]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature cares nothing for logic, our human logic: she has her own, which we do not recognize and do not acknowledge until we are crushed under its wheel]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or thepain of regret or disappointment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22611]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or thepain of regret or disappointment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[kudos to the educators, athletes, dancers, judges, janitors, politicians, artists, actors, writers, singers, poets, and social activist, to all who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42324]]></link><description><![CDATA[kudos to the educators, athletes, dancers, judges, janitors, politicians, artists, actors, writers, singers, poets, and social activist, to all who dare to look at like with humor, determination and respect]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up. Well, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up. Well, maybe once.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We once worried that democracy could not survive if an undereducated populace knew too little. Now we worry if it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47041]]></link><description><![CDATA[We once worried that democracy could not survive if an undereducated populace knew too little. Now we worry if it can survive us knowing too much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26998]]></link><description><![CDATA[A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I were computer programmer, I do black box and white box testing before the applications launched ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30136]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I were computer programmer, I do black box and white box testing before the applications launched]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15076]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope is a strange invention-- A Patent of the Heart-- In unremitting action Yet never wearing out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19788]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is a strange invention-- A Patent of the Heart-- In unremitting action Yet never wearing out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Visualize, 'prayerize', 'actionize', and your wishes will come true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31373]]></link><description><![CDATA[Visualize, 'prayerize', 'actionize', and your wishes will come true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time stoops to no man's lure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51568]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time stoops to no man's lure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of All Saints   You have nothing to do but to save souls. Therefore spend and be spent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of All Saints   You have nothing to do but to save souls. Therefore spend and be spent in this work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57479]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joe had the opportunity to wrestle at 189, but for the sake of the team he wrestled at 215 so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31520]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joe had the opportunity to wrestle at 189, but for the sake of the team he wrestled at 215 so a teammate could wrestle in the region. He could have had an easier time qualifying for the state at 189, but you have to admire someone who puts their teammates first.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christianity is a source; no one supply of water and refreshment that comes from it can be called the sum ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7215]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christianity is a source; no one supply of water and refreshment that comes from it can be called the sum of Christianity. It is a mistake, and may lead to much error, to exhibit any series of maxims, even those of the Sermon on the Mount, as the ultimate sum and formula into which Christianity may be run up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Calamity is man's true touchstone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44142]]></link><description><![CDATA[Calamity is man's true touchstone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a bunch of coffee cups out, and coffee made. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41001]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a bunch of coffee cups out, and coffee made.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Institutions can never conserve without betraying the movements from which they proceed. The institution is static, whereas its parent movement ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Institutions can never conserve without betraying the movements from which they proceed. The institution is static, whereas its parent movement has been dynamic; it confines men within its limits, while the movement had liberated them from the bondage of institutions; it looks to the past, [although] the movement had pointed forward. Though in content the institution resembles the dynamic epoch whence it proceeded, in spirit it is like the [state] before the revolution. So the Christian church, after the early period, often seemed more closely related in attitude to the Jewish synagogue and the Roman state than to the age of Christ and his apostles; its creed was often more like a system of philosophy than like the living gospel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should try to succeed by merit, not by favor. He who does well will always have patrons enough. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27390]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should try to succeed by merit, not by favor. He who does well will always have patrons enough. [Lat., Virtute ambire oportet, non favitoribus.  Sat habet favitorum semper, qui recte facit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10238]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is not getting, but giving, not a wild dream of pleasure, and madness of desire— ... it is goodness, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25638]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is not getting, but giving, not a wild dream of pleasure, and madness of desire— ... it is goodness, and honor, and peace and pure living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've got to bounce back. This game does not end our season. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37290]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've got to bounce back. This game does not end our season.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only people who never fail are those who never try. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22182]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only people who never fail are those who never try.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When it's 40 below and people want to stay home, pool players have to come out and play. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38528]]></link><description><![CDATA[When it's 40 below and people want to stay home, pool players have to come out and play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Again men have been kept back as by a kind of enchantment from progress in science by reverence for antiquity, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52387]]></link><description><![CDATA[Again men have been kept back as by a kind of enchantment from progress in science by reverence for antiquity, by the authority of men counted great in philosophy, and then by general consent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've outdone anyone you can name -- Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43536]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've outdone anyone you can name -- Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quit worrying about your health. It'll go away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62259]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quit worrying about your health. It'll go away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6060]]></link><description><![CDATA[God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself. -Ausonius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16539]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself. -Ausonius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obviously, it helped prepare us that every game we played counted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34672]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obviously, it helped prepare us that every game we played counted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought independent of experience, is so admirably ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26539]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought independent of experience, is so admirably adapted to the objects of reality?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeatof habit by originality, overcomes everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeatof habit by originality, overcomes everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time and space - time to be alone, space to move about - these may well become the great scarcities ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time and space - time to be alone, space to move about - these may well become the great scarcities of tomorrow]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always behave like a duck- keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always behave like a duck- keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are no better than you should be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27856]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are no better than you should be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27856</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[Hopefully we got it soon enough to get it stopped. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40432]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hopefully we got it soon enough to get it stopped.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money does all things for reward. Some are pious and honest as long as they thrive upon it, but if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43014]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money does all things for reward. Some are pious and honest as long as they thrive upon it, but if the devil himself gives better wages, they soon change their party.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2913]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Juliana of Norwich, Mystic, Teacher, c.1417 Continuing a series on the person of Jesus:  And what might ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6215]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Juliana of Norwich, Mystic, Teacher, c.1417 Continuing a series on the person of Jesus:  And what might this noble Lord do of more worship and joy to me than to show me (that am so simple) this marvelous homeliness [i.e., naturalness and simplicity]? Thus it fareth with our Lord Jesus and with us. For truly it is the most joy that may be that He that is highest and mightiest, noblest and worthiest, is lowest and meekest, homeliest and most courteous: and truly this marvelous joy shall be shewn us all when we see Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty, it is it's own reward. Everything else is in God's hands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13083]]></link><description><![CDATA[Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty, it is it's own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ignorance of God's prophetic outline, failure to know God's program for the Church, the nations, and Israel, is the cause ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14501]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ignorance of God's prophetic outline, failure to know God's program for the Church, the nations, and Israel, is the cause of the overwhelming amount of error and misunderstanding of the events of the future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2778]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56300]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who hesitates is not only lost, but miles from the next exit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19279]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who hesitates is not only lost, but miles from the next exit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19279</guid></item></channel></rss>