<?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[The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1251]]></link><description><![CDATA[The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like beauteous flowers which vainly waste their scent Of odours in unhaunted deserts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44760]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like beauteous flowers which vainly waste their scent Of odours in unhaunted deserts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had no idea where these kids at a small private college in the San Fernando Valley were coming from, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33136]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had no idea where these kids at a small private college in the San Fernando Valley were coming from, why they were coming to hear me, or what they needed to know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6095]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66025]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46771]]></link><description><![CDATA[The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more he cast away the more he had. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17278]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more he cast away the more he had.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26419]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A piece of a Churchyard fitts every body. [A piece of a Churchyard fits every body.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49066]]></link><description><![CDATA[A piece of a Churchyard fitts every body. [A piece of a Churchyard fits every body.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53375]]></link><description><![CDATA[The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy - the smile that accepts a lover before words are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3608]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy - the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother's love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tumult and the shouting dies, The captains and the kings depart;  Still stands thine ancient sacrifice,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16475]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tumult and the shouting dies, The captains and the kings depart;  Still stands thine ancient sacrifice,   A humble and a contrite heart.    Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet     Lest we forget,--lest we forget.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I walk slowly, but I never walk backward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48384]]></link><description><![CDATA[I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must be our own before we can be another's. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26298]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must be our own before we can be another's.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She (a woman politician) will be challenging a system that is still wedded to militarism and that saves billions of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29959]]></link><description><![CDATA[She (a woman politician) will be challenging a system that is still wedded to militarism and that saves billions of dollars a year by underpaying women and using them as a reserve cheap labor supply]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They could bring the weapon today inside a cargo container that comes to one of our ports, and the technologies ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35958]]></link><description><![CDATA[They could bring the weapon today inside a cargo container that comes to one of our ports, and the technologies that we have deployed would have a low chance of finding it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43916]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time is the glue that bonds a broken heart, but love is the air which dries the glue. -J. Franklin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59327]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time is the glue that bonds a broken heart, but love is the air which dries the glue. -J. Franklin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He created a record of achievement. But he also gives off an aura that the city is getting better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35630]]></link><description><![CDATA[He created a record of achievement. But he also gives off an aura that the city is getting better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old John of Gaunt, time-honoured Lancaster. -King Richard II. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old John of Gaunt, time-honoured Lancaster. -King Richard II. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No intelligent man has any respect for an unjust law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47175]]></link><description><![CDATA[No intelligent man has any respect for an unjust law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vivutur ingenio, that damn'd motto there Seduced me first to me a wicked player. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17315]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vivutur ingenio, that damn'd motto there Seduced me first to me a wicked player.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We bodged again, as I have been a swan With bootless labor swim against the tide  And spend her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58458]]></link><description><![CDATA[We bodged again, as I have been a swan With bootless labor swim against the tide  And spend her strength with overmatching waves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12257]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is it to grow old? Is it to lose the glory of the form,  The lustre of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1709]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is it to grow old? Is it to lose the glory of the form,  The lustre of the eye?   Is it for Beauty to forego her wreath?    Yes; but not this alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a daily, mutual exchange of value. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a daily, mutual exchange of value.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've got nothing to prove anymore. If they want to fight, I'll fight and I'll get it done. I use ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42347]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've got nothing to prove anymore. If they want to fight, I'll fight and I'll get it done. I use my toughness now to make sure guys are held accountable on the other team.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19241]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If men were angels, no government would be necessary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18065]]></link><description><![CDATA[If men were angels, no government would be necessary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberty, as it is concieved by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24717]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty, as it is concieved by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behaviour.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60166]]></link><description><![CDATA[Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis said the lion will turn and flee From a maid in the pride of her purity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48774]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis said the lion will turn and flee From a maid in the pride of her purity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How far must suffering and misery go before we see that even in the day of vast cities and powerful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13135]]></link><description><![CDATA[How far must suffering and misery go before we see that even in the day of vast cities and powerful machines, the good earth is our mother and that if we destroy her, we destroy ourselves?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have other fish to fry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16063]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have other fish to fry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is hardly ever a complete silence in our soul. God is whispering to us well-nigh incessantly. Whenever the sounds ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7749]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is hardly ever a complete silence in our soul. God is whispering to us well-nigh incessantly. Whenever the sounds of the world die out in the soul, or sink low, then we hear these whisperings of God. He is always whispering to us, only we do not always hear, because of the noise, hurry, and distraction which life causes as it rushes on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a big game both sides. We control what we do and need to continue working hard to achieve it. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41953]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a big game both sides. We control what we do and need to continue working hard to achieve it. We do know we need to win and take care of business before we do all the figuring. Practice has been excellent and the kids have picked it up and that's what we need to do Friday to compete against a good football team.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An habitation giddy and unsure Hath he that buildeth on the vulgar heart. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55917]]></link><description><![CDATA[An habitation giddy and unsure Hath he that buildeth on the vulgar heart. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The family is the nucleus of civilization. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27077]]></link><description><![CDATA[The family is the nucleus of civilization.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on sin:  Evil is the soul's choice of the not-God. The corollary is that damnation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on sin:  Evil is the soul's choice of the not-God. The corollary is that damnation or hell, is the permanent choice of the not-God. God does not (in the monstrous old-fashioned phrase) "send" anybody to hell; hell is that state of the soul in which its choice becomes obdurate and fixed; the punishment (so to call it) of that soul is to remain eternally in that State which it has chosen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Bible is literature, not dogma. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53531]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Bible is literature, not dogma.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64454]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sudden friendship, sure repentance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51022]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sudden friendship, sure repentance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lately coach has been telling me to be more aggressive and want the ball more. He tells me that he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40356]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lately coach has been telling me to be more aggressive and want the ball more. He tells me that he can't just tell the guys that. I have to do it with my body language. I was trying to be active today and keep moving, looking for the ball.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Man and the LionA man and a Lion traveled together through the forest. They soon began to boast of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1533]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Man and the LionA man and a Lion traveled together through the forest. They soon began to boast of their respective superiority to each other in strength and prowess. As they were disputing, they passed a statue carved in stone, which represented a Lion strangled by a Man. The traveler pointed to it and said: See there! How strong we are, and how we prevail over even the king of beasts. The Lion replied: This statue was made by one of you men. If we Lions knew how to erect statues, you would see the Man placed under the paw of the Lion. One story is good, till another is told.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do in order to achieve what they want to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24441]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do in order to achieve what they want to achieve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We learn so many things from golf- how to suffer, for instance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17810]]></link><description><![CDATA[We learn so many things from golf- how to suffer, for instance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like tying our hooks, ... I learned it today. He (Broughton) tells us how to cast. You can't cast ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33497]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like tying our hooks, ... I learned it today. He (Broughton) tells us how to cast. You can't cast right behind you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33497</guid></item></channel></rss>