<?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 can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3784]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A few, a few, too few for drums and yells,May creep back, silent, to still village wellsUp half-known roads. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62243]]></link><description><![CDATA[A few, a few, too few for drums and yells,May creep back, silent, to still village wellsUp half-known roads.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26461]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friends are helpful not only because they will listen to us, but because they will laugh at us; Through them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24501]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friends are helpful not only because they will listen to us, but because they will laugh at us; Through them we learn a little objectivity, a little modesty, a little courtesy; We learn the rules of life and become better players of the game]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremelywell, without attending to appearance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21908]]></link><description><![CDATA[The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremelywell, without attending to appearance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23671]]></link><description><![CDATA[Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Martin Luther described the doctrine of justification by faith as the article of faith that decides whether the church is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6515]]></link><description><![CDATA[Martin Luther described the doctrine of justification by faith as the article of faith that decides whether the church is standing or falling. By this he meant that when this doctrine is understood, believed, and preached, as it was in New-Testament times, the church stands in the grace of God and is alive; but where it is neglected, overlaid, or denied, ... the church falls from grace and its life drains away, leaving it in a state of darkness and death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16782]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He knows little who tells his wife all he knows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61569]]></link><description><![CDATA[He knows little who tells his wife all he knows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear always springs from ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear always springs from ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Easy to say, not easy to achieve, ... But together we have achieved great things, and this is a red-letter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Easy to say, not easy to achieve, ... But together we have achieved great things, and this is a red-letter day. All of us here today will never forget it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Calamity is man's true touchstone ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12383]]></link><description><![CDATA[Calamity is man's true touchstone]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The happiest miser on earth is the man who saves up every friend he can make. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42733]]></link><description><![CDATA[The happiest miser on earth is the man who saves up every friend he can make.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prayer is when you talk to God; meditation is when you listen to God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17661]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prayer is when you talk to God; meditation is when you listen to God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43500]]></link><description><![CDATA[After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Columba, Abbot of Iona, Missionary, 597 Commemoration of Ephrem of Syria, Deacon, Hymnographer, Teacher, 373   If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Columba, Abbot of Iona, Missionary, 597 Commemoration of Ephrem of Syria, Deacon, Hymnographer, Teacher, 373   If we would indeed know God in growing intimacy, we must go this way of renunciation. And if we are set upon the pursuit of God, He will sooner or later bring us to this test. Abraham's testing was, at the time, not known to him as such, yet if he had taken some course other than the one he did, the whole history off the Old Testament would have been different. God would have found His man, no doubt, but the loss to Abraham would have been tragic beyond the telling. So we will be brought one by one to the testing place, and we may never know when we are there. At that testing place there will be no dozen possible choices for us; just one and an alternative, but our whole future will be conditioned by the choice we make.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, how cruelly sweet are the echoes that start When Memory plays an old tune on the heart! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, how cruelly sweet are the echoes that start When Memory plays an old tune on the heart!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diamonds are forever. E-mail comes close. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diamonds are forever. E-mail comes close.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EPIPHANY  The paradox is that a genuine "love for souls" which allows itself to be diverted by fashionable modes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6184]]></link><description><![CDATA[EPIPHANY  The paradox is that a genuine "love for souls" which allows itself to be diverted by fashionable modes into a mere "winning" of them to this or that mutually exclusive version of the "Truth", very often descends to a use of people for more-or-less irrelevant ends (already an evil), and can then so easily degenerate into a total misuse of people for alleged evangelical "results" with the consequent loss of all respect for people and their souls, and the withering of the original concern and love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without speculation there is no good and original observation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57069]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without speculation there is no good and original observation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[According to the well-established supremacy doctrine, as well as the federal monopoly in immigration matters, the attorney general is under ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32892]]></link><description><![CDATA[According to the well-established supremacy doctrine, as well as the federal monopoly in immigration matters, the attorney general is under no obligation to heed this invalid order.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The voice of the world ["Charity begins at home"]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5696]]></link><description><![CDATA[The voice of the world ["Charity begins at home"].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10029]]></link><description><![CDATA[That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And may you better reck the rede, Than ever did th' adviser. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/773]]></link><description><![CDATA[And may you better reck the rede, Than ever did th' adviser.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Fawn and His MotherA young fawn once said to his Mother, You are larger than a dog, and swifter, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1527]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Fawn and His MotherA young fawn once said to his Mother, You are larger than a dog, and swifter, and more used to running, and you have your horns as a defense; why, then, O Mother! do the hounds frighten you so? She smiled, and said: I know full well, my son, that all you say is true. I have the advantages you mention, but when I hear even the bark of a single dog I feel ready to faint, and fly away as fast as I can. No arguments will give courage to the coward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Delphic sword. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45220]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Delphic sword.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the restraints of conscience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60816]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the restraints of conscience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anything that happens is a jolt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37422]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anything that happens is a jolt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64977]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So sweet the blush of bashfulness, E'en pity scarce can wish it less! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4371]]></link><description><![CDATA[So sweet the blush of bashfulness, E'en pity scarce can wish it less!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17062]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poverty ... It is life near the bone, where it is sweetest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poverty ... It is life near the bone, where it is sweetest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17955]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discharge is my first. I love Black Flag and all those guys. And Ramones, of course. And then I like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30692]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discharge is my first. I love Black Flag and all those guys. And Ramones, of course. And then I like Blondie,.. a little lighter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To me [the pope] was the incarnation of all that is capitalism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42344]]></link><description><![CDATA[To me [the pope] was the incarnation of all that is capitalism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See things as you would have them be instead of as they are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22229]]></link><description><![CDATA[See things as you would have them be instead of as they are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rich adopt novelties and become accustomed to their use. This sets a fashion which others imitate. Once the richer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15738]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rich adopt novelties and become accustomed to their use. This sets a fashion which others imitate. Once the richer classes have adopted a certain way of living, producers have an incentive to improve the methods of manufacture so that soon it is possible for the poorer classes to follow suit. Thus luxury furthers progress. Innovation "is the whim of an elite before it becomes a need of the public. The luxury today is the necessity of tomorrow." Luxury is the roadmaker of progress: it develops latent needs and makes people discontented. In so far as they think consistently, moralists who condemn luxury must recommend the comparatively desireless existence of the wild life roaming in the woods as the ultimate ideal of civilized life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. Persecution is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10066]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. Persecution is used in theology, not in arithmetic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You, sir, I entertain for one of my hundred; only I do not like the fashion of your garments. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15346]]></link><description><![CDATA[You, sir, I entertain for one of my hundred; only I do not like the fashion of your garments.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature. -Much Ado ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55435]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all forms of caution, caution in love is the most fatal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28100]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all forms of caution, caution in love is the most fatal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pragmatist knows that doubt is an art which has to be acquired with difficulty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12775]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pragmatist knows that doubt is an art which has to be acquired with difficulty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I applaud (NWA Head Start). They hired somebody bilingual ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â it's a tremendous need in the community. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31261]]></link><description><![CDATA[I applaud (NWA Head Start). They hired somebody bilingual ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â it's a tremendous need in the community.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24407]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ass and the Old Shepherd A SHEPHERD, watching his Ass feeding in a meadow, was alarmed allof a sudden ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1504]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Ass and the Old Shepherd A SHEPHERD, watching his Ass feeding in a meadow, was alarmed allof a sudden by the cries of the enemy. He appealed to the Ass tofly with him, lest they should both be captured, but the animallazily replied, Why should I, pray? Do you think it likely theconqueror will place on me two sets of panniers?' No, rejoinedthe Shepherd. Then, said the Ass, as long as I carry thepanniers, what matters it to me whom I serve?' In a change of government the poor change nothing beyond the name of their master.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing proceeds from nothingness, as also nothing passes away into non-existence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44667]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing proceeds from nothingness, as also nothing passes away into non-existence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For me it's a European-type movie, ... It's a small story about family and it's these kinds of characters that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32624]]></link><description><![CDATA[For me it's a European-type movie, ... It's a small story about family and it's these kinds of characters that I most like to portray and I'm not always given the opportunity to do that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody can do it for you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1116]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody can do it for you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1116</guid></item></channel></rss>