<?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 think it comes off better on stage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35153]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it comes off better on stage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am working for the time when unqualified blacks, browns, and women join the unqualified men in running our government. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47238]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am working for the time when unqualified blacks, browns, and women join the unqualified men in running our government.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57514]]></link><description><![CDATA[Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65171]]></link><description><![CDATA[The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is not solitude, but perfect communion. For this reason the human person, the image of God, realizes himself or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59710]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is not solitude, but perfect communion. For this reason the human person, the image of God, realizes himself or herself in love, which is a sincere gift of self.BENEDICT XVI, ANGELUS, Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity, Sunday, 22 May 2005]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man that hails you Tom or Jack, And proves by thumps upon your back  How he esteems your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16773]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man that hails you Tom or Jack, And proves by thumps upon your back  How he esteems your merit,   Is such a friend, that one had need    Be very much his friend indeed     To pardon or to bear it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62228]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62228</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[Matt Olson has been just a horse the second half of the year for us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33247]]></link><description><![CDATA[Matt Olson has been just a horse the second half of the year for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. What puts man in a higher state of evolution is that he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12695]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. What puts man in a higher state of evolution is that he has got his laugh on the right end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Persuasion tips his tongue whene'er he talks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58607]]></link><description><![CDATA[Persuasion tips his tongue whene'er he talks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise man's heart is at his right hand; but a fool's heart at his left. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4180]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise man's heart is at his right hand; but a fool's heart at his left.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/666]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Share everything. Don't take things that aren't yours. Put things back where you found them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56159]]></link><description><![CDATA[Share everything. Don't take things that aren't yours. Put things back where you found them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The weak in courage is strong in cunning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10844]]></link><description><![CDATA[The weak in courage is strong in cunning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we our betters see bearing our woes, We scarcely think our miseries our foes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51339]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we our betters see bearing our woes, We scarcely think our miseries our foes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Gospel is not presented to mankind as an argument about religious principles. Nor is it offered as a philosophy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6497]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Gospel is not presented to mankind as an argument about religious principles. Nor is it offered as a philosophy of life. Christianity is a witness to certain facts -- to events that have happened, to hopes that have been fulfilled, to realities that have been experienced, to a Person who has lived and died and been raised from the dead to reign for ever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought Melissa pitched well enough to keep us in the game. I was disappointed in how discouraged our girls ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39830]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought Melissa pitched well enough to keep us in the game. I was disappointed in how discouraged our girls became when the Hawks' victory seemed imminent. The game became too emotional for our side.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The natural law of inertia: Matter will remain at rest or continue in uniform motion in the same straight line ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22557]]></link><description><![CDATA[The natural law of inertia: Matter will remain at rest or continue in uniform motion in the same straight line unless acted upon by some external force.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sun, which passeth through pollutions and itself remains as pure as before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58278]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sun, which passeth through pollutions and itself remains as pure as before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is the art of the possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47631]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is the art of the possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the posteriors of this day, which the rude multitude call the afternoon. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act v. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55501]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the posteriors of this day, which the rude multitude call the afternoon. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I stew all night in my own grease. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52559]]></link><description><![CDATA[I stew all night in my own grease.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a little problematic for us, because we are not a used to playing together. There were some good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40203]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a little problematic for us, because we are not a used to playing together. There were some good phases, and for me the test was satisfactory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25102]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9501]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5813]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it-don't cheat with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have a right to censure that have a heart to help. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5436]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have a right to censure that have a heart to help.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wouldn't have turned out the way I was if I didn't have all those old-fashioned values to rebel against. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53146]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wouldn't have turned out the way I was if I didn't have all those old-fashioned values to rebel against.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65525]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51668]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/573]]></link><description><![CDATA[All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But to the hero, when his sword Has won the battle for the free,  Thy voice sounds like a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19230]]></link><description><![CDATA[But to the hero, when his sword Has won the battle for the free,  Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word,   And in its hollow tones are heard    The thanks of millions yet to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl -- and look at the ailing, aching state a young ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61889]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl -- and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to -- which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64750]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66026]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight. . ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45185]]></link><description><![CDATA[An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight. . . The truly wise person is colorblind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How guilt once harbour'd in the conscious breast, Intimidates the brave, degrades the great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18464]]></link><description><![CDATA[How guilt once harbour'd in the conscious breast, Intimidates the brave, degrades the great.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain; and there is no good theory of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60357]]></link><description><![CDATA[The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain; and there is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And said to myself, as I lit my cigar, "Supposing a man had the wealth of the Czar  Of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2721]]></link><description><![CDATA[And said to myself, as I lit my cigar, "Supposing a man had the wealth of the Czar  Of the Russias to boot, for the rest of his days,   On the whole do you think he would have much to spare    If he married a woman with nothing to wear?"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thing about baseball is, it takes one pitch to change a game. He just got the bat head out. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36970]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thing about baseball is, it takes one pitch to change a game. He just got the bat head out. Every pitcher in America's going to say, 'Darn it, that shouldn't have been hit.' But he hit my pitch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For African American ideals, "The Promised Land" is not a land to be "reclaimed" after hundreds, or even thousands, of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39192]]></link><description><![CDATA[For African American ideals, "The Promised Land" is not a land to be "reclaimed" after hundreds, or even thousands, of years, citing God as the real estate agent. The Promised Land doesn't echo the injustices of the past by, in part, replicating them upon others. The Promised Land is the creation of a just society with an appreciation for the diversity of all humanity and equality for all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Divorce is the psychological equivalent of a triple coronary by-pass. After such a monumental assault on the heart, it takes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12606]]></link><description><![CDATA[Divorce is the psychological equivalent of a triple coronary by-pass. After such a monumental assault on the heart, it takes years to amend all the habits and attitudes that led up to it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is plenty of law at the end of a nightstick. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24285]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is plenty of law at the end of a nightstick.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rashness is the companion of youth, prudence of old age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48867]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rashness is the companion of youth, prudence of old age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My Christmas present to myself each year is to see how much air travel can open up the world and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64412]]></link><description><![CDATA[My Christmas present to myself each year is to see how much air travel can open up the world and take me to places as far from sheltered California and Japan as possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But me no buts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48965]]></link><description><![CDATA[But me no buts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The actual fact is that in this day Opportunity not only knocks at your door but is playing an anvil ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45076]]></link><description><![CDATA[The actual fact is that in this day Opportunity not only knocks at your door but is playing an anvil chorus on every man's door, and then lays for the owner around the corner with a club. The world is in sore need of men who can do things. Indeed, cases can easily be recalled by every one where Opportunity actually smashed in the door and collared her candidate and dragged him forth to success. These cases are exceptional, usually you have to meet Opportunity half-way. But the only place where you can get away from Opportunity is to lie down and die. Opportunity does not trouble dead men, or dead ones who flatter themselves that they are alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I've found it!), ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9496]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I've found it!), but 'That's funny...' -Isaac Asimov.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1129]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1129</guid></item></channel></rss>