<?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[Commemoration of Crispin & Crispinian, Martyrs at Rome, c.285  In the last analysis, the service the Christian does is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7205]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Crispin & Crispinian, Martyrs at Rome, c.285  In the last analysis, the service the Christian does is not his, but Christ's. Therefore he must not feel too keenly the burden of responsibility, because at the end of the day all he can say is, "We are unprofitable servants". This knowledge, far from inhibiting action, actually releases the Christian from that appalling feeling of responsibility that has driven so many high-minded humanists to despair, even to suicide... Work done conscientiously by the Christian is his share in Christ's service; but it is Christ's service, and therefore the Christian need neither be proud because it has succeeded or overwhelmed because it has failed. The service of Christ is supremely expressed in the apparent failure of the Cross.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He seems to be doing OK. He needs to work on things and develop more consistency. We want him to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38901]]></link><description><![CDATA[He seems to be doing OK. He needs to work on things and develop more consistency. We want him to throw a two-seam fastball more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the intensest hatreds ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15138]]></link><description><![CDATA[Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the intensest hatreds]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We could have done this movie very differently had we shot on the streets of Harlem and taken a 40-day ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33326]]></link><description><![CDATA[We could have done this movie very differently had we shot on the streets of Harlem and taken a 40-day shooting schedule.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are cold, tea will warm you; If you are too heated, it will cool you; If you are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11934]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are cold, tea will warm you; If you are too heated, it will cool you; If you are depressed, it will cheer you; If you are excited, it will calm you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65722]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46559]]></link><description><![CDATA[The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10108]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel like I want to crawl out of my skin, especially when people start questioning me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64605]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel like I want to crawl out of my skin, especially when people start questioning me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a lot of business out there, but if you haven't got the right (capability) levels in the right places, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42584]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a lot of business out there, but if you haven't got the right (capability) levels in the right places, then you can't take it on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66488]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was a god, such as men might be, if men were gods. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42316]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was a god, such as men might be, if men were gods.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thoughtto be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22762]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thoughtto be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His confidence level is sky high. It was that way going into the game. He's taking this team over and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31875]]></link><description><![CDATA[His confidence level is sky high. It was that way going into the game. He's taking this team over and he's so much more relaxed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1650]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65703]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only imaginative fiction being written today is income tax returns. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15604]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only imaginative fiction being written today is income tax returns.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6037]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Iran's case is sent to the Security Council, we will respond by many ways, for example by holding back ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41292]]></link><description><![CDATA[If Iran's case is sent to the Security Council, we will respond by many ways, for example by holding back on oil sales,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...When we're two balloons, and together our direction is up, chances are we've found the right person. Our soulmate is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3711]]></link><description><![CDATA[...When we're two balloons, and together our direction is up, chances are we've found the right person. Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aspiration sees only one side of every question; possession, many. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47771]]></link><description><![CDATA[Aspiration sees only one side of every question; possession, many.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self. It is no humility for a man to think less ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20035]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self. It is no humility for a man to think less of himself than he ought, though it might rather puzzle him to do that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I turned the house into a studio and invited over a bunch of sailors, who were actually students I'd met ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39870]]></link><description><![CDATA[I turned the house into a studio and invited over a bunch of sailors, who were actually students I'd met at USC. They were studying cinema to become technical cameramen. They weren't real sailors picked up off the street, but they were very happy to play these roles in my film.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love those who yearn for the impossible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65921]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love those who yearn for the impossible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we wanted to do is set a good tone for the season. 2-0 is exactly where we wanted to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36900]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we wanted to do is set a good tone for the season. 2-0 is exactly where we wanted to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not now in fortune's power, He that is down can fall no lower. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48712]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not now in fortune's power, He that is down can fall no lower.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As long as our social order regards the good of institutions rather than the good of men, so long will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53161]]></link><description><![CDATA[As long as our social order regards the good of institutions rather than the good of men, so long will there be a vocation for the rebel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here in His holy House of Prayer we may come on our day of rest, and be safe, if we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6190]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here in His holy House of Prayer we may come on our day of rest, and be safe, if we will, from any thoughts but those of the world to come. Here we gather together for no earthly business, but for a purpose of one sort only; and that purpose is the same for which saints and angels are met together in that innumerable company before the throne of God. If there is a place on earth which, however faintly and dimly, shadows out the courts of God on high, surely it is where His people are met together, in all their weakness and ignorance and sin, in their poor and low estate, yet with humble and faithful hearts, in His House of Prayer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every hard-boiled egg is yellow inside. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10478]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every hard-boiled egg is yellow inside.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/621]]></link><description><![CDATA[Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63734]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We didn't use makeup and wigs to have Peri and Teri look like Sara and Yvonne, but the roles were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32229]]></link><description><![CDATA[We didn't use makeup and wigs to have Peri and Teri look like Sara and Yvonne, but the roles were challenging because they had to portray them in three stages of their lives, from their 20s, 40s to their 60s,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48481]]></link><description><![CDATA[But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the Lord of hosts hath spoken it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Food for powder, food for powder; they 'll fill a pit as well as better. -King Henry IV. Part I. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Food for powder, food for powder; they 'll fill a pit as well as better. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I embrace the Nerd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31993]]></link><description><![CDATA[I embrace the Nerd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We feel strongly that Regis has been a great neighbor for a very long time. The idea is great; the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31349]]></link><description><![CDATA[We feel strongly that Regis has been a great neighbor for a very long time. The idea is great; the town needs more elderly housing. We are in favor of that. It's just the scope of this project we can't accept.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For as labor cannot produce without the use of land, the denial of the equal right to the use of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23935]]></link><description><![CDATA[For as labor cannot produce without the use of land, the denial of the equal right to the use of land is necessarily the denial of the labor to its own produce.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3994]]></link><description><![CDATA[Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If... you are ever tempted to think that we modern Western Europeans cannot really be so very bad because we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8546]]></link><description><![CDATA[If... you are ever tempted to think that we modern Western Europeans cannot really be so very bad because we are, comparatively speaking, humane--if, in other words, you think God might be content with us on that ground--ask yourself whether you think God ought to have been content with the cruelty of past ages because they excelled in courage or chastity. You will see at once that this is an impossibility. From considering how the cruelty of our ancestors looks to us, you may get some inkling of how our softness, worldliness, and timidity would have looked to them, and hence how both must look to God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to follow the game plan. The pressure starts to pick up when it gets late, and we tend ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40357]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to follow the game plan. The pressure starts to pick up when it gets late, and we tend to just stand around, so we have to have more movement and a better mind-set.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Editors of open anthologies actively seek submissions from all comers, established and unknown. They are willing to read whatever the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Editors of open anthologies actively seek submissions from all comers, established and unknown. They are willing to read whatever the tide washes up at their feet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16386]]></link><description><![CDATA[Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Giles of Provence, Hermit, c.710   The purpose of religion -- at any rate, the Christian religion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6271]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Giles of Provence, Hermit, c.710   The purpose of religion -- at any rate, the Christian religion -- is not to get you into heaven, but to get heaven into you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our nation was founded on the principals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our nation was founded on the principals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And on the balmy zephyrs tranquil rest The silver clouds.   - John Keats, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62665]]></link><description><![CDATA[And on the balmy zephyrs tranquil rest The silver clouds.   - John Keats,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You learn to like someone when you find out what makes them laugh, but you can never truly love someone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53257]]></link><description><![CDATA[You learn to like someone when you find out what makes them laugh, but you can never truly love someone until you find out what makes them cry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52733]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Preaching is effective as long as the preacher expects something to happen-not because of the sermon, not even because of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48062]]></link><description><![CDATA[Preaching is effective as long as the preacher expects something to happen-not because of the sermon, not even because of the preacher, but because of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48062</guid></item></channel></rss>