<?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[Ambition can creep as well as soar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambition can creep as well as soar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can vote on bills and create an opportunity for better legislation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34152]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can vote on bills and create an opportunity for better legislation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Bosco, Priest, Founder of the Salesian Teaching Order, 1888   "The Bible," we are told sometimes, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7380]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Bosco, Priest, Founder of the Salesian Teaching Order, 1888   "The Bible," we are told sometimes, "gives us such a beautiful picture of what we should be." Nonsense! It gives us no picture at all. It reveals to us a fact: it tells us what we really are; it says, This is the form in which God created you, to which He has restored you; this is the work which the Eternal Son, the God of Truth and Love, is continually carrying on within you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You won't realize the distance you've walked until you take a look around and realize how far you've been. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21055]]></link><description><![CDATA[You won't realize the distance you've walked until you take a look around and realize how far you've been.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy always came after pain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36189]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy always came after pain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A system of doctrine has risen up during the last three centuries, in which faith or spiritual-mindedness is contemplated and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7199]]></link><description><![CDATA[A system of doctrine has risen up during the last three centuries, in which faith or spiritual-mindedness is contemplated and rested on as the end of religion, instead of Christ. I do not mean to say that Christ is not mentioned as the author of all good, but that stress is laid on the believing rather than on the object of belief, on the comfort and persuasiveness of the doctrine than on the doctrine itself. And in this way religion is made to consist of contemplating ourselves, instead of Christ; not simply in looking to Christ, but in seeing that we look to Christ; not in His divinity and atonement, but in our conversion and faith in Him... [Continued tomorrow].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't know much about it. Actually, I didn't know anything. My grade school coach, Alden Dahl, he really got ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34766]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't know much about it. Actually, I didn't know anything. My grade school coach, Alden Dahl, he really got me interested in the sport. He really thought that I could be something special.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Ms. Andersen, who couldn't afford to live on campus, remembered meeting other commuters at their cars at the moment members ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31819]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Ms. Andersen, who couldn't afford to live on campus, remembered meeting other commuters at their cars at the moment members of the Alameda County Police force stormed up the avenue toward them. The National Guard closed in from the other direction, and overhead, a helicopter [hovered over] the assembled group.] I thought, 'How did we come to this?' ... I witnessed what I thought was the hypocrisy of some of those protests.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2022]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as you deserve it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sheep has no choice when in the jaws of the wolf. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62824]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sheep has no choice when in the jaws of the wolf.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51224]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't have hobbies; hobbies cost money. Interests are quite free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65613]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't have hobbies; hobbies cost money. Interests are quite free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3817]]></link><description><![CDATA[Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have written to them and asked them for statements. If I need to call them (to testify), I will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38436]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have written to them and asked them for statements. If I need to call them (to testify), I will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's such a great feeling to make people laugh. I know I've made people cry or want to slit their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37950]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's such a great feeling to make people laugh. I know I've made people cry or want to slit their wrists, but to make people laugh is a very intoxicating, wonderful thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God of our fathers, known of old, Lord of our far-flung battle-line,  Beneath whose awful Hand we hold  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16474]]></link><description><![CDATA[God of our fathers, known of old, Lord of our far-flung battle-line,  Beneath whose awful Hand we hold   Dominion over palm and pine--    Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet,     Lest we forget--lest we forget!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be cheerful, if you are wise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be cheerful, if you are wise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not want to work to correspond to an image. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36770]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not want to work to correspond to an image.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exclusive property is a theft against nature. [Fr., La propriete exclusive est un vol dans la nature.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47755]]></link><description><![CDATA[Exclusive property is a theft against nature. [Fr., La propriete exclusive est un vol dans la nature.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12549]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Turning these jests out of service, let us talk in good earnest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Turning these jests out of service, let us talk in good earnest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31495]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that it's this or maybe that - you have just one large statement; It is this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts, in living ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15221]]></link><description><![CDATA[And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts, in living color, you're about to see another first - an attempted suicide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23399]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27201]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62251]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was a little kid, I took tap and ballet. I've always loved to dance. I'm a rhythm machine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3707]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was a little kid, I took tap and ballet. I've always loved to dance. I'm a rhythm machine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not fewer than three nor more than nine. [Lat., Neque pauciores tribus, neque plures novem.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not fewer than three nor more than nine. [Lat., Neque pauciores tribus, neque plures novem.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's our bread and butter. Sometimes it's good and it was good tonight. The first time we played them they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32525]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's our bread and butter. Sometimes it's good and it was good tonight. The first time we played them they handled it very well and last Friday they played it well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32525</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[just a fun thing for me to do with a good friend who has meant a great deal for me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30352]]></link><description><![CDATA[just a fun thing for me to do with a good friend who has meant a great deal for me and my family.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Novelty is the great parent of pleasure ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44684]]></link><description><![CDATA[Novelty is the great parent of pleasure]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend always loves, but he who loves is not always a friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51126]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend always loves, but he who loves is not always a friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot all be masters, nor all masters Cannot be truly followed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55227]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot all be masters, nor all masters Cannot be truly followed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We swear there will be an earthquake of retaliation, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28618]]></link><description><![CDATA[We swear there will be an earthquake of retaliation,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another ... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another ...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most writers regard truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59876]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most writers regard truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Department stores during the New Year holiday looked quite busy, reflecting the recovery in consumer spending. Companies that sell high-quality ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36520]]></link><description><![CDATA[Department stores during the New Year holiday looked quite busy, reflecting the recovery in consumer spending. Companies that sell high-quality goods, such as Isetan, are good picks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How does Johnny Cash say it? I'm in pretty good shape ... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42009]]></link><description><![CDATA[How does Johnny Cash say it? I'm in pretty good shape ...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive believer can be seen to risk the torments of the afterlife for the smallest pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I stand on the sidewalk watching it because the responsibility is mine and I must, I take a very firm ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35933]]></link><description><![CDATA[I stand on the sidewalk watching it because the responsibility is mine and I must, I take a very firm hold on the handles of the baby carriage and I wheel it into the traffic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have very high expectations for him. That's why when he's not winning a major, he's in a slump. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38620]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have very high expectations for him. That's why when he's not winning a major, he's in a slump. If we go much longer without him winning a major, another year or two, it could be a problem. If he were to go into a true slump, not making cuts, not winning, having his rankings fall out of a top 10, I'd start worrying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The houses that are priced properly are selling. We have a market that's pretty much in balance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31827]]></link><description><![CDATA[The houses that are priced properly are selling. We have a market that's pretty much in balance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the world of reality, life, and human action there is no such thing as interests independent of ideas, preceding ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52016]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the world of reality, life, and human action there is no such thing as interests independent of ideas, preceding them temporarily and logically. What a man considers his interest is the result of his ideas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I began to use my cricket, the first man I met in the darkness I thought was a German ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10638]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I began to use my cricket, the first man I met in the darkness I thought was a German until he cricketed. We threw our arms around each other, and from that moment I knew we had won the war.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would have thee gone, And yet no further than a wanton's bird,  Who lets it hop a little ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51471]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would have thee gone, And yet no further than a wanton's bird,  Who lets it hop a little from her hand,   Like a poor prisoner in his twisted gyves,    And with a silk thread plucks it back again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He said he had a show he wanted to put on the air about the survivors of a plane crash ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37936]]></link><description><![CDATA[He said he had a show he wanted to put on the air about the survivors of a plane crash and would I please help him do it, ... I thought, 'How is that a show?' And then I thought if I were to do this it would be far too weird and borderline sci-fi and he'd never want to do it. But his response was no, I love that idea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18751]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18751</guid></item></channel></rss>