<?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[He made a mistake by going into the ring, but it was his nephew, and this hooligan (Judah) -- that's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30303]]></link><description><![CDATA[He made a mistake by going into the ring, but it was his nephew, and this hooligan (Judah) -- that's what he is, a hooligan -- committed these very flagrant fouls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who fall from favor are the empty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52573]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who fall from favor are the empty mailbox and the silent telephone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Charles Williams, Spiritual Writer, 1945   Come to the Bible, not to study the history of God's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6384]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Charles Williams, Spiritual Writer, 1945   Come to the Bible, not to study the history of God's divine action, but to be its object; not to learn what it has achieved throughout the centuries and still does, but simply to be the subject of its operation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No matter how you look at it, no matter how many lame arguments Cindy wants to make, my numbers are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32615]]></link><description><![CDATA[No matter how you look at it, no matter how many lame arguments Cindy wants to make, my numbers are bigger and she'll just have to get used to it,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children are our most valuable natural resource. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6020]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children are our most valuable natural resource.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The buttercups, bright-eyed and bold, Held up their chalices of gold  To catch the sunshine and the dew. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5142]]></link><description><![CDATA[The buttercups, bright-eyed and bold, Held up their chalices of gold  To catch the sunshine and the dew.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And that inverted Bowl they call the Sky, Whereunder crawling coop'd we live and die,  Lift not your hands ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56515]]></link><description><![CDATA[And that inverted Bowl they call the Sky, Whereunder crawling coop'd we live and die,  Lift not your hands to it for help--for it   As impotently moves as you or I.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55232]]></link><description><![CDATA[One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist. -Diogenes Laertius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a cold winter Sunday afternoon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4626]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a cold winter Sunday afternoon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old age comes at a bad time. -San Banducci. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1820]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old age comes at a bad time. -San Banducci.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I woke at intervals until . . . the intervals of waking tipped the scales, and I was more often ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61083]]></link><description><![CDATA[I woke at intervals until . . . the intervals of waking tipped the scales, and I was more often awake than not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you get free costs too much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63455]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you get free costs too much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Character is what you are in the dark. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Character is what you are in the dark.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a step in the direction of releasing all Palestinian prisoners. Their continued stay in prison does not help Israel's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36378]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a step in the direction of releasing all Palestinian prisoners. Their continued stay in prison does not help Israel's interests.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We grow small trying to be great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2354]]></link><description><![CDATA[We grow small trying to be great.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The education of the doctor which goes on after he has his degree is, after all, the most important part ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27608]]></link><description><![CDATA[The education of the doctor which goes on after he has his degree is, after all, the most important part of his education.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A society that refuses to strive for superfluities is likely to end up lacking in necessities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56884]]></link><description><![CDATA[A society that refuses to strive for superfluities is likely to end up lacking in necessities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25364]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd be hanging out in my bathrobe all day, stinky, just writing, and my mom allowed me to do this-as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58371]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd be hanging out in my bathrobe all day, stinky, just writing, and my mom allowed me to do this-as long as I was writing songs. She said, 'As long as you're seriously working on music, I'll support you. Don't get a job, because if you work, it will crush you.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's like I'd always get close [to gaining 100 yards in a game] but fall short. It felt good to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39138]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's like I'd always get close [to gaining 100 yards in a game] but fall short. It felt good to get that one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who hates children and dogs can't be all bad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28042]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who hates children and dogs can't be all bad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes people play hard to get to know that the other person's feelings are real ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59911]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes people play hard to get to know that the other person's feelings are real]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let's just say that back in the old days, sex was available every two feet. But I never made love ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28375]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let's just say that back in the old days, sex was available every two feet. But I never made love to anybody that did not want me to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her face betokened all things dear and good, The light of somewhat yet to come was there Asleep, and waiting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63966]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her face betokened all things dear and good, The light of somewhat yet to come was there Asleep, and waiting for the opening day, When childish thoughts, like flowers would drift away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5614]]></link><description><![CDATA[One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In some years, we see the boating season just being delayed, and they might be able to make it up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34135]]></link><description><![CDATA[In some years, we see the boating season just being delayed, and they might be able to make it up later in the year. Based on the tone of the last earnings call, I?m not expecting to see a spike for them in the third quarter. The next big question is: What is 2006 going to look like in terms of how the boating season shapes up and how successful will these new initiatives be that the management is waiting on?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is thus that the few rare lucid well-disposed people who have had to struggle on the earth find themselves ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29547]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is thus that the few rare lucid well-disposed people who have had to struggle on the earth find themselves at certain hours of the day or night in the depth of certain authentic and waking nightmare states, surrounded by the formidable suction, the formidable oppression of a kind of civic magic which will soon be seen appearing openly in social behavior.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O thou who passest through our valleys in Thy strength, curb thy fierce steeds, allay the heat  That flames ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58254]]></link><description><![CDATA[O thou who passest through our valleys in Thy strength, curb thy fierce steeds, allay the heat  That flames from their large nostrils! Thou, O Summer,   Oft pitchest here thy golden tent, and oft    Beneath our oaks hast slept, while we beheld     With joy thy ruddy limbs and flourishing hair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Next to ingratitude, the most painful thing to bear is gratitude. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18177]]></link><description><![CDATA[Next to ingratitude, the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58746]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy -- common clay, if you like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy -- common clay, if you like -- eating, breeding, working, counting their pennies; people who just live; ordinary people; people you can't imagine dead. And then there are the others -- the noble ones, the heroes. The ones you can quite well imagine lying shot, pale and tragic; one minute triumphant with a guard of honor, and the next being marched away between two gendarmes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acheson's Rule of Bureaucracy: A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24346]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acheson's Rule of Bureaucracy: A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now I perceive the devil understands Welsh. And 'tis no marvel he is so humorous.  By'r Lady, he is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20064]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now I perceive the devil understands Welsh. And 'tis no marvel he is so humorous.  By'r Lady, he is a good musician.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bringing democratic control to the conduct of foreign policy requires a struggle merely to force the issue onto the public ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34581]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bringing democratic control to the conduct of foreign policy requires a struggle merely to force the issue onto the public agenda.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They don't understand the goal of the campaign, ... It is directed at men, to capture the attention of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36591]]></link><description><![CDATA[They don't understand the goal of the campaign, ... It is directed at men, to capture the attention of the macho Mexican man who uses the turtle eggs for sexual ends. The campaign tries to be sexy precisely to capture their attention. We are in a country where there are boring government campaigns every day that no one watches.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know you can't make that big play, get that turnover every time. We've got to do some basic things, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30521]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know you can't make that big play, get that turnover every time. We've got to do some basic things, some good, overall football things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[George and Mary Stewart became my unofficial Houston parents and the most wonderful, entertaining, hard-working garden enthusiasts that I could ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30159]]></link><description><![CDATA[George and Mary Stewart became my unofficial Houston parents and the most wonderful, entertaining, hard-working garden enthusiasts that I could ever hope to know. They were, in fact, not just Houston's Premier Gardeners; they were first-class entertainment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are leaving port under sealed orders and in a troubled period. You cannot know whither you are going or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7594]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are leaving port under sealed orders and in a troubled period. You cannot know whither you are going or what you are to do. But why not take the Pilot on board who knows the nature of your sealed orders from the outset, and who will shape your entire voyage accordingly? He knows the shoals and the sandbanks, the rocks and the reefs, He will steer you safely into that celestial harbor where your anchor will be cast for eternity. Let His almighty nail-pierced hands hold the wheel, and you will be safe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration; but the honing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27820]]></link><description><![CDATA[The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration; but the honing is uniform. - Real Presences, 1989.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1029]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45838]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards. More than that no man is entitled to, and less than that no man shall have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The alternative is to do nothing and be ignored.] Once the penalties are levied, it's a silent message unless it's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40979]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The alternative is to do nothing and be ignored.] Once the penalties are levied, it's a silent message unless it's collected, ... So we make every effort to collect those outstanding penalties.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were young, we were merry, we were very, very wise, And the door stood open at our feast,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61978]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were young, we were merry, we were very, very wise, And the door stood open at our feast,  When there passed us a woman with the West in her eyes,   And a man with his back to the East.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14052]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It sent chills down my spine. It was recognition of a student-athlete who did it right, but it was something ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37585]]></link><description><![CDATA[It sent chills down my spine. It was recognition of a student-athlete who did it right, but it was something more. I just don't know of any other conference where something like that would happen. For me, that's the moment I 'got' it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63471]]></link><description><![CDATA[I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63471</guid></item></channel></rss>