<?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[...The purpose of man's life...is to become an abject zombie who serves a purpose he does not know, for reasons ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62681]]></link><description><![CDATA[...The purpose of man's life...is to become an abject zombie who serves a purpose he does not know, for reasons he is not to question.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16642]]></link><description><![CDATA[A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The problem is not with people or churches that are politically active. It is with a party that has gone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55189]]></link><description><![CDATA[The problem is not with people or churches that are politically active. It is with a party that has gone so far in adopting a sectarian agenda that it has become the political extension of a religious movement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be positive: to be mistaken at the top of one's voice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5460]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be positive: to be mistaken at the top of one's voice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The King turned a deaf ear to friendly countries' calls for rapprochement with political parties. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41280]]></link><description><![CDATA[The King turned a deaf ear to friendly countries' calls for rapprochement with political parties.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Basically I am interrested in friendship, sex, and death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24906]]></link><description><![CDATA[Basically I am interrested in friendship, sex, and death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation the source of strength is one's self. When one prays he goes to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26801]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation the source of strength is one's self. When one prays he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Passion costs me too much to bestow it on every trifle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2130]]></link><description><![CDATA[Passion costs me too much to bestow it on every trifle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some degree of novelty must be one of the materials in almost every instrument which works upon the mind; and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some degree of novelty must be one of the materials in almost every instrument which works upon the mind; and curiosity blends itself, more or less, with all our pleasures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a coach, you hate to see your kids in pain and suffering a little bit. So I was just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30884]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a coach, you hate to see your kids in pain and suffering a little bit. So I was just trying to encourage him and talk to him about what he learned and some of the positives that should have been gained here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Threatned men eat bread, says the Spaniard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Threatned men eat bread, says the Spaniard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The groves of Blarney They look so charming  Down by the purling   Of sweet, silent brooks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23049]]></link><description><![CDATA[The groves of Blarney They look so charming  Down by the purling   Of sweet, silent brooks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The news is the one thing the networks can point to with pride. Everything else they do is crap - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60856]]></link><description><![CDATA[The news is the one thing the networks can point to with pride. Everything else they do is crap - and they know it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Know thyself. [Lat., Ne quis nimis. (From the Greek)] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Know thyself. [Lat., Ne quis nimis. (From the Greek)]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's a real good kid. Real quick, great skills. You'll see a lot of him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29191]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's a real good kid. Real quick, great skills. You'll see a lot of him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How beauteous are rouleaus! how charming chests Containing ingots, bags of dollars, coins  (Not of old victors, all whose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42956]]></link><description><![CDATA[How beauteous are rouleaus! how charming chests Containing ingots, bags of dollars, coins  (Not of old victors, all whose heads and crests   Weigh not the thin ore where their visage shines,    But) of find unclipt gold, where dully rests     Some likeness, which the glittering cirque confines,      Of modern, reigning, sterling, stupid stamp;--       Yes! ready money is Aladdin's lamp.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've never got to the bottom of streaking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38998]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've never got to the bottom of streaking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cotton is king; or slavery in the Light of Political Economy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56580]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cotton is king; or slavery in the Light of Political Economy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glass antique! 'twixt thee and Nell Draw we here a parallel!  She, like thee, was forced to bear  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9142]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glass antique! 'twixt thee and Nell Draw we here a parallel!  She, like thee, was forced to bear   All reflections, foul or fair.    Thou art deep and bright within,     Depths as bright belong'd to Gwynne;      Thou art very frail as well,       Frail as flesh is,--so was Nell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even a thief takes ten years to learn his trade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even a thief takes ten years to learn his trade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I bust patents for a living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36013]]></link><description><![CDATA[I bust patents for a living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17463]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing -- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20741]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing -- that's the Lord's test.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has wronged you is either stronger or weaker than yourself: be he weaker, spare him; be he stronger, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51155]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has wronged you is either stronger or weaker than yourself: be he weaker, spare him; be he stronger, then spare yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like to prepare dough ahead for pizza crusts too. Whenever I bake loaves of whole wheat, anadama, herb, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31144]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like to prepare dough ahead for pizza crusts too. Whenever I bake loaves of whole wheat, anadama, herb, or other breads . . . I just mix up a little extra, package the dough in onepound lots, and freeze it right alongside my other ingredients. ThenÃƒÂƒÃ‚Â¹when pizza day rolls aroundÃƒÂƒÃ‚Â¹all I have to do is go to the freezer and select one container of crust, one sauce, one sausage, and one cheese . . . thaw everything . . . roll out the dough and spread on the sauce, sausage, and cheese . . . bake my creation at 450?F for about 15 minutes or until the cheese is slightly browned . . . and 'serve 'er up' to a hungry family of four.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65889]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Denys, Bishop of Paris, & his Companions, Martyrs, 258 Commemoration of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, Philosopher, Scientist, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8332]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Denys, Bishop of Paris, & his Companions, Martyrs, 258 Commemoration of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, Philosopher, Scientist, 1253   This Gospel accords perfectly with the account which St. Paul gives of his preaching in the last address to the Ephesian elders, and it contains all the elements which are to be found in all the sermons and in all the notices of St. Paul's preaching in the Acts, except only the answers to the objections against the Gospel, and the proofs of its truth, which would be manifestly out of place in writing to Christians.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She racked her brain for words scathing enough to convey her opinion of their actions. When nothing came to her, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/345]]></link><description><![CDATA[She racked her brain for words scathing enough to convey her opinion of their actions. When nothing came to her, she settled for the one unanswerable accusation. "Men!"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm going to have to relive it all over again. But I'll do that if it means he will be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29199]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm going to have to relive it all over again. But I'll do that if it means he will be held accountable for what he did.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63122]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But when once Christ had called him, Peter had no alternative he must leave the ship and come to Him. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8598]]></link><description><![CDATA[But when once Christ had called him, Peter had no alternative he must leave the ship and come to Him. In the end, the first step of obedience proves to be an act of faith in the word of Christ. But we should completely misunderstand the nature of grace if we were to suppose that there was no need to take the first-step, because faith was already there. Against that, we must boldly assert that the step of obedience must be taken before faith can be possible. Unless he obeys, a man cannot believe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou wear a lion's hide! doff it for shame, And hang a calf's-skin on those recreant limbs. -King John. Act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55788]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou wear a lion's hide! doff it for shame, And hang a calf's-skin on those recreant limbs. -King John. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65681]]></link><description><![CDATA[The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To support those of your rights authorized by Heaven, destroy everything rather than yield; that is the spirit of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8668]]></link><description><![CDATA[To support those of your rights authorized by Heaven, destroy everything rather than yield; that is the spirit of the Church. [Fr., Pour soutenir tes droits, que le ciel autorise,  Abime tout plutot; c'est l'esprit de l'Eglise.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The religious desire and effort of the soul to relate itself and all its interest to God and his will, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6574]]></link><description><![CDATA[The religious desire and effort of the soul to relate itself and all its interest to God and his will, is prayer in the deepest sense. This is essential prayer: uttered or unexpressed, it is equally prayer. It is the soul's desire after God going forth in a manifestation, ... the soul striving after God. This is a prayer that may exist without ceasing, consisting, as it does, not in doing or saying this or that, but in temper and attitude of the spirit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm concerned about the vast number of new deals that are on the table right now when you consider the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33990]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm concerned about the vast number of new deals that are on the table right now when you consider the rapidly changing debt market.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['I wish life was not so short,' he thought. Languages take such a time, and so do all the things ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66917]]></link><description><![CDATA['I wish life was not so short,' he thought. Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['He means well' is useless unless he does well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4017]]></link><description><![CDATA['He means well' is useless unless he does well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47287]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46267]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I started to play trumpet I was fortunate to learn very quickly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35109]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I started to play trumpet I was fortunate to learn very quickly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We payt a person the complement of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26150]]></link><description><![CDATA[We payt a person the complement of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It doesn't matter where we play. Our guys love a tough crowd. Hopefully, Lawrence will provide that. I'm sure they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39638]]></link><description><![CDATA[It doesn't matter where we play. Our guys love a tough crowd. Hopefully, Lawrence will provide that. I'm sure they will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17453]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes even though you're having a good time, you can't help but to stop and think about how much you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes even though you're having a good time, you can't help but to stop and think about how much you miss the old times.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27891]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19507]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43937]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is very midsummer madness. -Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55763]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is very midsummer madness. -Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55763</guid></item></channel></rss>