<?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[A Code of Honor-never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife withmischief as your goal. There are just too many women ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21338]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Code of Honor-never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife withmischief as your goal. There are just too many women in the world tojustify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's reallyattractive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Postmodernism is, almost by definition, a transitional cusp of social, cultural, economic and ideological history when modernism's high-minded principles and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Postmodernism is, almost by definition, a transitional cusp of social, cultural, economic and ideological history when modernism's high-minded principles and preoccupations have ceased to function, but before they have been replaced with a totally new system of values. It represents a moment of suspension before the batteries are recharged for the new millennium, an acknowledgment that preceding the future is a strange and hybrid interregnum that might be called the last gasp of the past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good Friday  They say it was old sins that troubled him, the past failures of the man, that made ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good Friday  They say it was old sins that troubled him, the past failures of the man, that made things difficult for him now. There had been days when he had been too hectoring or domineering -- so, at least, these impossible people had said, though he himself denied it still. At all events, protesting to Rome, they had won the Emperor's ear, and humbled their governor. And that must not happen again. Ah, me! Is not this life of ours a fearsome thing? Take care! take care! for if you sin that sin, be sure that somehow you will pay for it -- and, it may be, at how hideous a price! So Pilate found in his day; so you, too, will find it in ours... Only God knows what may come out of that, if you should give way to it. Pilate was curt and domineering to the Jews one day. And it was because of that, months later, his unwilling hands set up the cross of Christ: unwilling -- but they did it. Take you care! for sin is very merciless. If you have had the sweet, [sin] will see to it that you quaff the bitter to the very dregs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imitation is the sincerest flattery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20576]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imitation is the sincerest flattery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here's to the town of New Haven, The home of the truth and the light,  Where God speaks to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59395]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here's to the town of New Haven, The home of the truth and the light,  Where God speaks to Jones,   In the very same tones,    That he uses with Hadley and Dwight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59395</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[How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity. [Lat., Ut saepe summa ingenia in occulto latent!] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44767]]></link><description><![CDATA[How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity. [Lat., Ut saepe summa ingenia in occulto latent!]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9270]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52609]]></link><description><![CDATA[The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our priority is the prosperity of Iraq and unity, without which there won't be security nor prosperity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29775]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our priority is the prosperity of Iraq and unity, without which there won't be security nor prosperity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All men do not admire and delight in the same objects. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50183]]></link><description><![CDATA[All men do not admire and delight in the same objects.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You see these guys on TV all the time and you always wonder if I could play in the majors. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31503]]></link><description><![CDATA[You see these guys on TV all the time and you always wonder if I could play in the majors. You get a chance to do it and are actually doing it. You see they are just like you, that they put their pants on one leg at a time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger always comes from frustrated expectations ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger always comes from frustrated expectations]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When people revolt in a totalitarian society, they rise not against the wickedness of the regime but its weakness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47604]]></link><description><![CDATA[When people revolt in a totalitarian society, they rise not against the wickedness of the regime but its weakness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has been discovered before; lastly, they say they always believed it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13151]]></link><description><![CDATA[God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the credit of their religion as well as the satisfaction of their conscience that their Easter devotions would in some measure come up to their Easter dress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The readiness to praise others indicates a desire for excellence and perhaps an ability to realize it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52298]]></link><description><![CDATA[The readiness to praise others indicates a desire for excellence and perhaps an ability to realize it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I stood on the bridge at midnight, As the clocks were striking the hour,  And the moon rose over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27452]]></link><description><![CDATA[I stood on the bridge at midnight, As the clocks were striking the hour,  And the moon rose over the city,   Behind the dark church tower.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A criminal trial is like a Russian novel: it starts with exasperating slowness as the characters are introduced to a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47047]]></link><description><![CDATA[A criminal trial is like a Russian novel: it starts with exasperating slowness as the characters are introduced to a jury, then there are complications in the form of minor witnesses, the protagonist finally appears and contradictions arise to produce drama, and finally as both jury and spectators grow weary and confused the pace quickens, reaching its climax in passionate final argument.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right now in California we gain 40,000 new acres of desert every year, with all the building and the people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right now in California we gain 40,000 new acres of desert every year, with all the building and the people coming in... housing going up like crazy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54952]]></link><description><![CDATA[Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901   Nor is the fact that a particular form ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901   Nor is the fact that a particular form was good in a particular age any proof that it is also good for another age. The history of the organization of Christianity has been in reality the history of successive readjustments of form to altered circumstances. Its power of readjustment has been at once a mark of its divinity and a secret of its strength.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature... She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature... She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Covetous of another man's, prodigal of his own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Covetous of another man's, prodigal of his own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You Sang To Me, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41424]]></link><description><![CDATA[You Sang To Me,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27930]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21141]]></link><description><![CDATA[One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is long, life is short. —Ars longa, vita brevis ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3194]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is long, life is short. —Ars longa, vita brevis]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Saddle your dreams before you ride em. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63238]]></link><description><![CDATA[Saddle your dreams before you ride em.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suspicion is a mental picture seen through an imaginary keyhole ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58401]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suspicion is a mental picture seen through an imaginary keyhole]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This was the fullness of time, when Christ Jesus did come, that the Messiah should come. It was so to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8226]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was the fullness of time, when Christ Jesus did come, that the Messiah should come. It was so to the Jews, and it was so to the Gentiles too... Christ hath excommunicated no nation, no shire, no house, no man; He gives none of His ministers leave to say to any man, thou art not redeemed; He gives no wounded or afflicted conscience leave to say to itself, I am not redeemed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51117]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything has changed. An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34977]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything has changed. An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving, wherein men find pleasure to be deceived. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11536]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving, wherein men find pleasure to be deceived.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One more unfortunate Weary of breath,  Rashly importunate,   Gone to her death! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42806]]></link><description><![CDATA[One more unfortunate Weary of breath,  Rashly importunate,   Gone to her death!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is richest who is content with the least. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28153]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is richest who is content with the least.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the faces of men and women I see God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17725]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the faces of men and women I see God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would have been great to have an all-American sweep, ... but I think that this shows how strong the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40264]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would have been great to have an all-American sweep, ... but I think that this shows how strong the Americans are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6018]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't play for safety--it's the most dangerous thing in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11072]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't play for safety--it's the most dangerous thing in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm really into those shows. But the more I learn in class, the more I'm interested in the real thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37561]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm really into those shows. But the more I learn in class, the more I'm interested in the real thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Should I worship Him from fear of hell, may I be cast into it. Should I serve Him from desire ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7324]]></link><description><![CDATA[Should I worship Him from fear of hell, may I be cast into it. Should I serve Him from desire of gaining heaven, may He keep me out. But should I worship Him from love alone, He reveal Himself to me, that my whole heart may be filled with His love and presence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more of it remains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45215]]></link><description><![CDATA[So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more of it remains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No rest is worth anything except the rest that is earned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46303]]></link><description><![CDATA[No rest is worth anything except the rest that is earned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65817]]></link><description><![CDATA[For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the Lord Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon Creation, I should have recommended something simpler. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53689]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the Lord Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon Creation, I should have recommended something simpler.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26310]]></link><description><![CDATA[I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61314</guid></item></channel></rss>