<?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[Here [in Matthew 23] is an interpretation of Israel's history according to which God's people have always been disobedient and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here [in Matthew 23] is an interpretation of Israel's history according to which God's people have always been disobedient and rebellious: their alienation from God, it is clearly implied, is to reach its climax in the murder of the Messiah himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23464]]></link><description><![CDATA[Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43625]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The uselessness of men above sixty years of age and the incalculable benefit it would be in commercial, in political, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62139]]></link><description><![CDATA[The uselessness of men above sixty years of age and the incalculable benefit it would be in commercial, in political, and in professional life, if as a matter of course, men stopped work at this age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65193]]></link><description><![CDATA[This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The president's $1.6 trillion plan should be a floor, not a ceiling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33670]]></link><description><![CDATA[The president's $1.6 trillion plan should be a floor, not a ceiling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11541]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Patrick, Bishop of Armagh, Missionary, Patron of Ireland, c.460  It is generally true that all that is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6448]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Patrick, Bishop of Armagh, Missionary, Patron of Ireland, c.460  It is generally true that all that is required to make men unmindful of what they owe God for any blessing is that they should receive that blessing often and regularly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that would have the fruit must climb the tree. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21243]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was at this casino minding my own business, and this guy came up to me and said, "You're gonna ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64793]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was at this casino minding my own business, and this guy came up to me and said, "You're gonna have to move, you're blocking a fire exit." As though if there was a fire, I wasn't gonna run. If you're flammible and have legs, you are never blocking a fire exit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59152]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But, children, you should never let Such angry passions rise;  Your little hands were never made   To ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45620]]></link><description><![CDATA[But, children, you should never let Such angry passions rise;  Your little hands were never made   To tear each other's eyes.   - Isaac Watts,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61951]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men often compete with one another until the day they die; comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders jocularly with a competitor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57488]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men often compete with one another until the day they die; comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders jocularly with a competitor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Dog and the ShadowA DOG, crossing a bridge over a stream with a piece of flesh in his mouth, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1521]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Dog and the ShadowA DOG, crossing a bridge over a stream with a piece of flesh in his mouth, saw his own shadow in the water and took it for that of another Dog, with a piece of meat double his own in size. He immediately let go of his own, and fiercely attacked the other Dog to get his larger piece from him. He thus lost both: that which he grasped at in the water, because it was a shadow; and his own, because the stream swept it away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who disdains the fall in infant mortality and the gradual disappearance of famines and plagues may cast the first ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15192]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who disdains the fall in infant mortality and the gradual disappearance of famines and plagues may cast the first stone upon the materialism of the economists.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A true friend is someone who reaches for your hand and touches your heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19019]]></link><description><![CDATA[A true friend is someone who reaches for your hand and touches your heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is such an advocate for us in his everyday job and life. And he does that daily, continuously and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30381]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is such an advocate for us in his everyday job and life. And he does that daily, continuously and with enthusiasm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not go down and sit in front of the computer and make myself write; that's not my style. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65365]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not go down and sit in front of the computer and make myself write; that's not my style.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19529]]></link><description><![CDATA[To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The part of me which wanders through my mind and never sees or feels actual objects, but which lives in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36824]]></link><description><![CDATA[The part of me which wanders through my mind and never sees or feels actual objects, but which lives in and moves through my passions and my emotions, experiences this world as a horrible nightmare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis strange the miser should his cares employ To gain those riches he can ne'er enjoy;  Is it less ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42744]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis strange the miser should his cares employ To gain those riches he can ne'er enjoy;  Is it less strange the prodigal should waste   His wealth to purchase what he ne'er can taste?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps the early grave Which men weep over may be meant to save. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps the early grave Which men weep over may be meant to save.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19696]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember what Bilbo used to say: It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/662]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember what Bilbo used to say: It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think there's a feeling that there but for the grace of God, these sort of problems could easily happen ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31385]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think there's a feeling that there but for the grace of God, these sort of problems could easily happen to your own children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a big relief for me. Our team needs to make a push and I think with both of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38917]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a big relief for me. Our team needs to make a push and I think with both of us being healthy on the court at the same time, we can do that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The essence of love is getting out of oneself and into others. When we care less about our feelings, our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65825]]></link><description><![CDATA[The essence of love is getting out of oneself and into others. When we care less about our feelings, our rights, our happiness, our security, etc., and begin to concern ourselves with the feelings, rights, happiness, and security of others, we will have found the true power of love.”]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to win anything-a race, your self, your life-you have togo a little berserk. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22708]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to win anything-a race, your self, your life-you have togo a little berserk.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They also serve who only stand and wait. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45747]]></link><description><![CDATA[They also serve who only stand and wait.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Observation--activity of both eyes and ears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44799]]></link><description><![CDATA[Observation--activity of both eyes and ears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the gods are dead-- Ay, Zeus is dead, and all the gods but Doubt,  And doubt is brother ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12755]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the gods are dead-- Ay, Zeus is dead, and all the gods but Doubt,  And doubt is brother devil to Despair!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It feels good to be able to contribute on a senior-dominated team. I just got some openings and made some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38100]]></link><description><![CDATA[It feels good to be able to contribute on a senior-dominated team. I just got some openings and made some shots.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Communication works for those who work at it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9042]]></link><description><![CDATA[Communication works for those who work at it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can - there will always come a time when you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2956]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can - there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19524]]></link><description><![CDATA[No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But one sets of grandparents lived on Davidson Avenue in the Bronx and one lived in Manhattan and I had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37335]]></link><description><![CDATA[But one sets of grandparents lived on Davidson Avenue in the Bronx and one lived in Manhattan and I had an aunt and uncle in Queens, so in my heart I was a New Yorker.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[C. S. Lewis Centennial  Holding [the Way of Affirmation], we see that every created thing is, in its degree, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8528]]></link><description><![CDATA[C. S. Lewis Centennial  Holding [the Way of Affirmation], we see that every created thing is, in its degree, an image of God, and the ordinate and faithful appreciation of that thing a clue, which, truly followed, will lead back to Him. Holding [the Way of Rejection], we see that every created thing, the highest devotion to moral duty, the purest conjugal love, the saint and the seraph, is no more than an image; that every one of them, followed for its own sake and isolated from its source, becomes an idol whose service is damnation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They begin to see the difference between the immediate gratification of working and buying things now versus the delayed gratification ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40804]]></link><description><![CDATA[They begin to see the difference between the immediate gratification of working and buying things now versus the delayed gratification of a better career option and higher salary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dictators are rulers who always look good until the last ten minutes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24448]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dictators are rulers who always look good until the last ten minutes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Literature is the thought of thinking Souls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25247]]></link><description><![CDATA[Literature is the thought of thinking Souls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24374]]></link><description><![CDATA[God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mother of revolution and crime is poverty ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47866]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mother of revolution and crime is poverty]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61389]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer; preserve my life from fear of the enemy. [Psalms 64:1]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer; preserve my life from fear of the enemy. [Psalms 64:1].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of English Saints & Martyrs of the Reformation  If it be the earnest desire and longing of your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7246]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of English Saints & Martyrs of the Reformation  If it be the earnest desire and longing of your heart to be merciful as He is merciful; to be full of His unwearied patience, to dwell in His unalterable meekness; if you long to be like Him in universal, impartial love; if you desire to communicate every good to every creature that you are able; if you love and practice everything that is good, righteous, and lovely for its own sake, because it is good, righteous, and lovely; and resist no evil but with goodness; then you have the utmost certainty that the Spirit of God dwells and governs in you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who, to patch up his fame--or fill his purse-- Still pilfers wretched plans, and makes them worse;  Like gypsies, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46634]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who, to patch up his fame--or fill his purse-- Still pilfers wretched plans, and makes them worse;  Like gypsies, lest the stolen brat be known,   Defacing first, then claiming for his own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61534]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who loses money losses much. He who loses a friend loses more. But he who loses faith loses all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15022]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who loses money losses much. He who loses a friend loses more. But he who loses faith loses all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15022</guid></item></channel></rss>