<?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[Anger wishes that all mankind had only one neck; love, that it had only one heart; grief, two tear-glands; and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2551]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger wishes that all mankind had only one neck; love, that it had only one heart; grief, two tear-glands; and pride, two bent knees.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live for today for tomorrow never comes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51012]]></link><description><![CDATA[Live for today for tomorrow never comes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not perfect, nay, but full of tender wants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51707]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not perfect, nay, but full of tender wants.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump: you may be freeing him from being a camel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56937]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump: you may be freeing him from being a camel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just wrote 'Merry Christmas John' on my balloon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37042]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just wrote 'Merry Christmas John' on my balloon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66185]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is the barometer of a society's virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here is the simple but powerful rule... always give people more than they expect to get. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21637]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here is the simple but powerful rule... always give people more than they expect to get.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We train our instructors how to set expectations for themselves and for their students so it doesn't lead to frustration ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32197]]></link><description><![CDATA[We train our instructors how to set expectations for themselves and for their students so it doesn't lead to frustration on either end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opinion is the main thing which does harm or good in the world. It is our false opinions that ruin ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41479]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opinion is the main thing which does harm or good in the world. It is our false opinions that ruin us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The orange that is too hard squeezed yields a bitter juice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51028]]></link><description><![CDATA[The orange that is too hard squeezed yields a bitter juice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Direct The clasping ivy where to climb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Direct The clasping ivy where to climb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every few years I'll party way too much to remind myself what an idiot I am. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37645]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every few years I'll party way too much to remind myself what an idiot I am.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Young people need models, not critics ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Young people need models, not critics]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[RIM is already seeing a lot of competition from rivals like Microsoft and Palm . ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30416]]></link><description><![CDATA[RIM is already seeing a lot of competition from rivals like Microsoft and Palm .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take but degree away, untune that string, And, hark, what discord follows! each thing meets In mere oppugnancy. -Troilus and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56062]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take but degree away, untune that string, And, hark, what discord follows! each thing meets In mere oppugnancy. -Troilus and Cressida. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know they're not going to lose 162 consecutive games. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57657]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know they're not going to lose 162 consecutive games.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25417]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtuous people are simply those who have not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state, or because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60789]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtuous people are simply those who have not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state, or because their purposes are so concentrated in one direction that they have not had the leisure to glance around them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2839]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My first instinct was not to do it. I didn't want to trample on ( Whipped Cream ). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36481]]></link><description><![CDATA[My first instinct was not to do it. I didn't want to trample on ( Whipped Cream ).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If my primary purpose here at Indiana is to go out and win ballgames, I can probably do that as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3780]]></link><description><![CDATA[If my primary purpose here at Indiana is to go out and win ballgames, I can probably do that as well as anybody can. I would just cheat, get some money from alot of people around Indianapolis who want to run the operation that way, and just go out and get the best basketball players I can. Then we'd beat everybody.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12084</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[Continued from yesterday:  The result of all this is that the Christian is a free man. It is here ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7479]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continued from yesterday:  The result of all this is that the Christian is a free man. It is here to be observed that the term "freedom" is ambiguous in common usage. It is sometimes used to imply that a man can do just as he likes, undetermined by any external force. To this the determinist replies that as a matter of fact this freedom is so limited by the laws which condition man's empirical existence as to be illusory. The rejoinder from the advocates of free will is that no external force can determine a man's moral conduct (and with mere automatism we are not concerned), unless it is presented in consciousness, and that in being so presented it becomes a desire, a temptation, or a motive. In suffering himself to be determined by these, the man is not submitting to external control, but to something which he has already made a part of himself, for good or ill. When, however, we have said that, we are faced with a further problem. Not all that is desired is desirable, and in being moved by my immediate desire I may be balking myself of that ultimate satisfaction which is the real object of all effort. If that is so, then to "do as I like" may well be no freedom at all. There is a law of our being which forbids satisfaction to be found along that line, as it is written, "He gave them their desire, and sent leanness into their souls." (Ps. 106:15) (Continued tomorrow).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tester I 'll have in pouch, when thou shalt lack, Base Phrygian Turk! -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55352]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tester I 'll have in pouch, when thou shalt lack, Base Phrygian Turk! -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no bad feelings from him and no bad feelings from me. He said 'I'm sorry. It's just one of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33150]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no bad feelings from him and no bad feelings from me. He said 'I'm sorry. It's just one of those deals.' I said I understand. We've been good friends for a lot of years. I think he's a quality individual.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62268]]></link><description><![CDATA[This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of energy in our great men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No love to a Fathers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49653]]></link><description><![CDATA[No love to a Fathers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Personally, I don't think it's a good idea to move to a countywide system. I have real concerns about how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41985]]></link><description><![CDATA[Personally, I don't think it's a good idea to move to a countywide system. I have real concerns about how frequently the revenues would be distributed and what sort of accountability there would be in getting proper distribution.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that lends, gives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49372]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that lends, gives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The test of man is how well he is able to feel about what he thinks. The test of a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27032]]></link><description><![CDATA[The test of man is how well he is able to feel about what he thinks. The test of a woman is how well she is able to think about what she feels.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now we're getting into the sites that are asking specific questions, even down to 'How was this date?' 'How are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39431]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now we're getting into the sites that are asking specific questions, even down to 'How was this date?' 'How are they sexually?']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The discipline you learn and character you build from setting and achieving a goal can be more valuable than the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65146]]></link><description><![CDATA[The discipline you learn and character you build from setting and achieving a goal can be more valuable than the achievement of the goal itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to think that economies of scale make this more plausible. We've created a behemoth in the card industry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32292]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to think that economies of scale make this more plausible. We've created a behemoth in the card industry through this merger, and things like this seem like a natural progression going forward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The unphilosophical majority among men are the ones most helplessly dependent on their era's dominant ideas. In times of crises ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52160]]></link><description><![CDATA[The unphilosophical majority among men are the ones most helplessly dependent on their era's dominant ideas. In times of crises these men need the guidance of some kind of theory; but, being unfamiliar with the field of ideas, they do not know that alternatives to the popular theories are possible. They know only what they have always been taught.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As soon Seek roses in December--ice in June,  Hope, constancy in wind, or corn in chaff;   Believe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10729]]></link><description><![CDATA[As soon Seek roses in December--ice in June,  Hope, constancy in wind, or corn in chaff;   Believe a woman or an epitaph,    Or any other thing that's false, before     You trust in critics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54010]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a common phenomenon that just the prettiest girls find it so difficult to get a man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17488]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a common phenomenon that just the prettiest girls find it so difficult to get a man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our earth is but a small star in a great universe. Yet of it we can make, if we choose, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13133]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our earth is but a small star in a great universe. Yet of it we can make, if we choose, a planet unvexed by war, untroubled by hunger or fear, undivided by senseless distinctions of race, color or theory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't imagine what a pleasure this complete laziness is to me: not a thought in my brain- you might ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24381]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't imagine what a pleasure this complete laziness is to me: not a thought in my brain- you might send a ball rolling through it!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester, 1095  There are a number of Hebrew words about salvation which also mean ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6187]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester, 1095  There are a number of Hebrew words about salvation which also mean "to bring into a spacious environment", "to be at one's ease", "to be free to develop". "Salvation" can be seen then as the new life in Christ, in which we are to be "free to develop" into Christ-like people. For this maturing to take place, there needs to be a breaking down of barriers, a breaking up of the soil of our personalities, and a healing of inner wounds and hurts. The soil is softened, the clay becomes malleable through the experience of the tender love of God and the accepting, non-judgmental love of Christians. We cannot be beaten into shape.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best -- that is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22030]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best -- that is inspiration.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music was invented to confirm human loneliness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're struggling a little bit with some injuries but we've got great depth and we feel good about that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37539]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're struggling a little bit with some injuries but we've got great depth and we feel good about that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4719]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are in the midst of a great transition from narrow nationalism to international partnership. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43702]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are in the midst of a great transition from narrow nationalism to international partnership.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What\'s amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66718]]></link><description><![CDATA[What\'s amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It's so far away in time that they can't appreciate what it means for their whole life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66718</guid></item></channel></rss>