<?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[Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28900]]></link><description><![CDATA[Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sticks and stones will break my bones, but names will never hurt me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43622]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sticks and stones will break my bones, but names will never hurt me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hunger that persuades to evil. [Lat., Malesuada fames.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20168]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hunger that persuades to evil. [Lat., Malesuada fames.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing that exasperates people more than a display of superior ability or brilliance in conversation. They seem pleased ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27921]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing that exasperates people more than a display of superior ability or brilliance in conversation. They seem pleased at the time, but their envy makes them curse the conversationalist in their heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hold a true friend with both hands. - Kanuri proverb, Nigeria ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28496]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hold a true friend with both hands. - Kanuri proverb, Nigeria]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["I worked for men," my Lord will say, When we meet at the end of the King's highway;  "I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11682]]></link><description><![CDATA["I worked for men," my Lord will say, When we meet at the end of the King's highway;  "I walked with the beggar along the road,   I kissed the bondsman stung by the goad,    I bore my half of the porter's load.     And what did you do," my Lord will say,      "As you traveled along the King's highway?"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the communities of the faithful, men had to impress upon themselves and upon others what Jesus said and did, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6195]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the communities of the faithful, men had to impress upon themselves and upon others what Jesus said and did, for the more convinced they were that he was neither a Jewish pretender nor an unsubstantial deity like one of the deities of the cults, the more urgent it was for them to recall that his words were the rule of their life, and that his actions in history had created their position in the world; they had to think out their faith, to state it against outside criticism, and to teach it within their own circle, instead of being content with it as a mere emotion; they had also to refresh their courage by anticipating the future, which they believed was in the hands of their Lord. The common basis of their life was the conviction that they enjoyed a new relationship with God, for which they were indebted to Jesus. The technical term for this relationship was "covenant", and "covenant" became eventually in their vocabulary "testament". Hence the later name for these writings of the church, when gathered into a sacred collection, was "The New Testament" -- New because the older relationship of God to his people, which had obtained under Judaism, with its Old Testament was superseded by the faith and fellowship which Jesus Christ his Son had inaugurated. It was the consciousness of this that inspired the early Christians to live, and to write about the origin and applications of this new life. They wrote for their own age, without a thought of posterity, and they did not write in unison but in harmony.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1797]]></link><description><![CDATA[Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will have to defend very well and take half-chances. It will come down to who takes the half-chances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35970]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will have to defend very well and take half-chances. It will come down to who takes the half-chances.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give me a museum and I'll fill it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3273]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give me a museum and I'll fill it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change thenature of the one who prays. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21366]]></link><description><![CDATA[The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change thenature of the one who prays.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They allow schools to fit to kids instead of kids fitting to schools. Mandatory school assignment proves to have detrimental ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37529]]></link><description><![CDATA[They allow schools to fit to kids instead of kids fitting to schools. Mandatory school assignment proves to have detrimental consequences to students.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How far must suffering and misery go before we see that even in the day of vast cities and powerful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13135]]></link><description><![CDATA[How far must suffering and misery go before we see that even in the day of vast cities and powerful machines, the good earth is our mother and that if we destroy her, we destroy ourselves?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not enough to show people how to live better: there is a mandate for any group with enormous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27934]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not enough to show people how to live better: there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better. - "A Word to the Wizards".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To some lawyers, all facts are created equal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24358]]></link><description><![CDATA[To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you belong to a minority, you have to be better in order to have the right to be equal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14114]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you belong to a minority, you have to be better in order to have the right to be equal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've changed my mind about the interview. I shall never give interviews. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42244]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've changed my mind about the interview. I shall never give interviews.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43683]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes truth is lost first in a church, and then holiness and sometimes the decay or hatred of holiness is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8166]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes truth is lost first in a church, and then holiness and sometimes the decay or hatred of holiness is the cause of the loss of truth. But if either is rejected, the other will not abide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morality is the theory that every h uman act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morality is the theory that every h uman act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every charitable act is a stepping stone towards heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5719]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every charitable act is a stepping stone towards heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43940]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you walked into Netscape headquarters with a plain old modem from CompUSA they'd think it was a garage-door opener. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9378]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you walked into Netscape headquarters with a plain old modem from CompUSA they'd think it was a garage-door opener.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be that contented person who looks beyond circumstances and see better days rather than the discontented who looks at circumstances ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62964]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be that contented person who looks beyond circumstances and see better days rather than the discontented who looks at circumstances and see no other way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abortion is a skillfully marketed product sold to women at a crisis time in their life. If the product is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6006]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abortion is a skillfully marketed product sold to women at a crisis time in their life. If the product is defective, she can't return it for a refund.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes creativity just means the daily work of helping others to see a problem in a different way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes creativity just means the daily work of helping others to see a problem in a different way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24990]]></link><description><![CDATA[A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can any man have a higher notion of the rule of right and the eternal fitness of things? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can any man have a higher notion of the rule of right and the eternal fitness of things?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gardens, scholars say, are the first sign of commitment to a community. When people plant corn they are saying, let's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8790]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gardens, scholars say, are the first sign of commitment to a community. When people plant corn they are saying, let's stay here. And by their connection to the land, they are connected to one another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can dream it, you can do it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2653]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can dream it, you can do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The search for moral guidance which shall not depend upon external authority has invariably ended in the acknowledgment of some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47438]]></link><description><![CDATA[The search for moral guidance which shall not depend upon external authority has invariably ended in the acknowledgment of some new authority.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every believer is God's miracle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27553]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every believer is God's miracle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The deafe gaines the injury. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49828]]></link><description><![CDATA[The deafe gaines the injury.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scratch a dog and you'll find a permanent job. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12694]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scratch a dog and you'll find a permanent job.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4553]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. Persecution is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10066]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. Persecution is used in theology, not in arithmetic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19065]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've never seen a boost of this magnitude. It has to be Golden Globe-oriented. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31684]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've never seen a boost of this magnitude. It has to be Golden Globe-oriented.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God and a soldier all people adore In time of war, but not before;  And when war is over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57130]]></link><description><![CDATA[God and a soldier all people adore In time of war, but not before;  And when war is over and all things are righted,   God is neglected and an old soldier slighted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11939]]></link><description><![CDATA[The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like hungry guests, a sitting audience looks; Plays are like suppers; poets are the cooks.  The founder's you: the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like hungry guests, a sitting audience looks; Plays are like suppers; poets are the cooks.  The founder's you: the table is the place:   The carvers we: the prologue is the grace.    Each act, a course, each scene, a different dish,     Though we're in Lent, I doubt you're still for flesh.      Satire's the sauce, high-season'd, sharp and rough.       Kind masks and beaux, I hope you're pepperproof?        Wit is the wine; but 'tis so scarce the true         Poets, like vintners, balderdash and brew.          Your surly scenes, where rant and bloodshed join.           Are butcher's meat, a battle's sirloin:            Your scenes of love, so flowing, soft and chaste,             Are water-gruel without salt or taste.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5475]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4735]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I meant exactly what I said: that we are saddled with a culture that hasn't advanced as far as science. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42628]]></link><description><![CDATA[I meant exactly what I said: that we are saddled with a culture that hasn't advanced as far as science.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4831]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Domestic Happiness, thou only bliss Of Paradise that hast survived the Fall! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18647]]></link><description><![CDATA[Domestic Happiness, thou only bliss Of Paradise that hast survived the Fall!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are none of us infallible -- not even the youngest of us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15063]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are none of us infallible -- not even the youngest of us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Work hard. And have patience. Because no matter who you are, you're going to get hurt in your career and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66552]]></link><description><![CDATA[Work hard. And have patience. Because no matter who you are, you're going to get hurt in your career and you have to be patient to get through the injuries.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66552</guid></item></channel></rss>