<?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://maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Play so that you may be serious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Play so that you may be serious.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are respectable only as they respect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are respectable only as they respect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50598]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19948]]></link><description><![CDATA[When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It rarely adds anything to say, "In my opinion" -- not even modesty. Naturally a sentence is only your opinion; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42920]]></link><description><![CDATA[It rarely adds anything to say, "In my opinion" -- not even modesty. Naturally a sentence is only your opinion; and you are not the Pope.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh the depth of both the wisdom and riches of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways beyond ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh the depth of both the wisdom and riches of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways beyond understanding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1772]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10302]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They plainly saw the writing on the wall. They saw that the way they [crafted] the settlement would not withstand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37841]]></link><description><![CDATA[They plainly saw the writing on the wall. They saw that the way they [crafted] the settlement would not withstand the court's review. So they retreated, making it a private handshake deal between the two of them. As a result, it won't be enforceable in the future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pittifull looke askes enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49067]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pittifull looke askes enough.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The very existence of flamethrowers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, "You know, I want to set ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65609]]></link><description><![CDATA[The very existence of flamethrowers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, "You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hospitality is making your guests feel at home, even though you wish they were ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19850]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hospitality is making your guests feel at home, even though you wish they were]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As thou sowest, so shalt thou reap. [Sp., Ut sementem feceris, ita metes.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54043]]></link><description><![CDATA[As thou sowest, so shalt thou reap. [Sp., Ut sementem feceris, ita metes.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easy to condemn, it is better to pity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41189]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easy to condemn, it is better to pity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wealth increaseth, but a nameless something is ever wanting to our insufficient fortune. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50382]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wealth increaseth, but a nameless something is ever wanting to our insufficient fortune.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66377]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Half the truth is often a great lie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26160]]></link><description><![CDATA[Half the truth is often a great lie.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was not a greater gourmand living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50518]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was not a greater gourmand living.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too many Americans don't understand the importance of minority rights and the independent judiciary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too many Americans don't understand the importance of minority rights and the independent judiciary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't wait to get back to New York City where at least when I walk down the streat, no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44426]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't wait to get back to New York City where at least when I walk down the streat, no one ever hesitates to tell me exactly what they think of me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nine out of ten people who change their minds are wrong the second time too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6116]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nine out of ten people who change their minds are wrong the second time too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Richard Hooker, Priest, Anglican Apologist, Teacher, 1600 Commemoration of Martin of Porres, Dominican Friar, 1639  It is, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Richard Hooker, Priest, Anglican Apologist, Teacher, 1600 Commemoration of Martin of Porres, Dominican Friar, 1639  It is, of course, impossible to exaggerate the importance of the historicity of what is commonly known as the Resurrection. If, after all His claims and promises, Christ had died and merely lived on as a fragrant memory, He would only be revered as an extremely good but profoundly mistaken man. His claims to be God, His claims to be Himself the very principle of life, would be mere self-delusion. His authoritative pronouncements on the nature of God and Man and Life would be at once suspect. Why should He be right about the lesser things, if He was proved to be completely wrong in the greater?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He speaketh to me the words of men. I listen to him and I repeat to him the words of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62031]]></link><description><![CDATA[He speaketh to me the words of men. I listen to him and I repeat to him the words of gods.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John and Charles Wesley, Priests, Poets, Teachers, 1791 & 1788  Wherever riches have increased, the essence of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7080]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John and Charles Wesley, Priests, Poets, Teachers, 1791 & 1788  Wherever riches have increased, the essence of religion has decreased in the same proportion. Therefore I do not see how it is possible in the nature of things for any revival of religion to continue long. For religion must necessarily produce both industry and frugality, and these cannot but produce riches. But as riches increase, so will pride, anger, and love of the world in all its branches. How then is it possible that Methodism, that is a religion of the heart, though it flourishes now as the green bay tree, should continue in this state? For the Methodists in every place grow diligent and frugal; consequently, they increase in goods. Hence, they proportionately increase in pride, in anger, in the desire of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, and the pride of life. So, although the form of religion remains, the spirit is swiftly vanishing away. Is there no way to prevent ... this continual decay of pure religion?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behold, we live through all things,--famine, thirst, Bereavement, pain; all grief and misery,  All woe and sorrow; life inflicts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14668]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behold, we live through all things,--famine, thirst, Bereavement, pain; all grief and misery,  All woe and sorrow; life inflicts its worst   On soul and body,--but we cannot die,    Though we be sick, and tired, and faint, and worn,--     Lo, all things can be borne!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But even the Christian, for all this satisfying and hopeful conviction, does not know the meaning of the mystery of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7952]]></link><description><![CDATA[But even the Christian, for all this satisfying and hopeful conviction, does not know the meaning of the mystery of life, and if he is wise he does not pretend to. He has enough light to light him on his way, but there are a great many gaps in his knowledge. When he says, "One day we shall understand", he is by no means always uttering a pious platitude. Quite frequently he is voicing a solid conviction, a genuine facet of hope. At present his vision is severely limited, and that is probably just as well, if his sanity is to be preserved. But when he is free of the limitations of temporal life, he has every hope of being able to know as surely as he is at present known.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11946]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The actual infinite arises in three contexts: first when it is realized in the most complete form, in a fully ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20819]]></link><description><![CDATA[The actual infinite arises in three contexts: first when it is realized in the most complete form, in a fully independent otherworldly being, in Deo, where I call it the Absolute Infinite or simply Absolute; second when it occurs in the contingent, created world; third when the mind grasps it in abstracto as a mathematical magnitude, number or order type.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45697]]></link><description><![CDATA[To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18425]]></link><description><![CDATA[A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's just like magic. When you live by yourself, all of your annoying habits are gone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18541]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's just like magic. When you live by yourself, all of your annoying habits are gone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When better business decisions are made, economists won't make them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27665]]></link><description><![CDATA[When better business decisions are made, economists won't make them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ae fond kiss, and then we sever!A farewell, and then forever!Deep in heart-wrung tears I'll pledge thee,Warring sighs and groans ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25349]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ae fond kiss, and then we sever!A farewell, and then forever!Deep in heart-wrung tears I'll pledge thee,Warring sighs and groans I'll wage thee.Who shall say that Fortune grieves him,While the star of hope she leaves him?Me, nae cheerful twinkle lights me,Dark despair around benights me. - Ae Fond Kiss.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Justice may be blind, but she has very sophisticated listening devices. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Justice may be blind, but she has very sophisticated listening devices.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love blinds us to faults, but hatred blinds us to virtues. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18866]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love blinds us to faults, but hatred blinds us to virtues.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Rosa Parks had taken a poll before she sat down in the bus in Montgomery, she'd still be standing. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27245]]></link><description><![CDATA[If Rosa Parks had taken a poll before she sat down in the bus in Montgomery, she'd still be standing. -Mary Frances Berry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The disparity between a restaurant's price and food quality rises in direct proportion to the size of the pepper mill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54025]]></link><description><![CDATA[The disparity between a restaurant's price and food quality rises in direct proportion to the size of the pepper mill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man can become so accustomed to the thought of his own faults that he will begin to cherish them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15434]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man can become so accustomed to the thought of his own faults that he will begin to cherish them as charming little "personal characteristics."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every burned book enlightens the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5426]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every burned book enlightens the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64787]]></link><description><![CDATA[My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8054]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58713]]></link><description><![CDATA[A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make the coming hour o'erflow with joy, And pleasure drown the brim. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act ii. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55725]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make the coming hour o'erflow with joy, And pleasure drown the brim. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. -The Merchant of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55617]]></link><description><![CDATA[How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. -The Merchant of Venice. Act. v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52099]]></link><description><![CDATA[As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape. - Aphorisms and Reflections.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25404]]></link><description><![CDATA[The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The helicopter didn't transmit any kind of distress call that we know of. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30222]]></link><description><![CDATA[The helicopter didn't transmit any kind of distress call that we know of.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43162]]></link><description><![CDATA[Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The commonest form, one of the most often neglected, and the safest opportunity for the average man to seize, is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45114]]></link><description><![CDATA[The commonest form, one of the most often neglected, and the safest opportunity for the average man to seize, is hard work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45114</guid></item></channel></rss>