<?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[Feast of Margaret, Queen of Scotland, Philanthropist, Reformer of the Church, 1093 Commemoration of Edmund Rich of Abingdon, Archbishop of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6671]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Margaret, Queen of Scotland, Philanthropist, Reformer of the Church, 1093 Commemoration of Edmund Rich of Abingdon, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1240  As a man increases in moral strength of character, so his conscience becomes more sensitive; he realizes more keenly the distance that separates him from the ideal, and hence the weight of the feeling of guiltiness oppresses him ever more heavily. Growth in goodness does not, therefore, necessarily imply increased happiness, on the contrary, it may mean greater unhappiness. And his unhappiness increasing in proportion to the elevation of his ethical standards, a man's end is either Buddha or suicide if he knows no God; while if he knows God, it is despair or that conversion which, having sobbed away its tears on the Father's breast, thence derives ever new strength to fight the battle of life, sure of the final victory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33]]></link><description><![CDATA[Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20114]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the high achievers, studying gave them the pleasing, absorbing challenge o flow 40 percent of the hours they spent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25340]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the high achievers, studying gave them the pleasing, absorbing challenge o flow 40 percent of the hours they spent at it. But for low achievers, studying produced flow only 16 percent of the time; more often that not, it yielded anxiety, with the demands outreaching their abilities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind  As man's ingratitude:   Thy tooth is not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind  As man's ingratitude:   Thy tooth is not so keen,    Because thou art not seen,     Although thy breath be rude.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though bitter, good medicine cures illness. Though it may hurt, loyal criticism will have beneficial effects. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26712]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though bitter, good medicine cures illness. Though it may hurt, loyal criticism will have beneficial effects.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any additional rate increases would need to be precipitated by higher inflation or above-trend growth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29105]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any additional rate increases would need to be precipitated by higher inflation or above-trend growth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14052]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35131]]></link><description><![CDATA[I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9706]]></link><description><![CDATA[If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is an interesting and demonstrable fact, that all children are atheists and were religion not inculcated into their minds, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3413]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is an interesting and demonstrable fact, that all children are atheists and were religion not inculcated into their minds, they would remain so]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64581]]></link><description><![CDATA[There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kallis is a methodical run machine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kallis is a methodical run machine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11237]]></link><description><![CDATA[Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How bright the sunshine dances in its joy, O'er the still flow of this majestic river! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54334]]></link><description><![CDATA[How bright the sunshine dances in its joy, O'er the still flow of this majestic river!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is amazing how many of those who consider themselves "thinking people" respond automatically to words the way Pavlov's dog ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20307]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is amazing how many of those who consider themselves "thinking people" respond automatically to words the way Pavlov's dog was conditioned to respond to certain sounds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They mostly recruit distance runners. They noticed how I've progressed through high school. They told me I have a lot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33495]]></link><description><![CDATA[They mostly recruit distance runners. They noticed how I've progressed through high school. They told me I have a lot of room to improve once I get to college.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60367]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is Brutus sick, and is it physical To walk unbraced and suck up the humors  Of the dank morning? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56241]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is Brutus sick, and is it physical To walk unbraced and suck up the humors  Of the dank morning? What, is Brutus sick,   And will he steal out of his wholesome bed    To dare the vile contagion of the night,     And tempt the rheumy and unpurged air,      To add unto his sickness?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without better use of the interactive marketing capabilities enabled by the Internet, financial institutions are missing the principal opportunity presented ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without better use of the interactive marketing capabilities enabled by the Internet, financial institutions are missing the principal opportunity presented by the Web. As this occurs, sales opportunities will be squandered. But more importantly, customer relationships will be lost to more aggressive firms with highly developed Internet marketing capabilities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I give not gold for mere expectations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51741]]></link><description><![CDATA[I give not gold for mere expectations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are hermit souls that live withdrawn In the place of their self-content;  There are souls like stars that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19857]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are hermit souls that live withdrawn In the place of their self-content;  There are souls like stars that dwell apart,   In a fellowless firmament;    There are pioneer souls that blaze their paths     Where highways never ran,--      But let me live by the side of the road,       And be a friend to man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No person has the right to rain on your dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52368]]></link><description><![CDATA[No person has the right to rain on your dreams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through ignorance of what is good and what is bad, the life of men is greatly perplexed. [Lat., Ignoratione rerum ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through ignorance of what is good and what is bad, the life of men is greatly perplexed. [Lat., Ignoratione rerum bonarum et malarum maxime hominum vita vexatur.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a great deal of human nature in man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19931]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a great deal of human nature in man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winter is coming back in a very big way, and you need to be prepared for an extended period of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33186]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winter is coming back in a very big way, and you need to be prepared for an extended period of very cold weather.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44599]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65954]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58892]]></link><description><![CDATA[But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured. - Agricola. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27905]]></link><description><![CDATA[It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured. - Agricola.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greed of gain has no time or limit to its capaciousness. Its one object is to produce and consume. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18303]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greed of gain has no time or limit to its capaciousness. Its one object is to produce and consume. It has pity neither for beautiful nature nor for living human beings. It is ruthlessly ready without a moment's hesitation to crush beauty and life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18303</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://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://maxioms.com/maxiom/9378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more corrupt the State the more numerous the laws. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47524]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more corrupt the State the more numerous the laws.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63746]]></link><description><![CDATA[That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others pain And perish ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45390]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others pain And perish in our own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To live happily is an inward power of the soul. -Aristotle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18725]]></link><description><![CDATA[To live happily is an inward power of the soul. -Aristotle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52996]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through life's dark road his sordid way he wends; an incarnation of fat dividends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42730]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through life's dark road his sordid way he wends; an incarnation of fat dividends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Repentance is another name for aspiration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53844]]></link><description><![CDATA[Repentance is another name for aspiration.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The three great elements of modern civilization, Gunpowder, Printing, and the Protestant Religion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8837]]></link><description><![CDATA[The three great elements of modern civilization, Gunpowder, Printing, and the Protestant Religion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If this fail, The pillar'd firmament is rottenness,  And earth's base built on stubble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14926]]></link><description><![CDATA[If this fail, The pillar'd firmament is rottenness,  And earth's base built on stubble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19665]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He went through some treatment today and the doctors are continuing to be encouraged, but he's really still in that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35907]]></link><description><![CDATA[He went through some treatment today and the doctors are continuing to be encouraged, but he's really still in that active rest period. We don't think this is going to be a quick fix.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From Watergate we learned what generations before us have known; our Constitution works. And during Watergate years it was interpreted ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9903]]></link><description><![CDATA[From Watergate we learned what generations before us have known; our Constitution works. And during Watergate years it was interpreted again so as to reaffirm that no one - absolutely no one - is above the law.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can't have a DJ every day, but they sure enjoyed it. At the raffle desk, we had people sign ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33230]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can't have a DJ every day, but they sure enjoyed it. At the raffle desk, we had people sign up for the rewards card. Those are potential repeat customers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concluding a short series on prayer   We Christians too often substitute prayer for playing the game. Prayer is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6845]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concluding a short series on prayer   We Christians too often substitute prayer for playing the game. Prayer is good; but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is nothing but a blatant hypocrisy, a despicable Pharisaism... To your knees, man! and to your Bible! Decide at once! Don't hedge! Time flies! Cease your insults to God, quit consulting flesh and blood. Stop your lame, lying, and cowardly excuses. Enlist!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46039</guid></item></channel></rss>