<?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[Conciseness is the sister of talent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conciseness is the sister of talent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fashion design isn't just art for art's sake. You must be able to take it to the consumer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39128]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fashion design isn't just art for art's sake. You must be able to take it to the consumer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And, oftentimes, excusing of a fault, Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51347]]></link><description><![CDATA[And, oftentimes, excusing of a fault, Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The superstition was that disability of any sort was the mark of the devil. The phrases are in languages throughout ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39531]]></link><description><![CDATA[The superstition was that disability of any sort was the mark of the devil. The phrases are in languages throughout Europe: the devil's hoof, the devil's horn mark. It reaches back to early Christianity and the middle ages. Where a child was born out of wedlock, the church cooked up the impression that you'd done something sinful, and something dreadful would result. You will still find, particularly in Greece, people doing a little sign when they see a very badly disabled child ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Âœ it needs warding off.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Use your weaknesses; aspire to the strength. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22164]]></link><description><![CDATA[Use your weaknesses; aspire to the strength.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Questions focus our thinking. Ask empowering questions like: What's good about this? What's not perfect about it yet? What am ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46503]]></link><description><![CDATA[Questions focus our thinking. Ask empowering questions like: What's good about this? What's not perfect about it yet? What am I going to do next time? How can I do this and have fund doing it?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True Love burns the brightest, But the brightest flames leave the deepest scars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20181]]></link><description><![CDATA[True Love burns the brightest, But the brightest flames leave the deepest scars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/684]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18361]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59183]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Benedict of Nursia, Father of Western Monasticism, c.550 Continuing a short series on education:   We demand, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Benedict of Nursia, Father of Western Monasticism, c.550 Continuing a short series on education:   We demand, as [St. Paul] did, that the candidate must be of good moral character -- at least, so far as that he can produce testimonials to his good conduct. We demand, as the apostle demanded, that he must hold fast the faithful word -- at least, so far as that he shall not write deliberate heresy in his examination papers, and shall profess belief in the Creed. We demand, as he demanded, that the candidate must be apt to teach -- at least, so far as an examination of his verbal memory can prove that he knows what he ought to teach. But there is some difference between the "without reproach" of the apostle and our testimonials; and there is a difference between the holding fast of the faith by a man tried in the furnace of life, and the soundness in the faith of a youth fresh from a theological school; and the aptness to teach of a man of experience and social authority is not quite the same thing as the aptness to teach of a young man who has just passed an examination in the subject-matter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You feel like maybe you need the rest . . . but you have to make sure you stay on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28814]]></link><description><![CDATA[You feel like maybe you need the rest . . . but you have to make sure you stay on top of the little details.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bunch of youngsters entered a Muslim house (in Western Australia) and attacked a lady in the house and later ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29082]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bunch of youngsters entered a Muslim house (in Western Australia) and attacked a lady in the house and later admitted to police that they did that because they are Muslims,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Non-comps are a very small part of the overall auction, of course. There was no sloppiness in the market. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42103]]></link><description><![CDATA[Non-comps are a very small part of the overall auction, of course. There was no sloppiness in the market.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With electricity we were wired into a new world, for electricity brought the radio, a "crystal set" and with enough ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13698]]></link><description><![CDATA[With electricity we were wired into a new world, for electricity brought the radio, a "crystal set" and with enough ingenuity, one could tickle the crystal with a cat's whisker and pick up anything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that will have a cake out of the wheat must tarry the grinding. Have I not tarried?  Ay, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10143]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that will have a cake out of the wheat must tarry the grinding. Have I not tarried?  Ay, the grinding; but you must tarry the bolting.   Have I not tarried?    Ay, the bolting; but you must tarry the leavening.     Still have I tarried.      Ay, to the leavening; but here's yet in the word 'hereafter' the      kneading, the making of the cake, the heating of the oven, and      the baking; nay, you must stay the cooling too, or you may chance      to burn your lips.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19283]]></link><description><![CDATA[People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61204]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58374]]></link><description><![CDATA[Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasts of it, is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56382]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasts of it, is a devil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53498]]></link><description><![CDATA[True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy. - Paradoxes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy. - Paradoxes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sooner or later we've got to beat them. We rushed a few shots and that's when the lead spreads from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39719]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sooner or later we've got to beat them. We rushed a few shots and that's when the lead spreads from seven or eight to 14 or 15.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What need a man forestall his date of grief, And run to meet what he would most avoid? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18340]]></link><description><![CDATA[What need a man forestall his date of grief, And run to meet what he would most avoid?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've been contacted by some (ticket holders). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37238]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've been contacted by some (ticket holders).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56417]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18603]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on the Bible:  Never was a book so full of incredible sayings -- everywhere the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7280]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on the Bible:  Never was a book so full of incredible sayings -- everywhere the sense of mystery dominates; unless you feel that mystery, all becomes prosaic -- nothing about God is prosaic.   ... The Notebooks of Florence Allshorn  August 26, 2000 Continuing a short series on the Bible:   Have you noticed this? Whatever need or trouble you are in, there is always something to help you in your Bible, if only you go on reading till you come to the word God specially has for you. I have noticed this often. Sometimes the special word is in the portion you would naturally read, or in the Psalm for the day, ... but you must go on till you find it, for it is always somewhere. You will know it the moment you come to it, for it will rest your heart.   ... Amy Carmichael, Edges of His Ways  August 27, 2000 Feast of Monica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387 Concluding a short series on the Bible:   Christ is the master; the Scriptures are only the servant.   ... Martin Luther August 28, 2000 Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430  Too late came I to love thee, O thou Beauty so ancient and so fresh, yea too late came I to love thee. And behold, thou wert within me, and I out of myself, where I made search for thee: I ugly rushed headlong upon those beautiful things thou hast made. Thou indeed wert with me; but I was not with thee: these beauties kept me far enough from thee: even those, which unless they were in thee, should not be at all.  ... St. Augustine, Confessions August 29, 2000 The Divine Perfections. How shall I praise th' eternal God,  That Infinite Unknown? Who can ascend his high abode,   Or venture near his throne? The great invisible! He dwells  Conceal'd in dazzling light: But his all-searching eye reveals  The secrets of the night. Those watchful eyes that never sleep,  Survey the world around; His wisdom is the boundless deep,  Where all our thoughts are drown'd.  He knows no shadow of a change,  Nor alters his decrees; Firm as a rock his truth remains,   To guard his promises.  Justice, upon a dreadful throne,  Maintains the rights of God; While mercy sends her pardons down,  Bought with a Saviour's blood. Now to my soul immortal King,   Speak some forgiving word; Then `twill be double joy to sing  The glories of my Lord.   ... Isaac Watts, Hymns and Spiritual Songs, Book II, #166  August 30, 2000  As for what the Church thinks and says, what influence does that have on the handling of American politics, the conduct of American education, the regulation of marriage and divorce, on sex and drink, on how industrial disputes are settled, on how we carry on business? As a plain matter of fact, religion in this country is generally regarded as a tolerated pastime for such people as happen to like to indulge in occasional godly exercises -- as a strictly private matter in an increasingly close-knit and socially acting society -- in other words, as something that does not count. I should like to see the Church recognize that it has been pushed into the realm of the non-essentials, and to persuade it to fight like fury for the right and the duty to bring every act of America and Americans before the bar of God's judgment. [Christian leaders] are making valiant claim to such a right and duty; but the great mass of Church members are content to regard the Church as a conglomerate of private culture clubs, nice for christenings, weddings and funerals. Most Church members readily agree with the unchurched majority that it is not the proper business of the Church to criticize America or Americans.  ... Bernard Iddings Bell, God is Not Dead August 31, 2000 Feast of Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 651 Commemoration of Cuthburga, Founding Abbess of Wimborne, c.725 Commemoration of John Bunyan, Spiritual Writer, 1688   Christians are like the flowers in a garden, that have each of them the dew of Heaven, which, being shaken with the wind, they let fall at each other's roots, whereby they are jointly nourished, and become nourishers of each other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In fact, one thing that I have noticed...is that all of these conspiracy theories depend on the perpetrators being endlessly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27852]]></link><description><![CDATA[In fact, one thing that I have noticed...is that all of these conspiracy theories depend on the perpetrators being endlessly clever. I think you'll find the facts also work if you assume everyone is endlessly stupid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a problem of timing for us. If the world championships were held earlier we would have time to get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37196]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a problem of timing for us. If the world championships were held earlier we would have time to get all of our judges up to speed. The men's trial in January won't be affected.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19941]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shoot for the moon, even if you miss you will land among the stars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1472]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shoot for the moon, even if you miss you will land among the stars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When your work speaks for itself, get out of the way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22652]]></link><description><![CDATA[When your work speaks for itself, get out of the way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ninety percent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59718]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ninety percent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It fooled him, how many other people are getting fooled? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35082]]></link><description><![CDATA[It fooled him, how many other people are getting fooled?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There does a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night,  And casts a gleam over this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8912]]></link><description><![CDATA[There does a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night,  And casts a gleam over this tufted grove.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never "just run out for a few minutes" without looking your best. This is not vanity -- it's self-liking. Your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60408]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never "just run out for a few minutes" without looking your best. This is not vanity -- it's self-liking. Your face is always on display.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think a very bad time for the arts. I think we're in a tough time in our culture. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28707]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think a very bad time for the arts. I think we're in a tough time in our culture.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who is Michael Owen anyway? What has he ever won in football? He plays for Real Madrid but he is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31031]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who is Michael Owen anyway? What has he ever won in football? He plays for Real Madrid but he is always on the bench.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20204]]></link><description><![CDATA[The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We haven't seen the new study yet, and we're not in the habit of prejudging these sorts of things. (But) ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40393]]></link><description><![CDATA[We haven't seen the new study yet, and we're not in the habit of prejudging these sorts of things. (But) we haven't seen a reason to doubt Dr. Ramey's work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to the tremendous difficulties ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59159]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to the tremendous difficulties]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43779]]></link><description><![CDATA[What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility. This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible but the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible but the world of pure reason knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The moment of finding a fellow-creature is often as full of mingled doubt and exultation, as the moment of finding ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15538]]></link><description><![CDATA[The moment of finding a fellow-creature is often as full of mingled doubt and exultation, as the moment of finding an idea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The engineer's first problem in any design situation is to discover what the problem really is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13896]]></link><description><![CDATA[The engineer's first problem in any design situation is to discover what the problem really is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Harmony of aim, not identity of conclusion, is the secret of sympathetic life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Harmony of aim, not identity of conclusion, is the secret of sympathetic life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inhumanity is caught from man, From smiling man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10798]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inhumanity is caught from man, From smiling man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many people think that history is a dull subject. Dull? Is it 'dull' that Jesse James once got bitten on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20083]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many people think that history is a dull subject. Dull? Is it 'dull' that Jesse James once got bitten on the forehead by an ant, and at first it didn't seem like anything, but then the bite got worse and worse, so he went to a doctor in town, and the secretary told him to wait, so he sat down and waited, and waited, and waited, and waited, and then finally he got to see the doctor, and the doctor put some salve on it? You call that dull?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20083</guid></item></channel></rss>