<?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[The Beginning of Philosophy . . . is a Consciousness of your own Weakness and inability in necessary things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46489]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Beginning of Philosophy . . . is a Consciousness of your own Weakness and inability in necessary things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't need to hug Indonesians to death. But the U.S. does need to be more even-handed in its dealings ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33554]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't need to hug Indonesians to death. But the U.S. does need to be more even-handed in its dealings in the Middle East, [and] more sophisticated in its dealings with the Muslim world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eternity! thou pleasing dreadful thought! Through what variety of untried being,  Through what new scenes and changes must we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14193]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eternity! thou pleasing dreadful thought! Through what variety of untried being,  Through what new scenes and changes must we pass!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness! Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;  Conspiring with him how to load and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness! Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;  Conspiring with him how to load and bless   With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eaves run;    To bend with apples the moss'd cottage trees,     And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Change alone is unchanging. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64891]]></link><description><![CDATA[Change alone is unchanging.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Most musical, most melancholy" bird! A melancholy bird! Oh! idle thought!  In nature there is nothing melancholy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44541]]></link><description><![CDATA["Most musical, most melancholy" bird! A melancholy bird! Oh! idle thought!  In nature there is nothing melancholy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man's life. [Lat., Vitam regit fortuna, non sapientia.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16578]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man's life. [Lat., Vitam regit fortuna, non sapientia.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53280]]></link><description><![CDATA[To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord, defend me from my friends; I can account for my enemies ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord, defend me from my friends; I can account for my enemies]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4181]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45055]]></link><description><![CDATA[The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good days are to be gathered like grapes, to be trodden and bottled into wine and kept for age to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good days are to be gathered like grapes, to be trodden and bottled into wine and kept for age to sip at ease beside the fire. If the traveler has vintaged well, he need trouble to wander no longer; the ruby moments glow in his glass at will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the truly faithful, no miracle is necessary. For those who doubt, no miracle is sufficient. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22542]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the truly faithful, no miracle is necessary. For those who doubt, no miracle is sufficient.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make me what Thou wouldst have me. I bargain for nothing. I make no terms. I seek for no previous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7871]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make me what Thou wouldst have me. I bargain for nothing. I make no terms. I seek for no previous information whither Thou art taking me. I will be what Thou wilt make me, and all that Thou wilt make me. I say not, I will follow Thee whithersoever Thou goest, for I am weak, but I give myself to Thee, to lead me anywhither.   ... John Henry Newman  September 10, 2000   Evangelism is not an option for the Christian life.   ... Luis Palau  September 11, 2000   Lord, behold our family here assembled. We thank Thee for this place in which we dwell; for the love that unites us; for the peace accorded us this day; for the hope with which we expect the morrow; for the health, the work, the food, and the bright skies that make our lives delightful; for our friends in all parts of the earth, and our friendly helpers in this foreign isle [Samoa]... Give us courage, gaiety, and the quiet mind. Spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies. Bless us, if it may be, in all our innocent endeavors. If it may not be, give us the strength to encounter that which is to come, that we be brave in peril, constant in tribulation, temperate in wrath, and in all changes of fortune and down to the gates of death, loyal and loving to one another.   ... Robert Louis Stevenson  September 12, 2000   Devotion is the real spiritual sweetness which takes away all bitterness from mortifications, and prevents consolations from disagreeing with the soul; it cures the poor of sadness, and the rich of presumption; it keeps the oppressed from feeling desolate, and the prosperous from insolence: it averts sadness from the lonely, and dissipation from social life; it is as warmth in winter and as refreshing dew in summer; it knows how to abound and how to suffer want, how to profit alike by honour and by contempt; it accepts gladness and sadness with an even mind, and fills men's hearts with a wondrous sweetness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I sometimes think I was born to live up to my name. How could I be anything else but what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43659]]></link><description><![CDATA[I sometimes think I was born to live up to my name. How could I be anything else but what I am having been named Madonna? I would either have ended up a nun or this.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62815]]></link><description><![CDATA[A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can seduce a man without taking anything off, without even touching him ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55045]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can seduce a man without taking anything off, without even touching him]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When man to man shall be friend and brother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4948]]></link><description><![CDATA[When man to man shall be friend and brother.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6109]]></link><description><![CDATA[To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rugged the breast that music cannot tame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43429]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rugged the breast that music cannot tame.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now men say, "I am in no wise prepared for this work, and therefore it cannot be wrought in me," ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8046]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now men say, "I am in no wise prepared for this work, and therefore it cannot be wrought in me," and thus they have an excuse, so that they neither are ready nor in the way to be so. And truly there is no one to blame for this but themselves. For if a man were looking and striving after nothing but to find a preparation in all things, and diligently gave his whole mind to see how he might become prepared; verily God would well prepare him, for God giveth as much care and earnestness and love to the preparing of a man, as to the pouring in of His Spirit when the man is prepared.  ... Theologia Germanica April 14, 1996  This was the fullness of time, when Christ Jesus did come, that the Messiah should come. It was so to the Jews, and it was so to the Gentiles too... Christ hath excommunicated no nation, no shire, no house, no man; He gives none of His ministers leave to say to any man, thou art not redeemed; He gives no wounded or afflicted conscience leave to say to itself, I am not redeemed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13767]]></link><description><![CDATA[A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twas when young Eustace wore his heart in's breeches. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58558]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twas when young Eustace wore his heart in's breeches.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hold it true,what'er befall;I feel it, when I sorrow most;'Tis better to have loved and lostThan never to have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25354]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hold it true,what'er befall;I feel it, when I sorrow most;'Tis better to have loved and lostThan never to have loved at all. - In Memoriam.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more the eggs, the worse the hatch, The more the fish, the worse the catch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50168]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more the eggs, the worse the hatch, The more the fish, the worse the catch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has always been a good shooter. After he got about halfway through his junior varsity year, we saw he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33962]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has always been a good shooter. After he got about halfway through his junior varsity year, we saw he could be a good player because he could shoot the ball.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63730]]></link><description><![CDATA[Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3248]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A democratic despotism is like a theocracy: it assumes its own correctness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47050]]></link><description><![CDATA[A democratic despotism is like a theocracy: it assumes its own correctness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Its amazing. How many teams can say they have to play every game like its their last? Because pretty much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28692]]></link><description><![CDATA[Its amazing. How many teams can say they have to play every game like its their last? Because pretty much every team we play is going to be in the top 15, and with us being ranked so high, teams are going to give us all they got.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9195]]></link><description><![CDATA[A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The beggarly last doit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47880]]></link><description><![CDATA[The beggarly last doit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We change, whether we like it or not ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5489]]></link><description><![CDATA[We change, whether we like it or not]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the concept of the sea is very important. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28764]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the concept of the sea is very important.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50455]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men of England! who inherit Rights that cost your sires their blood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men of England! who inherit Rights that cost your sires their blood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adversity deprives us of our judgment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adversity deprives us of our judgment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the goose honk high, fair weather; when the goose honks low, foul weather ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61483]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the goose honk high, fair weather; when the goose honks low, foul weather]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27224]]></link><description><![CDATA[God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met. -Farrah Fawcett.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A thick skin is a gift from God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21220]]></link><description><![CDATA[A thick skin is a gift from God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Remigius, Bishop of Rheims, Apostle of the Franks, 533 Commemoration of Thérèse of Lisieux, Carmelite Nun, Spiritual Writer, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7751]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Remigius, Bishop of Rheims, Apostle of the Franks, 533 Commemoration of Thérèse of Lisieux, Carmelite Nun, Spiritual Writer, 1897  He said: that in order to form a habit of conversing with God continually, and referring all we do to Him; we must first apply to Him with some diligence: but that after a little care we should find His love inwardly excite us to it without any difficulty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We ought to be providing protective sanctuaries for the Kurdish rebels. That means finding some places where they can come ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40673]]></link><description><![CDATA[We ought to be providing protective sanctuaries for the Kurdish rebels. That means finding some places where they can come and to which we will then be able to provide food and water and medical help.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a double-standard. And quite often if you're from Africa, if you're from a developing country, you'll be executed. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33677]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a double-standard. And quite often if you're from Africa, if you're from a developing country, you'll be executed. There aren't that many people protesting or making a big fuss. But our State Department and the media -- if you're a Westerner -- will make a big fuss.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The prosperous man is never sure that he is loved for himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48502]]></link><description><![CDATA[The prosperous man is never sure that he is loved for himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ships are but boards, sailors but men: there be land-rats and water-rats, water-thieves and land-thieves. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ships are but boards, sailors but men: there be land-rats and water-rats, water-thieves and land-thieves. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My definition of a University is Mark Hopkins at one end of a log and a student on the other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13406]]></link><description><![CDATA[My definition of a University is Mark Hopkins at one end of a log and a student on the other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a strong confectionery business there at the moment, so this acquisition would represent a good strategic fit for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37782]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a strong confectionery business there at the moment, so this acquisition would represent a good strategic fit for us,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2959]]></link><description><![CDATA[A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2959</guid></item></channel></rss>