<?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 sum of the whole matter is this, that our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8832]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sum of the whole matter is this, that our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4759]]></link><description><![CDATA[A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instead of loving your enemies - treat your friends a little better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65660]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instead of loving your enemies - treat your friends a little better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Although I enjoyed writing Film Music it was always a means to an end, in that it enabled me to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41338]]></link><description><![CDATA[Although I enjoyed writing Film Music it was always a means to an end, in that it enabled me to keep a wife and family and write my classical music, which has always been my passion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world always had the same bankrupt look, to foregoing ages as to us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62230]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world always had the same bankrupt look, to foregoing ages as to us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When it grows dark, we always need someone. This thought, the product of anxiety, only comes to me in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65369]]></link><description><![CDATA[When it grows dark, we always need someone. This thought, the product of anxiety, only comes to me in the evenings, just when I'm about to end my writerly explorations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning,--an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning,--an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm content to stand on tradition. I'm even more content to wipe my feet on it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28184]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm content to stand on tradition. I'm even more content to wipe my feet on it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44032]]></link><description><![CDATA[Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was 6 years old, I had a little fur coat, but that was it. That's the only time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31783]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was 6 years old, I had a little fur coat, but that was it. That's the only time I've ever had any in my life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I checked him out on Monday morning and he was concerned about his knee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34714]]></link><description><![CDATA[I checked him out on Monday morning and he was concerned about his knee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, Teacher, 1153 Commemoration of William & Catherine Booth, Founders of the Salvation Army, 1912 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, Teacher, 1153 Commemoration of William & Catherine Booth, Founders of the Salvation Army, 1912 & 1890   Bernard [of Clairvaux] did not stop with love for God or Christ, he insisted also that the Christian must love his neighbors, including even his enemies. Not necessarily that he must feel affection for them -- that is not always possible in this life, though it will be in heaven -- but that he must treat them as love dictates, doing always for others what he would that they should do for him.  ... A. C. McGiffert, A History of Christian Thought  August 21, 2000   At the very moment when the pulpit has fallen strangely silent about sin, fiction can talk of little except evil, not indeed viewed as sin, but apparently as the invariable ways of a peculiarly repulsive insect, which it can't help, poor thing; and there is no manner of use expecting anything from it, except the nastiness natural to it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's surely summer. for there's a swallow: Come one swallow, his mate will follow,  The bird race quicken and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58437]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's surely summer. for there's a swallow: Come one swallow, his mate will follow,  The bird race quicken and wheel and thicken.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou will scare be a man before thy mother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48620]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou will scare be a man before thy mother.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Henry Martyn, Translator of the Scriptures, Missionary in India & Persia, 1812  Some have said that the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Henry Martyn, Translator of the Scriptures, Missionary in India & Persia, 1812  Some have said that the power of a Redeemer would depend upon two things; first, upon the richness of the self that was given; and second, upon the depths of the giving. Friend and foe alike are agreed on the question of the character of Jesus Christ... Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus. Character is supreme in life, hence Jesus stood supreme in the supreme thing -- so supreme that, when we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code but a character.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4986]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Catherine of Siena, Mystic, Teacher, 1380   O abyss, O eternal Godhead, O sea profound, what more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6380]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Catherine of Siena, Mystic, Teacher, 1380   O abyss, O eternal Godhead, O sea profound, what more could you give me than yourself? You are the fire that burns without being consumed; you consume in your heat all the soul's self-love; you are the fire which takes away cold; with your light you illuminate me so that I may know all your truth. Clothe me, clothe me with yourself, eternal truth, so that I may run this mortal life with true obedience, and with the light of your most holy faith.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20533]]></link><description><![CDATA[Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Killing you is not the worst thing they can do to you,\" I say. \"Controlling you is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66861]]></link><description><![CDATA[Killing you is not the worst thing they can do to you,\" I say. \"Controlling you is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love, hope, fear, faith--these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19949]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love, hope, fear, faith--these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He threw a temper tantrum with a spray can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38650]]></link><description><![CDATA[He threw a temper tantrum with a spray can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never fear shadows. They simply mean there's a light shining somewhere nearby. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15522]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never fear shadows. They simply mean there's a light shining somewhere nearby.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Armies are not only for offensives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29879]]></link><description><![CDATA[Armies are not only for offensives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a company, why would I take the risk? I don't think there's a major advertiser that will take the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38617]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a company, why would I take the risk? I don't think there's a major advertiser that will take the chance, even if he's reinstated, not unless there's a whole lot of other evidence came out that he never did anything wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52603]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53721]]></link><description><![CDATA[An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But there are some people where it's working fine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29437]]></link><description><![CDATA[But there are some people where it's working fine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They struck her working tools, her legs, her arms, her hands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31806]]></link><description><![CDATA[They struck her working tools, her legs, her arms, her hands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They looked like a strong running team against Mount Vernon. They have some real talent on the line and have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33622]]></link><description><![CDATA[They looked like a strong running team against Mount Vernon. They have some real talent on the line and have some good running backs ... they look much improved from last year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65389]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23150]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From fibers of pain and hope and trouble And toil and happiness,--one by one,--  Twisted together, or single or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11128]]></link><description><![CDATA[From fibers of pain and hope and trouble And toil and happiness,--one by one,--  Twisted together, or single or double,   The varying thread of our life is spun.    Hope shall cheer though the chain be galling;     Light shall come though the gloom be falling;      Faith will list for the Master calling       Our hearts to his rest,--when the day is done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66611]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are certain people whom one feels almost inclined to urge to hurry up and die so that their letters ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24646]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are certain people whom one feels almost inclined to urge to hurry up and die so that their letters can be published.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are some complicated rhythms. I've had to slowly work through it and subdivide the music and do it over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42664]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are some complicated rhythms. I've had to slowly work through it and subdivide the music and do it over and over to make sure that when I get it up to tempo it actually sounds right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63363]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats: For as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59196]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats: For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A plan is a list of actions arranged in whatever sequence is thought likely to achieve an objective. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9887]]></link><description><![CDATA[A plan is a list of actions arranged in whatever sequence is thought likely to achieve an objective.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(They are unknown) because they had no bard to sing their praises. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50367]]></link><description><![CDATA[(They are unknown) because they had no bard to sing their praises.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/548]]></link><description><![CDATA[A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dr. Johnson's morality was as English an article as a beefsteak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dr. Johnson's morality was as English an article as a beefsteak.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quarrels would not last long if the fault were only on one side. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52694]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quarrels would not last long if the fault were only on one side.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3072]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatestresource is your time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22424]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatestresource is your time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are more men threatned then stricken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49946]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are more men threatned then stricken.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53124]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may envy every one, but no one envies you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50638]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may envy every one, but no one envies you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5476]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23913]]></link><description><![CDATA[What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23913</guid></item></channel></rss>