<?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 unique personality which is the real life in me, I can not gain unless I search for the real ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34873]]></link><description><![CDATA[The unique personality which is the real life in me, I can not gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others. I am myself spiritually dead unless I reach out to the fine quality dormant in others. For it is only with the god enthroned in the innermost shrine of the other, that the god hidden in me, will consent to appear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What does not destroy me, makes me strong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57943]]></link><description><![CDATA[What does not destroy me, makes me strong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19730]]></link><description><![CDATA[A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our calling is not primarily to be holy women, but to work for God and for others with Him. Our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our calling is not primarily to be holy women, but to work for God and for others with Him. Our holiness is an effect, not a cause; so long as our eyes are on our own personal whiteness as an end in itself, the thing breaks down. God can do nothing while my interest is in my own personal character--He will take care of this if I obey His call. In learning to love God and people as He commanded us to do, obviously your sanctification cannot but come, but not as an end in itself.   ... The Notebooks of Florence Allshorn  November 13, 2001 Feast of Charles Simeon, Pastor, Teacher, 1836   Repentance is in every view so desirable, so necessary, so suited to honor God, that I seek that above all. The tender heart, the broken and contrite spirit, are to me far above all the joys that I could ever hope for in this vale of tears. I long to be in my proper place, my hand on my mouth, and my mouth in the dust... I feel this to be safe ground. Here I cannot err... I am sure that whatever God may despise... He will not despise the broken and contrite heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beginning a short series on sin:  Sin is nothing else than that the creature willeth otherwise than God willeth, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7146]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beginning a short series on sin:  Sin is nothing else than that the creature willeth otherwise than God willeth, and contrary to Him.  ... Theologia Germanica  March 10, 1998  Continuing a short series on sin:  I inquired what iniquity was, and found it to be no substance, but the perversion of the will, turned aside from Thee, O God, the Supreme, towards these lower things.  ... The Confessions of St. Augustine  March 11, 1998  Continuing a short series on sin:  In case our sins have been public and scandalous, both reason and the practice of the Christian Church do require that when men have publicly offended they should give public satisfaction and open testimony of their repentance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're seeing it now with a big migration from Java to PHP in Web development. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41413]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're seeing it now with a big migration from Java to PHP in Web development.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let me skim the water with one oar, and with the other touch sand. [Go not out of your depth.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50952]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let me skim the water with one oar, and with the other touch sand. [Go not out of your depth.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original. They are rarely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21996]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original. They are rarely useful. The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, my friends, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11451]]></link><description><![CDATA[More people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, my friends, that is true perversion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord, I know not what I ought to ask of you.  O, Father, give to your child what he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord, I know not what I ought to ask of you.  O, Father, give to your child what he himself knows not how to ask.  Teach me to pray. Pray yourself in me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart that truly loves never forgets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26911]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart that truly loves never forgets.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When God has once begun to throw down the prosperous, He overthrows them altogether: such is the end of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48494]]></link><description><![CDATA[When God has once begun to throw down the prosperous, He overthrows them altogether: such is the end of the mighty. [Lat., Semel profecto premere felices deus  Cum coepit, urget; hos habent magna exitus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The absurdity of it gets played out in the day-to-day lives of Border Patrol agents. Everybody knows somebody [in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37762]]></link><description><![CDATA[The absurdity of it gets played out in the day-to-day lives of Border Patrol agents. Everybody knows somebody [in the U.S. illegally] who has some kind of relationship with a Border Patrol agent. Either someone in their family is married to one, or they're sleeping with one. People's lives are very complicated and intertwined and they're not very clear-cut.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amiable weakness of human nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Amiable weakness of human nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wanted to tell a 'Rocky'-type story about a girl from the inner city who had the ability, talent and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33997]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wanted to tell a 'Rocky'-type story about a girl from the inner city who had the ability, talent and intelligence to do this but didn't have the support or the resources or the belief this was something that was for her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I culled the cream of the crop. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39222]]></link><description><![CDATA[I culled the cream of the crop.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59978]]></link><description><![CDATA[Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never till then so many thunderbolts from cloudless skies. (Bolt from the blue.) [Lat., Non alias caelo ceciderunt plura sereno.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never till then so many thunderbolts from cloudless skies. (Bolt from the blue.) [Lat., Non alias caelo ceciderunt plura sereno.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him; it is the amount and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31354]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him; it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25235]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sin writes histories, goodness is silent. [Ger., Das Uebel macht eine Geschichte und das Gute keine.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56383]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sin writes histories, goodness is silent. [Ger., Das Uebel macht eine Geschichte und das Gute keine.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best security against revolution is in constant correction of abuses and the introduction of needed improvements. It is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/250]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best security against revolution is in constant correction of abuses and the introduction of needed improvements. It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But Cristes loore, and his Apostles twelve He taughte, but first he folowed it hymselfe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48073]]></link><description><![CDATA[But Cristes loore, and his Apostles twelve He taughte, but first he folowed it hymselfe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis not amiss, ere ye're giv'n o'er, To try one desp'rate med'cine more;  For where your case can be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26682]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis not amiss, ere ye're giv'n o'er, To try one desp'rate med'cine more;  For where your case can be no worse,   The desp'rat'st is the wisest course.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Creation is a drug I can't do without. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10580]]></link><description><![CDATA[Creation is a drug I can't do without.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Patrick, Bishop of Armagh, Missionary, Patron of Ireland, c.460  Thanksgiving is the language of heaven, and we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7699]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Patrick, Bishop of Armagh, Missionary, Patron of Ireland, c.460  Thanksgiving is the language of heaven, and we had better start to learn it if we are not to be mere dumb aliens there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the history of literature there are many great enduring works which were not published in the lifetimes of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25324]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the history of literature there are many great enduring works which were not published in the lifetimes of the authors. If the authors had not achieved self-affirmation while writing, how could they have continued to write? - Nobel Lecture 2000.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Were there no fooles, badd ware would not passe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50055]]></link><description><![CDATA[Were there no fooles, badd ware would not passe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, there are always those who cannot distinguish between glitter and glamour . . . the glamour of Isadora Duncan ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, there are always those who cannot distinguish between glitter and glamour . . . the glamour of Isadora Duncan came from her great, torn, bewildered, foolhardy soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We knew we had to keep fighting because we knew they are a tough team and would keep fighting to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30534]]></link><description><![CDATA[We knew we had to keep fighting because we knew they are a tough team and would keep fighting to come back hard. We had to play the whole game out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We introduced a new category in this year's competition, which is for the window which is (decorated) the most fun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39449]]></link><description><![CDATA[We introduced a new category in this year's competition, which is for the window which is (decorated) the most fun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was crazy. I was nervous. I was definitely nervous. My heart was going crazy the whole game. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39783]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was crazy. I was nervous. I was definitely nervous. My heart was going crazy the whole game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13624]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This wonder lasted nine daies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61981]]></link><description><![CDATA[This wonder lasted nine daies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One religion is as true as another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53470]]></link><description><![CDATA[One religion is as true as another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1990]]></link><description><![CDATA[I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12729]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diseased Nature oftentimes breaks forth In strange eruptions. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diseased Nature oftentimes breaks forth In strange eruptions. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Josephine Butler, Social Reformer, 1906 Commemoration of Apolo Kivebulaya, Priest, Evangelist, 1933  If the appetite alone hath ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8409]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Josephine Butler, Social Reformer, 1906 Commemoration of Apolo Kivebulaya, Priest, Evangelist, 1933  If the appetite alone hath sinned, let it alone fast, and it sufficeth. But if the other members also have sinned, why should they not fast, too... Let the eye fast from strange sights and from every wantonness, so that that which roamed in freedom in fault-doing may, abundantly humbled, be checked by penitence. Let the ear, blameably eager to listen, fast from tales and rumors, and from whatsoever is of idle import, and tendeth least to salvation. Let the tongue fast from slanders and murmurings, and from useless, vain, and scurrilous words, and sometimes also, in the seriousness of silence, even from things which may seem of essential import. Let the hand abstain from ... all toils which are not imperatively necessary. But also let the soul herself abstain from all evils and from acting out her own will. For without such abstinence the other things find no favor with the Lord.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism.... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2379]]></link><description><![CDATA["The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism.... It should be the highest ambition of every American to extend his views beyond himself, and to bear in mind that his conduct will not only affect himself, his country, and his immediate posterity; but that its influence may be co-extensive with the world, and stamp political happiness or misery on ages yet unborn." --George Washington]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out religion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Among the remedies which it has pleased Almighty God to give to man to relieve his sufferings, none is so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45019]]></link><description><![CDATA[Among the remedies which it has pleased Almighty God to give to man to relieve his sufferings, none is so universal and so efficacious as opium.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because we do not have generation assets to ?hedge? the impact of the rate hike, Maine consumers take the hit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40277]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because we do not have generation assets to ?hedge? the impact of the rate hike, Maine consumers take the hit worse than any other state in New England.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are cautiously investigating the deaths with murder, murder by contract and other possible charges in mind. I was the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36528]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are cautiously investigating the deaths with murder, murder by contract and other possible charges in mind. I was the person in charge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even the skeptics are convinced it works, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42468]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even the skeptics are convinced it works,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12367]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12367</guid></item></channel></rss>