<?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[It is better to avenge a friend than to mourn for him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16752]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to avenge a friend than to mourn for him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Conversion of Paul  The church is unique in that it is so able to cut across ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7603]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Conversion of Paul  The church is unique in that it is so able to cut across age boundaries and social-status boundaries. When one loves the Lord Jesus Christ and sincerely seeks to follow Him, then one quite by surprise comes upon a community that he did not know existed, a community that is experienced within the heart; and when this community is found, nothing is ever quite the same again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unexplained joy is always so keen that... it seems to hold enough to reconcile one to the inevitable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unexplained joy is always so keen that... it seems to hold enough to reconcile one to the inevitable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Allen Gardiner, founder of the South American Missionary Society, 1851 Commemoration of Albert Schweitzer, Teacher, Physician, Missionary, 1965 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7282]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Allen Gardiner, founder of the South American Missionary Society, 1851 Commemoration of Albert Schweitzer, Teacher, Physician, Missionary, 1965   The renewal of our natures is a work of great importance. It is not to be done in a day. We have not only a new house to build up, but an old one to pull down.   ... George Whitefield, letter   [Thanks to Bill Blake at pilgrimwb@aol.com]  September 7, 2000 Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957 There are three lessons I would write,  Three words, as with a burning pen, In tracings of eternal light,  Upon the hearts of men. Have Hope. Though clouds environ round,  And gladness hides her face in scorn,  Put off the shadow from thy brow:  No night but hath its morn. Have Faith. Where'er thy bark is driven -  The calm's disport, the tempest's mirth - Know this: God rules the hosts of heaven,  The inhabitants of earth. Have Love. Not love alone for one,  But man, as man, thy brother call;  And scatter, like a circling sun,  Thy charities on all.   ... Friedrich von Schiller  September 8, 2000   Temptations and occasions put nothing into a man, but only draw out what was in him before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ad astra per aspera [To the stars through difficulties] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43269]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ad astra per aspera [To the stars through difficulties]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I perceive that the things that we do are silly; but what can one do? According to men's habits and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18537]]></link><description><![CDATA[I perceive that the things that we do are silly; but what can one do? According to men's habits and dispositions, so one must yield to them. [Lat., Inepta haec esse, nos quae facimus sentio;  Verum quid facias? ut homo est, ita morem geras.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I sought Him where my logic led.  "This friend is always sure and right;  His lantern is sufficient ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7787]]></link><description><![CDATA[I sought Him where my logic led.  "This friend is always sure and right;  His lantern is sufficient light -- I need no star," I said. I sought Him in the city square.  Logic and I went up and down  The marketplace of many a town, And He was never there. I tracked Him to the mind's far rim.  The valiant Intellect went forth  To east and west and south and north, And found no trace of Him. We walked the world from sun to sun,  Logic and I, with little Faith,  But never came to Nazareth, Or found the Holy One. I sought in vain. And finally,  Back to the heart's small house I crept,  And fell upon my knees, and wept; And lo! -- He came to me!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ideal social state is not that in which each gets an equal amount of wealth, but in which each ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61388]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ideal social state is not that in which each gets an equal amount of wealth, but in which each gets in proportion to his contribution to the general stock.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65987]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I told Thomas to take some of the velocity of the ball, and he started throwing strikes. His form was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30574]]></link><description><![CDATA[I told Thomas to take some of the velocity of the ball, and he started throwing strikes. His form was a little bit off. But he'll be alright. He just needs more reps in practice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We feel like we had something to play for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39140]]></link><description><![CDATA[We feel like we had something to play for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who plot the destruction of others often fall themselves. [Lat., Saepe intereunt aliis meditantes necem.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who plot the destruction of others often fall themselves. [Lat., Saepe intereunt aliis meditantes necem.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the truth as I see it, my dear, Out in the wind and the rain:  They who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47758]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the truth as I see it, my dear, Out in the wind and the rain:  They who have nothing have little to fear,   Nothing to lose or to gain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The few wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20942]]></link><description><![CDATA[The few wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4845]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10189]]></link><description><![CDATA[The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted. [Lat., Spiritalis enim virtus sacramenti ita est ut lux: etsi per immundos transeat, non inquinatur.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11073]]></link><description><![CDATA[A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In both fees and commissions, they're in good shape. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36838]]></link><description><![CDATA[In both fees and commissions, they're in good shape.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The delta smelt last year was the lowest we'd ever seen, so this year is definitely the lowest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31906]]></link><description><![CDATA[The delta smelt last year was the lowest we'd ever seen, so this year is definitely the lowest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Farmer and the StorkA farmer placed nets on his newly-sown plowlands and caught a number of Cranes, which came ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1526]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Farmer and the StorkA farmer placed nets on his newly-sown plowlands and caught a number of Cranes, which came to pick up his seed. With them he trapped a Stork that had fractured his leg in the net and was earnestly beseeching the Farmer to spare his life. Pray save me, Master, he said, and let me go free this once. My broken limb should excite your pity. Besides, I am no Crane, I am a Stork, a bird of excellent character; and see how I love and slave for my father and mother. Look too, at my feathers-- they are not the least like those of a Crane.  The Farmer laughed aloud and said, It may be all as you say, I only know this: I have taken you with these robbers, the Cranes, and you must die in their company. Birds of a feather flock together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2917]]></link><description><![CDATA[Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pro-Net gives small companies an edge by providing direct online exposure to contracting officers in charge of the $200 billion-per-year ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pro-Net gives small companies an edge by providing direct online exposure to contracting officers in charge of the $200 billion-per-year federal market.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He sees only night, and hears only silence. [Fr., Il ne voit que la nuit, n'entend que le silence.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56284]]></link><description><![CDATA[He sees only night, and hears only silence. [Fr., Il ne voit que la nuit, n'entend que le silence.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22197]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44090]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61489]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1435]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[BT's 2Q 05/06 results would appear at first glance to be bang in line with our below-consensus expectations. But slightly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31601]]></link><description><![CDATA[BT's 2Q 05/06 results would appear at first glance to be bang in line with our below-consensus expectations. But slightly more-than-expected margin weakness and lower cash flow is unlikely to be taken well. Our sell rating is maintained.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65019]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62976]]></link><description><![CDATA[The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10864]]></link><description><![CDATA[One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to see pictures of Hollywood stars in their dressing gowns taking out the rubbish. It ruins the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3303]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to see pictures of Hollywood stars in their dressing gowns taking out the rubbish. It ruins the fantasy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sin bravely...We will never have all the facts to make a perfect judgement, but with the aid of basic experience ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14716]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sin bravely...We will never have all the facts to make a perfect judgement, but with the aid of basic experience we must leap bravely into the future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The point of cities is multiplicity of choice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63993]]></link><description><![CDATA[The point of cities is multiplicity of choice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The disease is painless; it's the cure that hurts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20833]]></link><description><![CDATA[The disease is painless; it's the cure that hurts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maybe I'm lucky to be going so slowly, because I may be going in the wrong direction ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26005]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maybe I'm lucky to be going so slowly, because I may be going in the wrong direction]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who's General Failure and why's he reading my disk? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9409]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who's General Failure and why's he reading my disk?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Margery Kempe, Mystic, after 1433   Contempt of material things as such is, in fact, no more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7304]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Margery Kempe, Mystic, after 1433   Contempt of material things as such is, in fact, no more orthodox than pantheism -- it is the great dualist heresy which always lies in wait for an over-spiritualized Christianity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have some Jewish members of Congress, not a lot but there's a bunch of us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35301]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have some Jewish members of Congress, not a lot but there's a bunch of us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In contrast to Central and Eastern Canada, housing conditions in Western Canada remain very tight and are showing increased signs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32202]]></link><description><![CDATA[In contrast to Central and Eastern Canada, housing conditions in Western Canada remain very tight and are showing increased signs of speculation. When economic conditions are booming, it can also create the perfect breeding ground for speculative price bubbles to form. That's because in such an environment, housing market participants are at greater risk of developing a case of irrational exuberance, especially if they expect that such exorbitant price gains will continue indefinitely.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12471]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65176]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[coerced and had been required as a condition for Libby's continued employment at the White House. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34938]]></link><description><![CDATA[coerced and had been required as a condition for Libby's continued employment at the White House.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be charitable and indulgent to everyone but thyself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17281]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be charitable and indulgent to everyone but thyself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20006]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5230]]></link><description><![CDATA[Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It still feels like it's the NCAA Tournament. It's a game we've got to get by first to get to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41875]]></link><description><![CDATA[It still feels like it's the NCAA Tournament. It's a game we've got to get by first to get to a powerhouse. The atmosphere is good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guard against the prestige of great names; see that your judgments are your own; and do not shrink from disagreement; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1934]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guard against the prestige of great names; see that your judgments are your own; and do not shrink from disagreement; no trusting without testing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The block of granite which is an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53972]]></link><description><![CDATA[The block of granite which is an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53972</guid></item></channel></rss>