<?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[Commemoration of Albrecht Dürer, artist, 1528, and Michelangelo Buonarrotti, artist, spiritual writer, 1564  O God in heaven, have mercy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Albrecht Dürer, artist, 1528, and Michelangelo Buonarrotti, artist, spiritual writer, 1564  O God in heaven, have mercy on us! Lord Jesus Christ, interecede for your people, deliver us at the opportune time, preserve in us the true genuine Christian faith, collect your scattered sheep with your voice, your divine Word as Holy Writ calls it. Help us to recognize your voice, help us not to be allured by the madness of the world, so that we may never fall away from you, O Lord Jesus Christ.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Aelred of Hexham, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167 Commemoration of Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearmouth, Scholar, 689   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Aelred of Hexham, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167 Commemoration of Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearmouth, Scholar, 689   I think I have never heard a sermon preached on the story of Mary and Martha that did not attempt, somehow, somewhere, to explain away its text. Mary's, of course, was the better part -- the Lord said so, and we must not precisely contradict Him. But we will be careful not to despise Martha. No doubt, He approved of her, too. We could not get on without her, and indeed, having paid lip-service to God's opinion, we must admit that we greatly prefer her, for Martha was doing a really feminine job, whereas Mary was just behaving like any other disciple; and that is a hard pill to swallow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We learn not in the school, but in life ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54768]]></link><description><![CDATA[We learn not in the school, but in life]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was the guy I looked up to, that I wanted to be like, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30254]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was the guy I looked up to, that I wanted to be like,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46901]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9957]]></link><description><![CDATA[A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/482]]></link><description><![CDATA[You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What were once vices are the fashion of the day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60542]]></link><description><![CDATA[What were once vices are the fashion of the day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops, but the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8836]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops, but the kind of man that the country ;turns out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Peter & Paul, Apostles  No man can be without his god. If he have not the true ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6647]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Peter & Paul, Apostles  No man can be without his god. If he have not the true God to bless and sustain him, he will have some false god to delude and to betray him. The Psalmist knew this, and therefore he joined so closely forgetting the name of our God and holding up our hands to some strange god. For every man has something in which he hopes, on which he leans, to which he retreats and retires, with which he fills up his thoughts in empty spaces of time, when he is alone, when he lies sleepless on his bed, when he is not pressed with other thoughts; to which he betakes himself in sorrow or trouble, as that from which he shall draw comfort and strength -- his fortress, his citadel, his defence; and has not this a good right to be called his god? Man was made to lean on the Creator; but if not on Him, then he leans on the creature in one shape or another. The ivy cannot grow alone: it must twine round some support or other; if not the goodly oak, then the ragged thorn -- round any dead stick whatever, rather than have no stay or support at all. It is even so with the heart and affections of man; if they do not twine around God, they must twine around some meaner thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some go to the light of nature and the use of "right reason" (that is, their own) as their guides; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7599]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some go to the light of nature and the use of "right reason" (that is, their own) as their guides; and some add the additional documents of the philosophers. They think a saying of Epictetus, or Seneca, or Arrianus, being wittily suited to their fancies and affections, to have more life and power in it than any precept of the Gospel. The reason why these things are more pleasing unto them than the commands and instructions of Christ is because, proceeding from the spring of natural light, they are suited to the workings of natural fancy and understanding; but those of Christ, proceeding from the fountain of eternal spiritual light, are not comprehended in their beauty and excellency without a principle of the same light in us, guiding our understanding and influencing our affections. Hence, take any precept, general or particular, about moral duties, that is materially the same in the writings of philosophers and in the doctrine of the Gospel; not a few prefer it as delivered in the first way before the latter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The eyes of spring, so azure, Are peeping from the ground;  They are the darling violets,   That ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60709]]></link><description><![CDATA[The eyes of spring, so azure, Are peeping from the ground;  They are the darling violets,   That I in nosegays bound.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The absent are always in the wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/180]]></link><description><![CDATA[The absent are always in the wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody is so rushed, they don't take time for the whimsical, the light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41742]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody is so rushed, they don't take time for the whimsical, the light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Automotive demand carried the market through the recession years but must now cope with a modest downturn in late 2005 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38636]]></link><description><![CDATA[Automotive demand carried the market through the recession years but must now cope with a modest downturn in late 2005 and across 2006. Thus, special quality bars will continue to see softer demand from this key market in 2006.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This matter has already become a national issue that concerns the whole of Iranian society and I can assure you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35729]]></link><description><![CDATA[This matter has already become a national issue that concerns the whole of Iranian society and I can assure you that no Iranian government will make a compromise on this issue,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenceless! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10653]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenceless!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is too short to stuff a mushroom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16350]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is too short to stuff a mushroom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Babe was a wonderful person. He was just a big kid who loved the limelight. If 500 children were waiting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Babe was a wonderful person. He was just a big kid who loved the limelight. If 500 children were waiting for his autograph, he'd stand there and sign for each one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pity is best taught by fellowship in woe ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pity is best taught by fellowship in woe]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You see, dear, it is not true that woman was made from man's rib; she was really made from his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27069]]></link><description><![CDATA[You see, dear, it is not true that woman was made from man's rib; she was really made from his funny bone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spirit is matter seen in a stronger light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57416]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spirit is matter seen in a stronger light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Envy eats nothing but its own heart ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Envy eats nothing but its own heart]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only if, for some reason, the government falls, there is an election and the Liberals win, Mr. Graham presumably would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only if, for some reason, the government falls, there is an election and the Liberals win, Mr. Graham presumably would lead them into an election should that be held.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Creation science is an attempt to give credibility to Hebrew mythology by making people believe that the world's foremost biologists, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Creation science is an attempt to give credibility to Hebrew mythology by making people believe that the world's foremost biologists, paleontologists, and geologists are a bunch of incompetent nincompoops.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hand that rounded Peter's dome And groined the aisles of Christian Rome,  Wrought in a sad sincerity;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3019]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hand that rounded Peter's dome And groined the aisles of Christian Rome,  Wrought in a sad sincerity;   Himself from God he could not free;    He builded better than he knew;     The conscious stone to beauty grew.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Against stupidity the very gods fight in vain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57018]]></link><description><![CDATA[Against stupidity the very gods fight in vain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52054]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Saints & Martyrs of England  It frequently happens that the value of a thing lies in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7757]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Saints & Martyrs of England  It frequently happens that the value of a thing lies in the fact that someone has possessed it. A very ordinary thing acquires a new value, if it has been possessed by some famous person. In any museum we will find quite ordinary things--clothes, a walking-stick, a pen, pieces of furniture--which are only of value because they were possessed and used by some great person. It is the ownership which gives them worth. It is so with the Christian. The Christian may be a very ordinary person, but he acquires a new value and dignity and greatness because he belongs to God. The greatness of the Christian lies in the fact that he is God's.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57034]]></link><description><![CDATA[A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die out, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our supple tribes repress their patriot throats, And ask no questions but the price of votes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4904]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our supple tribes repress their patriot throats, And ask no questions but the price of votes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom--they are the pillars of society. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56928]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom--they are the pillars of society.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject, when it seemed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19514]]></link><description><![CDATA[I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject, when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron scumbags devoid of any admirable human qualities. I failed history.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And hearts resolved and hands prepared The blessings they enjoy to guard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53968]]></link><description><![CDATA[And hearts resolved and hands prepared The blessings they enjoy to guard.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Growing up in Brooklyn in the '40s and following the war in the papers and on the radio every day, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Growing up in Brooklyn in the '40s and following the war in the papers and on the radio every day, the world looked very different to us then.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1321]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An eye for an eye would make the whole world blind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54073]]></link><description><![CDATA[An eye for an eye would make the whole world blind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think another problem people have is they are always searching for that high, and they don't realize they can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31785]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think another problem people have is they are always searching for that high, and they don't realize they can get that same high with that same person again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maybe what we do here is help you develop that sense of what is right and what is wrong. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maybe what we do here is help you develop that sense of what is right and what is wrong. We don't want to dictate morality to people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65964]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For me, elegance is not to pass unnoticed but to get to the very soul of what one is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/883]]></link><description><![CDATA[For me, elegance is not to pass unnoticed but to get to the very soul of what one is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've seen dip buying and think that's a precursor to larger commitment into supply. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32940]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've seen dip buying and think that's a precursor to larger commitment into supply.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone; but sometimes it is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66109]]></link><description><![CDATA[In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone; but sometimes it is a great relief.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20251]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, "Here is an opportunity for me to celebrate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/87]]></link><description><![CDATA[Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, "Here is an opportunity for me to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/87</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Bush's strong effort in the state] is probably not going to help him win in California, which at this point ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42440]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Bush's strong effort in the state] is probably not going to help him win in California, which at this point seems extremely unlikely, ... But it may force Gore to commit some more resources here to really try to solidify his California Latino base.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From our perspective, this has worked very well. People have concerns about contractors working side by side with government workers. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40413]]></link><description><![CDATA[From our perspective, this has worked very well. People have concerns about contractors working side by side with government workers. If you are going to conduct business today, that is the model you will see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Daily with souls that cringe and plot, We Sinais climb and know it not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Daily with souls that cringe and plot, We Sinais climb and know it not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43308</guid></item></channel></rss>