<?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[Early one morning I, Vadim Maslennikov, set off for school (I was going on seventeen at the time) having forgotten ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4628]]></link><description><![CDATA[Early one morning I, Vadim Maslennikov, set off for school (I was going on seventeen at the time) having forgotten the envelope with the first-semester fees Mother had left me in the dining room the day before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2607]]></link><description><![CDATA[Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains. -Helen Douglas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men can do all things if they will ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men can do all things if they will]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life in order to keep ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10348]]></link><description><![CDATA[The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life in order to keep it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honor is like a widow, won With brisk attempt and putting on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19714]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honor is like a widow, won With brisk attempt and putting on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Bigotry's] birthplace is the sinister back room of the mind where plots and schemes are hatched for the persecution and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45156]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Bigotry's] birthplace is the sinister back room of the mind where plots and schemes are hatched for the persecution and oppression of other human beings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government -- he promised Dad he'd go straight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47370]]></link><description><![CDATA[My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government -- he promised Dad he'd go straight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nonetheless, struggle for civilian supremacy is still perilous and uncertain. (Wahid) is struggling for authority over the military. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40301]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nonetheless, struggle for civilian supremacy is still perilous and uncertain. (Wahid) is struggling for authority over the military.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have just about all I can take of myself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2253]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have just about all I can take of myself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61868]]></link><description><![CDATA[She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We follow the parliament and will definitely implement its bills, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41296]]></link><description><![CDATA[We follow the parliament and will definitely implement its bills,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They shall not pass till the stars be darkened: Two swords crossed in front of the Hun;  Never a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61130]]></link><description><![CDATA[They shall not pass till the stars be darkened: Two swords crossed in front of the Hun;  Never a groan but God has harkened,   Counting their cruelties one by one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33687]]></link><description><![CDATA[I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came to the end, the more difficult it got. You don't see things clearly as long as you're still involved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like to feel the burn of the audience's eyes when I'm whispering all my darkest secrets into the microphone ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46143]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like to feel the burn of the audience's eyes when I'm whispering all my darkest secrets into the microphone]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/911]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63703]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["The time has come," the Walrus said, "To talk of many things:  Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax--   Of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58606]]></link><description><![CDATA["The time has come," the Walrus said, "To talk of many things:  Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax--   Of cabbages--and kings--    And why the sea is boiling hot--     And whether pigs have wings."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great minds think alike. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46360]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great minds think alike.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62906]]></link><description><![CDATA[What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are, when you don't come home at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44088]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are, when you don't come home at night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are dead; the living have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8355]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are dead; the living have no right to forget.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of the jobs created were full-time, the employment rate (percentage of the population 16 years of age and over) ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38558]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of the jobs created were full-time, the employment rate (percentage of the population 16 years of age and over) remains near all-time highs at 62.7, while the participation rate found a way to rise by 0.1 percentage point to 67.2, again near an all-time high.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Matthias the Apostle  God often takes a course for accomplishing His purposes directly contrary to what our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7249]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Matthias the Apostle  God often takes a course for accomplishing His purposes directly contrary to what our narrow views would prescribe. He brings a death upon our feelings, wishes and prospects when He is about to give us the desire of our hearts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21002]]></link><description><![CDATA[The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The proud he tam'd, the penitent he cheer'd: Nor to rebuke the rich offender fear'd.  His preaching much, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48083]]></link><description><![CDATA[The proud he tam'd, the penitent he cheer'd: Nor to rebuke the rich offender fear'd.  His preaching much, but more his practice wrought;   (A living sermon of the truths he taught:)    For this by rules severe his life he squar'd:     That all might see the doctrines which they heard.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cheryl Treadwell is our angel, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38246]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cheryl Treadwell is our angel,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15966]]></link><description><![CDATA[You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even such a man, so faint, so spiritless, So dull, so dead in look, so woe-begone, Drew Priam's curtain in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55905]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even such a man, so faint, so spiritless, So dull, so dead in look, so woe-begone, Drew Priam's curtain in the dead of night, And would have told him half his Troy was burnt. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21538]]></link><description><![CDATA[No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Indeed, whenever a new idea is developed, as for example ballooning, warfare immediately takes possession.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64364]]></link><description><![CDATA[Indeed, whenever a new idea is developed, as for example ballooning, warfare immediately takes possession.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the lone Angler, patient man, At Mewry-Water, or the Banne,  Leaves off, against his placid wish,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16105]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the lone Angler, patient man, At Mewry-Water, or the Banne,  Leaves off, against his placid wish,   Impaling worms to torture fish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46212]]></link><description><![CDATA[Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning there was about a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9435]]></link><description><![CDATA[Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have people all across the country know about it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12222]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His heart and hand both open and both free; For what he has he gives, what thinks he shows; Yet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56071]]></link><description><![CDATA[His heart and hand both open and both free; For what he has he gives, what thinks he shows; Yet gives he not till judgment guide his bounty. -Troilus and Cressida. Act iv. Sc. 5.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No memory is ever alone; it's at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63940]]></link><description><![CDATA[No memory is ever alone; it's at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own associations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53994]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was brown with a golden gloss, Janette, It was finer than silk of the floss, my pet;  'Twas ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18588]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was brown with a golden gloss, Janette, It was finer than silk of the floss, my pet;  'Twas a beautiful mist falling down to your wrist,   'Twas a thing to be braided, and jewelled, and kissed--    'Twas the loveliest hair in the world, my pet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To wage a war for a purely moral reason is as absurd as to ravish a woman for a purely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47480]]></link><description><![CDATA[To wage a war for a purely moral reason is as absurd as to ravish a woman for a purely moral reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No vice can harbor in you, no infirmity take any root, no good desire can languish, when once your heart ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7074]]></link><description><![CDATA[No vice can harbor in you, no infirmity take any root, no good desire can languish, when once your heart is in this method of prayer; never beginning to pray, till you first see how matters stand with you; asking your heart what it wants, and having nothing in your prayers, but what the known state of your heart puts you upon demanding, saying, or offering, unto God. A quarter of an hour of this prayer, brings you out of your closet a new man; your heart feels the good of it; and every return of such a prayer, gives new life and growth to all your virtues, with more certainty, than the dew refreshes the herbs of the field: whereas, overlooking this true prayer of your own heart, and only at certain times taking a prayer that you find in a book, you have nothing to wonder at, if you are every day praying, and yet every day sinking further and further under all your infirmities. [Continued tomorrow].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13235]]></link><description><![CDATA[However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Christian is not one who has gone all the way with Christ. None of us has. The Christian is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31370]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Christian is not one who has gone all the way with Christ. None of us has. The Christian is one who has found the right road.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let man fear woman when she loves: then she makes any sacrifice, and everything else seems without value to her ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let man fear woman when she loves: then she makes any sacrifice, and everything else seems without value to her]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Habits of close attention, thinking heads, Become more rare as dissipation spreads,  Till authors hear at length one general ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3527]]></link><description><![CDATA[Habits of close attention, thinking heads, Become more rare as dissipation spreads,  Till authors hear at length one general cry   Tickle and entertain us, or we die!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on education:   It is ironic that, although fundamentalists are implacably opposed to liberalism, their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on education:   It is ironic that, although fundamentalists are implacably opposed to liberalism, their extreme reaction shows the same weakness. They, too, stress the leap of faith and make irrationality almost a principle, dismissing the serious questions of seeking modern men as intellectual smoke-screens or diversions to conceal deeper personal problems. All this masks a desperate intellectual insecurity, barely disguised by the surrounding hedge of taboos to preserve purity. The strident intolerance of much guilt-driven evangelism betrays the same insecurity. In these circles, much that is taught has to be unlearned in the wider school of life, and it is not surprising that universities are littered with dropouts from such groups. Their non-rational, subjective faith is cruelly punctured by varsity-level questions, and many manage to survive only by resorting to a severely schizophrenic faith which they hold to be true religiously but not intellectually, historically, or scientifically.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Taken as practical counsel for survival, the Fifth Commandment is now almost a dead letter. Yet if our world were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7887]]></link><description><![CDATA[Taken as practical counsel for survival, the Fifth Commandment is now almost a dead letter. Yet if our world were truly Christian, the change might be a reason for rejoicing. We no longer need our families -- we are therefore free to love them with complete unselfishness. Now at last it is possible to honour our parents genuinely, because they no longer have the power to kill us if we don't. The old sort of honour was sometimes an ugly sham: the son who respects Father only out of fear of punishment is not much of a son, just as the Christian who worships God only out of fear of hell is precious little of a Christian. But the new sort of honour can be a beautiful and holy thing. There are many sweet and sane families bound together by love; there are plenty of experts who remind us that only love can make the modern family work at all. And one must admit that there are plenty of parents very willing to be honoured. The catch is that not so many of them are willing to be honourable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to "create" rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8808]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to "create" rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60343]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge by suffering entereth, And life is perfected by death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11387]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge by suffering entereth, And life is perfected by death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11387</guid></item></channel></rss>