<?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[An advantage of poverty, your relatives gain nothing by your death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53357]]></link><description><![CDATA[An advantage of poverty, your relatives gain nothing by your death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boredom: the desire for desires ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4714]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boredom: the desire for desires]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are Batavian graces in all he says. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10207]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are Batavian graces in all he says.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The one use of the Bible is to make us look at Jesus, that through Him we might know His ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8121]]></link><description><![CDATA[The one use of the Bible is to make us look at Jesus, that through Him we might know His Father and our Father, His God and our God. Till we thus know Him, let us hold the Bible dear as the moon of our darkness, by which we travel toward the east; not dear as the sun whence her light cometh, and towards which we haste, that, walking in the sun himself, we may no more need the mirror that reflected his absent brightness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The archdiocese also is disappointed that this has taken so long. Obviously, this isn't anything we have any desire to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32461]]></link><description><![CDATA[The archdiocese also is disappointed that this has taken so long. Obviously, this isn't anything we have any desire to prolong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66141]]></link><description><![CDATA[Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. -Kahlil Gibran. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55238]]></link><description><![CDATA[Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. -Kahlil Gibran.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He had a good start, ... Everything was, 'Yes, ma'am.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40824]]></link><description><![CDATA[He had a good start, ... Everything was, 'Yes, ma'am.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The situation in America is when it starts moving there, all the bands from England move over to America and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30063]]></link><description><![CDATA[The situation in America is when it starts moving there, all the bands from England move over to America and work from there, so that they're available all the time for everyone that wants them in person.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedlydo."N.B. This quotation is a paraphrase of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedlydo."N.B. This quotation is a paraphrase of a much older quote by Aristotle, which see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go to your bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52747]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go to your bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66148]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There may be some comments or text which will offer Fed views on the recent soft economic data and monetary ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41354]]></link><description><![CDATA[There may be some comments or text which will offer Fed views on the recent soft economic data and monetary policy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One must be truthful with oneself about one's own motives, especially if one is to survive in the world. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2255]]></link><description><![CDATA[One must be truthful with oneself about one's own motives, especially if one is to survive in the world. It takes rigor, and it takes courage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23090]]></link><description><![CDATA[The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; to create life in that isolation from life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Maximilian Kolbe, Franciscan Friar, Priest, Martyr, 1941   We distrust the providence of God when, after we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Maximilian Kolbe, Franciscan Friar, Priest, Martyr, 1941   We distrust the providence of God when, after we have used all our best endeavors and begged His blessing upon them, we torment ourselves about the wise issue and event of them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Over-preparation is the foe of inspiration ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48127]]></link><description><![CDATA[Over-preparation is the foe of inspiration]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a comparison is made of the variant readings of the New Testament with those of other books which have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6703]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a comparison is made of the variant readings of the New Testament with those of other books which have survived from antiquity, the results are little short of astounding. For instance, although there are some 200,000 "errors" among the New Testament manuscripts, these appear in only about 10,000 places, and only about one-sixtieth rise above the level of trivialities. Westcott and Hort, Ezra Abbot, Philip Schaff, and A. T. Robertson have carefully evaluated the evidence and have concluded that the New Testament text is over 99 percent pure. In the light of the fact that there are over 5,000 Greek manuscripts, some 9,000 versions and translations, the evidence for the integrity of the New Testament is beyond question.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl -- and look at the ailing, aching state a young ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61889]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl -- and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to -- which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The grape becomes tinted from the grape it comes in contact with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50498]]></link><description><![CDATA[The grape becomes tinted from the grape it comes in contact with.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16941]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is never any peace for those who resist God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7786]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is never any peace for those who resist God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Statesman, yet friend to truth! of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear;  Who broke no promise, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57849]]></link><description><![CDATA[Statesman, yet friend to truth! of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear;  Who broke no promise, served no private end,   Who gained no title, and who lost no friend,    Ennobled by himself, by all approved,     And praised, unenvied, by the Muse he loved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We treat our people like royalty. If you honor and serve the people who work for you, they will honor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42061]]></link><description><![CDATA[We treat our people like royalty. If you honor and serve the people who work for you, they will honor and serve you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My country is the world; my countrymen are mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27876]]></link><description><![CDATA[My country is the world; my countrymen are mankind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I add this also, that natural ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31]]></link><description><![CDATA[I add this also, that natural ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability. [Lat., Etiam illud adjungo, saepius ad laudem atque virtutem naturam sine doctrina, quam sine natura valisse doctrinam.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Oswald, King of Northumbria, Martyr, 642  We do not very often come across opportunities for exercising strength, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7186]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Oswald, King of Northumbria, Martyr, 642  We do not very often come across opportunities for exercising strength, magnanimity, or magnificence; but gentleness, temperance, modesty, and humility, are graces which ought to color everything we do. There may be virtues of a more exalted mold, but... these are the most continually called for in daily life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52521]]></link><description><![CDATA[The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got mass merchants who are expanding their toy space and using it to drive total store volume. These discounters ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42482]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got mass merchants who are expanding their toy space and using it to drive total store volume. These discounters are not worried about the margins they make on toys. How can you compete against that?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reason lies betweene the spurre and the bridle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49728]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reason lies betweene the spurre and the bridle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a sign of your own worth sometimes if you are hated by the right people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18805]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a sign of your own worth sometimes if you are hated by the right people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The main purpose is to visit troops as their commander in chief to relay the support of the folks back ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40386]]></link><description><![CDATA[The main purpose is to visit troops as their commander in chief to relay the support of the folks back home. It's also an opportunity to see first hand the places they've served and continue to serve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People asked me that when I did 'Hostage,' but I don't know. It's going to pay the bills, and while ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41896]]></link><description><![CDATA[People asked me that when I did 'Hostage,' but I don't know. It's going to pay the bills, and while it's happening, I'll appreciate it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[DepLeted uranium is a warcrimein progress.Doug Rokkeappointed by Norman Schwarzkopf ascommander of a cleanup crew of several hundred,30 of whom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61167]]></link><description><![CDATA[DepLeted uranium is a warcrimein progress.Doug Rokkeappointed by Norman Schwarzkopf ascommander of a cleanup crew of several hundred,30 of whom have died of cancerhttp://indymedia.org.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The discontented man finds no easy chair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12428]]></link><description><![CDATA[The discontented man finds no easy chair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is but a flower, Which wrinkles will devour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50694]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is but a flower, Which wrinkles will devour.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When someone is mean to me, I just make them a victim in my next book. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65785]]></link><description><![CDATA[When someone is mean to me, I just make them a victim in my next book.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12186]]></link><description><![CDATA[Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64553]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23977]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5116]]></link><description><![CDATA[A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24708]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am, Sir, a brother of the angle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16087]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am, Sir, a brother of the angle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then you yell, 'Fire! Fire! Fire in the hole!' and you're gonna hustle on out of there. In fact you've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then you yell, 'Fire! Fire! Fire in the hole!' and you're gonna hustle on out of there. In fact you've got very, very little time to get out. Most coal miners, they just take and fall down on their face right there ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â because they're gonna end up that way anyhow, and then you're gonna have to go find your hat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With so much information now online, it is exceptionally easy to simply dive in and drown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/821]]></link><description><![CDATA[With so much information now online, it is exceptionally easy to simply dive in and drown.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Charles, King & Martyr, 1649  The widest thing in the universe is not space, it is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7053]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Charles, King & Martyr, 1649  The widest thing in the universe is not space, it is the potential capacity of the human heart. Being made in the image of God, it is capable of almost unlimited extension in all directions. Christians should seek for inner enlargement till their outward dimension gives no hint of the vastness within.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For example, there was the day he gave me the job of figuring out how many jelly beans it would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23209]]></link><description><![CDATA[For example, there was the day he gave me the job of figuring out how many jelly beans it would take to fill up Soldier Field.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True science is never speculative; it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32009]]></link><description><![CDATA[True science is never speculative; it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as though they were demonstrated propositions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would rather have a German division in front of me than a French one behind me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16611]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather have a German division in front of me than a French one behind me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61844]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61844</guid></item></channel></rss>