<?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 quality of mercy is not strain'd, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath: it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27356]]></link><description><![CDATA[The quality of mercy is not strain'd, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath: it is twice bless'd; It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is perhaps not entirely so, though it has often been said, that man makes his God in his own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52332]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is perhaps not entirely so, though it has often been said, that man makes his God in his own image. Rather does he create Him in the image of his cravings and dreams- in the image of what man wants to be. God making could be part of the process by which a society realizes its aspirations: it first embodies them in the conception of a particular God, and then proceeds to imitate that God. The confidence requisite for attempting the unprecedented is most effectively generated by the fiction that in realizing the new we are imitating rather than originating. Our preoccupation with heaven can be part of an effort to find precedents for the unprecedented.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65968]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because the whole area around there has grown we need to increase the capacity so we are basically rebuilding the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because the whole area around there has grown we need to increase the capacity so we are basically rebuilding the old pumping plant. The bottom line is this is to the benefit of everybody. When you're upgrading your infrastructure, you're making it more reliable and able to handle the demand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can never get enough of what you don't want. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21616]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can never get enough of what you don't want.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17634]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is possible only when one is busy. The body must toil, the mind must be occupied, and the heart ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18672]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is possible only when one is busy. The body must toil, the mind must be occupied, and the heart must be satisfied. Those who do good as opportunity offers are sowing seed all the time, and they need not doubt the harvest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Antony of Egypt, Abbot, 356 Commemoration of Charles Gore, Bishop, Teacher, Founder of the Community of the Resurrection, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7372]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Antony of Egypt, Abbot, 356 Commemoration of Charles Gore, Bishop, Teacher, Founder of the Community of the Resurrection, 1932 In the pure soul, whether it sing or pray, The Christ is born anew from day to day. The life that knoweth Him shall bide apart And keep eternal Christmas in the heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55029]]></link><description><![CDATA[Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hope that you will tell as many people as you can about the archives so people can come and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37960]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hope that you will tell as many people as you can about the archives so people can come and use it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lieutenant governor is a man of his word. He will fulfill his commitment to deliver a memo on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40656]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lieutenant governor is a man of his word. He will fulfill his commitment to deliver a memo on the subject, and it would be disappointing for anyone to play politics on this issue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Laborer and the SnakeA snake, having made his hole close to the porch of a cottage, inflicted a mortal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1552]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Laborer and the SnakeA snake, having made his hole close to the porch of a cottage, inflicted a mortal bite on the Cottager's infant son. Grieving over his loss, the Father resolved to kill the Snake. The next day, when it came out of its hole for food, he took up his axe, but by swinging too hastily, missed its head and cut off only the end of its tail. After some time the Cottager, afraid that the Snake would bite him also, endeavored to make peace, and placed some bread and salt in the hole. The Snake, slightly hissing, said: There can henceforth be no peace between us; for whenever I see you I shall remember the loss of my tail, and whenever you see me you will be thinking of the death of your son. No one truly forgets injuries in the presence of him who caused the injury.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concentrated political power is the most dangerous thing on earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concentrated political power is the most dangerous thing on earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We probably sell over 1,000 bags a week. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32281]]></link><description><![CDATA[We probably sell over 1,000 bags a week.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a beautiful trait in the lover's character, that they think no evil of the object loved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64908]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a beautiful trait in the lover's character, that they think no evil of the object loved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No choice amongst stinking fish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51015]]></link><description><![CDATA[No choice amongst stinking fish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of us ask for advice when we know the answer but we want a different one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1162]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of us ask for advice when we know the answer but we want a different one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die. [It., Spesso e da forte,  Piu che ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24828]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die. [It., Spesso e da forte,  Piu che il morire, il vivere.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27678]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The effects of our actions may be postponed but they are never lost. There is an inevitable reward for good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22787]]></link><description><![CDATA[The effects of our actions may be postponed but they are never lost. There is an inevitable reward for good deeds and an inescapable punishment for bad. Meditate upon this truth, and seek always to earn good wages from Destiny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14644]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A teacher appears--for whom no one was prepared, and whom no one could have expected. The argument from prophecy, on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6360]]></link><description><![CDATA[A teacher appears--for whom no one was prepared, and whom no one could have expected. The argument from prophecy, on which the early apologists laid so much weight, was all ex post facto. No one beforehand could have conjectured a tenth of it. But without the background of Jewish prophet and psalmist, of Jewish national history, it would be hard to understand Jesus. If prophet and historian and legislator did not in type and enigma foretell in detail the story of his life, he was none the less their heir. None the less was he their heir in that he was not in bondage to his inheritance, but... a "minister not of the letter but of the spirit", and the whole of his activity lay "in newness of spirit". Without conjecturing what he might have been on another soil or of another stock--a type of guesswork always futile in history--we have to recognize the... immense spiritual wealth that lay ready to his hand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A medium Vodka dry Martini--with a slice of lemon peel. Shaken and not stirred. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61683]]></link><description><![CDATA[A medium Vodka dry Martini--with a slice of lemon peel. Shaken and not stirred.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57090]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which every society has bubbling beneath the surface and which can provide harmless fun; but the culture itself. For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norm, even our cultural ideal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This power of being outwardly genial and inwardly austere, which is the real Christian temper, depends entirely upon the time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7856]]></link><description><![CDATA[This power of being outwardly genial and inwardly austere, which is the real Christian temper, depends entirely upon the time set apart for personal religion. It is always achieved if courageously and faithfully sought; and there are no heights of love and holiness to which it cannot lead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The elegance of honesty needs no adornment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19674]]></link><description><![CDATA[The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46822]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's less of the listen-and-learn type of documentary approach of 20 years ago and more of a live-and-learn approach through ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32895]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's less of the listen-and-learn type of documentary approach of 20 years ago and more of a live-and-learn approach through the programming. The viewer learns through their experiences about what they're learning. Yes, it's entertainment, but it's really a program about going into the world of work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a maxim, that those to whom everybody allows the second place have an undoubted title to the first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62341]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a maxim, that those to whom everybody allows the second place have an undoubted title to the first.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think one way the cops could make money would be to hold a murder weapons sale. Many people could ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11706]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think one way the cops could make money would be to hold a murder weapons sale. Many people could really use used ice picks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature, that a man, having once shown himself capable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46639]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature, that a man, having once shown himself capable of original writing, is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1315]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exist in each individual of the species, can never in its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43820]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exist in each individual of the species, can never in its perfection inhabit a single object.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's where Pfizer is crossing the line here a little bit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39573]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's where Pfizer is crossing the line here a little bit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You definitely have to respect this place, as we learned in the past with my father and my grandfather ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Âœ ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41465]]></link><description><![CDATA[You definitely have to respect this place, as we learned in the past with my father and my grandfather ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Âœ both had a lot of unfortunate luck here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46216]]></link><description><![CDATA[The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All that we are is the result of what we have thought. -Buddha. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22814]]></link><description><![CDATA[All that we are is the result of what we have thought. -Buddha.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give every man your ear, but few thy voice. Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5432]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give every man your ear, but few thy voice. Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The angel of the Family is Woman. Mother, wife, or sister, Woman is the caress of life, the soothing sweetness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63092]]></link><description><![CDATA[The angel of the Family is Woman. Mother, wife, or sister, Woman is the caress of life, the soothing sweetness of affection shed over its toils, a reflection for the individual of the loving providence which watches over Humanity. In her there is treasure enough of consoling tenderness to allay every pain. Moreover for every one of us she is the initiator of the future. The mother's first kiss teaches the child love; the first holy kiss of the woman he loves teaches man hope and faith in life; and love and faith create a desire for perfection and the power of reaching towards it step by step; create the future, in short, of which the living symbol is the child, link between us and the generations to come. Through her the Family, with its divine mystery of reproduction, points to Eternity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5938]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Choice has always been a privilege of those who could afford to pay for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1028]]></link><description><![CDATA[Choice has always been a privilege of those who could afford to pay for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To go where the King goes afoot (i.e. to the stool). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50006]]></link><description><![CDATA[To go where the King goes afoot (i.e. to the stool).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All flesh is not venison. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49101]]></link><description><![CDATA[All flesh is not venison.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life can be seen your eyes butit is not fully appreciated until it is seen through your heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24930]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life can be seen your eyes butit is not fully appreciated until it is seen through your heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes a mind like Dannel's, fact, ez big ez all ou'doors To find out thet it looks like rain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48459]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes a mind like Dannel's, fact, ez big ez all ou'doors To find out thet it looks like rain arter it fairly pours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21886]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a song. Love is the music. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43446]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a song. Love is the music.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unfortunately, the balance of nature decrees that a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unfortunately, the balance of nature decrees that a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's this huge number of desperate people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40881]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's this huge number of desperate people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40881</guid></item></channel></rss>