<?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[We are not where we want to be yet. We are working very hard, but there are still a lot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30566]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not where we want to be yet. We are working very hard, but there are still a lot of things that we need to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature. -Much Ado ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55435]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or without them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29577]]></link><description><![CDATA[These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or without them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[hemorrhaging of the Democratic base usually happens when the incumbent mayor is perceived as the winner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35632]]></link><description><![CDATA[hemorrhaging of the Democratic base usually happens when the incumbent mayor is perceived as the winner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Etheldreda, Abbess of Ely, c.678 Continuing a short series on authenticity: For the preacher's merit or demerit, It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8277]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Etheldreda, Abbess of Ely, c.678 Continuing a short series on authenticity: For the preacher's merit or demerit, It were to be wished the flaws were fewer In the earthen vessel, holding treasure, Which lies as safe in a golden ewer; But the main thing is, does it hold good measure? Heaven soon sets right all other matters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love blinds us to faults, but hatred blinds us to virtues. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18866]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love blinds us to faults, but hatred blinds us to virtues.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47404]]></link><description><![CDATA[War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63650]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9078]]></link><description><![CDATA[We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45201]]></link><description><![CDATA[I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're all stumbling towards the light with varying degrees of grace at any given moment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18098]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're all stumbling towards the light with varying degrees of grace at any given moment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a narrow circle the mind contracts. Man grows with his expanded needs.  [Ger., Im engen Kreis verengert sich ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18398]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a narrow circle the mind contracts. Man grows with his expanded needs.  [Ger., Im engen Kreis verengert sich der Sinn.   Es wachst der Mensch mit seinen grossern Zwecken.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the first time, Americans will have under one roof the capacity for government to work together. To identify and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38749]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the first time, Americans will have under one roof the capacity for government to work together. To identify and assess threats to our homeland, to match these threats to our vulnerabilities, and to ensure our safety and security,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we tried to stop them, they started pelting us with stones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41364]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we tried to stop them, they started pelting us with stones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16922]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Romance is the poetry of literature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54356]]></link><description><![CDATA[Romance is the poetry of literature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good hitter has timing.A good pitcher upsets timing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57437]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good hitter has timing.A good pitcher upsets timing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day! -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55330]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day! -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61749]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little neglect may breed great mischief. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44352]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little neglect may breed great mischief.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To decide to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53360]]></link><description><![CDATA[To decide to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's happening in England, it's happening in Sweden. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36586]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's happening in England, it's happening in Sweden.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that there's this prejudice, that people that have a college education are more intelligent than people that don't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31164]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that there's this prejudice, that people that have a college education are more intelligent than people that don't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16194]]></link><description><![CDATA[Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A knave’s religion is always the rottenest thing about him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23895]]></link><description><![CDATA[A knave’s religion is always the rottenest thing about him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without the Milosevic trial the court has lost the possibility of finding a conclusion to the question of who is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37249]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without the Milosevic trial the court has lost the possibility of finding a conclusion to the question of who is responsible for what happened in the Balkans.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Verizon is putting an obvious emphasis on communities with greater resources and is ignoring large segments of the state, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39450]]></link><description><![CDATA[Verizon is putting an obvious emphasis on communities with greater resources and is ignoring large segments of the state,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. (Merchant Of Venice) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1801]]></link><description><![CDATA[With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. (Merchant Of Venice)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22196]]></link><description><![CDATA[And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never be afraid to sit awhile and think. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never be afraid to sit awhile and think.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43833]]></link><description><![CDATA[For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27719]]></link><description><![CDATA[The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them -which- we are missing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rich man's sons inherits cares; The bank may break, the factory burn,  A breath may burst his bubble ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61407]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rich man's sons inherits cares; The bank may break, the factory burn,  A breath may burst his bubble shares,   And soft, white hands could hardly earn    A living that would serve his turn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've legged you up on winners - do you want me to leg you up now? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33389]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've legged you up on winners - do you want me to leg you up now?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Mark the Evangelist  To love another as oneself is only the halfway house to Heaven, though it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7803]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Mark the Evangelist  To love another as oneself is only the halfway house to Heaven, though it seems as far as it was prudent to bid man go. The "greater love than this" of which our Lord speaks, though He does not command it, is to give oneself for one's friends. And when one does this, or is ready to do this, prayer even for "us" seems too selfish -- and it is unnecessary, for we then possess all that God Himself can give us. The easy renunciation of self for the Beloved becomes the very breath of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a precious gift. Don't waste it being unhappy, dissatisfied, or anything else you can be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17416]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a precious gift. Don't waste it being unhappy, dissatisfied, or anything else you can be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life has taught me that respect, caring and love must be shared, for it's only through sharing that friendships are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5272]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life has taught me that respect, caring and love must be shared, for it's only through sharing that friendships are born.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We wanted to look at different combinations of players. We did achieve that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30792]]></link><description><![CDATA[We wanted to look at different combinations of players. We did achieve that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23776]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbial disgrace. [Lat., Culpa enim illa, bis ad eundem, vulgari reprehensa ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16334]]></link><description><![CDATA[To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbial disgrace. [Lat., Culpa enim illa, bis ad eundem, vulgari reprehensa proverbio est.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8740]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gladys Aylward, Missionary in China, 1970   George Brush, the hero of [Thornton Wilder's] "Heaven's My Destination", ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6858]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gladys Aylward, Missionary in China, 1970   George Brush, the hero of [Thornton Wilder's] "Heaven's My Destination", a textbook salesman and evangelist extraordinary, is the innocent fool, in the kindliest sense of both the noun and the adjective. He is striving to be the fool in Christ, sowing the inevitable amazement, consternation and wrath that must ensue when Christ's fool runs at large among the worldly wise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despair is a great incentive to honorable death. [Lat., Desperatio magnum ad honeste moriendum incitamentum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12012]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despair is a great incentive to honorable death. [Lat., Desperatio magnum ad honeste moriendum incitamentum.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love, work and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25652]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love, work and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a friend is in trouble, don’t annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66047]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a friend is in trouble, don’t annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True and genuine worship is when man, through his spirit attains to friendship and intimacy with God. True and genuine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7554]]></link><description><![CDATA[True and genuine worship is when man, through his spirit attains to friendship and intimacy with God. True and genuine worship is not to come to a certain place; it is not to go through a certain ritual or liturgy; it is not even to bring certain gifts. True worship is when the spirit, the immortal and invisible part of man, speaks to and meets with God, who is immortal and invisible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63746]]></link><description><![CDATA[That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37230]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's been close to decision-making for a long time and observed several prime ministers. He's had all the training that's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34783]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's been close to decision-making for a long time and observed several prime ministers. He's had all the training that's required and he certainly has the capabilities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The skips (elevators) that once lifted about 4 tons of salt to the surface were eventually replaced with hydraulic hoists ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36327]]></link><description><![CDATA[The skips (elevators) that once lifted about 4 tons of salt to the surface were eventually replaced with hydraulic hoists that can bring up as much as 19 tons,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36327</guid></item></channel></rss>