<?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[Give what thou canst, without Thee we are poor; And with Thee rich, take what Thou wilt away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give what thou canst, without Thee we are poor; And with Thee rich, take what Thou wilt away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60395]]></link><description><![CDATA[The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fanatical religion driven to a certain point is almost as bad as none at all, but not quite. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fanatical religion driven to a certain point is almost as bad as none at all, but not quite.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16646]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The legacy of women's war work is our present post-industrial employment structure. It was the war that created the demand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27278]]></link><description><![CDATA[The legacy of women's war work is our present post-industrial employment structure. It was the war that created the demand for a technologically advanced, de-skilled, low-paid, non-unionized female workforce and paved the way for making part-time work the norm for married women now. A generation later, it was the daughters of wartime women workers who completed their mothers' campaign for equal pay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is great force hidden in a sweet command. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49952]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is great force hidden in a sweet command.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15612]]></link><description><![CDATA[A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Bread that this house may never know hunger, salt that life may always have flavor." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20173]]></link><description><![CDATA["Bread that this house may never know hunger, salt that life may always have flavor."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't get anything for free. I pay for all my beauty treatments." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19586]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't get anything for free. I pay for all my beauty treatments."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fools make feasts, and wise men eat them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13192]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fools make feasts, and wise men eat them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48032]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What the discordant harmony of circumstances would and could effect. [Lat., Quid velit et possit rerum concordia discors.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8715]]></link><description><![CDATA[What the discordant harmony of circumstances would and could effect. [Lat., Quid velit et possit rerum concordia discors.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13132]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44820]]></link><description><![CDATA[Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Morris, Artist, Writer, 1896 Commemoration of George Kennedy Bell, Bishop of Chichester, Ecumenist, Peacemaker, 1958   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6718]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Morris, Artist, Writer, 1896 Commemoration of George Kennedy Bell, Bishop of Chichester, Ecumenist, Peacemaker, 1958   If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[State level legislators can use these scientifically researched results to help make policy. It's a source of information to know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39923]]></link><description><![CDATA[State level legislators can use these scientifically researched results to help make policy. It's a source of information to know what's going on in rural Iowa.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to light 1 candlethan to curse the darkness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59225]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to light 1 candlethan to curse the darkness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Avoid delays: procrastination always does harm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50585]]></link><description><![CDATA[Avoid delays: procrastination always does harm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None is a foole alwaies, everyone sometimes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49658]]></link><description><![CDATA[None is a foole alwaies, everyone sometimes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to be careful in this era of radical feminism, not to emphasize an equality of the sexes that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15578]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to be careful in this era of radical feminism, not to emphasize an equality of the sexes that leads women to imitate men to prove their equality. To be equal does not mean you have to be the same.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John Keble, Priest, Poet, Tractarian, 1866  God's own work must be done by God's own ways. Otherwise, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7450]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John Keble, Priest, Poet, Tractarian, 1866  God's own work must be done by God's own ways. Otherwise, we can take no comfort in obtaining the end, if we cannot justify the means used thereunto.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29854]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little birdie flew overhead a traffic light of green and red.From her diagonal point of view she saw both ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9689]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little birdie flew overhead a traffic light of green and red.From her diagonal point of view she saw both crimson and lime hue. Obey traffic rules? Birdies need not. Masters listen onlyto the inner voice of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stop using the word \'bromance.\' Can we please kill that stupid term? We\'re just friends. It\'s called friendship! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66617]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stop using the word \'bromance.\' Can we please kill that stupid term? We\'re just friends. It\'s called friendship!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought it was the most exciting thing I had ever heard in my lifetime. I was blown away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38720]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought it was the most exciting thing I had ever heard in my lifetime. I was blown away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Holy Father, so passes away the glory of the world. [Lat., Pater sancte, sic transit gloria mundi.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Holy Father, so passes away the glory of the world. [Lat., Pater sancte, sic transit gloria mundi.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To offer a man unsolicited advice is to presume that he doesn't know what to do or that he can't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/796]]></link><description><![CDATA[To offer a man unsolicited advice is to presume that he doesn't know what to do or that he can't do it on his own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't choose up sides on a round world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21511]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't choose up sides on a round world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don\'t have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66768]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don\'t have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25370]]></link><description><![CDATA[Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, the matter to digest, to cull fit phrases, and reject the rest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Actions of the last age are like almanacs of the last year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/502]]></link><description><![CDATA[Actions of the last age are like almanacs of the last year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Welcome, maids of honor, You doe bring  In the spring,   And wait upon her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60710]]></link><description><![CDATA[Welcome, maids of honor, You doe bring  In the spring,   And wait upon her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/766]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sainthood emerges when you can listen to someone's tale of woe and not respond with a description of your own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sainthood emerges when you can listen to someone's tale of woe and not respond with a description of your own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46383]]></link><description><![CDATA[Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of George Augustus Selwyn, first Bishop of New Zealand, 1878  Someone gave me a bit of brick and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of George Augustus Selwyn, first Bishop of New Zealand, 1878  Someone gave me a bit of brick and a little slab of marble from Rome. It was wonderful to touch one of them and think, Perhaps the Apostle Paul or one of the martyrs touched this as they passed. But how much more wonderful is it to think that we have, for our own use, the very same sword our Lord used when the Devil attacked Him. [Brooke Foss] Westcott says "the Word of God" in Ephesians 6:17 means "a definite utterance of God". We know these "definite utterances" -- we have the same Book that He had, and we can do as He did. So let us learn the "definite utterances" that they may be ready in our minds; ready for use at the moment of need -- our sword which never grows dull and rusty, but is always keen and bright. So once more I say, let us not expect defeat but victory. Let us take fast hold and keep fast hold of our sword, and we shall win in any assault of the enemy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every year, it keeps getting better. They've smoothed out the learning curves. We have a great relationship with the city. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31681]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every year, it keeps getting better. They've smoothed out the learning curves. We have a great relationship with the city. We know how to keep building it every day. I'm thrilled Macon has come out. We've had four great years, and we're looking forward to coming back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10625]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The schoolmaster is abroad! And I trust to him armed with his primer against the soldier in full military array. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25398]]></link><description><![CDATA[The schoolmaster is abroad! And I trust to him armed with his primer against the soldier in full military array.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The German is the discipline of fear; ours is the discipline of faith--and faith will triumph. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14974]]></link><description><![CDATA[The German is the discipline of fear; ours is the discipline of faith--and faith will triumph.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take care what you say before a wall, as you cannot tell who may be behind it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25185]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take care what you say before a wall, as you cannot tell who may be behind it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The god-like hero sate On his imperial throne:  His valiant peers were placed around,   Their brows with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4850]]></link><description><![CDATA[The god-like hero sate On his imperial throne:  His valiant peers were placed around,   Their brows with roses and with myrtles bound    (So should desert in arms be crowned).     The lovely Thais by his side,      Sate like a blooming Eastern bride       In flower of youth and beauty's pride.        Happy, happy, happy pair!         None but the brave,          None but the brave,           None but the brave deserve the fair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dishonesty, cowardice and duplicity are never impulsive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10477]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dishonesty, cowardice and duplicity are never impulsive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25200]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the breath of life for a conversation. -James Nathan Miller.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Solitude is the playfield of Satan. - Pale Fire, 1962. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Solitude is the playfield of Satan. - Pale Fire, 1962.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So long as we judge ourselves by human comparisons, there is plenty of room for self-satisfaction, and self-satisfaction kills faith, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7499]]></link><description><![CDATA[So long as we judge ourselves by human comparisons, there is plenty of room for self-satisfaction, and self-satisfaction kills faith, for faith is born of the sense of need. But when we compare ourselves with Jesus Christ, and through Him, with God, we are humbled to the dust, and then faith is born, for there is nothing left to do but to trust to the mercy of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43122]]></link><description><![CDATA[The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't stop going to school when we graduate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66130]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't stop going to school when we graduate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66130</guid></item></channel></rss>