<?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[Many people not only lose the benefit, but are even the worse for their mortifications [i.e., sacrifices, abstensions], ... because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7141]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many people not only lose the benefit, but are even the worse for their mortifications [i.e., sacrifices, abstensions], ... because they mistake the whole nature and worth of them: they practice them for their own sakes, as things good in themselves, they think them to be real parts of holiness, and so rest in them and look no further, but grow full of a self-esteem and self-admiration for their own progress in them. This makes them self-sufficient, morose, severe judges of all those that fall short of their mortifications. And thus their self-denials do only that for them which indulgences do for other people: they withstand and hinder the operation of God upon their souls, and instead of being really self-denials, they strengthen and keep up the kingdom of self.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rashness is the companion of youth, prudence of old age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48867]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rashness is the companion of youth, prudence of old age.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43087]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men think they may justly do that for which they have a precedent. [Lat., Quod exemplo fit, id etiam jure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14389]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men think they may justly do that for which they have a precedent. [Lat., Quod exemplo fit, id etiam jure fieri putant.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a negatively developing story. When a company cuts its dividend, that screams 'run away from this credit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38809]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a negatively developing story. When a company cuts its dividend, that screams 'run away from this credit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4552]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A day without laughter is a day wasted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24168]]></link><description><![CDATA[A day without laughter is a day wasted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most merciful thing in the world ... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27954]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most merciful thing in the world ... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Among mortals second thoughts are wisest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5384]]></link><description><![CDATA[Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They begin to see the difference between the immediate gratification of working and buying things now versus the delayed gratification ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40804]]></link><description><![CDATA[They begin to see the difference between the immediate gratification of working and buying things now versus the delayed gratification of a better career option and higher salary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65021]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It looked like it was going to slip away, but it wasn't going to happen. We weren't about to let ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42279]]></link><description><![CDATA[It looked like it was going to slip away, but it wasn't going to happen. We weren't about to let it slip away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My days of love are over: me no more The charms of maid, wife, and still less of widow,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48750]]></link><description><![CDATA[My days of love are over: me no more The charms of maid, wife, and still less of widow,  Can make the fool of; that they made before:   In fact I must not lead the life I did do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[American is the crucible of God. It is the melting pot where all the races are fusing and reforming . ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45832]]></link><description><![CDATA[American is the crucible of God. It is the melting pot where all the races are fusing and reforming . . . these are the fires of God you've come to. . . . Into the crucible with you all. God is making the American.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Lehigh Valley economy in 2005 is a lot healthier than it has been in a long time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39399]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Lehigh Valley economy in 2005 is a lot healthier than it has been in a long time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one can remember more than three points. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27840]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one can remember more than three points.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While an ant was wandering under the shade of the tree of Phaeton, a drop of amber enveloped the tiny ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2674]]></link><description><![CDATA[While an ant was wandering under the shade of the tree of Phaeton, a drop of amber enveloped the tiny insect; thus she, who in life was disregarded, became precious by death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We pulled it out. It's too hard to handle that whole thing right now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33630]]></link><description><![CDATA[We pulled it out. It's too hard to handle that whole thing right now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25297]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 651 Commemoration of Cuthburga, Founding Abbess of Wimborne, c.725 Commemoration of John Bunyan, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 651 Commemoration of Cuthburga, Founding Abbess of Wimborne, c.725 Commemoration of John Bunyan, Spiritual Writer, 1688   Christians are like the flowers in a garden, that have each of them the dew of Heaven, which, being shaken with the wind, they let fall at each other's roots, whereby they are jointly nourished, and become nourishers of each other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So from that spring, whence comfort seem'd to come, Discomfort swells. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51376]]></link><description><![CDATA[So from that spring, whence comfort seem'd to come, Discomfort swells.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64866]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Calamity is man's true touch-stone.   - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42797]]></link><description><![CDATA[Calamity is man's true touch-stone.   - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9590]]></link><description><![CDATA[A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45700]]></link><description><![CDATA[The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18622]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're uninhibited at an early age, a learning curve is so much higher without that. It's so much fun, they're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39605]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're uninhibited at an early age, a learning curve is so much higher without that. It's so much fun, they're quick learners. The younger ones seem to learn best through songs and games.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was x years old in the year x^2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26509]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was x years old in the year x^2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people are at risk every day of their lives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17197]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people are at risk every day of their lives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge is no burden. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge is no burden.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's one of the main reasons I came back, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38772]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's one of the main reasons I came back,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His hatred of snobs was a derivative of his snobbishness, but made the simpletons (in other words, everyone) believe that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56704]]></link><description><![CDATA[His hatred of snobs was a derivative of his snobbishness, but made the simpletons (in other words, everyone) believe that he was immune from snobbishness]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When compassion for the common man was born on Christmas Day, with it was born new hope among the multitudes. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6565]]></link><description><![CDATA[When compassion for the common man was born on Christmas Day, with it was born new hope among the multitudes. They feel a great, ever-rising determination to lift themselves and their children our of hunger and disease and misery, up to a higher level. Jesus started a fire upon the earth, and it is burning hot today, the fire of a new hope in the hearts of the hungry multitudes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All theological language is necessarily analogical, but it was singularly unfortunate that the Church, in speaking of punishment for sin, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8118]]></link><description><![CDATA[All theological language is necessarily analogical, but it was singularly unfortunate that the Church, in speaking of punishment for sin, should have chosen the analogy of criminal law, for the analogy is incompatible with the Christian belief in God as the creator of Man. Criminal laws are laws, imposed on men, who are already in existence, with or without their consent, and, with the possible exception of capital punishment for murder, there is no logical relation between the nature of a crime and the penalty inflicted for committing it. If God created man, then the laws of man's spiritual nature must, like the laws of his physical nature, be laws -- laws, that is to say, which he is free to defy but no more free to break than he can break the law of gravity by jumping out of the window, or the laws of biochemistry by getting drunk -- and the consequences of defying them must be as inevitable and as intrinsically related to their nature as a broken leg or a hangover. To state spiritual laws in the imperative -- Thou shalt love God with all thy being, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself -- is simply a pedagogical technique, as when a mother says to her small son, "Stay away from the window!" because the child does not yet know what will happen if he falls out of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modern man drives a mortgaged car over a bond-financed highway on credit-card gas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15682]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modern man drives a mortgaged car over a bond-financed highway on credit-card gas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was the perfect opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38702]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was the perfect opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's like a 9-11 catastrophe happening everyday worldwide, but this is a tragedy that can be prevented. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36053]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's like a 9-11 catastrophe happening everyday worldwide, but this is a tragedy that can be prevented.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always accept good fortune with grace and humility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18100]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always accept good fortune with grace and humility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53065]]></link><description><![CDATA[As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make decisions from the heart and use your head to make it work out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22662]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make decisions from the heart and use your head to make it work out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you close your eyes, you could just as well imagine me to be vintage Ali MacGraw, circa 1968. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14590]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you close your eyes, you could just as well imagine me to be vintage Ali MacGraw, circa 1968.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59005]]></link><description><![CDATA[In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[In a] natural fear of lowering the Divine dignity of Christ, we often forget His true humanity. We think of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7187]]></link><description><![CDATA[[In a] natural fear of lowering the Divine dignity of Christ, we often forget His true humanity. We think of His earthly life as moving on a plane so different from ours that no parallel can be drawn between them. What we forget is, that He too needed to walk by faith, needed to be filled with the Holy Spirit, needed the sympathy of loving friends, needed the strengthening that is gained by private prayer. His strong and beautiful, serene and holy life so fills the eye that we lose sight of His secret intercourse with the Father, out of which came all its beauty, all its power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5895]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is never too late to turn from the errors of our ways: He who repents of his sins is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53826]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is never too late to turn from the errors of our ways: He who repents of his sins is almost innocent.  [Lat., Nam sera nunquam est ad bonos mores via.   Quem peonitet peccasse, paene est innocens.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The number is certainly the cause. The apparent disorder augments the grandeur, for the appearance of care is highly contrary ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57820]]></link><description><![CDATA[The number is certainly the cause. The apparent disorder augments the grandeur, for the appearance of care is highly contrary to our ideas of magnificence. Besides, the stars lie in such apparent confusion, as makes it impossible on ordinary occasion to reckon them. This gives them the advantage of a sort of infinity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That hour o' night's black arch the keystane. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27450]]></link><description><![CDATA[That hour o' night's black arch the keystane.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A practical botanist will distinguish at the first glance the plant of the different quarters of the globe and yet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46669]]></link><description><![CDATA[A practical botanist will distinguish at the first glance the plant of the different quarters of the globe and yet will be at a loss to tell by what marks he detects them]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise man needes not blush for changing his purpose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49087]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise man needes not blush for changing his purpose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They were just hanging around. I just didn't feel comfortable with our lead at the half. That third quarter really ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37888]]></link><description><![CDATA[They were just hanging around. I just didn't feel comfortable with our lead at the half. That third quarter really helped us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37888</guid></item></channel></rss>