<?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[Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those Rooks, dear, from morning till night, They seem to do nothing but quarrel and fight,  And wrangle and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54414]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those Rooks, dear, from morning till night, They seem to do nothing but quarrel and fight,  And wrangle and jangle, and plunder.   - Dinah Maria Mulock (used pseudonym Mrs. Craik),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The financial climate is the worst it's been in 25 years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15703]]></link><description><![CDATA[The financial climate is the worst it's been in 25 years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great Pompey's shade complains that we are slow, And Scipio's ghost walks unavenged amongst us! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2775]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great Pompey's shade complains that we are slow, And Scipio's ghost walks unavenged amongst us!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9831]]></link><description><![CDATA[While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Yet many people have found the book difficult to understand.] We're hearing from a lot of people who can't get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33614]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Yet many people have found the book difficult to understand.] We're hearing from a lot of people who can't get through the handbook, ... They say they can't find out what they need to know. It's a little dense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, the fiercest hatred is silent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18817]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, the fiercest hatred is silent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I see the better course and approve of it; I follow, alas! the worse! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50729]]></link><description><![CDATA[I see the better course and approve of it; I follow, alas! the worse!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50729</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[Commemoration of Mary Slessor, Missionary in West Africa, 1915 Give me an open ear, O God, that I may hear ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8176]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mary Slessor, Missionary in West Africa, 1915 Give me an open ear, O God, that I may hear Thy voice  calling me to high endeavor. Give me an open mind, O God, a mind ready to receive and to welcome  such new light of knowledge as it is Thy will to reveal to me. Give me open eyes, O God, eyes quick to discover  Thine indwelling in the world which Thou hast made. Give me open hands, O God, hands ready to share with all who are in want  the blessings with which Thou hast enriched my life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wretched excess is an unfortunate human trait that turns a perfectly good idea such as Christmas into a frenzy of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38959]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wretched excess is an unfortunate human trait that turns a perfectly good idea such as Christmas into a frenzy of last-minute shopping-or attaches the name of St. Patrick to the day of the year that bartenders fear most.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mony refused looseth its brightnesse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49633]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mony refused looseth its brightnesse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16782]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give me my robe, put on my crown, I have Immortal longings in me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11958]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give me my robe, put on my crown, I have Immortal longings in me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is a miracle?--'Tis a reproach, 'Tis an implicit satire on mankind;  And while it satisfies, it censures too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27562]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is a miracle?--'Tis a reproach, 'Tis an implicit satire on mankind;  And while it satisfies, it censures too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every politician, clergyman, educator, or physician, in short, anyone dealing with human individuals, is bound to make grave mistakes if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every politician, clergyman, educator, or physician, in short, anyone dealing with human individuals, is bound to make grave mistakes if he ignores these two great truths of population zoology: (1) no two individuals are alike, and (2) both environment and genetic endowment make a contribution to nearly every trait.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has no other recommendation, save an assumed and crafty solemnity of demeanour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48837]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has no other recommendation, save an assumed and crafty solemnity of demeanour.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Amy Carmichael, Founder of the Dohnavur Fellowship, 1951   If souls can suffer alongside, and I hardly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7912]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Amy Carmichael, Founder of the Dohnavur Fellowship, 1951   If souls can suffer alongside, and I hardly know it, because the spirit of discernment is not in me, then I know nothing of Calvary love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rashness brings success to few, misfortune to many. [Lat., Paucis temeritas est bono, multis malo.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rashness brings success to few, misfortune to many. [Lat., Paucis temeritas est bono, multis malo.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus chooses to regard, as mentally unwell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the most part he gets all the line calls right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42143]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the most part he gets all the line calls right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I found not Cassio's kisses on her lips. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51451]]></link><description><![CDATA[I found not Cassio's kisses on her lips.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martin Luther, Teacher, Reformer, 1546  Let every man recognize what he is, and be certain that we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8306]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martin Luther, Teacher, Reformer, 1546  Let every man recognize what he is, and be certain that we are all equally priests, that is, we have the same power in the word and in any sacrament whatever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Last night I had a revelationSomehow I have to make you payIt's all about manipulationAnd what it takes to get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Last night I had a revelationSomehow I have to make you payIt's all about manipulationAnd what it takes to get my wayI don't believe in soft solutionsNo one makes a fool of meWithout receiving retributionNo one hurts me and goes freeI'll play on your fears, I'll leave you in tearsYou'll never be the same, my friendYou're walking a line, it's a matter of timeYou'll never rest easy againI've got the power to bring you downI've heard it said, to err is humanIt's forgiveness that's divineI thought about forgiving you, butI want revenge, I want what's mineI think it's time to settle scores nowIt's time to set the record straightYou'll know it's coming, you won't know howOr when, you'll have to watch and waitI'll play on your fears, I'll leave you in tearsYou'll never be the same, my friendYou're walking a line, it's a matter of timeYou'll never rest easy againI've got the power to bring you downYou know, it feels intoxicatingTo be intimidatingIt's invigoratingTo see you shakingI've got the power to bring you downYou know something, you see it coming, You know I will stop at nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since fear is mostly about ignorance, the best part is that it's as temporary as you choose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since fear is mostly about ignorance, the best part is that it's as temporary as you choose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is known by the silence he keeps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66866]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is known by the silence he keeps.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9466]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All that a good government aims at...is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47100]]></link><description><![CDATA[All that a good government aims at...is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own unavoidable consequences, and to abstain from fortifying and accumulating social inequality as a means of increasing political inequalities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spiritual stagnation ensues when man's environment becomes unpredictable or when his inner life is made wholly predictable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56887]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spiritual stagnation ensues when man's environment becomes unpredictable or when his inner life is made wholly predictable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16432]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Elijah went before the people and said, How long will you waver between two opinions? If the Lord is God, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Elijah went before the people and said, How long will you waver between two opinions? If the Lord is God, follow him; but if Baal is God, follow him. But the people said nothing. [1 Kings 18:21].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Journalism over here is not only an obsession but a drawback that cannot be overrated. Politicians are frightened of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41558]]></link><description><![CDATA[Journalism over here is not only an obsession but a drawback that cannot be overrated. Politicians are frightened of the press, and in the same way as bull-fighting has a brutalizing effect upon Spain (of which she is unconscious), headlines of murder, rape, and rubbish, excite and demoralize the American public.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The farther we go, the more the ultimate explanation recedes from us, and all we have left is faith. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53633]]></link><description><![CDATA[The farther we go, the more the ultimate explanation recedes from us, and all we have left is faith.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the nature of mortals to kick a fallen man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42796]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the nature of mortals to kick a fallen man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything will past, and the world will perish but the Ninth Symphony will remain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43428]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything will past, and the world will perish but the Ninth Symphony will remain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It became almost the biggest event in Montana. If you were coming from Kalispell you had to start hours ahead ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36891]]></link><description><![CDATA[It became almost the biggest event in Montana. If you were coming from Kalispell you had to start hours ahead of time and it took hours to get out of town...those days are gone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/595]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will probably not get appropriate numbers of volunteers just looking in largely underserved communities. We have to be creative. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38223]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will probably not get appropriate numbers of volunteers just looking in largely underserved communities. We have to be creative. ... We have to go to suburban units to assist us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By starving emotions we become humorless, rigid and stereotyped; by repressing them we become literal, reformatory and holier-than-thou; encouraged, they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2068]]></link><description><![CDATA[By starving emotions we become humorless, rigid and stereotyped; by repressing them we become literal, reformatory and holier-than-thou; encouraged, they perfume life; discouraged, they poison it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Its nice to enjoy the win, but we won't be happy until we get into the playoffs. Our goal now ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Its nice to enjoy the win, but we won't be happy until we get into the playoffs. Our goal now is to get ready for Tuesday night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vacation is what you take when you can't take what you've been taking any longer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60305]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vacation is what you take when you can't take what you've been taking any longer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66171]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are calumnies against which even innocence loses courage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5188]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are calumnies against which even innocence loses courage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We would do a tour into the elementary schools every year, and then we did another kind of program where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28886]]></link><description><![CDATA[We would do a tour into the elementary schools every year, and then we did another kind of program where upper level students were brought into E.J. Thomas for a performance. What the Children's Concert Society did was share the cost with us, so although we were just doing excerpts, we could do it in a full production sense with orchestra and costumes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And rank for her meant duty, various, Yet equal in its worth, done worthily.  Command was service; humblest service ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13050]]></link><description><![CDATA[And rank for her meant duty, various, Yet equal in its worth, done worthily.  Command was service; humblest service done   By willing and discerning souls was glory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25344]]></link><description><![CDATA[How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dull winter will re-appear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50210]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dull winter will re-appear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To minimize some of the challenges we try to standardize the process with our pre-departure orientation, binders full of information ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33275]]></link><description><![CDATA[To minimize some of the challenges we try to standardize the process with our pre-departure orientation, binders full of information on housing, registration, financial aid and other Northeastern logistics and contact details.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33275</guid></item></channel></rss>