<?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[Where freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of a small minority.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modern attempts to get away from the sheer historical facts of the Resurrection are, at best, based on a total ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modern attempts to get away from the sheer historical facts of the Resurrection are, at best, based on a total misunderstanding. The whole Bible proclaims the need for, and the achievement of, a salvation that will remake creation, and it is just such a salvation, at once supernatural and historical, that was won on Easter Day. If the Resurrection narratives are [merely] a subtle way of convincing us that God still loves us, or that there is a life beyond death, they must be reckoned among the oddest and most ill-conceived stories ever written.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has great tranquillity of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men. He will easily ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7056]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has great tranquillity of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men. He will easily be content and pacified, whose conscience is pure. You are not holier if you are praised, nor the more worthless if you are found fault with. What you are, that you are; neither by word can you be made greater than what you are in the sight of God.  Thomas à Kempis, Of the Imitation of Christ  [With thanks to Roger E. Doriot]    February 12, 1997  Ash Wednesday  Were Christians duly instructed how many lesser differences in mind and judgment and practice are really consistent with the nature, ends, and genuine fruit of the unity that Christ requires among them, it would undoubtedly prevail with them so as to manage themselves in their differences by mutual forbearance and condescension in their love, as not to contract the guilt of being disturbers or breakers of it. To speak plainly, among all the churches in the world which are free from idolatry and persecution, it is not different opinions, nor a difference in judgment about revealed truths, nor a different practice in sacred administrations, but pride, self-interest, love of honour, reputation, and dominion, with the influence of civil or political intrigues and considerations, that are the true cause of that defect of evangelical unity that is at this day amongst them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bhutan - having looked at its neighbor, Nepal, which is overpopulated, has ruined its environment and is very unstable politically ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35610]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bhutan - having looked at its neighbor, Nepal, which is overpopulated, has ruined its environment and is very unstable politically - knows what it wants: not to become another Nepal,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14132]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of the things we decide are not what we know to be the best. We say yes, merely because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11624]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of the things we decide are not what we know to be the best. We say yes, merely because we are driven into a corner and must say somethign. - Essays.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thoughts shut up want air, And spoil like bales unopen'd to the sun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51866]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thoughts shut up want air, And spoil like bales unopen'd to the sun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24680]]></link><description><![CDATA[But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our words have wings, but fly not where we would. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26106]]></link><description><![CDATA[We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense. [Lat., Necesse est facere sumptum, qui quaerit lucrum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17139]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense. [Lat., Necesse est facere sumptum, qui quaerit lucrum.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm always trolling for trivia. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41208]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm always trolling for trivia.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent crimes: assassinating the President; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47271]]></link><description><![CDATA[The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry inspector.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's really important is the emergence of a political class that would agree on the rules of the game. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34952]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's really important is the emergence of a political class that would agree on the rules of the game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66877]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hallo! A great deal of steam! the pudding was out of the copper. A smell like a washing-day! That was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10127]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hallo! A great deal of steam! the pudding was out of the copper. A smell like a washing-day! That was the cloth. A smell like an eating-house and a pastrycook's next door to each other, with a laundress's next door to that. That was the pudding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27478]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination is the air of mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20511]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination is the air of mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laughter is by definition healthy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24187]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laughter is by definition healthy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Richard was a bright guy. He had a lot of good travel skills, obviously. Many (escapees) just stay right around ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33725]]></link><description><![CDATA[Richard was a bright guy. He had a lot of good travel skills, obviously. Many (escapees) just stay right around Salem, so we've been able to bring them back into the hospital. We haven't been that lucky with Richard.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For example, if a car rental company charges $100 a day for a mid-sized rental car to a family in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35982]]></link><description><![CDATA[For example, if a car rental company charges $100 a day for a mid-sized rental car to a family in need, this amounts to exorbitant pricing and that company will answer for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joe has gotten the most out of his senior season and his selection to the all-star game reflects that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38274]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joe has gotten the most out of his senior season and his selection to the all-star game reflects that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention! -King Henry V. Prologue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55944]]></link><description><![CDATA[O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention! -King Henry V. Prologue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beginning a short series on topics of Christian apologetics:  If we are prepared to admit, even as a possibility, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6246]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beginning a short series on topics of Christian apologetics:  If we are prepared to admit, even as a possibility, that Jesus was divine, or even that without being divine he was unique, then we must, as a matter of logic, discard any attempt to discredit the Gospel accounts on the ground that they record miracles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Victory belongs to the most persevering. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22155]]></link><description><![CDATA[Victory belongs to the most persevering.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberty is the prevention of control by others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty is the prevention of control by others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Edward the Confessor, 1066  If every call to Christ and His righteousness is a call to suffering, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8297]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Edward the Confessor, 1066  If every call to Christ and His righteousness is a call to suffering, the converse is equally -- every call to suffering is a call to Christ, a promotion, an invitation to come up higher.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Crescat scientia, vita excolatur [Let knowledge grow, let life be enriched] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43282]]></link><description><![CDATA[Crescat scientia, vita excolatur [Let knowledge grow, let life be enriched]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Damage similar to that caused by Ivan will push oil prices above $75. It took more than six months to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28491]]></link><description><![CDATA[Damage similar to that caused by Ivan will push oil prices above $75. It took more than six months to restore production after Hurricane Ivan. Crude oil prices increased by more than $10 within a month.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26750]]></link><description><![CDATA["Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I knock unbidden once at every gate-- If sleeping, wake--if feasting, rise before  I turn away--it is the hour ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45077]]></link><description><![CDATA[I knock unbidden once at every gate-- If sleeping, wake--if feasting, rise before  I turn away--it is the hour of fate,   And they who follow me reach every state    Mortals desire, and conquer every foe     Save death, but those who doubt of hesitate,      Condemned to failure, penury and woe,       Seek me in vain and uselessly implore,        I answer not, and I return no more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Part of the healing process is sharing with other people who care. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66551]]></link><description><![CDATA[Part of the healing process is sharing with other people who care.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness seems made to be shared. [Fr., Le bonheur semble fait pour etre partage.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18644]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness seems made to be shared. [Fr., Le bonheur semble fait pour etre partage.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you are ill make haste to forgive your enemies, for you may recover. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13872]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are ill make haste to forgive your enemies, for you may recover.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody motivates today's workers. If it doesn't come from within, it doesn't come. Fun helps remove the barriers that allow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody motivates today's workers. If it doesn't come from within, it doesn't come. Fun helps remove the barriers that allow people to motivate themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have the highest customer satisfaction that I've seen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38963]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have the highest customer satisfaction that I've seen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are amazing. I love the way they are. They're consistently little boys, and they need to be nurtured and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40251]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are amazing. I love the way they are. They're consistently little boys, and they need to be nurtured and loved. But at the same time, they need to feel like men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Looking backward we could almost see, suspended with the most delicate equipoise above the flat little island, the ghostly shapes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10637]]></link><description><![CDATA[Looking backward we could almost see, suspended with the most delicate equipoise above the flat little island, the ghostly shapes of those twin orbs of the Empire, the cricket ball and the blackball.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was not born for Courts or great affairs; I pay my debts, believe, and say my pray'rs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20031]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was not born for Courts or great affairs; I pay my debts, believe, and say my pray'rs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature always tends to act in the simplest way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43808]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature always tends to act in the simplest way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Litle stickes kindle the fire; great ones put it out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49601]]></link><description><![CDATA[Litle stickes kindle the fire; great ones put it out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10724]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was in bed for two days. Today is the first day I've actually eaten or done anything. I felt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37139]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was in bed for two days. Today is the first day I've actually eaten or done anything. I felt pretty good on the ice, but I don't have much energy. Hopefully tomorrow I'll feel better and get a good skate in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whose noble praise Deserves a quill pluckt from an angel's wing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46012]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whose noble praise Deserves a quill pluckt from an angel's wing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How you spend your time is more important than how you spend your money. Money mistakes can be corrected, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59326]]></link><description><![CDATA[How you spend your time is more important than how you spend your money. Money mistakes can be corrected, but time is gone forever. . -David Norris.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63266]]></link><description><![CDATA[To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[deja vu all over again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33836]]></link><description><![CDATA[deja vu all over again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33836</guid></item></channel></rss>