<?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[Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone should be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2566]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone should be serene, slow-pulsed and calm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Critics? Don't talk to me of critics! You think some jackanapes journalist, his soul eaten away by the maggots of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Critics? Don't talk to me of critics! You think some jackanapes journalist, his soul eaten away by the maggots of jealousy and failure, has anything worthwhile to say of art? I don't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[College is like a fountain of knowledge - and the students are there to drink ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8949]]></link><description><![CDATA[College is like a fountain of knowledge - and the students are there to drink]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dream in a pragmatic way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63729]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dream in a pragmatic way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pure eye for the true vision of another's claims can only go with the loving heart. The man who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8078]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pure eye for the true vision of another's claims can only go with the loving heart. The man who hates can hardly be delicate in doing Justice, say to his neighbor's love, to his neighbor's predilections and peculiarities. It is hard enough to be just to our friends; and how shall our enemies fare with us?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14138]]></link><description><![CDATA[More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I'm going to Hell, I'm going there playing the piano. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11310]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I'm going to Hell, I'm going there playing the piano.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no greater fraud than a promise not kept. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16640]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no greater fraud than a promise not kept.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The desire to be different from the people we live with is sometimes the result of our rejection- real or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56880]]></link><description><![CDATA[The desire to be different from the people we live with is sometimes the result of our rejection- real or imagined- by them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot know whether we love God, although there may be strong reason for thinking so; but there can be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7943]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot know whether we love God, although there may be strong reason for thinking so; but there can be no doubt about whether we love our neighbor or not. Be sure that, in proportion as you advance in fraternal charity, you are increasing your love of God, for His Majesty bears so tender an affection for us that I cannot doubt He will repay our love for others by augmenting, and in a thousand different ways, that which we bear for Him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Justice does not descend from its pinnacle. [It., Cima di giudizio non s'avvalla.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23654]]></link><description><![CDATA[Justice does not descend from its pinnacle. [It., Cima di giudizio non s'avvalla.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prose, words in their best order. Poetry, the best words in the best order. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60902]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prose, words in their best order. Poetry, the best words in the best order.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53002]]></link><description><![CDATA[If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man is mechanically turned, and made for getting. . . . It was verily prettily said that we may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61428]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man is mechanically turned, and made for getting. . . . It was verily prettily said that we may learn the little value of fortune by the persons on whom Heaven is pleased to bestow it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it be not changed, according to the law of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it be not changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is surely a matter of common observation that a man who knows no one thing intimately has no views ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18995]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is surely a matter of common observation that a man who knows no one thing intimately has no views worth hearing on things in general.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And Jove but laughs at lovers' perjury. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48945]]></link><description><![CDATA[And Jove but laughs at lovers' perjury.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence. [It., Alta vendetta  D'alto silenzio e figlia.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56270]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence. [It., Alta vendetta  D'alto silenzio e figlia.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The spring story is about evolving femininity, everything is subdued, understated. It's more about the line and shape of clothing. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36163]]></link><description><![CDATA[The spring story is about evolving femininity, everything is subdued, understated. It's more about the line and shape of clothing. Interesting textures. Going back to classics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between a mountain and a molehill is your perspective. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46234]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between a mountain and a molehill is your perspective.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't bring back the past. It's gone. All you can do is let go, move on, and make better ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62904]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't bring back the past. It's gone. All you can do is let go, move on, and make better memories for the future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not fair to treat as serious that which is only said in joke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50879]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not fair to treat as serious that which is only said in joke.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In terms of sheer size, it makes a fabulous presentation. You can get the beautiful large pieces of meat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40449]]></link><description><![CDATA[In terms of sheer size, it makes a fabulous presentation. You can get the beautiful large pieces of meat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8791]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65722]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The principal mark of genius is not perfection, but originality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45285]]></link><description><![CDATA[The principal mark of genius is not perfection, but originality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, little old Noisyville-on-the-Subway is good enough for me. . . . Me for it from the rathskellers up. Sixth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44436]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, little old Noisyville-on-the-Subway is good enough for me. . . . Me for it from the rathskellers up. Sixth Avenue is the West now to me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, I am a cook and a captain bold And the mate of the Nancy brig,  And a bo'sun ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, I am a cook and a captain bold And the mate of the Nancy brig,  And a bo'sun tight and a midshipmite   And the crew of the captain's gig.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I beseech you not to blame me if I be desirous to strike while the iron is hot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45074]]></link><description><![CDATA[I beseech you not to blame me if I be desirous to strike while the iron is hot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never saw a Purple Cow, I never hope to see one;  But I can tell you, anyhow,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10526]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never saw a Purple Cow, I never hope to see one;  But I can tell you, anyhow,   I'd rather see than be one!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes in this game, you have to have a short memory. You have to leave it at the rink and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32188]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes in this game, you have to have a short memory. You have to leave it at the rink and leave it alone. We're excited to be in the playoffs and to be playing at home in the playoffs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men of few words are the best men. -King Henry V. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55956]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men of few words are the best men. -King Henry V. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We know for sure we'll have it - snow, rain and probably everything else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31219]]></link><description><![CDATA[We know for sure we'll have it - snow, rain and probably everything else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is by acts, and not by ideas that people live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20292]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is by acts, and not by ideas that people live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17646]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brigid, Abbess of Kildare, c.525  We can all call to mind movements which have begun as pure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7277]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brigid, Abbess of Kildare, c.525  We can all call to mind movements which have begun as pure upsurges of fresh spiritual vitality, breaking through and revolting against the hardened structure of the older body, and claiming, in the name of the Spirit, liberty from outward forms and institutions. And we have seen how rapidly they develop their own forms, their own structures of thought, of language, and of organisation. It would surely be a very unbiblical view of human nature and history to think -- as we so often, in our pagan way, do -- that this is just an example of the tendency of all things to slide down from a golden age to an age of iron, to identify the spiritual with the disembodied, and to regard visible structure as equivalent to sin. We must rather recognise here a testimony to the fact that Christianity is, in its very heart and essence, not a disembodied spirituality, but life in a visible fellowship, a life which makes such total claim upon us, and so engages our total powers, that nothing less than the closest and most binding association of men with one another can serve its purpose.  ... Lesslie Newbigin, The Household of God February 2, 2000 THE PRESENTATION OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE  Persons that are well affected to religion, that receive instructions of piety with pleasure and satisfaction, often wonder how it comes to pass that they make no greater progress in that religion which they so much admire. Now the reason of it is this: it is because religion lives only in their head, but something else has possession of their heart; and therefore they continue from year to year mere admirers and praisers of piety, without ever coming up to the reality and perfection of its precepts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'drather be anywhere else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22696]]></link><description><![CDATA[A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'drather be anywhere else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14279]]></link><description><![CDATA[All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concluding a series on the church:  The task to which we are called is not the sacrifice of any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7840]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concluding a series on the church:  The task to which we are called is not the sacrifice of any principle in which we firmly believe. It is rather to return to Christ not a figure of the imagination, but the Christ of the Scriptures and to listen to His voice in obedience, to discover afresh what is the Truth. All unpretentious Bible study, every effort to disseminate a true scriptural theology, and every earnest prayer is part of the task of promoting that unity which is truly Christian. We must not envisage Christian Unity as consisting of faroff and doubtful schemes, but as something very nigh which affects us all. If we are really to seek for Christian Unity, we must be prepared to pay the cost. For it must be based upon love, and love is always costly. It will never be attained until there is "far more humility, far more thought, far more self-sacrifice, and far more prayer, than there is at present." (Streeter) If we are right in the conclusion that such disunion as has been sinful in the history of the Church has been due to pride, selfassertion, and contempt for God's Word and commandment, then it follows that the way to the unity which God wills [is] through humility, love of the brethren, and obedience to the Divine Revelation. When Christians pray to be shown where they have been wrong, proud, complaisant, or censorious, and to be put right; when they meet for common counsel and study of the Word, in the spirit of obedience and prepared to subject their individual opinions to the guidance of the Spirit; where the strong are willing to foster and strengthen the weak; and where all are seeking the common good rather than their own sectional interests: then the pathway to unity will become plain, and God will grant His blessing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64904]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who serves the public is a poor animal; he worries himself to death and no one thanks him for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52468]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who serves the public is a poor animal; he worries himself to death and no one thanks him for it. [Ger., Wer dem Publicum dient, ist ein armes Thier;  Er qualt sich ab, niemand bedankt sich dafur.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can't I another's face commend, Or to her virtues be a friend,  But instantly your forehead louers,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23161]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can't I another's face commend, Or to her virtues be a friend,  But instantly your forehead louers,   As if her merit lessen'd yours?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52725]]></link><description><![CDATA[He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9237]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once you get into it, it's really interesting and you can see how much you free up officers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39930]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once you get into it, it's really interesting and you can see how much you free up officers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The popularity of these cards has surged in the last year or two. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32293]]></link><description><![CDATA[The popularity of these cards has surged in the last year or two.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Wolf and the CraneA WOLF who had a bone stuck in his throat hired a Crane, for a large ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1516]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Wolf and the CraneA WOLF who had a bone stuck in his throat hired a Crane, for a large sum, to put her head into his mouth and draw out the bone. When the Crane had extracted the bone and demanded the promised payment, the Wolf, grinning and grinding his teeth, exclaimed: Why, you have surely already had a sufficient recompense, in having been permitted to draw out your head in safety from the mouth and jaws of a wolf. In serving the wicked, expect no reward, and be thankful if you escape injury for your pains.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20783]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20783</guid></item></channel></rss>