<?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[If we encountered a man or rare intellect, we should ask him what books he read.   - Ralph ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53009]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we encountered a man or rare intellect, we should ask him what books he read.   - Ralph Waldo Emerson,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Danger comes on us more speedily when we treat it with contempt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51589]]></link><description><![CDATA[Danger comes on us more speedily when we treat it with contempt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It occurred to me that I have spent almost every working day of the past ten years living in a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31750]]></link><description><![CDATA[It occurred to me that I have spent almost every working day of the past ten years living in a state of repressed fear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on topics of Christian apologetics:  In the rare cases where faith appears to be contradicted ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on topics of Christian apologetics:  In the rare cases where faith appears to be contradicted by scholarship whose conclusions have not been prescribed from the start, [the critical scholar] may be cast down but will not be destroyed. For he will know how temporary and mutable the conclusions of scholarship essentially are, and he will also be conscious that he himself may not have perfectly comprehended the Church's faith.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ideas which now pass for brilliant innovations and advances are in fact mere revivals of ancient errors, and a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52064]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ideas which now pass for brilliant innovations and advances are in fact mere revivals of ancient errors, and a further proof of the dictum that those who are ignorant of the past are condemned to repeat it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A leader may symbolize and express what is best in people, like Pericles, or what is worst, like Hitler, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24453]]></link><description><![CDATA[A leader may symbolize and express what is best in people, like Pericles, or what is worst, like Hitler, but he cannot successfully express what is only in his heart and not in theirs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Either every robot can dance the robot, or no robot can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66318]]></link><description><![CDATA[Either every robot can dance the robot, or no robot can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know how on St. Patrick's Day everybody is Irish. In Quincy this weekend, everybody's German, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42016]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know how on St. Patrick's Day everybody is Irish. In Quincy this weekend, everybody's German,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it does stand out [my clothing], then I guess it's a compliment, but I just wear whatever feels comfortable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8895]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it does stand out [my clothing], then I guess it's a compliment, but I just wear whatever feels comfortable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fearful face usually betrays great guilt. [Lat., Multa trepidus solet  Detegere vultus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18477]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fearful face usually betrays great guilt. [Lat., Multa trepidus solet  Detegere vultus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57700]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's risky in a marriage for a man to come home too late, but it can sometimes pose an even ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41437]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's risky in a marriage for a man to come home too late, but it can sometimes pose an even greater risk if he comes home too early.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A litle wind kindles; much puts out the fire. [A little wind kindles; much puts out the fire.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49044]]></link><description><![CDATA[A litle wind kindles; much puts out the fire. [A little wind kindles; much puts out the fire.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones. (Proverbs 17:22) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26667]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones. (Proverbs 17:22)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The challenge will be to get the big corporate customers giving them their business, but it might be difficult in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31734]]></link><description><![CDATA[The challenge will be to get the big corporate customers giving them their business, but it might be difficult in reality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rovers have proven their value with major discoveries about ancient watery environments on Mars that might have harbored life, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35709]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rovers have proven their value with major discoveries about ancient watery environments on Mars that might have harbored life,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're all living in a chemical soup. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9353]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're all living in a chemical soup.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Refugees are given shelter in the country and they should confine themselves to being refugees and should not start any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29813]]></link><description><![CDATA[Refugees are given shelter in the country and they should confine themselves to being refugees and should not start any political agitation,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11608]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consider then, O man! whether there can be anything more wretched and poor, more naked and miserable, than man when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38316]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consider then, O man! whether there can be anything more wretched and poor, more naked and miserable, than man when he dies, if he be not clothed with Christ's righteousness, and enriched in his God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43130]]></link><description><![CDATA[So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've always been worried about people who are willing to work for nothing. Sometimes that's all you get from them, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61065]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've always been worried about people who are willing to work for nothing. Sometimes that's all you get from them, nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The art of governing consists in not letting men grow old in their jobs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18063]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art of governing consists in not letting men grow old in their jobs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can't change your fate, change your attitude. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3455]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like a fair house, built on another man's ground. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55359]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like a fair house, built on another man's ground. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54806]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64037]]></link><description><![CDATA[I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. For the merchandise of it is better ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4185]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that hath lands hath quarrells. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49349]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that hath lands hath quarrells.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the tree is fallen, all goe with their hatchet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50078]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the tree is fallen, all goe with their hatchet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43764]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An two men ride of a horse, one must ride behind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19841]]></link><description><![CDATA[An two men ride of a horse, one must ride behind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kenny got hot early in the game and then started forcing things a little. But he really has become much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kenny got hot early in the game and then started forcing things a little. But he really has become much more of a complete player who brings the ball up, scores from the outside, drives to the basket and really has started to hit the boards.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ignorance of God's prophetic outline, failure to know God's program for the Church, the nations, and Israel, is the cause ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14501]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ignorance of God's prophetic outline, failure to know God's program for the Church, the nations, and Israel, is the cause of the overwhelming amount of error and misunderstanding of the events of the future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who begs timidly courts a refusal. [Lat., Qui timide rogat,  Docet negare.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3931]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who begs timidly courts a refusal. [Lat., Qui timide rogat,  Docet negare.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62333]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills. [Fr., Il est plus facile de paraitre digne des emplois qu'on n'a pas que de ceux que l'on exerce.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20824]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4647]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One father is enough to governe one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49687]]></link><description><![CDATA[One father is enough to governe one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Earnestness is good and impressive: genius is gifted and great. Thought kindles and inspires, but it takes a diviner endowment, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8478]]></link><description><![CDATA[Earnestness is good and impressive: genius is gifted and great. Thought kindles and inspires, but it takes a diviner endowment, and more powerful energy than earnestness or genius or thought to break the chains of sin, to win estranged and deprived hearts to God, to repair the breaches and restore the Church to her old ways of purity and power. Nothing but the anointing of the Holy Spirit can do this.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suspicion follows close on mistrust. [Ger., Argwohnen folgt auf Misstrauen.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58407]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suspicion follows close on mistrust. [Ger., Argwohnen folgt auf Misstrauen.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humanity is the sin of God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humanity is the sin of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then she rode forth, clothed on with chastity: The deep air listen'd round her as she rode,  And all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then she rode forth, clothed on with chastity: The deep air listen'd round her as she rode,  And all the low wind hardly breathed for fear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a virtual reality fighting game. It's all weapons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38179]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a virtual reality fighting game. It's all weapons.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the real trouble comes when people continue 'holiday eating mode' after the holidays, ... Weigh Less, Live Longer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41065]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the real trouble comes when people continue 'holiday eating mode' after the holidays, ... Weigh Less, Live Longer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only way of setting the will free is to deliver it from wilfulness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61596]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only way of setting the will free is to deliver it from wilfulness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3301]]></link><description><![CDATA[One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27443]]></link><description><![CDATA[Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27443</guid></item></channel></rss>