<?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[When we are in competition with ourselves, and match our todays against our yesterdays, we derive encouragement from past misfortunes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15799]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we are in competition with ourselves, and match our todays against our yesterdays, we derive encouragement from past misfortunes and blemishes. Moreover, the competition with ourselves leaves unimpaired our benevolence toward our fellow men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago, had they happened to be within reach of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43845]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago, had they happened to be within reach of predatory human hands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anything that has been accomplished by any other human being in thephysical realm is within the field of possibility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21617]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anything that has been accomplished by any other human being in thephysical realm is within the field of possibility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39099]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If what must be given is given willingly the kindness is doubled. [Lat., Bis gratum est, quod dato opus est, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23764]]></link><description><![CDATA[If what must be given is given willingly the kindness is doubled. [Lat., Bis gratum est, quod dato opus est, ultro si offeras.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27796]]></link><description><![CDATA[If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60231]]></link><description><![CDATA[To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John Coleridge Patteson, First Bishop of Melanesia, & his Companions, Martyrs, 1871  First in a series on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6652]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John Coleridge Patteson, First Bishop of Melanesia, & his Companions, Martyrs, 1871  First in a series on God and the human condition:  Suffering is sometimes a mystery. We must affirm both the mystery and God. The paradox remained, but now, at least, Job knew that it belonged there -- that it is built into the moral and physical orders, and into the very nature of God as He has permitted us humans to perceive Him. In a world where the universal principle is cause/effect, the book of Job reminds us that the principle is a reflection of the mysterious, self-revealing God. It is subsumed under Him, however, and He cannot be subsumed under it. The God-speeches remind us that a Person, not a principle, is Lord.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Basil the Great & Gregory Nazianzen, Bishops, Teachers, 379 & 389 Commemoration of Seraphim, Monk of Sarov, Mystic, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6524]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Basil the Great & Gregory Nazianzen, Bishops, Teachers, 379 & 389 Commemoration of Seraphim, Monk of Sarov, Mystic, Staretz, 1833  We must always be on our guard lest, under the pretext of keeping one commandment, we be found breaking another.  ... St. Basil the Great  January 3, 1998  Commemoration of Gladys Aylward, Missionary in China, 1970  For us in the Pacific, in Asia, in India, and in Africa, Christian unity is not an optional extra. It is an urgent necessity, for our divisions are a real stumbling-block to the proclamation of the Gospel... Mission is at the heart of the divine reality. It is the will of God and the Kingdom of God which are to be made known. Wherever we are, our purpose is not to propagate the Church as an end in itself, but to proclaim Christ as Lord of all life and as Saviour of all men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Giles of Provence, Hermit, c.710   To do for yourself the best that you have it in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Giles of Provence, Hermit, c.710   To do for yourself the best that you have it in you to do -- to grit your teeth and clench your fists in order to survive the world at its harshest and worst -- is by that very act, to be unable to let something be done for you and in you that is more wonderful still. The trouble with steeling yourself against the harshness of reality is that the same steel that secures your life against being destroyed secures your life also against being opened up and transformed by the holy power that life itself comes from. You can even prevail on your own. But you cannot become human on your own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13700]]></link><description><![CDATA[Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Mary Sumner, Founder of the Mothers' Union, 1921   Unbelief is actually perverted faith, for it puts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6930]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Mary Sumner, Founder of the Mothers' Union, 1921   Unbelief is actually perverted faith, for it puts its trust, not in the living God but in dying men. The unbeliever denies the selfsufficiency of God and usurps attributes that are not his. This dual sin dishonors God and ultimately destroys the soul of man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4227]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It always amazes me to think that every house on every street is full of so many stories; so many ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19894]]></link><description><![CDATA[It always amazes me to think that every house on every street is full of so many stories; so many triumphs and tragedies, and all we see are yards and driveways.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Going out and doing focus groups to find out that your customer wants blue buttons on the screen instead of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42164]]></link><description><![CDATA[Going out and doing focus groups to find out that your customer wants blue buttons on the screen instead of red buttons is useful. But it's much more useful to have your customers creating those buttons beside you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never trust anyone who wants what you've got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never trust anyone who wants what you've got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53987]]></link><description><![CDATA[We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will scarce think you have swam in a gondola. -As You Like It. Act iv. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55677]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will scarce think you have swam in a gondola. -As You Like It. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And it is time for those who talk about family values to start valuing families. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15190]]></link><description><![CDATA[And it is time for those who talk about family values to start valuing families.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63166]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger cannot be dishonest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44263]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger cannot be dishonest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57611]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That load becomes light which is cheerfully borne. [Lat., Leve fit quod bene fertur onus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5843]]></link><description><![CDATA[That load becomes light which is cheerfully borne. [Lat., Leve fit quod bene fertur onus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12222]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She is our core player. She brings incredible energy, and we love playing with her and with her energy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34662]]></link><description><![CDATA[She is our core player. She brings incredible energy, and we love playing with her and with her energy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many Iraqis believe that psychologists treat crazy people. For this reason, they don?t bring their children in for treatment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41958]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many Iraqis believe that psychologists treat crazy people. For this reason, they don?t bring their children in for treatment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The church says that the Earth is flat, but I have seen the shadow on the moon and I have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13117]]></link><description><![CDATA[The church says that the Earth is flat, but I have seen the shadow on the moon and I have more faith in the shadow than in the church.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53410]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to run his, either.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43124]]></link><description><![CDATA[We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should be doing as much as we can on a case. Every case should be an investigation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28646]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should be doing as much as we can on a case. Every case should be an investigation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is by nature a civic animal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46937]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is by nature a civic animal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17817]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1076]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am really looking forward to returning to Dubai as always. The audiences are always receptive to my music and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30823]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am really looking forward to returning to Dubai as always. The audiences are always receptive to my music and Dubai as a city never ceases to amaze me ... it is constantly changing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A knave, a rascal, an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy worsted-stocking knave; a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23901]]></link><description><![CDATA[A knave, a rascal, an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-faking, whoreson, glass-gazing, superserviceable, finical rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a bawd in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pander, and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch; one whom I will beat into clamorous whining if thou deny'st the least syllable of thy addition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45170]]></link><description><![CDATA[Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we first came to Pascagoula, we saw him quite a lot. He came in here a lot and we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42029]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we first came to Pascagoula, we saw him quite a lot. He came in here a lot and we always thought he was quite a gentleman and very nice, very pleasant. My son rented furniture from him and he was very nice to him. We always felt he was a kind person and very good to do business with.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15011]]></link><description><![CDATA[Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Samuel Seabury, First Anglican Bishop in North America, 1796   Gather my broken fragments to a whole, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8203]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Samuel Seabury, First Anglican Bishop in North America, 1796   Gather my broken fragments to a whole, As these four quarters make a shining day. Into thy basket, for my golden bowl, Take up the things that I have cast away In vice or indolence or unwise play. Let mine be a merry, all-receiving heart, But make it a whole, with light in every part.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The better day, the worse deed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11142]]></link><description><![CDATA[The better day, the worse deed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man prepared has half fought the battle. [Sp., Hombre apercebido medio combatido.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48358]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man prepared has half fought the battle. [Sp., Hombre apercebido medio combatido.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So Satan, whom repulse upon repulse Met ever, and to shameful silence brought,  Yet gives not o'er though desperate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46161]]></link><description><![CDATA[So Satan, whom repulse upon repulse Met ever, and to shameful silence brought,  Yet gives not o'er though desperate of success.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18304]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[morning: that first sapphire dome of glow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46786]]></link><description><![CDATA[morning: that first sapphire dome of glow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60189]]></link><description><![CDATA[That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are often saved from crime by the disgrace of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50379]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are often saved from crime by the disgrace of others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blushing is the color of virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4368]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blushing is the color of virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that sees the beauty of holiness, or true moral good, sees the greatest and most important thing in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8460]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that sees the beauty of holiness, or true moral good, sees the greatest and most important thing in the world... Unless this is seen, nothing is seen that is worth seeing: for there is no other true excellence or beauty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8460</guid></item></channel></rss>