<?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[Sin brought death, and death will disappear with the disappearance of sin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44254]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sin brought death, and death will disappear with the disappearance of sin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This has been the first real test since FEMA (U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency) was put under Homeland Security and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41516]]></link><description><![CDATA[This has been the first real test since FEMA (U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency) was put under Homeland Security and obviously it didn't work and I think they will want to reexamine how they respond to disasters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's one more terrifying fact about old people: I'm going to be one soon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63387]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's one more terrifying fact about old people: I'm going to be one soon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I think of your kisses my mind see-saws. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9746]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I think of your kisses my mind see-saws.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were young, we were merry, we were very, very wise, And the door stood open at our feast,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61978]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were young, we were merry, we were very, very wise, And the door stood open at our feast,  When there passed us a woman with the West in her eyes,   And a man with his back to the East.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . for thou art a stiff-necked people. . . ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52452]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . for thou art a stiff-necked people. . .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4406]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All mankind loves a lover. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25657]]></link><description><![CDATA[All mankind loves a lover.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62082]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ill that comes out of our mouth falles into our bosome. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49878]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ill that comes out of our mouth falles into our bosome.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54358]]></link><description><![CDATA[As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this is my destiny and the meaning of my life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29111]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What peaceful hours I once enjoy'd! How sweet their memory still!  But they have left an aching void  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26933]]></link><description><![CDATA[What peaceful hours I once enjoy'd! How sweet their memory still!  But they have left an aching void   The world can never fill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wilfrid, Abbot of Ripon, Bishop of York, Missionary, 709 Commemoration of Elizabeth Fry, Prison Reformer, 1845  Finally, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6659]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wilfrid, Abbot of Ripon, Bishop of York, Missionary, 709 Commemoration of Elizabeth Fry, Prison Reformer, 1845  Finally, what do we mean by the word "true"? How do we distinguish real Truth from human notions and ideas and opinions and doctrines? We are compelled to say that the word "true" means "grounded in reality, based on the real nature of things, on the basic facts which underlie the universe." Hence, if people say -- as many have said -- that the moral ideals set out in the gospels are high and noble ideals, and express admiration for the moral character of Jesus, and stop there, not daring to affirm more than that, the answer they are giving to the Question, "Is the Gospel true?", is No.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, when to the heart of man was it ever less than a treason to go with the drift of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/280]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, when to the heart of man was it ever less than a treason to go with the drift of things to yield with a grace to reason and bow and accept at the end of a love or a season.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Matthew, Apostle & Evangelist    Wherever God's Word may be preached, His precepts remain a letter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7971]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Matthew, Apostle & Evangelist    Wherever God's Word may be preached, His precepts remain a letter and dead words so long as they are not received by men with a pure heart; only where they pierce to the soul do they become, so to speak, changed into Spirit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are a devil at everything, and there is no kind of thing in the 'versal world but what you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are a devil at everything, and there is no kind of thing in the 'versal world but what you can turn your hand into.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius does what it must, talent does what it can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58597]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius does what it must, talent does what it can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who are unhappy have no need for anythingin this world but people capable of giving them their attention. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who are unhappy have no need for anythingin this world but people capable of giving them their attention.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wine and women bring misery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50636]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wine and women bring misery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The words ending in Ique do mocke the Physician (as Hectique, Paralitique, Apoplectique, Lethargique). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49939]]></link><description><![CDATA[The words ending in Ique do mocke the Physician (as Hectique, Paralitique, Apoplectique, Lethargique).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A secret is not something unrevealed, but something told privately, in a whisper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61528]]></link><description><![CDATA[A secret is not something unrevealed, but something told privately, in a whisper.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we will need more troops then we currently have to secure the elections process in Iraq -- that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38360]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we will need more troops then we currently have to secure the elections process in Iraq -- that will probably take place in January -- but it is our belief that those troops will be Iraqi troops and there may be additional international troops that arrive to help out, as well as part of the U.N. mission. So I don't see need for more American troops, but we can't discount it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Britain's best bulwarks are her wooden walls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44011]]></link><description><![CDATA[Britain's best bulwarks are her wooden walls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of course, when they had their best years, they never quite got it done. They went (to the Super Bowl) ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of course, when they had their best years, they never quite got it done. They went (to the Super Bowl) four times, but never won. They're starved up there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Order gave each thing view. -King Henry VIII. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56028]]></link><description><![CDATA[Order gave each thing view. -King Henry VIII. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Temperament lies behind mood; behind will, lies the fate of character. Then behind both, the influence of family the tyranny ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Temperament lies behind mood; behind will, lies the fate of character. Then behind both, the influence of family the tyranny of culture; and finally the power of climate and environment; and we are free, only to the extent we rise above these.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All loose things seem to drift down to the sea, and so did I. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63939]]></link><description><![CDATA[All loose things seem to drift down to the sea, and so did I.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17636]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take the advice of a faithful friend, and submit thy inventions to his censure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23007]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take the advice of a faithful friend, and submit thy inventions to his censure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I paint things as they are. I don't comment.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64020]]></link><description><![CDATA[I paint things as they are. I don't comment.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A name unmusical to the Volscians' ears, And harsh in sound to thine. -Coriolanus. Act iv. Sc. 5. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56083]]></link><description><![CDATA[A name unmusical to the Volscians' ears, And harsh in sound to thine. -Coriolanus. Act iv. Sc. 5.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were looking for things to do in the downtown area that would be inexpensive but have a substantial impact, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32389]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were looking for things to do in the downtown area that would be inexpensive but have a substantial impact,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There were times I didn't feel right not cheering for Seneca. They'd make a run and I'd feel the jolt, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30543]]></link><description><![CDATA[There were times I didn't feel right not cheering for Seneca. They'd make a run and I'd feel the jolt, but I had to hold it back. It was really different. ... I'll do more cheering this weekend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word; And in its hollow tones are heard  The thanks of millions yet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word; And in its hollow tones are heard  The thanks of millions yet to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The person with a fixed goal, a clear picture of his desire, or an ideal always before him, causes it, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22498]]></link><description><![CDATA[The person with a fixed goal, a clear picture of his desire, or an ideal always before him, causes it, through repetition, to be buried deeply in his subconscious mind and is thus enabled, thanks to its generative and sustaining power, to realize his goal in a minimum of time and with a minimum of physical effort. Just pursue the thought unceasingly. Step by step you will achieve realization, for all your faculties and powers become directed to that end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One half the world laughs at the other, and fools are they all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24208]]></link><description><![CDATA[One half the world laughs at the other, and fools are they all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Nicholas Ferrar, Deacon, Founder of the Little Gidding Community, 1637  Many a congregation when it assembles in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7767]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Nicholas Ferrar, Deacon, Founder of the Little Gidding Community, 1637  Many a congregation when it assembles in church must look to the angels like a muddy, puddly shore at low tide; littered with every kind of rubbish and odds and ends --a distressing sort of spectacle. And then the tide of worship comes in, and it's all gone: the dead sea-urchins and jelly-fish, the paper and the empty cans and the nameless bits of rubbish. The cleansing sea flows over the whole lot. So we are released from a narrow, selfish outlook on the universe by a common act of worship. Our little human affairs are reduced to their proper proportion when seen over against the spaceless Majesty and Beauty of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you learn not to want things so badly, life comes to you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52127]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you learn not to want things so badly, life comes to you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord, remove every barrier the enemy has put in place, so that the only barrier which remains is the cross ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7407]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord, remove every barrier the enemy has put in place, so that the only barrier which remains is the cross itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was very comfortable taking a second role to him. There is no doubt about his ability to step up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39636]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was very comfortable taking a second role to him. There is no doubt about his ability to step up in big games.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You get fifteen Democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11860]]></link><description><![CDATA[You get fifteen Democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I should think your tongue has broken its chain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59484]]></link><description><![CDATA[I should think your tongue has broken its chain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is obviously a direct driver of inflation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34923]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is obviously a direct driver of inflation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They try to stick to their game plan. They've been winning games. They're not going to change up just because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30520]]></link><description><![CDATA[They try to stick to their game plan. They've been winning games. They're not going to change up just because other teams do something.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10089]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our life is frittered away by detail... Simplify, simplify -Henry Thoreau. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56359]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our life is frittered away by detail... Simplify, simplify -Henry Thoreau.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56359</guid></item></channel></rss>