<?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[Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46611]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When they came to John Tyler they were really disappointed that they had to go there and they felt really ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29025]]></link><description><![CDATA[When they came to John Tyler they were really disappointed that they had to go there and they felt really unwanted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hear me profess sincerely: had I a dozen sons, each in my love alike, and none less dear than thine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45814]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hear me profess sincerely: had I a dozen sons, each in my love alike, and none less dear than thine and my good Marcius, I had rather have eleven die nobly for their country than one voluptuously surfeit out of action.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No letters after your name are ever going to be a total guarantee of competence any more than they are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9203]]></link><description><![CDATA[No letters after your name are ever going to be a total guarantee of competence any more than they are a guarantee against fraud. Improving competence involves continuing professional development ... That is the really crucial thing, not just passing an examination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The success of the wicked tempts many to sin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50848]]></link><description><![CDATA[The success of the wicked tempts many to sin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love's like the measles, all the worse when it comes late. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25663]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love's like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15194]]></link><description><![CDATA[The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon. -- Sir John Eric Ericksen, British surgeon, appointed Surgeon-Extraordinary to Queen Victoria 1873.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hell is no other but a soundlesse pit, Where no one beame of comfort peeps in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19139]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hell is no other but a soundlesse pit, Where no one beame of comfort peeps in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the heritages from history which prevents us so often from seeing the Church, with all its greatness and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6676]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the heritages from history which prevents us so often from seeing the Church, with all its greatness and misery, in its true light, is the distinction between the "empirical" and the "ideal" Church. It is to such a degree an element of our thinking that we hardly notice it. It has been since the first centuries a standard view, a means to give account of the, indeed, often disappointing state and quality of Christian faith and practice in the Church as it appeared. As such it is understandable; but nevertheless it proceeds more from the counsels of worldly wisdom than from the faith-as-response by which the Church should live, and the call to incessant renewal under which the Church stands as "God's own household", "growing into a holy temple in the Lord". However stubborn and refractory the stuff of ordinary reality may be -- and it is -- the Church, though with clear realism seeing this reality, can never permit itself to put the divine indicatives and imperatives, which are her peculiar directives and points of orientation, behind considerations which are properly speaking worldly in character.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20692]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In addition to self-awareness, imagination and conscience, it is thefourth human endowment-independent will-that really makes effectiveself-management possible. It is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21559]]></link><description><![CDATA[In addition to self-awareness, imagination and conscience, it is thefourth human endowment-independent will-that really makes effectiveself-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choicesand to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather thanto be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developedthrough the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how touse this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination continually frustrates tradition, that is its function. -John Pfeiffer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20543]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination continually frustrates tradition, that is its function. -John Pfeiffer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obesity is a condition which proves that the Lord does not help those who help themselves and help themselves and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obesity is a condition which proves that the Lord does not help those who help themselves and help themselves and help themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A kiss is but a kiss now! and no wave of a great flood that whirls me to the sea. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2169]]></link><description><![CDATA[A kiss is but a kiss now! and no wave of a great flood that whirls me to the sea. But, as you will! we'll sit contentedly, and eat our pot of honey on the grave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pain hardens, and great pain hardens greatly, whatever the comforters say, and suffering does not ennoble, though it may occasionally ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19057]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pain hardens, and great pain hardens greatly, whatever the comforters say, and suffering does not ennoble, though it may occasionally lend a certain rigid dignity of manner to the suffering frame.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of this I am certain, that no one has ever died who was not destined to die some time. Now ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8475]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of this I am certain, that no one has ever died who was not destined to die some time. Now the end of life puts the longest life on a par with the shortest... And of what consequence is it what kind of death puts an end to life, since he who has died once is not forced to go through the same ordeal a second time? They, then, who are destined to die, need not be careful to inquire what death they are to die, but into what place death will usher them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can never understand how we have been able to follow these worn-out tracks, which have been laid down by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42625]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can never understand how we have been able to follow these worn-out tracks, which have been laid down by panic in the face of nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I look forward to seeing (the festival) with great enthusiasm and with fingers crossed that it can really make a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37244]]></link><description><![CDATA[I look forward to seeing (the festival) with great enthusiasm and with fingers crossed that it can really make a positive difference here by bringing people into a greater awareness that all different kinds of theater can be made and presented here,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can live for years next door to a big pine tree, honored to have so venerable a neighbor, even ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43921]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can live for years next door to a big pine tree, honored to have so venerable a neighbor, even when it sheds needles all over your flowers or wakes you, dropping big cones onto your deck at still of night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let's give the individual the space to grow, instead of the economy ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13327]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let's give the individual the space to grow, instead of the economy]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. -Eden Phillpotts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25108]]></link><description><![CDATA[The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. -Eden Phillpotts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think this is following in a long line of great San Francisco nuttiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37066]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think this is following in a long line of great San Francisco nuttiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not permitted that we should know everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50283]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not permitted that we should know everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50283</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[When I was young, I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13679]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was young, I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't just beat a team, you have to leave a lasting impression in their minds so they never want ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9216]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't just beat a team, you have to leave a lasting impression in their minds so they never want to see you again]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All God's revelations are sealed to us until they are opened to us by obedience. You will never get them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8433]]></link><description><![CDATA[All God's revelations are sealed to us until they are opened to us by obedience. You will never get them open by philosophy or thinking. Immediately you obey, a flash of light comes. Let God's truth work in you by soaking in it, not by worrying into it. Obey God in the thing He is at present showing you, and instantly the next thing is opened up. We read tomes on the work of the Holy Spirit when... five minutes of drastic obedience would make things clear as a sunbeam. We say, "I suppose I shall understand these things some day." You can understand them now: it is not study that does it, but obedience. The tiniest fragment of obedience, and heaven opens up and the profoundest truths of God are yours straight away. God will never reveal more truth about Himself till you obey what you know already. Beware of being wise and prudent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody answered the phone anyway. We had to leave messages. Said, thanks for coming, we appreciate it, stuff like that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28776]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody answered the phone anyway. We had to leave messages. Said, thanks for coming, we appreciate it, stuff like that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25162]]></link><description><![CDATA[Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We believe investors are justifiably growing increasingly concerned that production disruptions due to labor disputes are increasingly probable as there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39183]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe investors are justifiably growing increasingly concerned that production disruptions due to labor disputes are increasingly probable as there are currently two suppliers in bankruptcy with another more than likely headed in that direction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A careless song, with a little nonsense in it now and then, does not mis-become a monarch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44617]]></link><description><![CDATA[A careless song, with a little nonsense in it now and then, does not mis-become a monarch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11378]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47187]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what has worked with what sounded good. In area after area- crime, education, housing, race relations- the situation has gotten worse after the bright new theories were put into operation. The amazing thing is that this history of failure and disaster has neither discouraged the social engineers nor discredited them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope they find (whoever is responsible) in the next 24 hours, so I can get rid of them. I'd ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40746]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope they find (whoever is responsible) in the next 24 hours, so I can get rid of them. I'd rather have an empty apartment than a bad tenant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you think education is expensive, try ignorance! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13410]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you think education is expensive, try ignorance!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not beoverjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not beoverjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Faith' means not wanting to know what is true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14997]]></link><description><![CDATA['Faith' means not wanting to know what is true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone looks so much better when they smile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66700]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone looks so much better when they smile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In that fierce light which beats upon a throne. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54522]]></link><description><![CDATA[In that fierce light which beats upon a throne.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Falsehood is a perennial spring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15074]]></link><description><![CDATA[Falsehood is a perennial spring.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Across the wires the electric message came: / `He is no better, he is much the same.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28896]]></link><description><![CDATA[Across the wires the electric message came: / `He is no better, he is much the same.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[May everything he treads upon become a rose! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50828]]></link><description><![CDATA[May everything he treads upon become a rose!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bad reader soon puts to flight both wise men and fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50173]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bad reader soon puts to flight both wise men and fools.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For thou, o Lord of hosts, God of Israel, hast revealed to thy servant, saying, I will build thee an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23460]]></link><description><![CDATA[For thou, o Lord of hosts, God of Israel, hast revealed to thy servant, saying, I will build thee an house: therefore hath thy servant found in his heart to pray this prayer unto thee. (2 Samuel 7:27)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Western residents wake up to the fact that the Bush administration has a ... scheme to divest the public ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32772]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Western residents wake up to the fact that the Bush administration has a ... scheme to divest the public of its lands, I don't think people are going to like that very much.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13943]]></link><description><![CDATA[The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I came to live in a country I love; some people label me a defector. I have loved men and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43670]]></link><description><![CDATA[I came to live in a country I love; some people label me a defector. I have loved men and women in my life; I've been labeled "the bisexual defector." Want to know another secret? I'm even ambidextrous. I don't like labels. Just call me Martina.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only a kind person is able to judge another justly and to make allowances for his weaknesses. A kind eye, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only a kind person is able to judge another justly and to make allowances for his weaknesses. A kind eye, while recognizing defects, sees beyond them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A college joke to cure the dumps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23245]]></link><description><![CDATA[A college joke to cure the dumps.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good words are worth much, and cost little. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good words are worth much, and cost little.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49292</guid></item></channel></rss>