<?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[Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26278]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, frabjous day! Callooh. Callay! He chortled in his joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, frabjous day! Callooh. Callay! He chortled in his joy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47786]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ve released the original, high-resolution artwork under a license that allows anyone to take that art and use it in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31292]]></link><description><![CDATA[ve released the original, high-resolution artwork under a license that allows anyone to take that art and use it in their own creations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a man's sympathy with all creatures that truly makes him a man. Until he extends his circle of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9181]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a man's sympathy with all creatures that truly makes him a man. Until he extends his circle of compassion to all living things, man himself will not find peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where are we going, and why am I in this hand basket? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47698]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where are we going, and why am I in this hand basket?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My noble father, I do perceive here a divided duty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13073]]></link><description><![CDATA[My noble father, I do perceive here a divided duty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats: For as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59196]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats: For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30.". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have ploughed the vast ocean in a fragile bark. [Lat., Nos fragili vastum ligno sulcavimus aequor.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44005]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have ploughed the vast ocean in a fragile bark. [Lat., Nos fragili vastum ligno sulcavimus aequor.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the month, and this the happy morn, Wherein the Son of Heaven's eternal King,  Of wedded maid ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8640]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the month, and this the happy morn, Wherein the Son of Heaven's eternal King,  Of wedded maid and virgin mother born,   Our great redemption from above did bring,    For so the holy sages once did sing,     That He our deadly forfeit should release,      And with His Father work us a perpetual peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought it was an earthquake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36375]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought it was an earthquake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kerry Ellison, your namesounds likeKyrie Eleison**Kyrie Eleison means God have mercy in Greek. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27369]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kerry Ellison, your namesounds likeKyrie Eleison**Kyrie Eleison means God have mercy in Greek.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sanctity of human life is the most dangerous sophistry ever propagated by philosophy and it is all too well ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38787]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sanctity of human life is the most dangerous sophistry ever propagated by philosophy and it is all too well rooted. Because if it means anything it means the in-sanctity of species which are not human.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Often do the spirits Of great events stride on before the events,  And in to-day already walks to-morrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48915]]></link><description><![CDATA[Often do the spirits Of great events stride on before the events,  And in to-day already walks to-morrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever there is a hard job to be done I assign it to a lazy man; he is sure to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13609]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever there is a hard job to be done I assign it to a lazy man; he is sure to find an easy way of doing it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is this that haughty, gallant, gay Lothario? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48201]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is this that haughty, gallant, gay Lothario?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I experimented with marijuana a time or two. And I didn't like it, and I didn't inhale and never tried ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13030]]></link><description><![CDATA[I experimented with marijuana a time or two. And I didn't like it, and I didn't inhale and never tried it again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10678]]></link><description><![CDATA[We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more and more strongly the truths that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53552]]></link><description><![CDATA[All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more and more strongly the truths that come on high and are contained in the sacred writings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The house is a fine house, when good folks are within. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49875]]></link><description><![CDATA[The house is a fine house, when good folks are within.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bush, you must confess that you have been defeated in Iraq and in Afghanistan and you will be in Palestine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bush, you must confess that you have been defeated in Iraq and in Afghanistan and you will be in Palestine soon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64306]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24264]]></link><description><![CDATA[A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10296]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12387]]></link><description><![CDATA[What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a number of killed in the action in Nasiriya with the Marines -- I believe that number will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38359]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a number of killed in the action in Nasiriya with the Marines -- I believe that number will remain less than 10 -- and a number of wounded,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What the discordant harmony of circumstances would and could effect. [Lat., Quid velit et possit rerum concordia discors.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8715]]></link><description><![CDATA[What the discordant harmony of circumstances would and could effect. [Lat., Quid velit et possit rerum concordia discors.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't forget I know who you are. We were cut from the same surly star. Like two jewels in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23272]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't forget I know who you are. We were cut from the same surly star. Like two jewels in the sky sharing fire!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54864]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1689]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerence. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not ent]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good Margaret, run thee to the parlor. There shalt thou find my cousin Beatrice  Proposing with the Prince and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19694]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good Margaret, run thee to the parlor. There shalt thou find my cousin Beatrice  Proposing with the Prince and Claudio.   Whisper her ear and tell her, I and Ursley    Walk in the orchard, and our whole discourse     Is all of her. Say that thou overheard'st us;      And bid her steal into the pleached bower,       Where honeysuckles, ripened by the sun,        Forbid the sun to enter--like favorites,         Made proud by princes, that advance their pride          Against that power that bred it. There will she hide her           To listen our propose. This is thy office.            Bear thee well in it and leave us alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a subtle but critical difference between something that is long term and something in the category of 'someday/maybe'. Either ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33022]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a subtle but critical difference between something that is long term and something in the category of 'someday/maybe'. Either a project is an open loop to close, as soon as possible, or it is not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61696]]></link><description><![CDATA[Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2151]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear always springs from ignorance ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20373]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear always springs from ignorance]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41077]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chaos often breeds life when order breeds habit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chaos often breeds life when order breeds habit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52398</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 have never belonged wholeheartedly to a country, a state, nor to a circle of friends, nor even to my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28737]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have never belonged wholeheartedly to a country, a state, nor to a circle of friends, nor even to my own family.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As I sat at the Cafe I said to myself, They may talk as they please about what they call ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42963]]></link><description><![CDATA[As I sat at the Cafe I said to myself, They may talk as they please about what they call pelf,  They may sneer as they like about eating and drinking,   But help it I cannot, I cannot help thinking    How pleasant it is to have money, heigh-ho!     How pleasant it is to have money!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17816]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seven principles for eradicating selfish ambition in the fellowship: 3. the ministry of listening   The first service that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8607]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seven principles for eradicating selfish ambition in the fellowship: 3. the ministry of listening   The first service that one owes to others in the fellowship consists in listening to them. Just as love to God begins with listening to His Word, so the beginning of love for the brethren is learning to listen to them... Listening can be a greater service than speaking... One who cannot listen long and patiently will presently be talking beside the point and be never really speaking to others. Anyone who thinks his time is too valuable to spend keeping quiet will eventually have no time for God and his brother, but only for himself and for his own follies...   We should listen with the ears of God that we may speak the Word of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything comes if a man will only wait. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14626]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything comes if a man will only wait.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're kind of embarrassed when you lose like that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31082]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're kind of embarrassed when you lose like that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The New Testament is uniformly consistent in seeing something as being wrong in man himself... These analyses of man are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6758]]></link><description><![CDATA[The New Testament is uniformly consistent in seeing something as being wrong in man himself... These analyses of man are based on man's responsibility for his evil actions; they are not saying that it is simply his motions that have gone astray: it is man's will that is the central problem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A winner is someone who recognizes his God- given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17623]]></link><description><![CDATA[A winner is someone who recognizes his God- given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we would storm heaven itself in our folly. [Lat., Nil mortalibus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2326]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we would storm heaven itself in our folly. [Lat., Nil mortalibus arduum est:  Coelum ipsum petimus stultitia.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2326</guid></item></channel></rss>