<?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[Feast of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Teacher, Martyr, 1945   Furthermore, [the unchristian environment] is the place where we find out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8588]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Teacher, Martyr, 1945   Furthermore, [the unchristian environment] is the place where we find out whether the Christian's meditation has led him into the unreal, from which he awakens in terror when he returns to the workaday world, or whether it has led him into a real contact with God, from which he emerges strengthened and purified. Has it transported him for a moment into a spiritual ecstasy that vanishes when everyday life returns, or has it lodged the Word of God so securely and deeply in his heart that it holds and fortifies him, impelling him to active love, to obedience, to good works? Only the day can decide.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46354]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all of life's realities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And will you succeed?Yes! You will indeed!(98 and 3/4 percent guaranteed) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47741]]></link><description><![CDATA[And will you succeed?Yes! You will indeed!(98 and 3/4 percent guaranteed)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Listen to your intuition. It will tell you everything you need to know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Listen to your intuition. It will tell you everything you need to know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good temper is one of the greatest preservers of the features. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good temper is one of the greatest preservers of the features.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To know truly is to know by causes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52383]]></link><description><![CDATA[To know truly is to know by causes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't have any problem with the penalty handed down. I think its fair. We have to be more diligent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40450]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't have any problem with the penalty handed down. I think its fair. We have to be more diligent in the future so this doesn't happen again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Papua New Guinea, 1942  It has been well said that no man ever sank under ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8256]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Papua New Guinea, 1942  It has been well said that no man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear. Never load yourselves so, my friends. If you find yourselves so loaded, at least remember this: it is your own doing, not God's. He begs you to leave the future to Him and mind the present.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If individuals have no vices, their virtues may be of use to us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60521]]></link><description><![CDATA[If individuals have no vices, their virtues may be of use to us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can do not great things - only small things with great love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2152]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can do not great things - only small things with great love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having several governors from each of our different partners united in a single trust will greatly simplify and speed up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having several governors from each of our different partners united in a single trust will greatly simplify and speed up the decision-making process. As a result, the school will be more responsive to any new opportunities. We are all ready to put this to public consultation as soon as the bill gets the green light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For by wise counsel thou shalt make thy war: and in multitude of counsellers there is safety. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/771]]></link><description><![CDATA[For by wise counsel thou shalt make thy war: and in multitude of counsellers there is safety.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thyself and thy belongings Are not thine own so proper as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55374]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thyself and thy belongings Are not thine own so proper as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee. Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 't were all alike As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely touch'd But to fine issues, nor Nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence But, like a thrifty goddess, she determines Herself the glory of a creditor, Both thanks and use. -Measure for Measure. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou slave, thou wretch, thou coward! Thou little valiant, great in villany! Thou ever strong upon the stronger side! Thou ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou slave, thou wretch, thou coward! Thou little valiant, great in villany! Thou ever strong upon the stronger side! Thou Fortune's champion that dost never fight But when her humorous ladyship is by To teach thee safety. -King John. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why wasn't someone on top of this years ago? I don't have an answer to that. The step decline ... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why wasn't someone on top of this years ago? I don't have an answer to that. The step decline ... got people's attention. That made it possible to start looking at this in great detail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace,love, prosperity, happiness... all the good things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23398]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace,love, prosperity, happiness... all the good things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9367]]></link><description><![CDATA[The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5468]]></link><description><![CDATA[Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59591]]></link><description><![CDATA[Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will --whatever we may think.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For he that once is good, is ever great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18262]]></link><description><![CDATA[For he that once is good, is ever great.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't charge any dues for our club. We drew randomly to produce a koa bowl, calabash style, and we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33743]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't charge any dues for our club. We drew randomly to produce a koa bowl, calabash style, and we sell them in the education room here. That's how we make money for our normal expenses of functioning. There are 34 calabash bowls on sale strictly for club revenue and the rest of the show upstairs is strictly for personal enjoyment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people's faces as unfinished as their minds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52345]]></link><description><![CDATA[What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people's faces as unfinished as their minds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The proverbial wisdom of the populace in the streets, on the roads, and in the markets, instructs the ear of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52448]]></link><description><![CDATA[The proverbial wisdom of the populace in the streets, on the roads, and in the markets, instructs the ear of him who studies man more fully than a thousand rules ostentatiously arranged.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow if tomorrow might improve the odds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56976]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow if tomorrow might improve the odds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14695]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47231]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9664]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worry and stress affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system, and profoundly affects heart action. -Charles ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worry and stress affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system, and profoundly affects heart action. -Charles W. Mayo.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marry, this is the short and the long of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51422]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marry, this is the short and the long of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sad thing in life is that sometimes you meet someone who means a lot to you only to find ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53259]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sad thing in life is that sometimes you meet someone who means a lot to you only to find out in the end that it was never bound to be and you just have to let go.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Often the fear on one evil leads us into a worse. [Fr., Souvent la peur d'un mal nous conduit dans ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Often the fear on one evil leads us into a worse. [Fr., Souvent la peur d'un mal nous conduit dans un pire.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And we shall be made truly wise if we be content; content, too, not only with what we can understand, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14976]]></link><description><![CDATA[And we shall be made truly wise if we be content; content, too, not only with what we can understand, but content with what we do not understand--the habit of mind which theologians call--and rightly--faith in God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For me that's one of the great indulgences in life - a hand-tailored suit, and a great pair of handmade ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65382]]></link><description><![CDATA[For me that's one of the great indulgences in life - a hand-tailored suit, and a great pair of handmade shoes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dews of the evening most carefully shun; Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12192]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dews of the evening most carefully shun; Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way of sinners is made plain with stones, but at the end thereof is the pit of hell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19122]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way of sinners is made plain with stones, but at the end thereof is the pit of hell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man has a right to do what he pleases, except when he pleases to do right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54279]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man has a right to do what he pleases, except when he pleases to do right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to make God laugh, tell him your future plans. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63326]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to make God laugh, tell him your future plans.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The violets prattle and titter, And gaze on the stars high above. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60708]]></link><description><![CDATA[The violets prattle and titter, And gaze on the stars high above.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women love men for their defects; if men have enough of them, women will forgive them anything, even their gigantic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25904]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women love men for their defects; if men have enough of them, women will forgive them anything, even their gigantic intellects.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no substitute for hard work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21249]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no substitute for hard work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3288]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yemen has a great history of a civil war between the north and the south. The country was only recently ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yemen has a great history of a civil war between the north and the south. The country was only recently reunited, back in 1990. You have about 16 to 17 million people; you have about 50 million guns. It's basically a country that is pretty trigger happy. It's very generous, very hospitable to foreigners, but on the other hand, there's always that element of risk.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Globalization could be the answer to many of the world's seemingly intractable problems. But this requires strong democratic foundations based ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Globalization could be the answer to many of the world's seemingly intractable problems. But this requires strong democratic foundations based on a political will to ensure equity and justice".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all things visible, the highest is the heaven of the fixed stars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all things visible, the highest is the heaven of the fixed stars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our mission ... is to help people better understand and value their freedoms so they can protect and defend them. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our mission ... is to help people better understand and value their freedoms so they can protect and defend them. As citizens of a democratic society, we can't take our freedoms for granted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Small showers last long, but sudden storms are short. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51502]]></link><description><![CDATA[Small showers last long, but sudden storms are short.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When computers (people) are networked, their power multiplies geometrically. Not only can people share all that information inside their machines, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9318]]></link><description><![CDATA[When computers (people) are networked, their power multiplies geometrically. Not only can people share all that information inside their machines, but they can reach out and instantly tap the power of other machines (people), essentially making the entire network their computer. Peter Drucker -Scott McNeely.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nursing home and hospital share the dining room, but that's all. We are in space that was vacant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36999]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nursing home and hospital share the dining room, but that's all. We are in space that was vacant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Public office is a public trust, the authority and opportunities of which must be used as absolutely as the public ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Public office is a public trust, the authority and opportunities of which must be used as absolutely as the public moneys for the public benefit, and not for the purposes of any individual or party.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never despair while under the guidance and auspices of Teucer. [Lat., Nil desperandum Teucro duce et auspice Teucro.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12009]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never despair while under the guidance and auspices of Teucer. [Lat., Nil desperandum Teucro duce et auspice Teucro.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12009</guid></item></channel></rss>