<?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[This is a tough problem, and there is no simple answer or smoking gun. More likely, there are multiple causes, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31902]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a tough problem, and there is no simple answer or smoking gun. More likely, there are multiple causes, and they may vary from species to species.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So far, we've had 7.36 inches (of rain) for the year. Normal is about 4.51, so we're well above it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38407]]></link><description><![CDATA[So far, we've had 7.36 inches (of rain) for the year. Normal is about 4.51, so we're well above it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...the self-assertive tendency is the dynamic expression of the holon's wholeness, the integrative tendency, the dynamic expression of its partness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56791]]></link><description><![CDATA[...the self-assertive tendency is the dynamic expression of the holon's wholeness, the integrative tendency, the dynamic expression of its partness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, everybody would prefer to play inside, you know, because the conditions are totally different. But what can we do? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36703]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, everybody would prefer to play inside, you know, because the conditions are totally different. But what can we do? If the supervisor, they make the schedules, they put you on this court, what can you do?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I lost it in the sun!(after fumbling a grounder.) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57556]]></link><description><![CDATA[I lost it in the sun!(after fumbling a grounder.)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have nothing to declare but my genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17296]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have nothing to declare but my genius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Irenæus, Bishop of Lyons, Teacher, Martyr, c.200  It is quite possible to perform very ordinary actions with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7516]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Irenæus, Bishop of Lyons, Teacher, Martyr, c.200  It is quite possible to perform very ordinary actions with so high an intention as to serve God therein better than in far more important things done with a less pure intention.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1810]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle, and discards her nurse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48916]]></link><description><![CDATA[Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle, and discards her nurse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is going to take me two-and-a-half hours - so instead of a nice meal I'm going to be stuck ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41907]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is going to take me two-and-a-half hours - so instead of a nice meal I'm going to be stuck with beans on toast.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This world crisis came about without women having anything to do with it. If the women of the world had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65109]]></link><description><![CDATA[This world crisis came about without women having anything to do with it. If the women of the world had not been excluded from world affairs, things today might have been different.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the core of every moral code there is a picture of human nature, a map of the universe, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53504]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the core of every moral code there is a picture of human nature, a map of the universe, and a version of history. To human nature (of the sort conceived), in a universe (of the kind imagined), after a history (so understood), the rules of the code apply.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Envy not greatness: for thou mak'st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14011]]></link><description><![CDATA[Envy not greatness: for thou mak'st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Lawrence, Deacon at Rome, Martyr, 258  It is only by forgetting yourself that you can draw near ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6489]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Lawrence, Deacon at Rome, Martyr, 258  It is only by forgetting yourself that you can draw near to God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The present is a point just passed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65880]]></link><description><![CDATA[The present is a point just passed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Farewell, my children; remain always in the fear of the Lord. That temptation and tribulation which is to come is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15220]]></link><description><![CDATA[Farewell, my children; remain always in the fear of the Lord. That temptation and tribulation which is to come is now at hand and happy shall they who persevere in the good they have begun. I hasten to go to our Lord, to whose grace I recommend you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast. -The Comedy of Errors. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55408]]></link><description><![CDATA[Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast. -The Comedy of Errors. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44855]]></link><description><![CDATA[Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one is exempt from taking nonsense; the misfortune is to do it solemnly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44612]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one is exempt from taking nonsense; the misfortune is to do it solemnly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of Paul's most important teachings... is the doctrine of what we call "justification by faith". It frequently appears to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7609]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of Paul's most important teachings... is the doctrine of what we call "justification by faith". It frequently appears to the non-Christian mind that this is an immoral or at least unmoral doctrine. Paul appears to be saying that a man is justified before God, not by his goodness or badness, not by his good deeds or bad deeds, but by believing in a certain doctrine of Atonement. Of course, when we come to examine the matter more closely, we can see that there is nothing unmoral in this teaching at all. For if "faith" means using a God-given faculty to apprehend the unseen divine order, and means, moreover, involving oneself in that order by personal commitment, we can at once see how different that is from merely accepting a certain view of Christian redemption... That which man in every religion, every century, every country, was powerless to affect, God has achieved by the devastating humility of His action and suffering in Jesus Christ. Now, accepting such an action as a fait accompli is only possible by this perceptive faculty of "faith". It requires not merely intellectual assent but a shifting of personal trust from the achievements of the self to the completely undeserved action of God. To accept this teaching by mind and heart does, indeed, require a metanoia ["transformation"], a revolution in the outlook of both heart and mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29465]]></link><description><![CDATA[I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy is on trial in the world, on a more colossal scale than ever before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11869]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy is on trial in the world, on a more colossal scale than ever before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always be sincere, whether you mean it or not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always be sincere, whether you mean it or not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good intention but fixed and resolute - bent on high and holy ends, we shall find means to them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44825]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good intention but fixed and resolute - bent on high and holy ends, we shall find means to them on every side and at every moment; and even obstacles and opposition will but make us "like the fabled specter-ships," which sail the fastest in the very teeth of the wind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As clear and as manifest as the nose in a man's face. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14850]]></link><description><![CDATA[As clear and as manifest as the nose in a man's face.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The homegrown tomato is best(in reference to choosing a marriage partner). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26422]]></link><description><![CDATA[The homegrown tomato is best(in reference to choosing a marriage partner).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of which is often fatal to the best of talents; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of which is often fatal to the best of talents; it supplies the place of many talents.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4505]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The third man in the ring makes boxing possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4792]]></link><description><![CDATA[The third man in the ring makes boxing possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27692]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's nice for him to finally get rewarded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31319]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's nice for him to finally get rewarded.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The November meeting is a very crucial one. It is a turning point. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35724]]></link><description><![CDATA[The November meeting is a very crucial one. It is a turning point.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43240]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience, though non auctoritee Were in this world, is right ynough to me  To speke of wo that is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience, though non auctoritee Were in this world, is right ynough to me  To speke of wo that is in mariage. . . .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A kick that scarce would move a horse, May kill a sound divine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48079]]></link><description><![CDATA[A kick that scarce would move a horse, May kill a sound divine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She portrayed more knowledge and passion about drug control policy than I had ever imagined one person could know about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29140]]></link><description><![CDATA[She portrayed more knowledge and passion about drug control policy than I had ever imagined one person could know about any subject.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Running is one the best solutions to a clear mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16121]]></link><description><![CDATA[Running is one the best solutions to a clear mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15244]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular? -- David Sarnoff's associates in response to his urgings for investment in the radio in the 1920s.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow.
Don't walk behind me, I may not lead.
Just walk beside me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63089]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow.
Don't walk behind me, I may not lead.
Just walk beside me and be my friend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we have what we like 'tis hard to miss it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48783]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we have what we like 'tis hard to miss it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Romance is the poetry of literature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54356]]></link><description><![CDATA[Romance is the poetry of literature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The kind of man who thinks that helping with the dishes is beneath him will also think that helping with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19194]]></link><description><![CDATA[The kind of man who thinks that helping with the dishes is beneath him will also think that helping with the baby is beneath him, and then he certainly is not going to be a very successful father]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62296]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wolf shall also dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45864]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wolf shall also dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62591]]></link><description><![CDATA[Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let's teach ourselves that honorable stop, Not to outsport discretion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12452]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let's teach ourselves that honorable stop, Not to outsport discretion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hildegard, Abbess of Bingen, Visionary, 1179   (Peter) Waldo, a business-man in Lyons, France, in about A.D. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hildegard, Abbess of Bingen, Visionary, 1179   (Peter) Waldo, a business-man in Lyons, France, in about A.D. 1170 became intensely curious as to the content of the Scriptures. But he could not read Latin, and so the Scriptures were a closed book to him. However, he hired two money-minded priests, who, in violation of strict regulations, translated the Bible for him into Provençal, the language of southern France. The content of the Word of God made such an impression upon this earnest man that he gave up his business, took upon himself a vow of poverty, and dedicated himself to the simple preaching of the contents of God's Word.  The Latin of the Church only mystified its hearers [but] Waldo's humble preaching edified the souls of men. His words were not spectacular but powerful, as he pleaded with them to repent. Much of his preaching and that of his followers consisted in reciting long passages of Scripture in the vernacular. Many of them could not afford an expensive handwritten copy of the Bible, and the ecclesiastical authorities could too easily rob them of such a book; but they could not erase the words which were treasured in the heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63028]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63028</guid></item></channel></rss>