<?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[A diamond with a flaw is better than a common stone that is perfect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15425]]></link><description><![CDATA[A diamond with a flaw is better than a common stone that is perfect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A life of ease is a difficult pursuit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22347]]></link><description><![CDATA[A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think necessity is the mother of invention -- invention . . . arises directly from idleness, possibly also ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20362]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think necessity is the mother of invention -- invention . . . arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the long run, the pessimist may be proven right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46434]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the long run, the pessimist may be proven right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred it the coward's revenge for being intimidated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred it the coward's revenge for being intimidated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The interest in programs for 3-, 4- and 5-year-olds is unbelievable. I think that's because they are getting their first ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37545]]></link><description><![CDATA[The interest in programs for 3-, 4- and 5-year-olds is unbelievable. I think that's because they are getting their first shot at signing up for organized recreation and the parents are eager to get them enrolled and out socializing with other children. I think that developing their skills and physical abilities and keeping them fit starts at an early age.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If slander be a snake, it is a winged one--it flies as well as creeps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56544]]></link><description><![CDATA[If slander be a snake, it is a winged one--it flies as well as creeps.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can drive out nature with a pitchfork but she keeps on coming back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51050]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can drive out nature with a pitchfork but she keeps on coming back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This speech will be a turning point. It will come as a real response direct from the source, clearing up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36207]]></link><description><![CDATA[This speech will be a turning point. It will come as a real response direct from the source, clearing up the speculation,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No better than you should be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48514]]></link><description><![CDATA[No better than you should be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of English Saints & Martyrs of the Reformation  The Kingdom is to be in the midst of your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8249]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of English Saints & Martyrs of the Reformation  The Kingdom is to be in the midst of your enemies. And he who will not suffer this does not want to be of the Kingdom of Christ; he wants to be among friends, to sit among roses and lilies, not with the bad people but the devout people. O you blasphemers and betrayers of Christ! If Christ had done what you are doing, who would ever have been spared?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The players want to get in the playoffs and win a championship for Bob. We still are very committed to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37605]]></link><description><![CDATA[The players want to get in the playoffs and win a championship for Bob. We still are very committed to his vision. The foundation of this team happened through Bob.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A week ago, you could sense the soul of New Orleans from the people who were still around. There's no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30537]]></link><description><![CDATA[A week ago, you could sense the soul of New Orleans from the people who were still around. There's no people. It's like trying to interview someone's guitar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow for ever and for ever.  Blow, bugle, blow, set the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13306]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow for ever and for ever.  Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying,   And answer, echoes, answer, dying, dying, dying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I find that my greatest difficulty and the really most painful and difficult part of my work is draining and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30986]]></link><description><![CDATA[I find that my greatest difficulty and the really most painful and difficult part of my work is draining and ridding my mind of that burden of meanings which I've absorbed through the culture-things that seem to have something to do with art but don't have anything to do with art at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all the characters of cruelty, I consider the most despicable the one that cloaks himself in a garb of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27364]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all the characters of cruelty, I consider the most despicable the one that cloaks himself in a garb of mercy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it -- can't help trying to interest her nearest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19643]]></link><description><![CDATA[The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it -- can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm just trying to make solid contact right there, and I got a slider over the plate and put the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32651]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm just trying to make solid contact right there, and I got a slider over the plate and put the barrel on it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3145]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the biggest problems is that it lacks any meaningful safeguards, so that mistakes can and do happen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34369]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the biggest problems is that it lacks any meaningful safeguards, so that mistakes can and do happen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tear forgot as soon as shed, The sunshine of the breast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58798]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tear forgot as soon as shed, The sunshine of the breast.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Employers recognize that the value in tying awards to performance, as opposed to the holidays, better connects employees to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39796]]></link><description><![CDATA[Employers recognize that the value in tying awards to performance, as opposed to the holidays, better connects employees to the company's goals and objectives, eliminates 'entitlement' issues, and leads to increased productivity and improved business results.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63602]]></link><description><![CDATA[A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She just got the architects drawings and she's excited to get going. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28398]]></link><description><![CDATA[She just got the architects drawings and she's excited to get going.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As to deliberate mortifications -- I take it you do feel satisfied that you accept fully those God sends. That ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7464]]></link><description><![CDATA[As to deliberate mortifications -- I take it you do feel satisfied that you accept fully those God sends. That being so, you might perhaps do one or two little things, as acts of love, and also as discipline. I suggest by preference the mortification of the tongue -- as being very tiresome and quite harmless to the health. Careful guard on all amusing criticisms of others, on all complaints however casual or trivial.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Four of them went to the hyperbaric chamber at Shock Trauma, they were experiencing more severe symptoms and had been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34390]]></link><description><![CDATA[Four of them went to the hyperbaric chamber at Shock Trauma, they were experiencing more severe symptoms and had been for several days, severe flu-like symptoms. There were another four taken to St. Agnes Hospital for observation, they were experiencing more minor symptoms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety, or by the handle ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15032]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety, or by the handle of faith.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58191]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seven principles for eradicating selfish ambition in the fellowship: 7. the ministry of authority   Jesus made authority in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8611]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seven principles for eradicating selfish ambition in the fellowship: 7. the ministry of authority   Jesus made authority in the fellowship dependent upon brotherly service (Mark 10:43). Genuine spiritual authority is to be found only where the ministry of hearing, helping, bearing, and proclaiming is carried out. Every cult of personality that emphasizes the distinguished qualities, virtues, and talents of another person, even though these be of an altogether spiritual nature, is worldly and has no place in the Christian community; indeed, it poisons the Christian community...   Genuine authority realizes that it can exist only in the service of Him who alone has authority... The Church does not need brilliant personalities but faithful servants of Jesus and the brethren...   Pastoral authority can be attained only by the servant of Jesus who seeks no power of his own, who himself is a brother among brothers to the authority of the Word.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You get somebody to crack a smile, that's a beautiful thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66218]]></link><description><![CDATA[You get somebody to crack a smile, that's a beautiful thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now men say, "I am in no wise prepared for this work, and therefore it cannot be wrought in me," ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7360]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now men say, "I am in no wise prepared for this work, and therefore it cannot be wrought in me," and thus they have an excuse, so that they neither are ready nor in the way to be so. And truly there is no one to blame for this but themselves. For if a man were looking and striving after nothing but to find a preparation in all things, and diligently gave his whole mind to see how he might become prepared; verily God would well prepare him, for God giveth as much care and earnestness and love to the preparing of a man, as to the pouring in of His Spirit when the man is prepared.  ... Theologia Germanica  December 16, 2002   Repentance is but a kind of table-talk, till we see so much of the deformity of our inward nature as to be in some degree frightened and terrified at the sight of it... A plausible form of an outward life, that has only learned rules and modes of religion by use and custom, often keeps the soul for some time at ease, though all its inward root and ground of sin has never been shaken or molested, though it has never tasted of the bitter waters of repentance and has only known the want of a Saviour by hearsay. But things cannot pass thus: sooner or later repentance must have a broken and a contrite heart; we must with our blessed Lord go over the brook Cedron, and with Him sweat great drops of sorrow before He can say for us, as He said for Himself: "It is finished.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["He was a very good hater." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18854]]></link><description><![CDATA["He was a very good hater."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Besides, you know Prosperity's the very bond of love,  Whose fresh complexion and whose heart together   Affliction ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48496]]></link><description><![CDATA[Besides, you know Prosperity's the very bond of love,  Whose fresh complexion and whose heart together   Affliction alters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not say,"it is morning," and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46076]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not say,"it is morning," and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name. -Rabindranath Tagore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63599]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To keep my hands from picking and stealing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59127]]></link><description><![CDATA[To keep my hands from picking and stealing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is a treasured gift, and every time I talk with you I feel as if I'm getting richer and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16849]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is a treasured gift, and every time I talk with you I feel as if I'm getting richer and richer]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now old Tredgortha's dead and gone, We ne'er shall see him more;  He used to wear an old grey ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2764]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now old Tredgortha's dead and gone, We ne'er shall see him more;  He used to wear an old grey coat,   All buttoned down before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The test of any man's character is how he takes praise ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3573]]></link><description><![CDATA[The test of any man's character is how he takes praise]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[we're open to the idea of adoption. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39239]]></link><description><![CDATA[we're open to the idea of adoption.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I sometimes ask myself how it came about that I was the one to develop the theory of relativity. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/653]]></link><description><![CDATA[I sometimes ask myself how it came about that I was the one to develop the theory of relativity. The reason, I think, is that a normal adult never stops to think about problems of space and time. These are things which he has thought about as a child.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And, oftentimes, excusing of a fault, Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51347]]></link><description><![CDATA[And, oftentimes, excusing of a fault, Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63382]]></link><description><![CDATA[If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Country music is three chords and the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43513]]></link><description><![CDATA[Country music is three chords and the truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19361]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bartolomè de las Casas, Apostle to the Indies, 1566  God hath work to do in this world; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7417]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bartolomè de las Casas, Apostle to the Indies, 1566  God hath work to do in this world; and to desert it because of its difficulties and entanglements, is to cast off His authority. It is not enough that we be just, that we be righteous, and walk with God in holiness; but we must also serve our generation, as David did before he fell asleep. God hath a work to do; and not to help Him is to oppose Him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62424]]></link><description><![CDATA[I write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember what it is I wrote down, I spend the time looking for the paper I wrote it down on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62424</guid></item></channel></rss>