<?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 fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46714]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O lovely lily clean, O lily springing green,  O lily bursting white,   Dear lily of delight,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25087]]></link><description><![CDATA[O lovely lily clean, O lily springing green,  O lily bursting white,   Dear lily of delight,    Spring in my heart agen     That I may flower to men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian theory. If it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60319]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian theory. If it is true that we have sprung from the ape, there are occasions when my own spring appears not to have been very far.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Objectivity is a false god. We are human beings and we screw up or have flaws that are hidden from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39846]]></link><description><![CDATA[Objectivity is a false god. We are human beings and we screw up or have flaws that are hidden from us. But fairness and balance are possible. Not stereotyping people we write about is possible. We can be skeptical without being cynical,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a way of life, not just a job. You have to want to do it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40456]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a way of life, not just a job. You have to want to do it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The living need charity more than the dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5716]]></link><description><![CDATA[The living need charity more than the dead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. -Marcel Proust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46069]]></link><description><![CDATA[The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. -Marcel Proust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Riches are deservedly despised by a man of honor, because a well-stored chest intercepts the truth. [Lat., Opes invisae merito ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Riches are deservedly despised by a man of honor, because a well-stored chest intercepts the truth. [Lat., Opes invisae merito sunt forti viro,  Quia dives arca veram laudem intercipit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20757]]></link><description><![CDATA[If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9765]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A library is but the soul's burial-ground. It is the land of shadows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24765]]></link><description><![CDATA[A library is but the soul's burial-ground. It is the land of shadows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Based on first-hand evidence of your own senses - the improved health and later ages at which acquaintances die nowadays ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15739]]></link><description><![CDATA[Based on first-hand evidence of your own senses - the improved health and later ages at which acquaintances die nowadays as compared with the past; the material goods that we now possess; the speed at which information, entertainment, and we ourselves move freely throughout the world - it seems to me that a person must be literally deaf and blind not to perceive that humanity is in a much better state than ever before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23076]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8834]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do beseech you-- Though I perchance am vicious in my guess  (As I confess it is my nature's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23167]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do beseech you-- Though I perchance am vicious in my guess  (As I confess it is my nature's plague   To spy into abuses, and oft my jealousy    Shapes faults that are not), that your wisdom yet     From one that so imperfectly conjects      Would take no notice, nor build yourself a trouble       Out of his scattering and unsure observance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mystical references to "society" and its programs to "help" may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mystical references to "society" and its programs to "help" may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He had a good start, ... Everything was, 'Yes, ma'am.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40824]]></link><description><![CDATA[He had a good start, ... Everything was, 'Yes, ma'am.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A born writer is born scrofulous; his career is an accident dictated by physical or circumstantial disabilities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12355]]></link><description><![CDATA[A born writer is born scrofulous; his career is an accident dictated by physical or circumstantial disabilities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When your goalie is hot and you keep it close anything can happen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32866]]></link><description><![CDATA[When your goalie is hot and you keep it close anything can happen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Luke the Evangelist Beginning a short series about the early church:   Now if all these things ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6842]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Luke the Evangelist Beginning a short series about the early church:   Now if all these things should come to pass, the determined expectation of which caused the Jews to reject Christ -- if he should actually appear, with miraculous splendor, as the restorer of the Jewish nation, and city, and Temple, reigning over the whole world as a great earthly sovereign, and reserving peculiar privileges for his own nation -- if, I say, all these expectations should be fulfilled, to which the Jews have so long and so obstinately clung, surely this would not be so much a conversion of the Jews to Christianity as a conversion of Christians to Judaism; it would not be bringing the Jews to the gospel by overcoming their national prejudices, but rather carrying back the gospel to meet the Jewish prejudices; it would be destroying the spiritual character of our religion, and establishing those erroneous views which have hitherto caused the Jews to reject it. We may conclude, then, that all the promises and predictions in Scripture relative to the future glories of the Jews and of Jerusalem, are to be understood of the Christian church, of which the Jewish church was a figure; and all that is said of feasting, and splendor, and wealth, and worldly greatness and enjoyment, is to be interpreted spiritually of the inward comfort and peace of mind, and "joy of the Holy Ghost", which is promised to sincere Christians in this life, and of the unspeakable happiness prepared for them after death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yearn to understand first and to be understood second. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2055]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yearn to understand first and to be understood second.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2055</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[Any time not spent on love is wasted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63121]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any time not spent on love is wasted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . while men represent powerful activity as assertion and aggression, women in contrast portray acts of nurturance as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27023]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . while men represent powerful activity as assertion and aggression, women in contrast portray acts of nurturance as acts of strength.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are eagles of one nest - the nest is in our soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53421]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are eagles of one nest - the nest is in our soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I heard a Stock-dove sing or say His homely tale, this very day;  His voice was buried among trees, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12813]]></link><description><![CDATA[I heard a Stock-dove sing or say His homely tale, this very day;  His voice was buried among trees,   Yet to be come at by the breeze:    He did not cease; but cooed--and cooed:     And somewhat pensively he wooed:      He sang of love, with quiet blending,       Slow to begin, and never ending;        Of serious faith, and inward glee;         That was the song,--the song for me!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1849]]></link><description><![CDATA[The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm very anxious not to fall into archaism or "literary" diction. I want my vocabulary to have a very large ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36990]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm very anxious not to fall into archaism or "literary" diction. I want my vocabulary to have a very large range, but the words must be alive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got to create a dream. You've got to uphold the dream. If youcan't, go back to the factory or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22180]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to create a dream. You've got to uphold the dream. If youcan't, go back to the factory or go back to the desk.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, father's gone to market-town, he was up before the day, And Jamie's after robins, and the man is making ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58260]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, father's gone to market-town, he was up before the day, And Jamie's after robins, and the man is making hay,  And whistling down the hollow goes the boy that minds the mill,   While mother from the kitchen door is calling with a will,    "Polly!--Polly!--The cows are in the corn!     Oh, where's Polly?"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65942]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books are delightful when prosperity happily smiles; when adversity threatens, they are inseparable comforters. They give strength to human compacts, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books are delightful when prosperity happily smiles; when adversity threatens, they are inseparable comforters. They give strength to human compacts, nor are grave opinions brought forward without books. Arts and sciences, the benefits of which no mind can calculate. depend upon books.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4528</guid></item><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[And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46313]]></link><description><![CDATA[And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Dominic, Priest, Founder of the Order of Preachers, 1221   The mystery revealed, in a unique degree ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6690]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Dominic, Priest, Founder of the Order of Preachers, 1221   The mystery revealed, in a unique degree and form, in Christ's life, is really a universal spiritual human law: the law of suffering and sacrifice, as the one way to joy and possession, which has existed, though veiled till now, since the foundation of the world.   ... Friedrich von Hügel August 9, 2000 Feast of Mary Sumner, Founder of the Mothers' Union, 1921   When evangelicals call the Bible "inerrant", part at least of their meaning is this: that, in exegesis and exposition of Scripture and in building up our biblical theology from the fruits of our Bible study, we may not (1) deny, disregard, or arbitrarily relativize, anything that the biblical writers teach, nor (2) discount any of the practical implications for worship and service that their teaching carries, nor (3) cut the knot of any problem of Bible harmony, factual or theological, by allowing ourselves to assume that the inspired writers were not necessarily consistent either with themselves or with each other. It is because the word "inerrant" makes these methodological points about handling the Bible, ruling out in advance the use of mental procedures that can only lead to reduced and distorted versions of Christianity, that it is so valuable and, I think, so much valued by those who embrace it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65210]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leave not a rack behind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leave not a rack behind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43625]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60681]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We go through 20 cases of ham a week. That's 40 hams every week. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40761]]></link><description><![CDATA[We go through 20 cases of ham a week. That's 40 hams every week.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61100]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As Omron Corp. aims to reach 750 billion yen in consolidated sales in fiscal 2007, we want to contribute 10 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39653]]></link><description><![CDATA[As Omron Corp. aims to reach 750 billion yen in consolidated sales in fiscal 2007, we want to contribute 10 percent of the total.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19298]]></link><description><![CDATA[Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made of its entire range of activities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that burnes most shines most. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49325]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that burnes most shines most.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59499]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the flag and I keep step to the music of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45769]]></link><description><![CDATA[We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the flag and I keep step to the music of the Union.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that hath a trade hath an estate; he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23963]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that hath a trade hath an estate; he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The brave man is not he who feels no fear. For that were stupid and irrational. But he, whose noble ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10324]]></link><description><![CDATA[The brave man is not he who feels no fear. For that were stupid and irrational. But he, whose noble soul its fears subdues, and bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Integrity is the essence of everything successful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Integrity is the essence of everything successful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22292</guid></item></channel></rss>