<?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[Commemoration of Bartolomè de las Casas, Apostle to the Indies, 1566  Of course, it all depends upon what we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bartolomè de las Casas, Apostle to the Indies, 1566  Of course, it all depends upon what we are praying for. If we are whimpering, and sniveling, and begging to be spared the discipline of life that is sent to knock some smatterings of manhood into us, the answer to that prayer may never come at all. Thank God! Though, indeed, it is not easy to say that, with honesty. Still, it may never come at all, thank God. But if you have attained as far as Epictetus--pagan though you would call him--whose daily prayer was this: "O God, give me what Thou desirest for me, for I know that what Thou choosest for me is far better than I could choose"; if you are not bleating to get off, but asking to be given grace and strength to see this through with honour, "the very day" you pray that prayer, the answer always comes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10512]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever has Christ in his heart, so that no earthly or temporal things -- not even those that are legitimate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever has Christ in his heart, so that no earthly or temporal things -- not even those that are legitimate and allowed -- are preferred to Him, has Christ as a foundation. But if these things be preferred, then even though a man seem to have faith in Christ, yet Christ is not the foundation to that man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65157]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lying is the most simple form of self-defence. -Susan Sontag. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59877]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lying is the most simple form of self-defence. -Susan Sontag.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leisure for reverie, gay or somber, does much to enrich life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24606]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leisure for reverie, gay or somber, does much to enrich life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am disgraced, impeached, and baffled here; Pierced to the soul with slander's venomed spear,  The which no balm ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56556]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am disgraced, impeached, and baffled here; Pierced to the soul with slander's venomed spear,  The which no balm can cure but his heart-blood   Which breathed this poison.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To most of us nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth. Though it is held before our eyes, pushed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56879]]></link><description><![CDATA[To most of us nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth. Though it is held before our eyes, pushed under our noses, rammed down our throats- we know it not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gentle Hawke halfe mans her selfe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49858]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gentle Hawke halfe mans her selfe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The suppliers who receive these awards have provided exceptional performance in Quality to our Toyota plants in Europe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41694]]></link><description><![CDATA[The suppliers who receive these awards have provided exceptional performance in Quality to our Toyota plants in Europe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pomps and vanity of this wicked world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62201]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pomps and vanity of this wicked world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I reminded them they are not alone, ... The churches in Chicago are praying for them and they are taking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39162]]></link><description><![CDATA[I reminded them they are not alone, ... The churches in Chicago are praying for them and they are taking up collections for them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you're a winner you're always happy, but if you're happy as a loser you'll always be a loser. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22221]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you're a winner you're always happy, but if you're happy as a loser you'll always be a loser.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had just no power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36704]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had just no power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They came in shifts. It went on like that for hours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42000]]></link><description><![CDATA[They came in shifts. It went on like that for hours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To some it may be a thrill to be known, to me it's a thrill to start a friendship even ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65782]]></link><description><![CDATA[To some it may be a thrill to be known, to me it's a thrill to start a friendship even up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44631]]></link><description><![CDATA[Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An examin'd enterprize goes on boldly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49118]]></link><description><![CDATA[An examin'd enterprize goes on boldly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't put new wine into old bottles ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61663]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't put new wine into old bottles]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58594]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65762]]></link><description><![CDATA[God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Conversion of Paul  The life of faith does not earn eternal life: it is eternal life. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Conversion of Paul  The life of faith does not earn eternal life: it is eternal life. And Christ is its vehicle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Painters and poets have equal license in regard to everything. [Lat., Pictoribus atque poetis  Quidlibet audendi semper fuit aequa ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3187]]></link><description><![CDATA[Painters and poets have equal license in regard to everything. [Lat., Pictoribus atque poetis  Quidlibet audendi semper fuit aequa potestas.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  I have called my material surroundings a stage set. In this I can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  I have called my material surroundings a stage set. In this I can act. And you may well say "act". For what I call "myself" (for all practical, everyday purposes) is also a dramatic construction; memories, glimpses in the shavinglass, and snatches of the very fallible activity called "introspection", are the principal ingredients. Normally I call this construction "me"' and the stage set "the real world". Now the moment of prayer is for me -- or involves for me as its condition -- the awareness, the reawakened awareness, that this "real world" and "real self" are very far from being rock-bottom realities. I cannot, in the flesh, leave the stage, either to go behind the scenes or to take my seat in the pit; but I can remember that these regions exist. And I also remember that my apparent self -- this clown or hero or super -- under his grease-paint is a real person with an off-stage life. The dramatic person could not tread the stage unless he concealed a real person: unless the real and unknown I existed, I would not even make mistakes about the imagined me. And in prayer this real I struggles to speak, for once, from his real being, and to address, for once, not the other actors, but -- what shall I call Him? The Author, for He invented us all? The Producer, for He controls all? Or the Audience, for He watches, and will judge, the performance?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But I do hate him as I hate the devil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18856]]></link><description><![CDATA[But I do hate him as I hate the devil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63793]]></link><description><![CDATA[The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60978]]></link><description><![CDATA[Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The virtue of deeds lies in completing them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/314]]></link><description><![CDATA[The virtue of deeds lies in completing them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a man may have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52611]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a man may have.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cares deny all rest to weary limbs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51786]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cares deny all rest to weary limbs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, nothing comes to us too soon but sorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, nothing comes to us too soon but sorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be. -Kurt Vonnegut. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55071]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be. -Kurt Vonnegut.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've got volumes on how not to behave. I've got more information now than a guy should have at my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64416]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've got volumes on how not to behave. I've got more information now than a guy should have at my age.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The learned pate Ducks to the golden fool. All's obliquy;  There's nothing level in our cursed natures   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60649]]></link><description><![CDATA[The learned pate Ducks to the golden fool. All's obliquy;  There's nothing level in our cursed natures   But direct villainy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I knew I had to come out in the second half and help my team out. I was feeling it, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29734]]></link><description><![CDATA[I knew I had to come out in the second half and help my team out. I was feeling it, so I just kept shooting. I wasn't shy at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By ignorance we mistake, and by mistakes we learn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20391]]></link><description><![CDATA[By ignorance we mistake, and by mistakes we learn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought we came out in the second half -- once we kind of settled in -- and played pretty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31306]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought we came out in the second half -- once we kind of settled in -- and played pretty well. We just made so many mistakes early that we let it get away from us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6018]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguisedas insoluble problems. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21655]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguisedas insoluble problems.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The keener the want the lustier the growth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61101]]></link><description><![CDATA[The keener the want the lustier the growth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some folks can look so busy doing nothin' that they seem indispensable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some folks can look so busy doing nothin' that they seem indispensable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7551]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fish which has once felt the hook, suspects the crooked metal in every food which offers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50769]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fish which has once felt the hook, suspects the crooked metal in every food which offers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11323]]></link><description><![CDATA[Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flirting is the art of keeping intimacy at a safe distance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16237]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flirting is the art of keeping intimacy at a safe distance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We understand that some groups can be shocked by the publication of certain information, but there are legal means -- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29419]]></link><description><![CDATA[We understand that some groups can be shocked by the publication of certain information, but there are legal means -- in Denmark and elsewhere -- to resolve this problem. They can file defamation charges in courts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With winsome cruelty she refuses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50397]]></link><description><![CDATA[With winsome cruelty she refuses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Avoid delays: procrastination always does harm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50585]]></link><description><![CDATA[Avoid delays: procrastination always does harm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50585</guid></item></channel></rss>