<?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[When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said "Let us pray." ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53603]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said "Let us pray." We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here are a few of the unpleasant'st words That ever blotted paper! -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55596]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here are a few of the unpleasant'st words That ever blotted paper! -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am convinced that dealing intelligently with the press is of the greatest importance to the success and effectiveness of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29009]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am convinced that dealing intelligently with the press is of the greatest importance to the success and effectiveness of a humanitarian mission.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A grisly meteor on his face. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57821]]></link><description><![CDATA[A grisly meteor on his face.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62057]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12049]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet the success of plans and the advantage to be derived from them do not at all times agree, seeing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58123]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet the success of plans and the advantage to be derived from them do not at all times agree, seeing the gods claim to themselves the right to decide as to the final result. [Lat., Tametsi prosperitas simul utilitasque consultorum non obique concordent, quoniam captorum eventus superae sibi vindicant potestates.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And I read the moral--A brave endeavour To do thy duty, whate'er its worth,  Is better than life with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13071]]></link><description><![CDATA[And I read the moral--A brave endeavour To do thy duty, whate'er its worth,  Is better than life with love forever,   And love is the sweetest thing on earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tongue like a sharp knife... Kills without drawing blood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64031]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tongue like a sharp knife... Kills without drawing blood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's been a big focus as to who will be the next Fed chairman, and the market is relieved to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39859]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's been a big focus as to who will be the next Fed chairman, and the market is relieved to know that it's going to be someone decent,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only those who have learned a lot are in a position to admit how little they know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/987]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only those who have learned a lot are in a position to admit how little they know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is in the character if very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14035]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is in the character if very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel And shining morning face, creeping like snail  Unwillingly to school. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58023]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel And shining morning face, creeping like snail  Unwillingly to school.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is not a wall, whose stones are crushed upon the road; or a pipe, whose fragments are thrown ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22885]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is not a wall, whose stones are crushed upon the road; or a pipe, whose fragments are thrown away at a street corner. The fragments of an intellect are always good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/541]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43958]]></link><description><![CDATA[How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and of oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of St. Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, Teacher, 373   Both from the confession of the evil spirits and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8101]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of St. Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, Teacher, 373   Both from the confession of the evil spirits and from the daily witness of His works, it is manifest, then, and let none presume to doubt it, that the Savior has raised His own body, and that He is very Son of God, having His being from God as from a Father, Whose Word and Wisdom and Whose Power He is. He it is Who in these latter days assumed a body for the salvation of us all, and taught the world concerning the Father. He it is Who has destroyed death and freely graced us all with incorruption through the promise of the resurrection, having raised His own body as its first-fruits, and displayed it by the sign of the cross as the monument to His victory over death and its corruption.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60166]]></link><description><![CDATA[Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're looking at new places in that part of the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31677]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're looking at new places in that part of the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man is born an Artist nor an Angler. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16085]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man is born an Artist nor an Angler.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't really trust a sane person. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59747]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't really trust a sane person.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16380]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opinion is the queen of the world. [Lat., Della opinione regina del mondo.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44951]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opinion is the queen of the world. [Lat., Della opinione regina del mondo.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christianity is a missionary religion, converting, advancing, aggressive, encompassing the world; a non-missionary church is in the bands of death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christianity is a missionary religion, converting, advancing, aggressive, encompassing the world; a non-missionary church is in the bands of death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humans can learn to like anything, that's why we are such a successful species. You can drop humans anywhere and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19977]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humans can learn to like anything, that's why we are such a successful species. You can drop humans anywhere and they'll thrive--only the rat does as well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['My country, right or wrong,' is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45840]]></link><description><![CDATA['My country, right or wrong,' is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, 'My mother, drunk or sober.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The celebration of unbounded individualism means, beyond some point, the acceptance of force- either private (crime, riot, vigilanteism) or public ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47209]]></link><description><![CDATA[The celebration of unbounded individualism means, beyond some point, the acceptance of force- either private (crime, riot, vigilanteism) or public (authoritarianism).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of what avail are pedigrees? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50475]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of what avail are pedigrees?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are deeply sorry that this happened. Sometimes you can't control it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39235]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are deeply sorry that this happened. Sometimes you can't control it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1007]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we devote our time disparaging the products of our business rivals, we hurt business generally, reduce confidence, and increase ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15784]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we devote our time disparaging the products of our business rivals, we hurt business generally, reduce confidence, and increase discontent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you write, one of the questions you're always trying to answer is, Where do you get your ideas? And, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64956]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you write, one of the questions you're always trying to answer is, Where do you get your ideas? And, if you write, you know how pointless a question this is and how difficult it is to answer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know what you could say about a day in which you have seen four beautiful sunsets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60218]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know what you could say about a day in which you have seen four beautiful sunsets.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64625]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The period which marked the enormous statistical success of the revival churches was also the period which saw membership standards ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6934]]></link><description><![CDATA[The period which marked the enormous statistical success of the revival churches was also the period which saw membership standards decline almost to the vanishing point. Today the [various denominations] don't even have enough authority to keep their members out of mob violence, let alone hold them to difficult standards of theological or ethical or moral excellence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2460]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The house of every one is to him as his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19617]]></link><description><![CDATA[The house of every one is to him as his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While gripinge grefes ye hart would wounde, And dolefulle domps ye mynde oppresse,  There musicke with her silver sound, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48955]]></link><description><![CDATA[While gripinge grefes ye hart would wounde, And dolefulle domps ye mynde oppresse,  There musicke with her silver sound,   Is wont with spede to send redresse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's what I'm shooting for, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35665]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's what I'm shooting for,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're a good team. They were a lot better than what we expected. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34398]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're a good team. They were a lot better than what we expected.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strangers are contemporary posterity. [Fr., Les etrangers sont la posterite contemporaine.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47849]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strangers are contemporary posterity. [Fr., Les etrangers sont la posterite contemporaine.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Philip & James, Apostles   If we do not at least try to manifest something of Creative ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7937]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Philip & James, Apostles   If we do not at least try to manifest something of Creative Charity in our dealings with life, whether by action, thought, or prayer, and do it at our own cost -- if we roll up the talent of love in the nice white napkin of piety and put it safely out of the way, sorry that the world is so hungry and thirsty, so sick and so fettered, and leave it at that: then, even that little talent may be taken from us. We may discover at the crucial moment that we are spiritually bankrupt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5190]]></link><description><![CDATA[If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Charles Simeon, Pastor, Teacher, 1836   The Church seems to have lost heart somewhat, has allowed the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7548]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Charles Simeon, Pastor, Teacher, 1836   The Church seems to have lost heart somewhat, has allowed the old assurance and enthusiasm to cool below the temperature at which big things get done, is always whimpering and complaining about something, has developed a foolish trick of gathering into corners in discouraged groups and bleating disconsolately that God seems to be strangely little in our day, the very mood that so maddened the Hebrew prophets that they itched to lay violent hands upon their countrymen, and literally shake it out of them. We Church people have become so prone to loud and abusive self-depreciation that the thing amounts to a disease... and though these doleful spirits are not altogether serious, the world is listening, and takes us, not unnaturally, at our own dismal and unflattering valuation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others pain And perish ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45390]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others pain And perish in our own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens--and then everybody disagrees. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9767]]></link><description><![CDATA[Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens--and then everybody disagrees.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Two PotsA river carried down in its stream two Pots, one made of earthenware and the other of brass. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1607]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Two PotsA river carried down in its stream two Pots, one made of earthenware and the other of brass. The Earthen Pot said to the Brass Pot, Pray keep at a distance and do not come near me, for if you touch me ever so slightly, I shall be broken in pieces, and besides, I by no means wish to come near you. Equals make the best friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be good to others, that will protect you against evil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63862]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be good to others, that will protect you against evil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13569]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13569</guid></item></channel></rss>