<?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[It's not dying for faith that's so hard, it's living up to it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15042]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not dying for faith that's so hard, it's living up to it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zinzendorf and the Moravians proved that an entire communion of believers (call it a church or a denomination, if you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6340]]></link><description><![CDATA[Zinzendorf and the Moravians proved that an entire communion of believers (call it a church or a denomination, if you will) can find reason for being solely on the basis of missions to the lost and unreached multitudes of the world. Their fellowship existed solely to send out laborers into the harvest. Everyone and everything pointed to that missionary purpose. For them, missions was not an adjunct to church life, it was church life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most gifted members of the human species are at their creative best when they cannot have their way, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52258]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most gifted members of the human species are at their creative best when they cannot have their way, and must compensate for what they miss by realizing and cultivating their capacities and talents.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education, n.: That which discloses the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education, n.: That which discloses the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You learn to put your emotional luggage where it will do some good, instead of using it to shit on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2127]]></link><description><![CDATA[You learn to put your emotional luggage where it will do some good, instead of using it to shit on other people, or blow up aeroplanes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23396]]></link><description><![CDATA[You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I almost don't know where to begin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39883]]></link><description><![CDATA[I almost don't know where to begin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50617]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way to activate the seeds of your creation is by making choices about the results you want to create. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22021]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way to activate the seeds of your creation is by making choices about the results you want to create. When you make a choice, you activate vast human energies and resources, which otherwise go untapped. All too often people fail to focus their choices upon results and therefore their choices are ineffective. If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes the sanest thing to do is just wallow in the misery for a while. Then climb out, grab a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes the sanest thing to do is just wallow in the misery for a while. Then climb out, grab a towel, dry off, and go about living.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26636]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24610]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'll be very good next year. This team knows what it takes to get to this point. We should be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29632]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'll be very good next year. This team knows what it takes to get to this point. We should be right back here, hopefully.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts. [Fr., La parole a ete donnce a l'homme pour deguiser sa ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51680]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts. [Fr., La parole a ete donnce a l'homme pour deguiser sa pensee.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1300]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, but that the dead are living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, but that the dead are living.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1395]]></link><description><![CDATA[I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The children will not leave unless I do. I shall not leave unless their father does, and the King will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52709]]></link><description><![CDATA[The children will not leave unless I do. I shall not leave unless their father does, and the King will not leave the country in any circumstances whatever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are only two things a child will share willingly: communicable diseases and his mother's age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5966]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are only two things a child will share willingly: communicable diseases and his mother's age.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People use not just personal computers, but telephones, televisions, wireless and other devices with this technology so that minutes will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42518]]></link><description><![CDATA[People use not just personal computers, but telephones, televisions, wireless and other devices with this technology so that minutes will migrate over time. We really don't see a mass substitution or a great big cliff ahead of us, but rather that people will use this [Net2Phone applications] in conjunction with activities that they are performing in the Internet portal space.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[GOP strategists hope the revelation of Kerry's wealth might debunk his status as a, quote, man of the people, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17384]]></link><description><![CDATA[GOP strategists hope the revelation of Kerry's wealth might debunk his status as a, quote, man of the people, and reveal him to be a bit of a fat cat. Unlike the President who — as we all know — before attending Andover and Yale, was a Cockney matchstick girl dying of tuberculosis.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vertue flies from the heart of a Mercenary man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50031]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vertue flies from the heart of a Mercenary man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't stand accessories. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39299]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't stand accessories.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that has pity on the poor lends to the Lord. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1381]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that has pity on the poor lends to the Lord.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52572]]></link><description><![CDATA[Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63441]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Godzilla's a monster for the '90s. He's been working out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36261]]></link><description><![CDATA[Godzilla's a monster for the '90s. He's been working out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57428]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She's adorned Amply, that in her husband's eye looks lovely,--  The truest mirror that an honest wife   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2771]]></link><description><![CDATA[She's adorned Amply, that in her husband's eye looks lovely,--  The truest mirror that an honest wife   Can see her beauty in!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember, if you smoke after sex you're doing it too fast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56695]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember, if you smoke after sex you're doing it too fast.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A shorter rotation is to be expected. Every team and every coach does that. Every team wants its seven or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31933]]></link><description><![CDATA[A shorter rotation is to be expected. Every team and every coach does that. Every team wants its seven or eight best out there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Economic strength poses a possible risk that the Fed might find it necessary to increase interest rates even beyond May. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34704]]></link><description><![CDATA[Economic strength poses a possible risk that the Fed might find it necessary to increase interest rates even beyond May. With that comes the risk that the economy could be slowed substantially, which is something that had been taken off the table at least in the last month.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The price we have to pay for all this is someplace. Early in the century, we're going to see a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42255]]></link><description><![CDATA[The price we have to pay for all this is someplace. Early in the century, we're going to see a real good old-fashioned panic of the kind we haven't seen in a long time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A book is a gift you can open again and again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4489]]></link><description><![CDATA[A book is a gift you can open again and again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mill cannot grind with water that's past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49893]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mill cannot grind with water that's past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the man who himself strives earnestly, God also lends a helping hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19152]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the man who himself strives earnestly, God also lends a helping hand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From every blush that kindles in thy cheeks, Ten thousand little loves and graces spring  To revel in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4386]]></link><description><![CDATA[From every blush that kindles in thy cheeks, Ten thousand little loves and graces spring  To revel in the roses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, thecontinents, and the oceans was not ignorance, but rather the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22325]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, thecontinents, and the oceans was not ignorance, but rather the illusion ofknowledge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Edmund of the East Angles, Martyr, 870 Commemoration of Priscilla Lydia Sellon, a Restorer of the Religious Life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7357]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Edmund of the East Angles, Martyr, 870 Commemoration of Priscilla Lydia Sellon, a Restorer of the Religious Life in the Church of England, 1876   It is to be acknowledged that many passages in the Bible are abstruse, and not to be easily understood. Yet we are not to omit reading the abstruser texts, which have any appearance of relating to us; but should follow the example of the Blessed Virgin, who understood not several of our Saviour's sayings, but kept them all in her heart. Were we only to learn humility thus, it would be enough; but we shall by degrees come to apprehend far more than we expected, if we diligently compare spiritual things to spiritual.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Making copies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Making copies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43831]]></link><description><![CDATA[See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32011]]></link><description><![CDATA[As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31459]]></link><description><![CDATA[I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never give a sucker an even break. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never give a sucker an even break.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great grief does not of itself put an end itself. [Lat., Magnus sibi ipse non facit finem dolor.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18345]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great grief does not of itself put an end itself. [Lat., Magnus sibi ipse non facit finem dolor.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13382]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was an innovator, an experimenter, a missionary in bringing the gospel of good cooking to the home table. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10155]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was an innovator, an experimenter, a missionary in bringing the gospel of good cooking to the home table.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To practice, knowing you're not going to play, is hard. He took it, he learned and he grew. Now he's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31058]]></link><description><![CDATA[To practice, knowing you're not going to play, is hard. He took it, he learned and he grew. Now he's got an opportunity and he's taking advantage of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["ase by case, we find that conformity is the easy way, and the path to privilege and prestige; dissidence carries ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9728]]></link><description><![CDATA["ase by case, we find that conformity is the easy way, and the path to privilege and prestige; dissidence carries personal costs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9728</guid></item></channel></rss>