<?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[We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64773]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Splitting up the portfolio is more than an accounting measure. I've handled cases where the portfolios were really diverse. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35350]]></link><description><![CDATA[Splitting up the portfolio is more than an accounting measure. I've handled cases where the portfolios were really diverse. If I hadn't stepped in, the wife would have been stuck with capital gains that she had no clue about.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the 1980s, the Indians were getting a lot of equipment for the gas centrifuge program from the same companies ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32990]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the 1980s, the Indians were getting a lot of equipment for the gas centrifuge program from the same companies that were providing the same equipment to the Pakistanis. And some of the same people who have turned out to figure very prominently in the Khan network were involved in some of these sales to India,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Error always addresses the passions and prejudices; truth scorns such mean intrigue, and only addresses the understanding and the conscience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2133]]></link><description><![CDATA[Error always addresses the passions and prejudices; truth scorns such mean intrigue, and only addresses the understanding and the conscience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A different world cannot be built by indifferent people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22412]]></link><description><![CDATA[A different world cannot be built by indifferent people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good sermon should be like a woman's skirt: short enough to arouse interest but long enough to cover the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55202]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good sermon should be like a woman's skirt: short enough to arouse interest but long enough to cover the essentials.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most casual examination will reveal the fact that all the jokes about the horrible results of masculine cooking and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14376]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most casual examination will reveal the fact that all the jokes about the horrible results of masculine cooking and sewing are written by men. It is all part of a great scheme of sex propaganda.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, isn't that nice, the wife of the Cambridge president is kissing the cox of the Oxford crew. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, isn't that nice, the wife of the Cambridge president is kissing the cox of the Oxford crew.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22740]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Andrew the Apostle  Devotion is the real spiritual sweetness which takes away all bitterness from mortifications, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7269]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Andrew the Apostle  Devotion is the real spiritual sweetness which takes away all bitterness from mortifications, and prevents consolations from disagreeing with the soul; it cures the poor of sadness, and the rich of presumption; it keeps the oppressed from feeling desolate, and the prosperous from insolence; it averts sadness from the lonely, and dissipation from social life; it is as warmth in winter and as refreshing dew in summer; it knows how to abound and how to suffer want, how to profit alike by honour and by contempt; it accepts gladness and sadness with an even mind, and fills men's hearts with a wondrous sweetness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patch grief with proverbs. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55460]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patch grief with proverbs. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But I'm hoping it will be easier. I have the reason to do it, though. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33895]]></link><description><![CDATA[But I'm hoping it will be easier. I have the reason to do it, though.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The one who overcomes egotism rids themselves of the most stubborn obstacle that blocks the way to all true greatness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13671]]></link><description><![CDATA[The one who overcomes egotism rids themselves of the most stubborn obstacle that blocks the way to all true greatness and all true happiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Stag in the Ox-StallA stag, roundly chased by the hounds and blinded by fear to the danger he was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1600]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Stag in the Ox-StallA stag, roundly chased by the hounds and blinded by fear to the danger he was running into, took shelter in a farmyard and hid himself in a shed among the oxen. An Ox gave him this kindly warning: O unhappy creature! why should you thus, of your own accord, incur destruction and trust yourself in the house of your enemy?' The Stag replied: Only allow me, friend, to stay where I am, and I will undertake to find some favorable opportunity of effecting my escape. At the approach of the evening the herdsman came to feed his cattle, but did not see the Stag; and even the farm-bailiff with several laborers passed through the shed and failed to notice him. The Stag, congratulating himself on his safety, began to express his sincere thanks to the Oxen who had kindly helped him in the hour of need. One of them again answered him: We indeed wish you well, but the danger is not over. There is one other yet to pass through the shed, who has as it were a hundred eyes, and until he has come and gone, your life is still in peril. At that moment the master himself entered, and having had to complain that his oxen had not been properly fed, he went up to their racks and cried out: Why is there such a scarcity of fodder? There is not half enough straw for them to lie on. Those lazy fellows have not even swept the cobwebs away. While he thus examined everything in turn, he spied the tips of the antlers of the Stag peeping out of the straw. Then summoning his laborers, he ordered that the Stag should be seized and killed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Know how to live the time that is given you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64268]]></link><description><![CDATA[Know how to live the time that is given you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14324]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dream after dream ensues; And still they dream that they shall still succeed;  And still are disappointed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12871]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dream after dream ensues; And still they dream that they shall still succeed;  And still are disappointed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They saw a lack of planning in other major events recently in the U.S., so they wanted to get a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41449]]></link><description><![CDATA[They saw a lack of planning in other major events recently in the U.S., so they wanted to get a step ahead of the game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22489]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the people, and what God has given them he gives it for mankind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chris [Henderson], our guitar player, has eight feet of water in his house, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30447]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chris [Henderson], our guitar player, has eight feet of water in his house,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, Martyr in Uganda, 1885  Continuing a short series on prayer: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, Martyr in Uganda, 1885  Continuing a short series on prayer:   Madness frequently discovers itself merely by unnecessary deviation from the usual modes of the world. My poor friend Christopher Smart showed the disturbance of his mind, by falling upon his knees, and saying his prayers in the street, or in any other unusual place. Now although, rationally speaking, it is greater madness not to pray at all, than to pray as Smart did, I am afraid there are so many who do not pray, that their understanding is not called in question... I did not think he ought to be shut up. His infirmities were not noxious to society. He insisted on people praying with him; and I'd as lief pray with Kit Smart as any.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man is wrong and won\'t admit it, he always gets angry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66594]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man is wrong and won\'t admit it, he always gets angry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is very loving and a great companion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32552]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is very loving and a great companion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And that inverted Bowl they call the Sky, Whereunder crawling coop'd we live and die,  Lift not your hands ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56515]]></link><description><![CDATA[And that inverted Bowl they call the Sky, Whereunder crawling coop'd we live and die,  Lift not your hands to it for help--for it   As impotently moves as you or I.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little by little one walks far ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12116]]></link><description><![CDATA[Little by little one walks far]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pessimist, they say, sees a glass of water as being half empty; an optimist sees the same glass as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60951]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pessimist, they say, sees a glass of water as being half empty; an optimist sees the same glass as half full. But a giving person sees a glass of water and starts looking for someone who might be thirsty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So vain is the belief That the sequestered path has fewest flowers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57177]]></link><description><![CDATA[So vain is the belief That the sequestered path has fewest flowers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hanging and wiving goes by destiny. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 9. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55584]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hanging and wiving goes by destiny. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 9.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My bark, once struck by the fury of the storm, dreads again to approach the place of danger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50745]]></link><description><![CDATA[My bark, once struck by the fury of the storm, dreads again to approach the place of danger.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mine is better than ours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48435]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mine is better than ours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first thing that they do before they do anything is interventions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37254]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first thing that they do before they do anything is interventions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48481]]></link><description><![CDATA[But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the Lord of hosts hath spoken it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as ithers see us!  It wad frae monie ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2808]]></link><description><![CDATA[O wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as ithers see us!  It wad frae monie a blunder free us.   And foolish notion;    What airs in dress and gait wad lea'e us,     And ev'n devotion!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here is a talk of the Turk and the Pope, but my next neighbour doth me more harm then either ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49491]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here is a talk of the Turk and the Pope, but my next neighbour doth me more harm then either of them both.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ideas cross mountains, borders, and seas. They go anywhere a man can go... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60894]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ideas cross mountains, borders, and seas. They go anywhere a man can go...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Merton, Monk, Spiritual Writer, 1968   This matter of "salvation" is, when seen intuitively, a very ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7555]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Merton, Monk, Spiritual Writer, 1968   This matter of "salvation" is, when seen intuitively, a very simple thing. But when we analyze it, it turns into a complex tangle of paradoxes. We become ourselves by dying to ourselves. We gain only what we give up, and if we give up everything we gain everything. We cannot find ourselves within ourselves, but only in others; yet at the same time, before we can go out to others we must first find ourselves. We must forget ourselves in order to become truly conscious of who we are. The best way to love ourselves is to love others; yet we cannot love others unless we love ourselves, since it is written, "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." But if we love ourselves in the wrong way, we become incapable of loving anybody else. And indeed when we love ourselves wrongly, we hate ourselves; if we hate ourselves we cannot help hating others. Yet there is a sense in which we must hate others and leave them in order to find God... As for this finding of God, we cannot even look for Him unless we have already found Him, and we cannot find Him unless He has first found us. We cannot begin to seek Him without a special gift of His grace; yet if we wait for grace to move us before beginning to seek Him, we will probably never begin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first element of greatness is fundamental humbleness (this should not be confused with servility); the second is freedom from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41550]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first element of greatness is fundamental humbleness (this should not be confused with servility); the second is freedom from self; the third is intrepid courage, which, taken in its widest interpretation, generally goes with truth; and the fourth /the power to love /although I have put it last, is the rarest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strike the iron whilst it is hot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strike the iron whilst it is hot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And more than echoes talk along the walls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13298]]></link><description><![CDATA[And more than echoes talk along the walls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that well his warke beginneth The rather a good ende he winneth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62111]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that well his warke beginneth The rather a good ende he winneth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14321]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19079]]></link><description><![CDATA[A day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A collection of anecdotes and maxims is the greatest of treasures for the man of the world, for he knows ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2509]]></link><description><![CDATA[A collection of anecdotes and maxims is the greatest of treasures for the man of the world, for he knows how to intersperse conversation with the former in fit places, and to recollect the latter on proper occasions]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the past, the company had always been the only party that went looking for insurance coverage, and we didn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32799]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the past, the company had always been the only party that went looking for insurance coverage, and we didn't feel like we had any control or say in it, and really we didn't. (Now the) insurance committee will have sole power to bring in representatives of insurance companies to listen to what they have and to make the decision on what insurance coverage is going to be elected by the union and the company.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The richest man is not he who has the most, but he who needs the least. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62735]]></link><description><![CDATA[The richest man is not he who has the most, but he who needs the least.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like to the apples on the Dead Sea's shore, All ashes to the taste. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2941]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like to the apples on the Dead Sea's shore, All ashes to the taste.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who does not stretch himself according to the coverlet finds his feet uncovered. [Ger., Wer sich nicht nach der ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51971]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who does not stretch himself according to the coverlet finds his feet uncovered. [Ger., Wer sich nicht nach der Decke streckt,  Dem bleiben die Fusse unbedeckt.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We lost two, really three (days) because Wednesday was a wash. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38021]]></link><description><![CDATA[We lost two, really three (days) because Wednesday was a wash.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Character is fate. (Destiny) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12065]]></link><description><![CDATA[Character is fate. (Destiny)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12065</guid></item></channel></rss>