<?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[This insensibility of ours is a bad symptom. For one thing, it implies that we have no spiritual ambition, else ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7852]]></link><description><![CDATA[This insensibility of ours is a bad symptom. For one thing, it implies that we have no spiritual ambition, else we should not be satisfied with such poor lives; that we cannot have thought out the fact of Jesus Christ, and how immeasurably He has raised the standard. Will you hang your wretched daubs beside the works of Titian and Michelangelo and not be shamed by the enormous contrast -- stand back and say, with a satisfied smirk, "That is pretty good, you know!"? And can you live face to face with Jesus Christ, and be content with what you are?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All political theories assume, of course, that most individuals are very ignorant. Those who plead for liberty differ from the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47402]]></link><description><![CDATA[All political theories assume, of course, that most individuals are very ignorant. Those who plead for liberty differ from the rest in that they include among the ignorant themselves as well as the wisest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The last two years it has been working for us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40784]]></link><description><![CDATA[The last two years it has been working for us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morality is a private and costly luxury ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26075]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morality is a private and costly luxury]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where we desire to be informed 'tis good to contest with men above ourselves; but to confirm and establish our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where we desire to be informed 'tis good to contest with men above ourselves; but to confirm and establish our opinions, 'tis best to argue with judgments below our own, that the frequent spoils and victories over their reasons may settle in ourselves an esteem and confirmed opinion of our own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63363]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20175]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Peter Chanel, Religious, Missionary in the South Pacific, Martyr, 1841 I know the road to Jericho   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Peter Chanel, Religious, Missionary in the South Pacific, Martyr, 1841 I know the road to Jericho   It's in a part of town That's full of factories and filth.  I've seen the folks go down, Small folk with roses in their cheeks  And starlight in their eyes; And seen them fall among the thieves,  And heard their helpless cries. The priests and Levites speeding by   Read of the latest crimes In headlines spread in black and red  Across the Evening Times. How hard for those in limousines  To heal the heart of man! It was a slow-paced ass that bore  The Good Samaritan.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48565]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a housewife, I feel that if the kids are still alivewhen my husband gets home from work, then hey, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21104]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a housewife, I feel that if the kids are still alivewhen my husband gets home from work, then hey, I've done my job.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A century or so since, they spoke of sharing our Lord with the heathen, and the world rocked with laughter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7939]]></link><description><![CDATA[A century or so since, they spoke of sharing our Lord with the heathen, and the world rocked with laughter at so crazy a scheme, with the Church joining loudly in the merriment. Yet today, who laughs now? We ought to be the gladdest and the most exultant people in the world; for we have found the key to our difficulties, and it turns; have come on a solution of life's problems, and it works.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are in fact four very different stumbling blocks in the way of grasping the truth, which hinder every man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52241]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are in fact four very different stumbling blocks in the way of grasping the truth, which hinder every man however learned, and scarcely allow anyone to win a clear title to wisdom, namely, the example of weak and unworthy authority, longstanding custom, the feeling of the ignorant crowd, and the hiding of our own ignorance while making a display of our apparent knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is down will go up. At the same time, you have to be prepared for what is up to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65010]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is down will go up. At the same time, you have to be prepared for what is up to go down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Backward, flow backward, O full tide of years! I am so weary of toil and of tears,  Toil without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59298]]></link><description><![CDATA[Backward, flow backward, O full tide of years! I am so weary of toil and of tears,  Toil without recompense--tears all in vain,   Take them and give me my childhood again.    I have grown weary of dust and decay,     Weary of sowing for others to reap;      Rock me to sleep, mother, rock me to sleep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Certainly the notion of putting music video on phones will increase over time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39337]]></link><description><![CDATA[Certainly the notion of putting music video on phones will increase over time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Handmaiden of the Sciences. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26525]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Handmaiden of the Sciences.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vain? Let it be so! Nature was her teacher, What if a lovely and unsistered creature  Loved her own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vain? Let it be so! Nature was her teacher, What if a lovely and unsistered creature  Loved her own harmless gift of pleasing feature.   - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pessimists are usually kind. The gay, bubbling over, have to time for the pitiful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pessimists are usually kind. The gay, bubbling over, have to time for the pitiful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In that second game, we went in too overconfident. They went on a run and beat us by four points. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41982]]></link><description><![CDATA[In that second game, we went in too overconfident. They went on a run and beat us by four points.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people do not receive nearly enough appreciation. How can this be when appreciation is free, easy, and readily available? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45496]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people do not receive nearly enough appreciation. How can this be when appreciation is free, easy, and readily available? All you have to do is speak. Go give some away now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[One of Ms. Miller's lawyers, Floyd Abrams, wrote a letter to Mr. Libby's lawyer on Thursday in what he said ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34946]]></link><description><![CDATA[[One of Ms. Miller's lawyers, Floyd Abrams, wrote a letter to Mr. Libby's lawyer on Thursday in what he said was an effort] to set the record straight. ... coerced and had been required as a condition for Mr. Libby's continued employment at the White House.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16493]]></link><description><![CDATA[The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental; it rejects the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46570]]></link><description><![CDATA[The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental; it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I, who have no sisters or brothers, look with some degree of innocent envy on those who may be said ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62862]]></link><description><![CDATA[I, who have no sisters or brothers, look with some degree of innocent envy on those who may be said to be born to friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was very cool. We thought it was part of the show. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40505]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was very cool. We thought it was part of the show.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hungry stomach rarely despises rough food. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50176]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hungry stomach rarely despises rough food.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43901]]></link><description><![CDATA[By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46208]]></link><description><![CDATA[We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reality is just a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53043]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reality is just a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The carriers are realizing to get the last customers they need to offer more than just a mass approach. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41634]]></link><description><![CDATA[The carriers are realizing to get the last customers they need to offer more than just a mass approach. The companies offer everything, but it's not customized to really penetrate the rest of the market.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can change your faith without changing gods, and vice versa. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53543]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can change your faith without changing gods, and vice versa.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11785]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing gives an author so much pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62394]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing gives an author so much pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are searching for some kind of harmony between two intangibles: a form which we have not yet designed and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31813]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are searching for some kind of harmony between two intangibles: a form which we have not yet designed and a context which we cannot properly describe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always forgive your enemies--nothing annoys them so much. -Oscar Wilde. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16553]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always forgive your enemies--nothing annoys them so much. -Oscar Wilde.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.Job v.7. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2179]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.Job v.7.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are still waiting to set the prices for the dinner because we have had to move to a larger ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34562]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are still waiting to set the prices for the dinner because we have had to move to a larger room in the center. We have to move from a room seating 250 to one that holds 560 people because of the interest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing a poem is discovering ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46734]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing a poem is discovering]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't like the weather in New England, just wait a few minutes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61487]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't like the weather in New England, just wait a few minutes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there are no women there are no good manners ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60330]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there are no women there are no good manners]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The purpose of it is to be a community building event. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39271]]></link><description><![CDATA[The purpose of it is to be a community building event.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was the best thing that happened to me, a tournament like that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28912]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was the best thing that happened to me, a tournament like that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Popularity is glory's small change. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47715]]></link><description><![CDATA[Popularity is glory's small change.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hey, I just sent you an email... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23144]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hey, I just sent you an email...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go big or go home. Because it's true. What do you have to lose? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65024]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go big or go home. Because it's true. What do you have to lose?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Morris, Artist, Writer, 1896 Commemoration of George Kennedy Bell, Bishop of Chichester, Ecumenist, Peacemaker, 1958  The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7029]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Morris, Artist, Writer, 1896 Commemoration of George Kennedy Bell, Bishop of Chichester, Ecumenist, Peacemaker, 1958  The only ultimate disaster that can befall us, I have come to realize, is to feel ourselves at home here on earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21720]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And verily, a woman need know but one man well, in order to understand all men; whereas a man may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60045]]></link><description><![CDATA[And verily, a woman need know but one man well, in order to understand all men; whereas a man may know all women and understand not one of them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rich gifts wax poor, when givers prove unkind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51261]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rich gifts wax poor, when givers prove unkind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51261</guid></item></channel></rss>