<?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[The world's history is constant, like the laws of nature, and simple, like the souls of men. The same conditions ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19410]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world's history is constant, like the laws of nature, and simple, like the souls of men. The same conditions continually produce the same results.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23522]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No indulgence of passion destroys the spiritual nature so much as respectable selfishness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8204]]></link><description><![CDATA[No indulgence of passion destroys the spiritual nature so much as respectable selfishness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2241]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, and all our specious comforts --the automatic elevator, the escalator, the cafeteria --are depriving us of volition and moral and physical energy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why is the hearse with scutcheons blazon'd round, And with the nodding plume of ostrich crown'd?  No; the dead ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60069]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why is the hearse with scutcheons blazon'd round, And with the nodding plume of ostrich crown'd?  No; the dead know it not, nor profit gain;   It only serves to prove the living vain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Aelred of Hexham, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167 Commemoration of Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearmouth, Scholar, 689 Continuing a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6324]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Aelred of Hexham, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167 Commemoration of Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearmouth, Scholar, 689 Continuing a short series on Romans 8: Romans 8:14,16. Ephesians 1:13,14. The Witnessing and Sealing Spirit Why should the children of a king   Go mourning all their days? Great Comforter, descend and bring   Some tokens of thy grace. Dost though not dwell in all thy saints,   And seal the heirs of heaven? When wilt thou banish my complaints,   And shew my sins forgiven? Assure my conscience of her part   In the Redeemer's blood; And bear thy witness with my heart,   That I am born of God. Thou are the earnest of his love,   The pledge of joys to come; And thy soft wings, celestial Dove,   Will safe convey me home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When our individual interests and prospects do not seem worth living for, we are in desperate need for something apart ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56868]]></link><description><![CDATA[When our individual interests and prospects do not seem worth living for, we are in desperate need for something apart from us to live for. All forms of dedication, devotion, loyalty and self-surrender are in essence a desperate clinging to something which might give worth and meaning to our futile, spoiled lives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When music and courtesy are better understood and appreciated, there will be no war ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10438]]></link><description><![CDATA[When music and courtesy are better understood and appreciated, there will be no war]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62069]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them; While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain:  In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15012]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We knew it was going to be tough. Our game plan was to play defense, but I'm happy. We were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32717]]></link><description><![CDATA[We knew it was going to be tough. Our game plan was to play defense, but I'm happy. We were even on errors, but we just couldn't get the hits.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9524]]></link><description><![CDATA[About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By flying, men often rush into the midst of calamities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50561]]></link><description><![CDATA[By flying, men often rush into the midst of calamities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreams won't come looking for you. That's why you have to chase them. Pursue them until they become reality, then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63037]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreams won't come looking for you. That's why you have to chase them. Pursue them until they become reality, then hold on tightly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having more money does not insure happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15958]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having more money does not insure happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We confess to little faults only to persuade others that we have no great ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15427]]></link><description><![CDATA[We confess to little faults only to persuade others that we have no great ones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are 193 living species of monkeys and apes. 192 of them are covered with hair. The exception is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19974]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are 193 living species of monkeys and apes. 192 of them are covered with hair. The exception is a naked ape, self-named Homo Sapiens.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39488]]></link><description><![CDATA[Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can't love, learn how to flatter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16182]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can't love, learn how to flatter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20186]]></link><description><![CDATA[I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're clearly sending a message to employees that they will be rewarded for high performance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39800]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're clearly sending a message to employees that they will be rewarded for high performance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65696]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let but the hours of idleness cease, and the bow of Cupid will become broken and his torch extinguished. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50739]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let but the hours of idleness cease, and the bow of Cupid will become broken and his torch extinguished.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wars begin in the minds of man, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9182]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wars begin in the minds of man, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This nation has dehumanized its adversariescalling them Huns, wops, gooks, Japs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/750]]></link><description><![CDATA[This nation has dehumanized its adversariescalling them Huns, wops, gooks, Japs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is more revolting than the majority; for it consists of few vigorous predecessors, of knaves who accommodate themselves, of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26204]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is more revolting than the majority; for it consists of few vigorous predecessors, of knaves who accommodate themselves, of weak people who assimilate themselves, and the mass that toddles after them without knowing in the least what it wants]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Air doesn't conduct electricity as well. When it happens, it's called a lightning bolt and you don't need special receptors ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36996]]></link><description><![CDATA[Air doesn't conduct electricity as well. When it happens, it's called a lightning bolt and you don't need special receptors to sense it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some thoughtlessly proclaim the Muses nine: A tenth is Sappho, maid divine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some thoughtlessly proclaim the Muses nine: A tenth is Sappho, maid divine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I open up a big cabinet, and I have a collection of helmits. I put on the different helmets, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57197]]></link><description><![CDATA[I open up a big cabinet, and I have a collection of helmits. I put on the different helmets, and I take tree bottles of Robitussin and drink them really quickly. Then I set my hands on fire-I have to write whatever comes to mind pretty fast, before my hand burnsoff." "I just let whatever comes out, comes out without thinking about it to much. Some of it I keep, some I toss out, some of it I turn into giant cigarettes and somke 'em. I think everybodu should just turn off their TV machines and make up their own songs about whatever comes to mind-their couch, their friends their loaves of bread. Everybody's got their own songs. There should be so many songs out there that it all turns into one big sound and we can put the whole thing into a pickup truck and let it roll off the edge of the Grand Canyon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Swallow and the CrowThe Swallow and the Crow had a contention about their plumage. The Crow put an end ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1529]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Swallow and the CrowThe Swallow and the Crow had a contention about their plumage. The Crow put an end to the dispute by saying, Your feathers are all very well in the spring, but mine protect me against the winter. Fair weather friends are not worth much.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Augustus Muhlenberg of New York, Priest, 1877   If our hopes, whatever we protest, really lie ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Augustus Muhlenberg of New York, Priest, 1877   If our hopes, whatever we protest, really lie in this world instead of in the eternal order, we shall find it difficult to accept the New Testament teaching of the Second Coming. In our eyes, the job is not yet done; and such an action would be, though we would not put it so, an interference. But suppose our hope rests in the purpose of God: then we safely leave the timing of the earthly experiment to Him. Meanwhile, we do what we were told to do -- to be alert and to work and pray for the spread of His Kingdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47126]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've got four really good games left and then the playoffs. We're going to have to bring our 'A' game ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42101]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've got four really good games left and then the playoffs. We're going to have to bring our 'A' game the rest of the way out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65424]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consider what two petitions Christ couples together in His prayer: when my body, which every day is hungry, can live ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consider what two petitions Christ couples together in His prayer: when my body, which every day is hungry, can live without God's giving it daily bread, then and no sooner shall I believe that my soul, which daily sinneth, can spiritually live without God's forgiving it its trespasses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56230]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Still fisheth he that catcheth one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49770]]></link><description><![CDATA[Still fisheth he that catcheth one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suggestions or comments on this site? Send an email -Frank Zappa. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suggestions or comments on this site? Send an email -Frank Zappa.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ultimate is finding a place where you have no inhibitions, nothing to hide, where you can learn with one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37791]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ultimate is finding a place where you have no inhibitions, nothing to hide, where you can learn with one another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fearful face usually betrays great guilt. [Lat., Multa trepidus solet  Detegere vultus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18477]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fearful face usually betrays great guilt. [Lat., Multa trepidus solet  Detegere vultus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no reason to repeat bad history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53120]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no reason to repeat bad history.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52299]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better be a foole then a knave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49156]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better be a foole then a knave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are wholly complete and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1149]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are wholly complete and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this truth about you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're a very popular company locally. We have our critics, but everyone in the community has benefited from how well ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28404]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're a very popular company locally. We have our critics, but everyone in the community has benefited from how well we run these ski resorts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Francis Xavier, Apostle of the Indies, Missionary, 1552  There is a curious betrayal of the popular estimate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7271]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Francis Xavier, Apostle of the Indies, Missionary, 1552  There is a curious betrayal of the popular estimate of this world and the world to come, in the honour paid to those who cast away life in battle, or sap it slowly in the pursuit of wealth or honours, and the contempt expressed for those who compromise life on behalf of souls, for which Christ died. Whenever, by exertion in any unselfish cause, health is broken or fortune impaired, or influential friends estranged, the follower of Christ is called an enthusiast, a fanatic, or even more plainly a man of unsound mind. He may be comforted by remembering that Jesus was said to be beside Himself when teaching and healing left Him not leisure even to eat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now there's a real sense of confidence within the entire program. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40773]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now there's a real sense of confidence within the entire program.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631 Death, be not proud, though some have called thee  Mighty and dreadful, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631 Death, be not proud, though some have called thee  Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so;  For those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow  Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me. From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be,  Much pleasure, then from thee much more, must flow,  And soonest our best men with thee do go,  Rest of their bones, and soul's delivery. Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men, And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell,  And poppy, or charms, can make us sleep as well,  And better than thy stroke. Why swell'st thou then? One short sleep past, we wake eternally,  And Death shall be no more: Death, thou shalt die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have just got a new theory of eternity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14200]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have just got a new theory of eternity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14200</guid></item></channel></rss>