<?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 really don't have enemies. It's just that some of our best friends are trying to kill us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28104]]></link><description><![CDATA[We really don't have enemies. It's just that some of our best friends are trying to kill us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A goodly apple rotten at the heart: O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath! -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55563]]></link><description><![CDATA[A goodly apple rotten at the heart: O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath! -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The basic difference between being assertive and being aggressive is how our words and behavior affect the rights and well ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1065]]></link><description><![CDATA[The basic difference between being assertive and being aggressive is how our words and behavior affect the rights and well being of others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a slow but perceptible fraying of our employment-based system, ... what I call the drip, drip, drip (of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34060]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a slow but perceptible fraying of our employment-based system, ... what I call the drip, drip, drip (of health coverage).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted topleasure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21934]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted topleasure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[United we stand, divided we fall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50692]]></link><description><![CDATA[United we stand, divided we fall.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I had obeyed God, as I have obeyed him, He would not have punished me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62636]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I had obeyed God, as I have obeyed him, He would not have punished me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21332]]></link><description><![CDATA[Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never set limits, go after your dreams, don't be afraid to push the boundaries. And laugh a lot - it's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64347]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never set limits, go after your dreams, don't be afraid to push the boundaries. And laugh a lot - it's good for you!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am far frae my hame, an' i'm weary aften whiles, For the longed-for hame-bringing an' my Father's welcome smiles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19619]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am far frae my hame, an' i'm weary aften whiles, For the longed-for hame-bringing an' my Father's welcome smiles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was impressive seeing how this NGO operated, ... It really operates like an excellent family organization. They protect each ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40836]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was impressive seeing how this NGO operated, ... It really operates like an excellent family organization. They protect each other, and they also have a role in protecting others. They're cheerful, earnest, competent and poor, and they also know how to blend pleasure and hard work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heaven help the American-born boy with a talent for ballet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17208]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heaven help the American-born boy with a talent for ballet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loud laughter is the mirth of the mob, who are only pleased with silly things; for true wit or good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24170]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loud laughter is the mirth of the mob, who are only pleased with silly things; for true wit or good sense never excited a laugh since the creation of the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would . . . earnestly advise them for their good to order this paper to be punctually served up, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23321]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would . . . earnestly advise them for their good to order this paper to be punctually served up, and to be looked upon as a part of the tea equipage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mary Slessor, Missionary in West Africa, 1915  I compare the troubles which we have to undergo in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mary Slessor, Missionary in West Africa, 1915  I compare the troubles which we have to undergo in the course of the year to a great bundle of fagots, far too large for us to lift. But God does not require us to carry the whole at once. He mercifully unties the bundle, and gives us first one stick, which we are to carry today, and then another, which we are to carry tomorrow, and so on. This we might easily manage, if we would only take the burden appointed for each day; but we choose to increase our troubles by carrying yesterday's stick over again today, and adding tomorrow's burden to the load, before we are required to bear it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much converse do I find in thee, Historian of my infancy!  Float near me; do not yet depart!  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much converse do I find in thee, Historian of my infancy!  Float near me; do not yet depart!   Dead times revive in thee:    Thou bring'st, gay creature as thou art!     A solemn image to my heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48594]]></link><description><![CDATA[Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64436]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It doesn't matter how long we may have been stuck in a sense of our limitations. If we go into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18714]]></link><description><![CDATA[It doesn't matter how long we may have been stuck in a sense of our limitations. If we go into a darkened room and turn on the light, it doesn't matter if the room ahs been dark for a day, a week, or ten thousand years - we turn on the light and it is illuminated. Once we control our capacity for love and happiness, the light has been turned on. . -Sharon Salzberg.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Barrie tells us how, in the little house at Thrums, they used to tiptoe to and fro when his mother ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7573]]></link><description><![CDATA[Barrie tells us how, in the little house at Thrums, they used to tiptoe to and fro when his mother was upon her knees, awed by the knowledge that she was praying for them. And here and there in the New Testament, we blunder in on Christ and find Him on His knees; and, once at least, ere we can escape, cannot but overhear Him pleading our names. "Neither pray I for these alone," that is, for Peter and John and the rest, "but for those who will believe through them"-- that is, for you and me. Hush! the Lord Christ is praying for you! And what is it He asks for us? That we be given such a spirit of unity and brotherliness and Christlikeness that people, coming upon us, will look at us, and look again, and then from us to Jesus Christ, seeking the explanation of us there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the only thing to do with a sin is to confess, do penance and then, after some kind of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65093]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the only thing to do with a sin is to confess, do penance and then, after some kind of decent interval, ask for forgiveness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26358]]></link><description><![CDATA[Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44223]]></link><description><![CDATA[A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is clearly Ocean. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43802]]></link><description><![CDATA[How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is clearly Ocean.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn to lead in a nourishing manner. Learn to lead without being possessive. Learn to be helpful without taking the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn to lead in a nourishing manner. Learn to lead without being possessive. Learn to be helpful without taking the credit. Learn to lead without coercion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is how it happens. We get the Dream, but we don't get to dictateevery step toward the dream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21452]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is how it happens. We get the Dream, but we don't get to dictateevery step toward the dream.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Americans of all faiths should be concerned whenever a house of worship is threatened. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36647]]></link><description><![CDATA[Americans of all faiths should be concerned whenever a house of worship is threatened.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between heresy and prophecy is often one of sequence. Heresy often turns out to have been prophecy -- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19211]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between heresy and prophecy is often one of sequence. Heresy often turns out to have been prophecy -- when properly aged.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If everybody in town donates one threat, the poor man has a shirt ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47678]]></link><description><![CDATA[If everybody in town donates one threat, the poor man has a shirt]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not a revolt, it is a revolution. [Fr., Ce n'est pas une revolte, c'est une revolution.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54136]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not a revolt, it is a revolution. [Fr., Ce n'est pas une revolte, c'est une revolution.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53672]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is our pride and joy, right here. There's Butter Crunch (lettuce) on the right, spinach in the middle and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38146]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is our pride and joy, right here. There's Butter Crunch (lettuce) on the right, spinach in the middle and the remains of the Black-Seeded Simpson (leaf lettuce) on the left.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't believe a 14:37 won $1,000, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41800]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't believe a 14:37 won $1,000,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You won't find anyone more composed closer to goal. He finds little holes the goalies give him, he knows which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31658]]></link><description><![CDATA[You won't find anyone more composed closer to goal. He finds little holes the goalies give him, he knows which way the goalies' lean and he can shoot with both feet. Off the ball he makes great runs. For me, around the goal he's one of the best finishers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13236]]></link><description><![CDATA[If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be a bunch ofbastards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be a bunch ofbastards.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a balance in my life, there's reality and there's the part that looks really glamorous, but we're all just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3665]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a balance in my life, there's reality and there's the part that looks really glamorous, but we're all just people in the end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52095]]></link><description><![CDATA[Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26916]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12292]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They all have wonderful personalities and a wonderful work ethic. Their parents are hard-working people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38028]]></link><description><![CDATA[They all have wonderful personalities and a wonderful work ethic. Their parents are hard-working people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66006]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Bartholomew the Apostle   We may suffer the sins of our brother; we do not need to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8603]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Bartholomew the Apostle   We may suffer the sins of our brother; we do not need to judge. This is a mercy for the Christian; for when does sin ever occur in the community that he must not examine and blame himself for his own unfaithfulness in prayer and intercession, his lack of brotherly service, of fraternal reproof and encouragement -- indeed, for his own personal sin and spiritual laxity, by which he has done injury to himself, the fellowship, and the brethren? Since every sin of a member burdens and indicts the whole community, the congregation rejoices, in the midst of all the pain and the burden that the brother's sin inflicts, that it has the privilege of bearing and forgiving.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, Martyr, 1980 Commemoration of Paul Couturier, Priest, Ecumenist, 1953  Clear shining ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7388]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, Martyr, 1980 Commemoration of Paul Couturier, Priest, Ecumenist, 1953  Clear shining from God must be at the bottom of deep labouring with God. What is the reason that so many in our days set their hands to the plough, and looked back again? -- begin to serve Providence in great things, but cannot finish? -- give over in the heat of the day? They never had any such revelation of the mind of God upon their spirits, such a discovery of His excellence, as might serve for a bottom of such undertakings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When mighty roast beef was the Englishman's food It ennobled our hearts and enriched our blood--  Our soldiers were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13191]]></link><description><![CDATA[When mighty roast beef was the Englishman's food It ennobled our hearts and enriched our blood--  Our soldiers were brave and our courtiers were good.   Oh! the roast beef of England.    And Old England's roast beef.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we propose to ignore in a great man's teaching those doctrines which it has in common with the thought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8518]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we propose to ignore in a great man's teaching those doctrines which it has in common with the thought of his age, we seem to be assuming that the thought of his age was erroneous. When we select for serious consideration those doctrines which "transcend" the thought of his own age and are "for all time", we are assuming that the thought of our age is correct: for of course by thoughts which transcend the great man's age we really mean thoughts that agree with ours. Thus I value Shakespeare's picture of the transformation in old Lear more than I value his views about the divine right of kings, because I agree with Shakespeare that a man can be purified by suffering like Lear, but do not believe that kings (or any other rulers) have divine right in the sense required. When the great man's views do not seem to us erroneous we do not value them the less for having been shared with his contemporaries. Shakespeare's disdain for treachery and Christ's blessing on the poor were not alien to the outlook of their respective periods; but no one wishes to discredit them on that account.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunities are everywhere. The recession might be drawing to a close, but its continuing legacy is employers' reliance on short-term ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22524]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunities are everywhere. The recession might be drawing to a close, but its continuing legacy is employers' reliance on short-term staff. There may be fewer jobs for life, but there are more jobs in a lifetime.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that everyone would feel that a renegotiation that allows for a percentage of revenue would be the optimal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28801]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that everyone would feel that a renegotiation that allows for a percentage of revenue would be the optimal outcome.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The highest form of vanity is love of fame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15126]]></link><description><![CDATA[The highest form of vanity is love of fame.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't ask the barber whether you need a haircut. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56844]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't ask the barber whether you need a haircut.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56844</guid></item></channel></rss>