<?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 Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61749]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything in the world may be endured, except only a succession of prosperous days. [Ger., Alles in der Welt lasst ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything in the world may be endured, except only a succession of prosperous days. [Ger., Alles in der Welt lasst sich ertragen,  Nur nicht eine Reihe von schonen Tagen.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kill a man's family, and he may brook it, But keep your hands out of his breeches' pocket. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59130]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kill a man's family, and he may brook it, But keep your hands out of his breeches' pocket.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every time the words "contrition" or "humility" drop from the lips of a prophet or psalmist, Christianity appears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7221]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every time the words "contrition" or "humility" drop from the lips of a prophet or psalmist, Christianity appears.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61442]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Incens'd with indignation Satan stood Unterrified, and like a comet burn'd,  That fires the length of Ophiucus huge  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12159]]></link><description><![CDATA[Incens'd with indignation Satan stood Unterrified, and like a comet burn'd,  That fires the length of Ophiucus huge   In th' artic sky, and from his horrid hair    Shakes pestilence and war.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak;  . . . .   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56596]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak;  . . . .   They are slaves who dare not be    In the right with two or three.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boundless intemperance In nature is a tyranny. It hath been  Th' untimely emptying of the happy throne   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boundless intemperance In nature is a tyranny. It hath been  Th' untimely emptying of the happy throne   And fall of many kings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heresie is the school of pride. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49492]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heresie is the school of pride.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45818]]></link><description><![CDATA[You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/395]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't use a lot where a little will do ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12730]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't use a lot where a little will do]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Falseness often lurks beneath fair hair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Falseness often lurks beneath fair hair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's going to be kind of tight. I scouted (Madison), and they're still athletic like they normally are. But they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40793]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's going to be kind of tight. I scouted (Madison), and they're still athletic like they normally are. But they don't have a strong inside game, and that could be a plus for us. Hopefully we're going to rely on that and hopefully some good defense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to love humanity than to love your neighbor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52341]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to love humanity than to love your neighbor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis more brave To live, than to die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4860]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis more brave To live, than to die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idleness is the only refuge of weak minds, and the holiday of fools ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20326]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idleness is the only refuge of weak minds, and the holiday of fools]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[sense of autonomy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38389]]></link><description><![CDATA[sense of autonomy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/270]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would be a great buying opportunity if the tower stocks got significantly hurt by news of a wireless merger, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39046]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would be a great buying opportunity if the tower stocks got significantly hurt by news of a wireless merger,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, "I can't.". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1179]]></link><description><![CDATA[When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, "I can't.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When holy and devout religious men Are at their beads, 'tis much to draw them thence,  So sweet is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9925]]></link><description><![CDATA[When holy and devout religious men Are at their beads, 'tis much to draw them thence,  So sweet is zealous contemplation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never fear shadows. They simply mean there's a light shining somewherenearby. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never fear shadows. They simply mean there's a light shining somewherenearby.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How shall I speak thee, or thy power address Thou God of our idolatry, the Press.  . . . ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23338]]></link><description><![CDATA[How shall I speak thee, or thy power address Thou God of our idolatry, the Press.  . . . .   Like Eden's dead probationary tree,    Knowledge of good and evil is from thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10062]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Birinus, Bishop of Dorchester (Oxon), Apostle of Wessex, 650   I belong to the "Great-God Party", and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Birinus, Bishop of Dorchester (Oxon), Apostle of Wessex, 650   I belong to the "Great-God Party", and will have nothing to do with the "Little-God Party." Christ does not want nibblers of the possible, but grabbers of the impossible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The perfection of an art consists in the employment of a comprehensive system of laws, commensurate to every purpose within ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3183]]></link><description><![CDATA[The perfection of an art consists in the employment of a comprehensive system of laws, commensurate to every purpose within its scope, but concealed from the eye of the spectator; and in the production of effects that seem to flow forth spontaneously, as though uncontrolled by their influence, and which are equally excellent, whether regarded individually, or in reference to the proposed result.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Had Cain been Scot, God would have changed his doom Nor forced him wander, but confine him home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54891]]></link><description><![CDATA[Had Cain been Scot, God would have changed his doom Nor forced him wander, but confine him home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none. [Lat., Fortuna multis dat nimis, satis nulli.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50640]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none. [Lat., Fortuna multis dat nimis, satis nulli.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without a goal, you cannot survive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32323]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without a goal, you cannot survive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am born for God only. Christ is nearer to me than father, or mother, or sister -- a near ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6855]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am born for God only. Christ is nearer to me than father, or mother, or sister -- a near relation, a more affectionate Friend; and I rejoice to follow Him, and to love Him. Blessed Jesus! Thou art all I want -- a forerunner to me in all I ever shall go through as a Christian, a minister, or a missionary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9040]]></link><description><![CDATA[To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success, the mark no mortal wit, Or surest hand, can always hit:  For whatsoe'er we perpetrate,   We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15382]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success, the mark no mortal wit, Or surest hand, can always hit:  For whatsoe'er we perpetrate,   We do but row, we're steer'd by Fate,    Which in success oft disinherits,     For spurious causes, noblest merits.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the opinion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26660]]></link><description><![CDATA[Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first thing a genius needs is to breath free air. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47215]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first thing a genius needs is to breath free air.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once you get out of that rhythm and you're trying to get back into that rhythm sometimes you try to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34638]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once you get out of that rhythm and you're trying to get back into that rhythm sometimes you try to do too much. You want to stay on the field, so you try to make plays happen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each and every one of us has one obligation, during the bewildered days of our pilgrimage here: the saving of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each and every one of us has one obligation, during the bewildered days of our pilgrimage here: the saving of his own soul, and secondarily and incidentally thereby affecting for good such other souls as come under our influence]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've gotta be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3249]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've gotta be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who does not punish evil commands it to be done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14284]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who does not punish evil commands it to be done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even in areas where tap water is safe to drink, demand for bottled water is increasing--producing unnecessary garbage and consuming ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even in areas where tap water is safe to drink, demand for bottled water is increasing--producing unnecessary garbage and consuming vast quantities of energy. Although in the industrial world bottled water is often no healthier than tap water, it can cost up to 10,000 times more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's so much more need for experienced managers, it's become clear to us that we can't accept the kind of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37767]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's so much more need for experienced managers, it's become clear to us that we can't accept the kind of turnover we used to have.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sound Bible exposition is an imperative must in the Church of the Living God. Without it no church can be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7182]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sound Bible exposition is an imperative must in the Church of the Living God. Without it no church can be a New Testament church in any strict meaning of that term. But exposition may be carried on in such a way as to leave the hearers devoid of any true spiritual nourishment whatever. For it is not mere words that nourish the soul, but God Himself, and unless and until the hearers find God in personal experience they are not the better for having heard the truth. The Bible is not an end in itself, but a means to bring men to an intimate and satisfying knowledge of God, that they may enter into Him, that they may delight in His presence, may taste and know the inner sweetness of the very God Himself in the core and center of their hearts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I went to the root of things, and found nothing but Him alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53581]]></link><description><![CDATA[I went to the root of things, and found nothing but Him alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your goal should be out of reach but not out of sight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your goal should be out of reach but not out of sight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing in the world is more dangerous than a sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11051]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing in the world is more dangerous than a sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You do whatever you can either to maintain an edge or to get an edge and for men now, it's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42564]]></link><description><![CDATA[You do whatever you can either to maintain an edge or to get an edge and for men now, it's not like you can just rest on your laurels.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Expos have always been a perfect fit for him. In Montreal he can walk down a street or take ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41376]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Expos have always been a perfect fit for him. In Montreal he can walk down a street or take a subway and no one will bother him, and he likes that. But who knows about next year? Everyone is too focused on what's going on with the rest of this season to think about what's going to happen after it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Make a remark,' said the Red Queen; 'it's ridiculous to leave all the conversation to the pudding!' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58378]]></link><description><![CDATA['Make a remark,' said the Red Queen; 'it's ridiculous to leave all the conversation to the pudding!']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing, though the overtaking and possessing of a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing, though the overtaking and possessing of a wish discovers the folly of the chase.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The structure of life I have described in buildings - the structure which I believe to be objective - is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31817]]></link><description><![CDATA[The structure of life I have described in buildings - the structure which I believe to be objective - is deeply and inextricably connected with the human person, and with the innermost nature of human feeling.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31817</guid></item></channel></rss>