<?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[Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60798]]></link><description><![CDATA[Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Roger Normand:Bomb now. Die later. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45952]]></link><description><![CDATA[Roger Normand:Bomb now. Die later.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Simon & Jude, Apostles  Remember, a small light will do a great deal when it is in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Simon & Jude, Apostles  Remember, a small light will do a great deal when it is in a very dark place. Put one little tallow candle in the middle of a large hall, and it will give a good deal of light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Out in the lonely woods the jasmine burns Its fragrant lamps, and turns  Into a royal court with green ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23126]]></link><description><![CDATA[Out in the lonely woods the jasmine burns Its fragrant lamps, and turns  Into a royal court with green festoons   The banks of dark lagoons.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Somebody will always break your records. It is how you live that counts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57503]]></link><description><![CDATA[Somebody will always break your records. It is how you live that counts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Food is an important part of a balanced diet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3678]]></link><description><![CDATA[Food is an important part of a balanced diet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't think it was a mistake to open early for Katrina victims, and if we have to close for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41494]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't think it was a mistake to open early for Katrina victims, and if we have to close for a month to regroup, I'll be glad to do it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The big round tears Coursed one another down his innocent nose In piteous chase. -As You Like It. Act ii. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55635]]></link><description><![CDATA[The big round tears Coursed one another down his innocent nose In piteous chase. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises again. [Proverbs 24:16]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10426]]></link><description><![CDATA[For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises again. [Proverbs 24:16].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friends, Romans countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18990]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friends, Romans countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24084]]></link><description><![CDATA[We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man’s power of choice enables him to think like an angel or a devil, a king or a slave. Whatever ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22637]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man’s power of choice enables him to think like an angel or a devil, a king or a slave. Whatever he chooses, mind will create and manifest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32007]]></link><description><![CDATA[My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need of something better than local lore and weather proverbs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11074]]></link><description><![CDATA[The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I must go in, the fog is rising. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15241]]></link><description><![CDATA[I must go in, the fog is rising.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Debate is the death of conversation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3076]]></link><description><![CDATA[Debate is the death of conversation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, For wise men say it is the wisest course. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/703]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, For wise men say it is the wisest course.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The meaning of life is to find your gift, the purpose of life is to give it away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55057]]></link><description><![CDATA[The meaning of life is to find your gift, the purpose of life is to give it away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes the further ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes the further away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the still small voice that the soul heeds; not the deafening blasts of doom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60940]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the still small voice that the soul heeds; not the deafening blasts of doom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10030]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wish he would explain his explanation ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14747]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wish he would explain his explanation]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66776]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're the truest representatives right now of their genres. The experience between us is over 50 years. They're not the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41428]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're the truest representatives right now of their genres. The experience between us is over 50 years. They're not the hottest thing right now because they have a No. 1 single. What they embody is . . . music in the truest form.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59615]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we have a serious violation at four polling stations, that is not many voters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34836]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we have a serious violation at four polling stations, that is not many voters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A day like today is not a day for soundbites, really. But I feel the hand of history upon our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44636]]></link><description><![CDATA[A day like today is not a day for soundbites, really. But I feel the hand of history upon our shoulders. I really do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perish discretion when it interferes with duty ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perish discretion when it interferes with duty]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I dislike the frequent use of the word virtue, instead of righteousness, in the pulpit; in prayer or preaching before ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7716]]></link><description><![CDATA[I dislike the frequent use of the word virtue, instead of righteousness, in the pulpit; in prayer or preaching before a Christian community, it sounds too much like pagan philosophy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only index by which to judge a government or a way of life is by the quality of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47593]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only index by which to judge a government or a way of life is by the quality of the people it acts upon. No matter how noble the objectives of a government, if it blurs decency and kindness, cheapens human life, and breeds ill will and suspicion- it is an evil government.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Justin reminds me of Jim Brown in that he's real lazy getting out of the huddle and getting to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Justin reminds me of Jim Brown in that he's real lazy getting out of the huddle and getting to the line, then all of the sudden he's gone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37515]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The importance of controlling bacteria in the home is no different than in the professional setting. We believe consumers should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34415]]></link><description><![CDATA[The importance of controlling bacteria in the home is no different than in the professional setting. We believe consumers should be assured that the products they are using are the most effective available.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/694]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fragrance always remains in the hand that gives the rose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17500]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fragrance always remains in the hand that gives the rose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Basil the Great & Gregory Nazianzen, Bishops, Teachers, 379 & 389 Commemoration of Seraphim, Monk of Sarov, Mystic, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6524]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Basil the Great & Gregory Nazianzen, Bishops, Teachers, 379 & 389 Commemoration of Seraphim, Monk of Sarov, Mystic, Staretz, 1833  We must always be on our guard lest, under the pretext of keeping one commandment, we be found breaking another.  ... St. Basil the Great  January 3, 1998  Commemoration of Gladys Aylward, Missionary in China, 1970  For us in the Pacific, in Asia, in India, and in Africa, Christian unity is not an optional extra. It is an urgent necessity, for our divisions are a real stumbling-block to the proclamation of the Gospel... Mission is at the heart of the divine reality. It is the will of God and the Kingdom of God which are to be made known. Wherever we are, our purpose is not to propagate the Church as an end in itself, but to proclaim Christ as Lord of all life and as Saviour of all men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The critical thing is that no two situations are alike. Depending on where you are in Africa, the Middle East ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29342]]></link><description><![CDATA[The critical thing is that no two situations are alike. Depending on where you are in Africa, the Middle East or Asia, laws and medical care are very different. We strive to make sure that travelers have the same information we as diplomats have. Americans and Western interests are targets, and Americans should be aware of that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16718]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks. Rage, blow, You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout  Till you have drenched our steeples, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks. Rage, blow, You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout  Till you have drenched our steeples, downed the cocks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words without actions are the assassins of idealism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62025]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How freaky is that? If this isn't an omen, I don't know what is. It did remind me 10 years ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28407]]></link><description><![CDATA[How freaky is that? If this isn't an omen, I don't know what is. It did remind me 10 years is a long time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wherever I look, I see signs of the commandment to honor one's parents and nowhere of a commandment that calls ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wherever I look, I see signs of the commandment to honor one's parents and nowhere of a commandment that calls for the respect of a child.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's nothing that a tight forward likes more than a loosie right up his backside ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57661]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's nothing that a tight forward likes more than a loosie right up his backside]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My toast would be, may our country always be successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2391]]></link><description><![CDATA[My toast would be, may our country always be successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Christ reveals Himself there is satisfaction in the slenderest portion, and without Christ there is emptiness in the greatest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6824]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Christ reveals Himself there is satisfaction in the slenderest portion, and without Christ there is emptiness in the greatest fulness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth. [Luke 12:15] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/229]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth. [Luke 12:15]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Certain signs are the forerunners of certain events. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Certain signs are the forerunners of certain events.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Ken, Bishop of Bath & Wells, Hymnographer, 1711   [My father's] common salutation of his family ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6803]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Ken, Bishop of Bath & Wells, Hymnographer, 1711   [My father's] common salutation of his family or friends, on the Lord's day in the morning, was that of the primitive Christians: "The Lord is risen, He is risen indeed"; making it his chief business on that day to celebrate the memory of Christ's resurrection.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6803</guid></item></channel></rss>