<?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[Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1670]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49540]]></link><description><![CDATA[In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, grief hath changed me since you saw me last, And careful hours, with Time's deformed hand,  Have written ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18348]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, grief hath changed me since you saw me last, And careful hours, with Time's deformed hand,  Have written strange defeatures in my face.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17109]]></link><description><![CDATA[That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Malice drinks one half of its own poison. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26225]]></link><description><![CDATA[Malice drinks one half of its own poison.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One must be poor to know the luxury of giving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5746]]></link><description><![CDATA[One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time is a circus--always packing up and moving away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17225]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time is a circus--always packing up and moving away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17225</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[Who backs his rigid Sabbath, so to speak, Against the wicked remnant of the week." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50171]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who backs his rigid Sabbath, so to speak, Against the wicked remnant of the week."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blame is for God and small children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4296]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blame is for God and small children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'll take donations of any amount. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35646]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'll take donations of any amount.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60681]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thoughts are the shadows of our sensations -- always darker, emptier, simpler than these. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59246]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thoughts are the shadows of our sensations -- always darker, emptier, simpler than these.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Resolved: never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Resolved: never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Lame goes as farre as your staggerer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49882]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Lame goes as farre as your staggerer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Motivation is like food for the brain. You cannot get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular top ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Motivation is like food for the brain. You cannot get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular top up s.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What doth it profit thee to enter into deep discussions concerning the Holy Trinity, if thou lack humility, and be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7996]]></link><description><![CDATA[What doth it profit thee to enter into deep discussions concerning the Holy Trinity, if thou lack humility, and be thus displeasing to the Trinity? For verily it is not deep words that make a man holy and upright; it is a good life which maketh a man dear to God. I had rather feel contrition than be skillful in the definition thereof. If thou knewest the whole Bible, and the sayings of all the philosophers, what should this profit thee without the love and grace of God?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the 1000 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the 1000 small uncaring ways.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those two stood up and said they didn't want to do that again, and the rest of the kids are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those two stood up and said they didn't want to do that again, and the rest of the kids are saying they train with them, why can't they go to state, too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43197]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes people play hard to get to know that the other person's feelings are real ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59911]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes people play hard to get to know that the other person's feelings are real]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was a big long-legged black animal. As he got bigger that ankle blended in to his size and it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40661]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was a big long-legged black animal. As he got bigger that ankle blended in to his size and it wasn't all that noticeable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ancient lovers believed a kiss would literally unite their souls, because the spirit was said to be carried in one's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ancient lovers believed a kiss would literally unite their souls, because the spirit was said to be carried in one's breath.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64529]]></link><description><![CDATA[My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When ambition ends, happiness begins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2365]]></link><description><![CDATA[When ambition ends, happiness begins.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beginning a short series on prayer:  Wherever... thou shalt be, pray secretly within thyself. If thou shalt be far ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7704]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beginning a short series on prayer:  Wherever... thou shalt be, pray secretly within thyself. If thou shalt be far from a house of prayer, give not thyself trouble to seek for one, for thou thyself art a sanctuary designed for prayer. If thou shalt be in bed, or in any other place, pray there; thy temple is there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martin Luther, Teacher, Reformer, 1546  Here is the truly Christian life, here is faith really working by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8285]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martin Luther, Teacher, Reformer, 1546  Here is the truly Christian life, here is faith really working by love: when a man applies himself with joy and love to the works of that freest servitude, in which he serves others voluntarily and for naught; himself abundantly satisfied in the fulness and richness of his own faith.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[show me someone not full of herself and i'll show you a hungry person ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20022]]></link><description><![CDATA[show me someone not full of herself and i'll show you a hungry person]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each age has deemed the new-born year The fittest time for festal cheer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51087]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each age has deemed the new-born year The fittest time for festal cheer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A base of support within your own community is expected. It's a lot easier to talk to people if your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38642]]></link><description><![CDATA[A base of support within your own community is expected. It's a lot easier to talk to people if your own local investors have shown confidence in you. It provides credibility as well as some reciprocity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9858]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberals seem to assume that, if you don't believe in their particular political solutions, then you don't really care about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberals seem to assume that, if you don't believe in their particular political solutions, then you don't really care about the people that they claim to want to help]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop of Winchester, Spiritual Writer, 1626 Commemoration of Sergius of Radonezh, Russian Monastic Reformer, Teacher, 1392 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7299]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop of Winchester, Spiritual Writer, 1626 Commemoration of Sergius of Radonezh, Russian Monastic Reformer, Teacher, 1392   The manifestation of God in the flesh, the Evangelists set down by way of a history; the Apostle goes farther, and finds a deep mystery in it, and for a mystery commends it to us. Now there is difference between these two--many, this for one: that a man may hear a story and never wash his hands; but a mystery requires both the hands and the heart to be clean that shall deal with it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2322]]></link><description><![CDATA[If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is geared completely to college students. The music is formulated for them. The lifestyle and news and all the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38216]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is geared completely to college students. The music is formulated for them. The lifestyle and news and all the segments around the music are geared toward what's important to a college student.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It may well be that the world is denied miracle after miracle and triumph after triumph because we will not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7489]]></link><description><![CDATA[It may well be that the world is denied miracle after miracle and triumph after triumph because we will not bring to Christ what we have and what we are. If, just as we are, we would lay ourselves on the altar of service of Jesus Christ, there is no saying what Christ could do with us and through us. We may be sorry and embarrassed that we have not more to bring -- and rightly so; but that is not reason for failing or refusing to bring what we have and what we are. Little is always much in the hands of Christ.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is what gets lost in translation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46762]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is what gets lost in translation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything is Greek, when it is more shameful to be ignorant of Latin. [Lat., Omnia Graece!  Cum sit turpe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25128]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything is Greek, when it is more shameful to be ignorant of Latin. [Lat., Omnia Graece!  Cum sit turpe magis nostris nescire Latine.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Promising is the eve of giving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49722]]></link><description><![CDATA[Promising is the eve of giving.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is the art of postponing decisions until they are no longer relevant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46905]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is the art of postponing decisions until they are no longer relevant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44155]]></link><description><![CDATA[People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When personal judgment is inoperative (or forbidden), men's first concern is not how to choose, but how to justify their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23487]]></link><description><![CDATA[When personal judgment is inoperative (or forbidden), men's first concern is not how to choose, but how to justify their choice]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O world, how apt the poor are to be proud. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48211]]></link><description><![CDATA[O world, how apt the poor are to be proud.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sycophantic behavior exists anywhere you go, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30038]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sycophantic behavior exists anywhere you go,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10159]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53525]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53525</guid></item></channel></rss>