<?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[Born out of concern for all beings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Born out of concern for all beings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Chinese say that we Europeans have one eye, they themselves two, all the world else is blinde. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14827]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Chinese say that we Europeans have one eye, they themselves two, all the world else is blinde.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11792]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3000]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The house is a fine house, when good folks are within. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49875]]></link><description><![CDATA[The house is a fine house, when good folks are within.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In baseball, my theory is to strive for consistency, not to worry about the numbers. If you dwell on statistics ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3746]]></link><description><![CDATA[In baseball, my theory is to strive for consistency, not to worry about the numbers. If you dwell on statistics you get shortsighted, if you aim for consistency, the numbers will be there at the end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life would be tolerable but for its amusements. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2463]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we talk about values, I think of rationality in solving problems. That’s something I value. Fairness, kindness, generosity, tolerance. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23744]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we talk about values, I think of rationality in solving problems. That’s something I value. Fairness, kindness, generosity, tolerance. When they talk about values, they’re talking about things like going to church, voting for Bush, being loyal to Jesus, praying. These are not values.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The AethiopThe purchaser of a black servant was persuaded that the color of his skin arose from dirt contracted through ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1594]]></link><description><![CDATA[The AethiopThe purchaser of a black servant was persuaded that the color of his skin arose from dirt contracted through the neglect of his former masters. On bringing him home he resorted to every means of cleaning, and subjected the man to incessant scrubbings. The servant caught a severe cold, but he never changed his color or complexion. What's bred in the bone will stick to the flesh.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late.  [Lat., Prisca ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45681]]></link><description><![CDATA[The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late.  [Lat., Prisca juvent alios; ego me nunc denique natum Gratulor.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the oak is before the ash, then you will only get a splash; when the ash is before the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51047]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the oak is before the ash, then you will only get a splash; when the ash is before the oak, then you may expect a soak.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here is the Truth in a little creed,  Enough for all the roads we go: In Love is all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8365]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here is the Truth in a little creed,  Enough for all the roads we go: In Love is all the law we need,  In Christ is all the God we know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God oft hath a great share in a little house. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49273]]></link><description><![CDATA[God oft hath a great share in a little house.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nor waste their sweetness in the desert air. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nor waste their sweetness in the desert air.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Francis Xavier, Apostle of the Indies, Missionary, 1552   Every wise workman takes his tools away from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6307]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Francis Xavier, Apostle of the Indies, Missionary, 1552   Every wise workman takes his tools away from the work from time to time that they may be ground and sharpened; so does the only-wise Jehovah take his ministers oftentimes away into darkness and loneliness and trouble, that he may sharpen and prepare them for harder work in his service.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more virtuous a man himself is, the less does he suspect baseness in others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48880]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more virtuous a man himself is, the less does he suspect baseness in others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not turn back when you are just at the goal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not turn back when you are just at the goal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle; we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9513]]></link><description><![CDATA[From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle; we just decided to go.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not taking any interest in politics. I'm not involved in politics in any way. My life is in writing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37718]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not taking any interest in politics. I'm not involved in politics in any way. My life is in writing now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Old Woman and the Wine-JarAn old woman found an empty jar which had lately been full of prime old ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1597]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Old Woman and the Wine-JarAn old woman found an empty jar which had lately been full of prime old wine and which still retained the fragrant smell of its former contents. She greedily placed it several times to her nose, and drawing it backwards and forwards said, O most delicious! How nice must the Wine itself have been, when it leaves behind in the very vessel which contained it so sweet a perfume! The memory of a good deed lives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where more is meant than meets the ear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18988]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where more is meant than meets the ear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have no use for men who fail. The cause of their failure is no business of mine, but I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14937]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have no use for men who fail. The cause of their failure is no business of mine, but I want successful men as my associates.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and billboards. -Unknown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45123]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and billboards. -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the stored vengeances of heaven fall On her ingrateful top! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20901]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the stored vengeances of heaven fall On her ingrateful top!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O visions ill foreseen! Better had I Liv'd ignorant of future, so had borne  My part of evil only. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60882]]></link><description><![CDATA[O visions ill foreseen! Better had I Liv'd ignorant of future, so had borne  My part of evil only.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pittifull mother makes a scald head. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49068]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pittifull mother makes a scald head.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person who can't pay, gets another person who can't pay, to guarantee that he can pay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10611]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person who can't pay, gets another person who can't pay, to guarantee that he can pay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4522]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's very quick and strong, a powerful defender who is also extremely comfortable on the ball. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35070]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's very quick and strong, a powerful defender who is also extremely comfortable on the ball.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Temptations hurt not, though they have accesse; Satan o'ercomes none but by willingnesse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58900]]></link><description><![CDATA[Temptations hurt not, though they have accesse; Satan o'ercomes none but by willingnesse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't care if the Bible says it. It's wrong. It's wrong to divide people on the basis of sexual ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54260]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't care if the Bible says it. It's wrong. It's wrong to divide people on the basis of sexual preference, of sexual orientation. It's wrong to say that women are unequal, if the Bible says so. It's wrong to say that Blacks are unequal even if the Hammite myth supports it or suggests it. The Bible is often wrong. It is often right. Of course, it is often brilliantly right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This will force women out of the state and would cost more money and more time and a lot of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31444]]></link><description><![CDATA[This will force women out of the state and would cost more money and more time and a lot of women may not realize they have that option. It increases the trauma for those who have been sexually assaulted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious. Both are disappointed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious. Both are disappointed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brigid, Abbess of Kildare, c.525   Who belongs to the Church? Who is my true brother? We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brigid, Abbess of Kildare, c.525   Who belongs to the Church? Who is my true brother? We cannot always tell whether or not a man believes in Christ; but we can always ask -- Christianity is not a secret society. And if a man says he loves the Lord, why should I not treat him as my brother? If I should happen to welcome one who is only a professing Christian, who has not given his heart to Christ, what harm has it done? I will have offered the love of God to one who rejects it, and I will have given a few hours of my life to an enemy -- but our Father holds out His hands all day long to a rebellious people, and our Savior gave His life for me when I was His enemy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57758]]></link><description><![CDATA[These greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who believe in nothing are very, very jealous and angry at those who believe in something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who believe in nothing are very, very jealous and angry at those who believe in something.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14964]]></link><description><![CDATA[An outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearance, as though they were realities and are often more influenced ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20847]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearance, as though they were realities and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not chose to be wrong for the sake of being different. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44964]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not chose to be wrong for the sake of being different.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The town was given a pretty clear message that it needed a new site. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39679]]></link><description><![CDATA[The town was given a pretty clear message that it needed a new site.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the spring comes slowly up this way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57781]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the spring comes slowly up this way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever has fallen from his former high estate is in his calamity the scorn even of the base. [Lat., Quicumque ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42811]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever has fallen from his former high estate is in his calamity the scorn even of the base. [Lat., Quicumque amisit dignitatem pristinam  Ignavis etiam jocus est in casu gravi.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've read in many a novel, that unless they've souls that grovel-- Folks prefer in fact a hovel to your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19610]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've read in many a novel, that unless they've souls that grovel-- Folks prefer in fact a hovel to your dreary marble halls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52240]]></link><description><![CDATA[Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52240</guid></item></channel></rss>