<?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[It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18692]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we need to drain the water, we will do it at a point where demand for electricity is low. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32820]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we need to drain the water, we will do it at a point where demand for electricity is low.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59879]]></link><description><![CDATA[A truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that hath no ill fortune is troubled with good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49355]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that hath no ill fortune is troubled with good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is always a touch of sadness around the most beautiful things in life !. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1411]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is always a touch of sadness around the most beautiful things in life !.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be patient, my soul: thou hath suffered worse than this. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45719]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be patient, my soul: thou hath suffered worse than this.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not that it is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43134]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not that it is a pragmatic necessity for us to have it, but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, then is when we join the fashionable madmen, and then is when the thin whine of hysteria is heard in the land, and then is when we are in bad trouble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not to hurt our humble brethren in fur, feather or fin, is our first duty to them, but to stop ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9187]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not to hurt our humble brethren in fur, feather or fin, is our first duty to them, but to stop there is not enough. We have a higher mission: to be of service to them whenever they require it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasure usually takes the form of me and now; joy is us and always. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53381]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasure usually takes the form of me and now; joy is us and always.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He went to Man United and the fame and money seemed to affect him badly. He became cockier and arrogant ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40514]]></link><description><![CDATA[He went to Man United and the fame and money seemed to affect him badly. He became cockier and arrogant and we met less and less.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3159]]></link><description><![CDATA[I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mountains are in labour, the birth will be an absurd little mouse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50352]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mountains are in labour, the birth will be an absurd little mouse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Capacity constraints are clearly in the forefront and are what keeps the Fed going in the near term. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36346]]></link><description><![CDATA[Capacity constraints are clearly in the forefront and are what keeps the Fed going in the near term.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Simply the thing that I am shall make me live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Simply the thing that I am shall make me live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All gold and silver rather turn to dirt, An 'tis no better reckoned but of these  Who worship dirty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61423]]></link><description><![CDATA[All gold and silver rather turn to dirt, An 'tis no better reckoned but of these  Who worship dirty gods.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you have faith in yourself you don’t need others to believe in you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65596]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you have faith in yourself you don’t need others to believe in you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more you love what you are doing, the more successful it will be for you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22041]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more you love what you are doing, the more successful it will be for you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Bosco, Priest, Founder of the Salesian Teaching Order, 1888   The Abrahamic Covenant is not only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Bosco, Priest, Founder of the Salesian Teaching Order, 1888   The Abrahamic Covenant is not only totally different from the Mosaic Covenant, but there is no "throw-back" of any feature of the Mosaic period in Genesis. Abraham and Moses not only lived in two uniquely different worlds, but no Old Testament editor tried in any way to soften the glaring contrasts between the two spiritual giants. Abraham had no Tabernacle, with its minute ritual and special clergy. Abraham was given nothing like the detailed code of life demanded by the Sinai Covenant. Abraham was not even furnished with the basic Ten Commandments. And yet, when we turn to the New Testament, it is Abraham who holds the place of honor, and not Moses! Abraham is mentioned over seventy times in the New Testament, and half of these are in the Gospels.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Brookfield Academy) had trouble adjusting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37893]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Brookfield Academy) had trouble adjusting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1169]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have been completely blessed. Usually, there are different stages in a band. But every time we get to a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40112]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have been completely blessed. Usually, there are different stages in a band. But every time we get to a different level, like recording our album or playing with national bands, something just comes along and makes it all work out. It's totally unexpected.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62439]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Satiety is a mongrel that barks at the heels of plenty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Satiety is a mongrel that barks at the heels of plenty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2023]]></link><description><![CDATA[A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Others' follies teach us not, Nor much their wisdom teaches;  And most of sterling worth is what   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51710]]></link><description><![CDATA[Others' follies teach us not, Nor much their wisdom teaches;  And most of sterling worth is what   Our own experience preaches.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11436]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revenge is the abject pleasure of an abject mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60473]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revenge is the abject pleasure of an abject mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sony has the access to the consumer market, not Cisco, so why re-create the wheel when you can partner with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38689]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sony has the access to the consumer market, not Cisco, so why re-create the wheel when you can partner with consumer electronics makers to reach the consumer?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are inspirational words all over it. I thought it was going to be a little one-day project, and it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39284]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are inspirational words all over it. I thought it was going to be a little one-day project, and it became a solid five-day project. I put a lot of love into it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a solemn luxury in grief. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18338]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a solemn luxury in grief.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask not what your country can do for you: Ask what you can do for your country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ask not what your country can do for you: Ask what you can do for your country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[And now that he's graduated to hardcover and 11-city book tour status, he's found there's a real advantage to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37559]]></link><description><![CDATA[[And now that he's graduated to hardcover and 11-city book tour status, he's found there's a real advantage to the standalone novels that Dutton suggested he write.] You can explore broader themes in a standalone novel, ... You can put your character through much greater levels of hell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16723]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44620]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65091]]></link><description><![CDATA[My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59359]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62889]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have done this for two years now and it has always been very successful and professionally done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31941]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have done this for two years now and it has always been very successful and professionally done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love's like the measles, all the worse when it comes late. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25663]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love's like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are so accustomed to wearing a disguise before others that eventually we are unable to recognize ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12529]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are so accustomed to wearing a disguise before others that eventually we are unable to recognize ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews  Of true ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53791]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews  Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy,   It is the poison tree, that pierced to the inmost,    Weeps only tears of poison.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower; the view halfway up is better than the view from the base, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45274]]></link><description><![CDATA[A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower; the view halfway up is better than the view from the base, and it steadily becomes finer as the horizon expands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53861]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cultures contain many cues and inducements to dissuade the individual from approaching ultimate limits, in much the same way that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cultures contain many cues and inducements to dissuade the individual from approaching ultimate limits, in much the same way that a special warning strip of land around the edge of a baseball field lets a player know that he is about to run into a concrete wall when he is preoccupied with catching the ball. The wider that strip of land and the more sensitive the player is to the changing composition of the ground under his feet as he pursues the ball, the more effective the warning. Romanticizing or lionizing as "individualistic" those people who disregard social cues and inducements increases the danger of head-on collisions with inherent social limits. Decrying various forms of social disapproval is in effect narrowing the warning strip.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love and dignity do not dwell together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50741]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love and dignity do not dwell together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You'll discover that real love is millions of miles past falling in love with anyone or anything. When you make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25807]]></link><description><![CDATA[You'll discover that real love is millions of miles past falling in love with anyone or anything. When you make that one effort to feel compassion instead of blame or self-blame, the heart opens again and continues opening. -Sara Paddison.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Out where the handclasp's a little stronger, Out where the smile swells a little longer,  That's where the West ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2401]]></link><description><![CDATA[Out where the handclasp's a little stronger, Out where the smile swells a little longer,  That's where the West begins.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61212]]></link><description><![CDATA[Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21345]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21345</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/6991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop of Winchester, Spiritual Writer, 1626 Commemoration of Sergius of Radonezh, Russian Monastic Reformer, Teacher, 1392   It may seem an anachronism to speak of "the relation of the ordained ministry towards the Church" ... when we are only thinking about St. Paul and his converts. Was there really an ordained ministry as early as that? We need not argue about whether, or how, St. Paul was ordained, but he certainly considered that he and his fellow workers had a special pastoral relation to their converts.... St. Paul was primarily a missionary, which in itself establishes a link with the Servant of the Lord. As a missionary, he was not working on his own, but was supported by a group of assistants without whose help he could never have carried on his work. We know the names of many of them... But there were many more whose names we do not know, sometimes referred to as "the brethren" (e.g., in I Cor. 16:11). This missionary group with St. Paul as its leader is the New Testament equivalent of the ordained ministry of today, and it is significant for us that St. Paul describes this group as carrying out in some sense the work of servants in the Church.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6991</guid></item></channel></rss>