<?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[Feast of Anskar, Archbishop of Hamburg, Missionary to Denmark and Sweden, 865   We must be willing to accept ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8030]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Anskar, Archbishop of Hamburg, Missionary to Denmark and Sweden, 865   We must be willing to accept the bitter truth that, in the end, we may have to become a burden to those who love us. But it is necessary that we face this also. The full acceptance of our abjection and uselessness is the virtue that can make us and others rich in the grace of God. It takes heroic charity and humility to let others sustain us when we are absolutely incapable of sustaining ourselves. We cannot suffer well unless we see Christ everywhere, both in suffering and in the charity of those who come to the aid of our affliction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But given the initiatives we've committed ourselves to, it's going to be very difficult, even if we get more money ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38475]]></link><description><![CDATA[But given the initiatives we've committed ourselves to, it's going to be very difficult, even if we get more money than the county initially earmarked. The initial signs show we are getting a positive response. We'll see what the upshot is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And be on they guard against the good and the just! They would fain curcify those who devise their own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60811]]></link><description><![CDATA[And be on they guard against the good and the just! They would fain curcify those who devise their own virtue -- they hate the lonesome ones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wherever you are - be all there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64175]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wherever you are - be all there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mystery and innocence are not akin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43588]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mystery and innocence are not akin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neither praise nor dispraise thy selfe, thy actins serve the turne. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neither praise nor dispraise thy selfe, thy actins serve the turne.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Errors like straws upon the surface flow: Who would search for pearls must dive below. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59871]]></link><description><![CDATA[Errors like straws upon the surface flow: Who would search for pearls must dive below.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We wrestled a very solid match. We're pleased with our progress and we have two weeks of practice to sharpen ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38928]]></link><description><![CDATA[We wrestled a very solid match. We're pleased with our progress and we have two weeks of practice to sharpen up before the VOL Tournament.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[PSALM 126 The Lord can clear the darkest skies  Can give us day for night. Make drops of sacred ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6499]]></link><description><![CDATA[PSALM 126 The Lord can clear the darkest skies  Can give us day for night. Make drops of sacred sorrow rise  To rivers of delight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We vote too much. We deliberate too little. We have brought within the scope of the federal jurisdiction a vast ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47177]]></link><description><![CDATA[We vote too much. We deliberate too little. We have brought within the scope of the federal jurisdiction a vast number of subjects that do not belong here, but are nevertheless here. What we need to do is to stop passing laws. We have enough laws now to govern the world for the next ten thousand years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, Teacher, 373  A great many of those about me would be imprisoned under ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8247]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, Teacher, 373  A great many of those about me would be imprisoned under any law; in France, as here, they would be regular jail-birds. But I loved them better and better -- and still I knew how little was my love for them compared to Christ's. It is easy enough for a man to be honest and a "Good Christian" and keeper of "the moral law", when he has his own little room, his purse well filled -- when he is well shod and well fed. It is far less easy for a man who has to live from day to day, roaming from city to city, from factory to factory. It is far less easy for someone just out of jail, with nothing to wear but old down-at-the-heels shoes and a shirt in rags. All of a sudden, I understood our Lord's words: "I was in prison ... and you visited me not." All these men, lazy, outside the law, starving: these failures of all kinds -- they were dear to Christ -- they were Christ, waiting in prison for someone to lean over Him -- and if we were true Christians, we would do them every kindness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you're seeing is a glut of gently used vehicles, and that's putting pressure on all vehicle prices. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38033]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you're seeing is a glut of gently used vehicles, and that's putting pressure on all vehicle prices.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Action conquers fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/458]]></link><description><![CDATA[Action conquers fear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4883]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Despite the lopsided primary results, Archer cautioned his supporters not to take the general election for granted.] We've come too ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33471]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Despite the lopsided primary results, Archer cautioned his supporters not to take the general election for granted.] We've come too far, built too many bridges, taken too many steps to be turned around, ... Something good is happening here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[no man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24206]]></link><description><![CDATA[no man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm structuring a program that's going to be individualized based on 'X' pitcher. We're going to create an inning threshold, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38900]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm structuring a program that's going to be individualized based on 'X' pitcher. We're going to create an inning threshold, a pitch count based on that certain pitcher. There may be some guys that have a 100 pitch count or he may have an 80 or 75 pitch count. It all depends on the person's strength, arm action and mechanics. All of that will play a role in our decision making.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1012  Nothing is too great and nothing is too small to commit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1012  Nothing is too great and nothing is too small to commit into the hands of the Lord.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I would almost rather have people take away years of my life than take away a moment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I would almost rather have people take away years of my life than take away a moment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh! too convincing--dangerously dear-- In woman's eye the unanswerable tear!  That weapon of her weakness she can wield,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48789]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh! too convincing--dangerously dear-- In woman's eye the unanswerable tear!  That weapon of her weakness she can wield,   To save, subdue--at once her spear and shield.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're overwhelmed with the orders and requests but it just seemed to be the thing to do. And it worked ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33008]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're overwhelmed with the orders and requests but it just seemed to be the thing to do. And it worked out and fell in place.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In fact, I did not attend a single meeting at the United Nations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40215]]></link><description><![CDATA[In fact, I did not attend a single meeting at the United Nations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The freedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those who say, "What's mine is mine and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44353]]></link><description><![CDATA[The freedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those who say, "What's mine is mine and what's yours is negotiable."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet shadows of twilight! how calm their repose, While the dewdrops fall soft in the breast of the rose!  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59922]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet shadows of twilight! how calm their repose, While the dewdrops fall soft in the breast of the rose!  How blest to the toiler his hour of release   When the vesper is heard with its whisper of peace!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ridicule is the best test of truth ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54204]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ridicule is the best test of truth]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hear every kind of story. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33615]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hear every kind of story.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No answer is also an answer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11605]]></link><description><![CDATA[No answer is also an answer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47633]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wife is essential to great longevity; she is the receptacle of half a man's cares, and two-thirds of his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25518]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wife is essential to great longevity; she is the receptacle of half a man's cares, and two-thirds of his ill-humor]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29843]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom is the principle thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4177]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom is the principle thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11285]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I take it to be a principle rule of life, not to be too much addicted to any one thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60448]]></link><description><![CDATA[I take it to be a principle rule of life, not to be too much addicted to any one thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've met a few people who had to change their jobs in order to changetheir lives, but I've met many ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21152]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've met a few people who had to change their jobs in order to changetheir lives, but I've met many more people who merely had to change theirmotive to service in order to change their lives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2644]]></link><description><![CDATA[One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk purse out of your wife's ear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62256]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17332]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62082]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The union of a sect within itself is a pitiful charity; it's no concord of Christians, but a conspiracy against ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7539]]></link><description><![CDATA[The union of a sect within itself is a pitiful charity; it's no concord of Christians, but a conspiracy against Christ; and they that love one another for their opinionative concurrence, love for their own sakes, not their Lord's.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The LionessA controversy prevailed among the beasts of the field as to which of the animals deserved the most credit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1546]]></link><description><![CDATA[The LionessA controversy prevailed among the beasts of the field as to which of the animals deserved the most credit for producing the greatest number of whelps at a birth. They rushed clamorously into the presence of the Lioness and demanded of her the settlement of the dispute. And you, they said, how many sons have you at a birth?' The Lioness laughed at them, and said: Why! I have only one; but that one is altogether a thoroughbred Lion. The value is in the worth, not in the number.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One should eat to live, not live to eat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17593]]></link><description><![CDATA[One should eat to live, not live to eat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to yourself and others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63252]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to yourself and others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I really haven't had much time for it to hit me hard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39752]]></link><description><![CDATA[I really haven't had much time for it to hit me hard.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends.... That if they will top telling ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45593]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends.... That if they will top telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know if college actually changes your viewpoint; it just gives you more depth. There is actually a theory ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35838]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know if college actually changes your viewpoint; it just gives you more depth. There is actually a theory called the reinforcement thesis, which says that people acquire a mental lens or filter at a very young age. As you get older you tend to accept more readily the information that reinforces that view and reject information that contradicts it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beside the brook and on the umbered meadow, Where yellow fern-tufts fleck the faded ground,  With folded lids beneath ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17361]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beside the brook and on the umbered meadow, Where yellow fern-tufts fleck the faded ground,  With folded lids beneath their palmy shadow   The gentian nods in dewy slumbers bound.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The odds clearly favor the Bank of Canada raising the overnight rate by a quarter point on May 24 to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32205]]></link><description><![CDATA[The odds clearly favor the Bank of Canada raising the overnight rate by a quarter point on May 24 to 4.25 percent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man makes up his mind to thrash another, he must also make up his mind to be a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50410]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man makes up his mind to thrash another, he must also make up his mind to be a little thrashed himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're seeing it now with a big migration from Java to PHP in Web development. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41413]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're seeing it now with a big migration from Java to PHP in Web development.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41413</guid></item></channel></rss>