<?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[Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather than at the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53579]]></link><description><![CDATA[Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather than at the time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56103]]></link><description><![CDATA[Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Called me wessel, Sammy--a wessel of wrath. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43645]]></link><description><![CDATA[Called me wessel, Sammy--a wessel of wrath.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If ignorance is bliss, there should be more happy people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20428]]></link><description><![CDATA[If ignorance is bliss, there should be more happy people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12117]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Meux Benson, Founder of the Society of St John the Evangelist, 1915   In the long ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Meux Benson, Founder of the Society of St John the Evangelist, 1915   In the long run, the answer to all those who object to the doctrine of hell is... a question: "What are you asking God to do?" To wipe out their past sins and, at all costs, to give them a fresh start, smoothing every difficulty and offering every miraculous help? But He has done so, on Calvary. To forgive them? They will not be forgiven. To leave them alone? Alas, I am afraid that that is what He does.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12580]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55081]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for yourself. And how much healthier your decisions are once they become entirely selfish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It sounds like a cliche but I also learnt that you're not going to fall for the right person until ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66328]]></link><description><![CDATA[It sounds like a cliche but I also learnt that you're not going to fall for the right person until you really love yourself and feel good about how you are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pray to God, but hammer away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53548]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pray to God, but hammer away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Edward the Confessor, 1066   The very activities for which we were created are, while we live ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Edward the Confessor, 1066   The very activities for which we were created are, while we live on earth, variously impeded: by evil in ourselves or in others. Not to practice them is to abandon our humanity. To practice them spontaneously and delightfully is not yet possible. This situation creates the category of duty, the whole specifically moral realm. It exists to be transcended. Here is the paradox of Christianity. As practical imperatives for here and now, the two great commandments have to be translated "Behave as if you loved God and man". For no man can love because he is told to. Yet obedience on this practical level is not really obedience at all. And if a man really loved God and man, once again this would hardly be obedience; for if he did, he would be unable to help it. Thus the command really says to us, "Ye must be born again". Till then, we have duty, morality, the Law. A schoolmaster, as St. Paul says, is to bring us to Christ. We must expect no more of it than of a schoolmaster; we must allow it no less.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seven cities warr'd for Homer being dead, Who living had no roofe to shroud his head. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8768]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seven cities warr'd for Homer being dead, Who living had no roofe to shroud his head.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must plant the sea and herd its animals using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20180]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must plant the sea and herd its animals using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what civilization is all about - farming replacing hunting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But we are all men In our own natures frail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51365]]></link><description><![CDATA[But we are all men In our own natures frail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I distrust the incommunicable; it is the source of all violence ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23621]]></link><description><![CDATA[I distrust the incommunicable; it is the source of all violence]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of George Herbert, Priest, Poet, 1633  If I be bound to pray for all that be in distress, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of George Herbert, Priest, Poet, 1633  If I be bound to pray for all that be in distress, surely I am bound, so far as it is in my power, to practice what I pray for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enthusiasm is contagious. Be a carrier. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13959]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enthusiasm is contagious. Be a carrier.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57185]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That of all the floures in the mede, Thanne love I most these floures white and rede,  Suche as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10987]]></link><description><![CDATA[That of all the floures in the mede, Thanne love I most these floures white and rede,  Suche as men callen daysyes in her toune.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look before you ere you leap. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51959]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look before you ere you leap.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gardens, scholars say, are the first sign of commitment to a community. When people plant corn they are saying, let's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8790]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gardens, scholars say, are the first sign of commitment to a community. When people plant corn they are saying, let's stay here. And by their connection to the land, they are connected to one another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The scupltor does not work for the anatomist, but for the common observer of life and nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54937]]></link><description><![CDATA[The scupltor does not work for the anatomist, but for the common observer of life and nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10959]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is never finished, only abandoned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3131]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is never finished, only abandoned.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26601]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22014]]></link><description><![CDATA[If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To find a career to which you are adapted by nature, and then to work hard at it, is about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5250]]></link><description><![CDATA[To find a career to which you are adapted by nature, and then to work hard at it, is about as near to a formula for success and happiness as the world provides. One of the fortunate aspects of this formula is that, granted the right career has been found, the hard work takes care of itself. Then hard work is not hard work at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/83]]></link><description><![CDATA[Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/83</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O that Jupiter would but bring back to me the years that have passed! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51818]]></link><description><![CDATA[O that Jupiter would but bring back to me the years that have passed!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be who you are and be that well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63635]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be who you are and be that well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know a lot of people think it's monotonous, down the black lines over and over, but it's not if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47985]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know a lot of people think it's monotonous, down the black lines over and over, but it's not if you're enjoying what you're doing. I love to swim and I love to train.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45141]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom begins at the end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom begins at the end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61823]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all have some taste or other, of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering it was an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58654]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all have some taste or other, of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering it was an acquired one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45137]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Advertising is the life of trade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/757]]></link><description><![CDATA[Advertising is the life of trade.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The obstacles you face are... mental barriers which can be broken by adopting a more positive approach. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22529]]></link><description><![CDATA[The obstacles you face are... mental barriers which can be broken by adopting a more positive approach.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time's running out right now. If we're going to turn it around, it needs to be real, real quick ? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36971]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time's running out right now. If we're going to turn it around, it needs to be real, real quick ? like next game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't have any expectations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29591]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't have any expectations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are glad to have a football game. Anytime you open a season up, a lot of things can happen. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40368]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are glad to have a football game. Anytime you open a season up, a lot of things can happen. I don't think it matters who you play, in this situation, I think it's a great opportunity for us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be good and you will be lonesome. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be good and you will be lonesome.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth hurts only once but a lie hurts every time you remember it... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62880]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth hurts only once but a lie hurts every time you remember it...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Combining premier aviation choices and luxury destinations is a win-win for both of our companies. We look forward to extending ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39854]]></link><description><![CDATA[Combining premier aviation choices and luxury destinations is a win-win for both of our companies. We look forward to extending our strategic alliance with Exclusive Resorts into the future as we continue to push the envelope in premium travel for our respective clientele.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to repent of our blindness, our lukewarmness, and our disobedience, and turn back to the central truth of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6873]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to repent of our blindness, our lukewarmness, and our disobedience, and turn back to the central truth of Christ as Lord and Saviour; an ethical system will not save us here, nor a timid sentimentalism, nor an excited emotional return, nor a dilettante mysticism. We have to find that deep contrition which is the condition of His abiding. Repentance is not a mere feeling of sorrow or contrition for an act of wrongdoing. The regret I feel when I act impatiently or speak crossly is not repentance... Repentance is contrition for what we are in our fundamental beings, that we are wrong in our deepest roots because our internal government is by Self and not by God. And it is an activity of the whole person. Unless I will to be different, the mind will not follow. True repentance brings an urge to be different, because of the sense of the incessant movement of what I am, forming, forming, forming what I shall be in the years to come.   ... The Notebooks of Florence Allshorn  January 11, 1996 Commemoration of Mary Slessor, Missionary in West Africa, 1915   Every virtue is a form of obedience to God. Every evil word or act is a form of rebellion against Him. This may not be clear at first; but, if we think patiently, we shall find that it is true. Why were you angry? You will probably find that it was because you were not willing to accept the world as God has made it, or because you were not willing to leave it to God to deal with the people that He has made.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Under the existing laws, they have averted a disaster from taking place in this country; they have arrested the people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29075]]></link><description><![CDATA[Under the existing laws, they have averted a disaster from taking place in this country; they have arrested the people who have been conspiring ... so we don't need new laws,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The open door tempts a saint. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51027]]></link><description><![CDATA[The open door tempts a saint.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51027</guid></item></channel></rss>