<?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[Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10405]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the bones have become most dry, when they are lying most scattered and separate from each other, there is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6998]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the bones have become most dry, when they are lying most scattered and separate from each other, there is still a word going forth -- from Him who liveth for ever and ever -- the voice which says, "These bones shall rise."   All struggles after union, though they may be of the most abortive kind, though they may produce fresh sects and fresh divisions, though they must do so as long as they rest on the notion that unity is something visible and material, yet indicate a deep and divine necessity which men could not be conscious of in their dreams if they were not beginning to wake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vision with action is a daydream; action without vision is a nightmare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vision with action is a daydream; action without vision is a nightmare.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, Teacher, 1153 Commemoration of William & Catherine Booth, Founders of the Salvation Army, 1912 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, Teacher, 1153 Commemoration of William & Catherine Booth, Founders of the Salvation Army, 1912 & 1890  Why do we talk and gossip so continually, seeing that we so rarely resume our silence without some hurt done to our conscience? ... Devout conversation on spiritual things helpeth not a little to spiritual progress, most of all where those of kindred mind and spirit find their ground of fellowship in God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For after all, the best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/290]]></link><description><![CDATA[For after all, the best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63286]]></link><description><![CDATA[The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Full many a lady I have eyed with best regard, and many a time  Th' harmony of their tongues ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18089]]></link><description><![CDATA[Full many a lady I have eyed with best regard, and many a time  Th' harmony of their tongues hath into bondage   Brought my too diligent ear; for several virtues    Have I liked several women; never any     With so full soul but some defect in her      Did quarrel with the noblest grace she owed,       And put it to the foil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace is liberty in tranquillity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24704]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace is liberty in tranquillity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22521]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The punishment which the wise suffer, who refuse to take part in government, is to live under the government of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18060]]></link><description><![CDATA[The punishment which the wise suffer, who refuse to take part in government, is to live under the government of worse men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of St. Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, Teacher, 373   Both from the confession of the evil spirits and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8101]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of St. Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, Teacher, 373   Both from the confession of the evil spirits and from the daily witness of His works, it is manifest, then, and let none presume to doubt it, that the Savior has raised His own body, and that He is very Son of God, having His being from God as from a Father, Whose Word and Wisdom and Whose Power He is. He it is Who in these latter days assumed a body for the salvation of us all, and taught the world concerning the Father. He it is Who has destroyed death and freely graced us all with incorruption through the promise of the resurrection, having raised His own body as its first-fruits, and displayed it by the sign of the cross as the monument to His victory over death and its corruption.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can we hope to remain economically competitive in a world in which... 90% of Dutch high-school students take advanced ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57500]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can we hope to remain economically competitive in a world in which... 90% of Dutch high-school students take advanced math courses and 100% of teachers in Germany have double majors, while the best we can say about our pocket of excellence is that 75% of [American] students have learned to critique tactfully?.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no instinct like that of the heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22817]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no instinct like that of the heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And for winter fly-fishing it is as useful as an almanac out of date. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16288]]></link><description><![CDATA[And for winter fly-fishing it is as useful as an almanac out of date.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The longer I live, the more faith I have in Providence, and the less faith in my interpretation of Providence ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51904]]></link><description><![CDATA[The longer I live, the more faith I have in Providence, and the less faith in my interpretation of Providence]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For birth control, I rely on my personality ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4275]]></link><description><![CDATA[For birth control, I rely on my personality]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins? Distinctly we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54677]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins? Distinctly we see the difference of the colors, but where exactly does the one first blendingly enter into the other? So with sanity and insanity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Understand that most problems are a good sign. Problems indicate thatprogress is being made, wheels are turning, you are moving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Understand that most problems are a good sign. Problems indicate thatprogress is being made, wheels are turning, you are moving toward yourgoals. Beware when you have no problems. Then you've really got a problem. . . Problems are like landmarks of progress.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tap'ring pyramid, the Egyptian's pride, And wonder of the world, whose spiky top  Has wounded the thick cloud. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43035]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tap'ring pyramid, the Egyptian's pride, And wonder of the world, whose spiky top  Has wounded the thick cloud.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honestly, what drew me to the project was the quality of the script. It's a beautiful thriller, very, very well ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29597]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honestly, what drew me to the project was the quality of the script. It's a beautiful thriller, very, very well written, ... I don't go to work unless I feel I really have a story that would be interesting to tell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These are characters in a fairy tale for grown-ups. Wouldn't it be lovely? Yes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33604]]></link><description><![CDATA[These are characters in a fairy tale for grown-ups. Wouldn't it be lovely? Yes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Samuel & Henrietta Barnett, Social Reformers, 1913 & 1936  Within the life of the church, the paths ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6479]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Samuel & Henrietta Barnett, Social Reformers, 1913 & 1936  Within the life of the church, the paths of the single and the married should not be allowed to diverge. The shared life of the Christian community must become a context in which the differing gifts can be used for each other. There is much still to be learned about this. Are the homes of married Christians an added support for the single? Is the availability of the single Christian put at the disposal of his married friends, for "babysitting" duties and the like. And what is true of the mutual support of married and single needs to be true in a wider way of the care exercised by the married and the single for each other, so that nobody's home life becomes completely cut off from support and help.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56370]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clothes make the man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12976]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clothes make the man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money alone is absolutely good, because it is not only a concrete satisfaction of one need in particular; it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42978]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money alone is absolutely good, because it is not only a concrete satisfaction of one need in particular; it is an abstract satisfaction of all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A heavy guilt rests upon us for what the whites of all nations have done to the colored peoples. When ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52900]]></link><description><![CDATA[A heavy guilt rests upon us for what the whites of all nations have done to the colored peoples. When we do good to them, it is not benevolence--it is atonement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3178]]></link><description><![CDATA[The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is art.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can never lose anything that really belongs to you, and you can't keep that which belongs to someone else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64541]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can never lose anything that really belongs to you, and you can't keep that which belongs to someone else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The scarlet of the maples can shake me like a cry, Of bugles going by. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59676]]></link><description><![CDATA[The scarlet of the maples can shake me like a cry, Of bugles going by.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23413]]></link><description><![CDATA[Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come, for the House of Hope is built on sand: bring wine, for the fabric of life is as weak ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19794]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come, for the House of Hope is built on sand: bring wine, for the fabric of life is as weak as the wind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear not those who argue but those who dodge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3090]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25808]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually hasa son who thinks he's wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21865]]></link><description><![CDATA[By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually hasa son who thinks he's wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Huge amounts of money have disappeared, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28939]]></link><description><![CDATA[Huge amounts of money have disappeared,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For each mouth, a different soup. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58633]]></link><description><![CDATA[For each mouth, a different soup.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Results are what you expect, and consequences are what you get. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9850]]></link><description><![CDATA[Results are what you expect, and consequences are what you get.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never get out of bed before noon ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20325]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never get out of bed before noon]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Appearance is something you should definitely consider when you're going out. Have your girlfriend clip your nails or something like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63183]]></link><description><![CDATA[Appearance is something you should definitely consider when you're going out. Have your girlfriend clip your nails or something like that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By sports like these are all their cares beguil'd, The sports of children satisfy the child. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5910]]></link><description><![CDATA[By sports like these are all their cares beguil'd, The sports of children satisfy the child.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64534]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How do we make it through this. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33210]]></link><description><![CDATA[How do we make it through this.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature never says one thing and wisdom another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43824]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature never says one thing and wisdom another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11976]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. the people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19256]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm sure thankful that's all it did. God protected us. It doesn't look like anybody lost a house. It was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33047]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm sure thankful that's all it did. God protected us. It doesn't look like anybody lost a house. It was a good day all together I guess.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[FINANCE, n. The art or science of managing revenues and resources for the best advantage of the manager. The pronunciation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15678]]></link><description><![CDATA[FINANCE, n. The art or science of managing revenues and resources for the best advantage of the manager. The pronunciation of this word with the i long and the accent on the first syllable is one of America's most precious discoveries and possessions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[sense of autonomy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38389]]></link><description><![CDATA[sense of autonomy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14045]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14045</guid></item></channel></rss>