<?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[Its to ensure that our employees who work the mail and our customers who use the mail are safe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36951]]></link><description><![CDATA[Its to ensure that our employees who work the mail and our customers who use the mail are safe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One can acquire everything in solitude except character. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64303]]></link><description><![CDATA[One can acquire everything in solitude except character.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Failed the bright promise of your early day? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14921]]></link><description><![CDATA[Failed the bright promise of your early day?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52299]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I told her it was the best she'd ever played: 1 for 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37390]]></link><description><![CDATA[I told her it was the best she'd ever played: 1 for 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Righteousness exalteth a nation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48647]]></link><description><![CDATA[Righteousness exalteth a nation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52079]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend is known when needed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29554]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend is known when needed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5783]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains,  Dungeon, or beggary, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4339]]></link><description><![CDATA[O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains,  Dungeon, or beggary, or decrepit age!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Debate is the death of conversation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3076]]></link><description><![CDATA[Debate is the death of conversation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Believe you are defeated, believe it long enough, and it is likely to become a fact. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Believe you are defeated, believe it long enough, and it is likely to become a fact.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Homosexuality, is regarded as shameful by barbarians and by those who live under despotic governments just as philosophy is regarded ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19654]]></link><description><![CDATA[Homosexuality, is regarded as shameful by barbarians and by those who live under despotic governments just as philosophy is regarded as shameful by them, because it is apparently not in the interest of such rulers to have great ideas engendered in their subjects, or powerful friendships or passionate love-all of which homosexuality is particularly apt to produce."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16585]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New customs, Though they be never so ridiculous,  (Nay, let 'em be unmanly), yet are followed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51356]]></link><description><![CDATA[New customs, Though they be never so ridiculous,  (Nay, let 'em be unmanly), yet are followed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shows like 'CSI' are teaching people that without forensic evidence, you can't convict anybody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42529]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shows like 'CSI' are teaching people that without forensic evidence, you can't convict anybody.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/709</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/7434]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop of Winchester, Spiritual Writer, 1626 Commemoration of Sergius of Radonezh, Russian Monastic Reformer, Teacher, 1392  The more we study the early Church, the more we realize that it was a society of ministers. About the only similarity between the Church at Corinth and a contemporary congregation, either Roman Catholic or Protestant, is that both are marked, to a great degree, by the presence of sinners.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cure for admiring the house of lords is to go and look at it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/905]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cure for admiring the house of lords is to go and look at it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dont let life change your goals, because achieving your goals can change your life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dont let life change your goals, because achieving your goals can change your life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't excercise. If God had wanted me to bend over, he would have put diamonds on the floor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14472]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't excercise. If God had wanted me to bend over, he would have put diamonds on the floor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise man struggling with adversity is said by some heathen writer to be a spectacle on which the gods ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/707]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise man struggling with adversity is said by some heathen writer to be a spectacle on which the gods might look down with pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are seeing voluntary restrictions by stations, ... They are limiting you with the amount you can fill up with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38463]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are seeing voluntary restrictions by stations, ... They are limiting you with the amount you can fill up with.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45611]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64739]]></link><description><![CDATA[Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I couldn't believe it, ... I started on a Monday and turned in the outline on a Friday. On the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37931]]></link><description><![CDATA[I couldn't believe it, ... I started on a Monday and turned in the outline on a Friday. On the Saturday they called and said, 'OK, we're making it.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is like an analogy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28185]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is like an analogy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27265]]></link><description><![CDATA[I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59873]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49366]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never bee handsome, strong, rich, or wise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy without morality is impossible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy without morality is impossible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you forget you have to struggle for improvement you go backward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22583]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you forget you have to struggle for improvement you go backward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is good for a man not to touch a woman ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55284]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is good for a man not to touch a woman]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just vengeance does not call for punishment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44251]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just vengeance does not call for punishment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61229]]></link><description><![CDATA[War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is not the winding up witnesses, And nicking, more than half the bus'ness?  For witnesses, like watches, go  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24254]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is not the winding up witnesses, And nicking, more than half the bus'ness?  For witnesses, like watches, go   Just as they're set, too fast or slow;    And where in Conscience they're strait-lac'd,     'Tis ten to one that side is cast.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, 988  We must confess our sins in order to obtain pardon; but we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, 988  We must confess our sins in order to obtain pardon; but we must see our sins in order to confess. How few of those who think that they have confessed and been pardoned have ever seen their sin!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unkindness may do much; And his unkindness may defeat my life,  But never taint my love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60267]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unkindness may do much; And his unkindness may defeat my life,  But never taint my love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good name, like good will, is attained by many actions and may be lost by one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43667]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good name, like good will, is attained by many actions and may be lost by one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43083]]></link><description><![CDATA[The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Again the blackbirds sings; the streams Wake, laughing, from their winter dreams,  And tremble in the April showers  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2998]]></link><description><![CDATA[Again the blackbirds sings; the streams Wake, laughing, from their winter dreams,  And tremble in the April showers   The tassels of the maple flowers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's most tragic is that this denial of basic education leads to over 1 million unnecessary child and maternal deaths ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33146]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's most tragic is that this denial of basic education leads to over 1 million unnecessary child and maternal deaths a year. Moreover, children who have never seen the inside of a classroom are precisely those that face the most acute poverty, and should be the prime target of the international community if it is at all serious about realizing the United Nation's Millennium Development Goals of halving extreme poverty by 2015.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the eye of the intellect "sees in all objects what it brought with it the means of seeing."  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22876]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the eye of the intellect "sees in all objects what it brought with it the means of seeing."   - Thomas Carlyle,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wit ought to be a glorious treat, like caviar. Never spread it around like marmelade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wit ought to be a glorious treat, like caviar. Never spread it around like marmelade.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The good ole days weren't always good, and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47740]]></link><description><![CDATA[The good ole days weren't always good, and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Columba, Abbot of Iona, Missionary, 597 Commemoration of Ephrem of Syria, Deacon, Hymnographer, Teacher, 373   If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Columba, Abbot of Iona, Missionary, 597 Commemoration of Ephrem of Syria, Deacon, Hymnographer, Teacher, 373   If we would indeed know God in growing intimacy, we must go this way of renunciation. And if we are set upon the pursuit of God, He will sooner or later bring us to this test. Abraham's testing was, at the time, not known to him as such, yet if he had taken some course other than the one he did, the whole history off the Old Testament would have been different. God would have found His man, no doubt, but the loss to Abraham would have been tragic beyond the telling. So we will be brought one by one to the testing place, and we may never know when we are there. At that testing place there will be no dozen possible choices for us; just one and an alternative, but our whole future will be conditioned by the choice we make.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46357]]></link><description><![CDATA[The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25347]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a member of the school board I played an integral role in keeping the district's approximately $8 million budget ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33745]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a member of the school board I played an integral role in keeping the district's approximately $8 million budget successfully in the black while building several additions and making many improvements. I also played a key role in negotiating many successful union contracts for the district. This experience will better able me to keep the sheriff's department spending in check, and to work well with the department's employee union.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life lives, life dies. Life laughs, life cries. Life gives up and life tries. But life looks different through everyone's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11440]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life lives, life dies. Life laughs, life cries. Life gives up and life tries. But life looks different through everyone's eyes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11440</guid></item></channel></rss>