<?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[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[To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism, to steal ideas from many is research. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4692]]></link><description><![CDATA[To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism, to steal ideas from many is research.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A farmer's market is worth more thaneverything I've written. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15170]]></link><description><![CDATA[A farmer's market is worth more thaneverything I've written.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see Life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see Life with a clearer view again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were expecting to end up there anyway because the other side would have appealed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41996]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were expecting to end up there anyway because the other side would have appealed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of joys departed Not to return, how painful the remembrance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48677]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of joys departed Not to return, how painful the remembrance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a balance in the house. It's not like 24-7. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40564]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a balance in the house. It's not like 24-7.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66199]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56750]]></link><description><![CDATA[Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38662]]></link><description><![CDATA[All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the School of Coquettes Madam Rose is a scholar,--  O, they fish with all nets   In ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10168]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the School of Coquettes Madam Rose is a scholar,--  O, they fish with all nets   In the School of Coquettes!    When her brooch she forgets     'Tis to show her new collar;      In the School of Coquettes       Madam Rose is a scholar!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. -Galileo Galilei. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59867]]></link><description><![CDATA[All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. -Galileo Galilei.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm from Missouri; you must show me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60013]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm from Missouri; you must show me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The careful pilot of my proper woe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19154]]></link><description><![CDATA[The careful pilot of my proper woe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On what strange stuff Ambition feeds! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2316]]></link><description><![CDATA[On what strange stuff Ambition feeds!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious. [Lat., Nam ut quisque ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60772]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious. [Lat., Nam ut quisque est vir optimus, ita difficillime esse alios improbos suspicatur.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Slavery, if it can be legalized at all, can be legalized only by positive legislation. Natural law gives it no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66359]]></link><description><![CDATA[Slavery, if it can be legalized at all, can be legalized only by positive legislation. Natural law gives it no aid. Custom imparts to it no legal sanction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend is one before whom you may think aloud. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16838]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend is one before whom you may think aloud.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One's real life is often the life that one does not lead ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53222]]></link><description><![CDATA[One's real life is often the life that one does not lead]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Busy, curious, thirsty fly, Drink with me and drink as I!  Freely welcome to my cup,   Could'st ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Busy, curious, thirsty fly, Drink with me and drink as I!  Freely welcome to my cup,   Could'st thou sip and sip it up;    Make the most of life you may;     Life is short and wears away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The developer has met all the requests and conditions that we've asked. All the issues that you brought up at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35340]]></link><description><![CDATA[The developer has met all the requests and conditions that we've asked. All the issues that you brought up at our meeting, he's basically addressed those, and in my opinion gone above and beyond as far as putting out extra work and expending money out of his pocket to try to help accommodate people who are in a low-lying area.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Murals were very popular then and the idea was pretty well received. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Murals were very popular then and the idea was pretty well received.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31998]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take her up tenderly, Lift her with care;  Fashioned so slenderly,   Young and so fair! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take her up tenderly, Lift her with care;  Fashioned so slenderly,   Young and so fair!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your life ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58577]]></link><description><![CDATA[Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your life]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/946]]></link><description><![CDATA[If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sex is like snow, you never know how many inches you're going to get or how long it will last ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55252]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sex is like snow, you never know how many inches you're going to get or how long it will last]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the Jew that Shakespeare drew. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/430]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the Jew that Shakespeare drew.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fools give you reasons, wise men never try. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27019]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fools give you reasons, wise men never try.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Eglantine Jebb, Social Reformer, Founder of 'Save the Children', 1928   What makes some theological works like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8502]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Eglantine Jebb, Social Reformer, Founder of 'Save the Children', 1928   What makes some theological works like sawdust to me is the way the authors can go on discussing how far certain positions are adjustable to contemporary thought, or beneficial in relation to social problems, or "have a future" before them, but never squarely ask what grounds we have for supposing them to be true accounts of any objective reality. As if we were trying to make rather than to learn. Have we no Other to reckon with?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The planet's survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58399]]></link><description><![CDATA[The planet's survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a mad gamble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None is a foole alwaies, everyone sometimes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49658]]></link><description><![CDATA[None is a foole alwaies, everyone sometimes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3794]]></link><description><![CDATA[The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men say, "How are we to act, what are we to teach our children, now that we are no longer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8533]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men say, "How are we to act, what are we to teach our children, now that we are no longer Christians?" You see, gentlemen, how I would answer that question. You are deceived in thinking that the morality of your father was based on Christianity. On the contrary, Christianity presupposed it. That morality stands exactly where it did; its basis has not been withdrawn, for, in a sense, it never had a basis. The ultimate ethical injunctions have always been premises, never conclusions. Kant was perfectly right on that point at least, the imperative is categorical. Unless the ethical is assumed from the outset, no argument will bring you to it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the nature of babies to be in bliss. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3600]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the nature of babies to be in bliss.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have some salt of our youth in us. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55360]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have some salt of our youth in us. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She did that because she thinks that's what blacks relate to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36202]]></link><description><![CDATA[She did that because she thinks that's what blacks relate to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Please take the next step to release my husband and return his children's lives to normal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40729]]></link><description><![CDATA[Please take the next step to release my husband and return his children's lives to normal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24933]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have been all things unholy; if God can work through me, He can workthrough anyone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21129]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have been all things unholy; if God can work through me, He can workthrough anyone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Timothy and Titus, Companions of Paul Commemoration of Dorothy Kerin, Founder of the Burrswood Healing Community, 1963  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6611]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Timothy and Titus, Companions of Paul Commemoration of Dorothy Kerin, Founder of the Burrswood Healing Community, 1963  The Christian Mission is what the New Testament calls a 'mystery'. It is what St. Paul calls the mystery -- a secret hidden within God even before the creation of the world, but now made known to men and women of faith, whereby all nations are to be gathered up and presented to God through Jesus Christ. This gathering up takes place in the Church, the mystical Body of Christ. The mystery has been unfolded according to a divine plan; prepared by the vocation of the Jewish people; and substantially realized by the mission of the Incarnate Word, Jesus Christ, who by His Ascension introduced human nature for all eternity into the sphere of the life of the Divine Trinity: and this plan is to be accomplished among the various peoples of the world, during the time between Pentecost and the Second Coming. [Continued].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only cowards insult dying majesty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10522]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only cowards insult dying majesty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forget about likes and dislikes. They are of no consequence. Just do what must be done. This may not be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forget about likes and dislikes. They are of no consequence. Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness but it is greatness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27749]]></link><description><![CDATA[We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sea is as near as we come to another world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59010]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sea is as near as we come to another world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61490]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important thing when ill, is to never lose heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28017]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important thing when ill, is to never lose heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hunger is sharper than the sword. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20146]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hunger is sharper than the sword.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Nicholas Ferrar, Deacon, Founder of the Little Gidding Community, 1637   Some men, not content with [Christ] ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7553]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Nicholas Ferrar, Deacon, Founder of the Little Gidding Community, 1637   Some men, not content with [Christ] alone, are borne hither and thither from one hope to another; even if they concern themselves chiefly with him, they nevertheless stray from the right way in turning some part of their thinking in another direction. Yet such distrust cannot creep in where men have once for all truly known the abundance of his blessings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was going to be somebody's day, and I knew that one of us was going to have that day. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40270]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was going to be somebody's day, and I knew that one of us was going to have that day. We're all really strong riders and we're all really fit, but to have that podium ride or world championship everything has to come together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40270</guid></item></channel></rss>