<?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[I do not want to die ... until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58587]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not want to die ... until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flies are busiest about leane horses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49243]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flies are busiest about leane horses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56651]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25207]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64166]]></link><description><![CDATA[Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22740]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Nicholas Ferrar, Deacon, Founder of the Little Gidding Community, 1637  Many a congregation when it assembles in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7767]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Nicholas Ferrar, Deacon, Founder of the Little Gidding Community, 1637  Many a congregation when it assembles in church must look to the angels like a muddy, puddly shore at low tide; littered with every kind of rubbish and odds and ends --a distressing sort of spectacle. And then the tide of worship comes in, and it's all gone: the dead sea-urchins and jelly-fish, the paper and the empty cans and the nameless bits of rubbish. The cleansing sea flows over the whole lot. So we are released from a narrow, selfish outlook on the universe by a common act of worship. Our little human affairs are reduced to their proper proportion when seen over against the spaceless Majesty and Beauty of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No might nor greatness in mortality Can censure 'scape; back-wounding calumny  The whitest virtue strikes. What king so strong ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5191]]></link><description><![CDATA[No might nor greatness in mortality Can censure 'scape; back-wounding calumny  The whitest virtue strikes. What king so strong   Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one. -Robert E. Lee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one. -Robert E. Lee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is the daring of the soul to go farther than it can see ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is the daring of the soul to go farther than it can see]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1797]]></link><description><![CDATA[Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a three-fold cord is not quickly broken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57935]]></link><description><![CDATA[And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a three-fold cord is not quickly broken.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is the triumph over chaos. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5615]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is the triumph over chaos.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Labour itself is but a sorrowful song, The protest of the weak against the strong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Labour itself is but a sorrowful song, The protest of the weak against the strong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17060]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24496]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is not with me is against me: and he that gathereth not with me scattereth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60128]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is not with me is against me: and he that gathereth not with me scattereth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ade's Law: Anybody can win--unless there happens to be a second entry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24349]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ade's Law: Anybody can win--unless there happens to be a second entry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As busie as a Bee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3908]]></link><description><![CDATA[As busie as a Bee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are obviously delighted that we will be able to extend 'The Sopranos' series beyond its slated 12 episodes, ... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31561]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are obviously delighted that we will be able to extend 'The Sopranos' series beyond its slated 12 episodes, ... We are thrilled that David Chase (the show's creator) felt there are more stories to be told.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Bosco, Priest, Founder of the Salesian Teaching Order, 1888  "Secret" sins, such as are not known ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7365]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Bosco, Priest, Founder of the Salesian Teaching Order, 1888  "Secret" sins, such as are not known to be sins (it may be) to ourselves, make way for those that are "presumptuous". Thus pride may seem to be nothing but a frame of mind belonging unto our wealth and dignity, or our ... abilities; sensuality may seem to be but a lawful participation of the good things of this life; passion and peevishness, but a due sense of the want of respect that we must suppose owing unto us; covetousness, a necessary care of ourselves and of our families. If the seeds of sin are covered with such pretences, they will in time spring up and bear bitter fruit in the minds and the lives of men; and the beginning of all apostasy, both in religion and in morality, lies in just such pretences. Men plead that they can do so-and-so lawfully, until they can do things openly unlawful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis midnight now. The bend and broken moon, batter'd and black, as from a thousand battles, hangs silent on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43057]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis midnight now. The bend and broken moon, batter'd and black, as from a thousand battles, hangs silent on the purple walls of Heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no such thing, isn't that right Mr Geary? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38434]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no such thing, isn't that right Mr Geary?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's in a name? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51472]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's in a name?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66376]]></link><description><![CDATA[Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that will lose his friend for a jest, deserves to die a beggar by the bargain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23229]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that will lose his friend for a jest, deserves to die a beggar by the bargain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The itch of disputing is the scab of the Church. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49880]]></link><description><![CDATA[The itch of disputing is the scab of the Church.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The TV shows and magazines both confirm and propel the trend. With the economy improving, and people making more money, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42569]]></link><description><![CDATA[The TV shows and magazines both confirm and propel the trend. With the economy improving, and people making more money, it feels like they're beginning to spend more than they have in the past couple of years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every sin is the result of a collaboration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14326]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every sin is the result of a collaboration.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Country music is three chords and the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43513]]></link><description><![CDATA[Country music is three chords and the truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought of myself as a species of knight errant attacking dragons single-handedly and rescuing musical virtue in distress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23905]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought of myself as a species of knight errant attacking dragons single-handedly and rescuing musical virtue in distress.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I definitely haven't given up my aspirations of being a rock star, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42723]]></link><description><![CDATA[I definitely haven't given up my aspirations of being a rock star,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take care not to begin anything of which you may repent. [Lat., Cave ne quidquam incipias, quod post poeniteat.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take care not to begin anything of which you may repent. [Lat., Cave ne quidquam incipias, quod post poeniteat.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the rest of the country is getting a little bit better picture of what it is to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38485]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the rest of the country is getting a little bit better picture of what it is to be a Vermonter. He's voting his conscience. I just wish the rest of the Congress was like that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be patient, my soul: thou hath suffered worse than this. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45719]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be patient, my soul: thou hath suffered worse than this.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your son at five is your master, at ten your slave, at fifteen your double, and after that, your friend ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57232]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your son at five is your master, at ten your slave, at fifteen your double, and after that, your friend or your foe, depending on his bringing up]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know which one of us hates to lose more. I can't stand it when you have to go ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33375]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know which one of us hates to lose more. I can't stand it when you have to go over there and shake (the other team's) hands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36449]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do you so love the truth and the right that you welcome, or at least submit willingly to, the idea ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do you so love the truth and the right that you welcome, or at least submit willingly to, the idea of an exposure of what in you is yet unknown to yourself -- an exposure that may redound to the glory of the truth by making you ashamed and humbled?... Are you willing to be made glad that you were wrong when you thought others were wrong?... We may trust God with our past as heartily as with our future. It will not hurt us so long as we do not try to hide things, so long as we are ready to bow our heads in hearty shame where it is fit that we should be ashamed. For to be ashamed is a holy and blessed thing. Shame is a thing to shame only those who want to appear, not those who want to be. Shame is to shame those who want to pass their examination, not those who would get into the heart of things... To be humbly ashamed is to be plunged in the cleansing bath of truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The arrows are from her dowry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50493]]></link><description><![CDATA[The arrows are from her dowry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Vision of a Champion is someone who is bent over, drenched in sweat, and the point of exhaustion, when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56727]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Vision of a Champion is someone who is bent over, drenched in sweat, and the point of exhaustion, when no one else is watching.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity andfascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22335]]></link><description><![CDATA[A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity andfascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty drawes more then oxen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49149]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty drawes more then oxen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here's to you and here's to me, and I hope we never disagree. But, if that should ever be, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53407]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here's to you and here's to me, and I hope we never disagree. But, if that should ever be, to HELL with you, here's to ME!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While the decline in inflation can certainly accommodate a rate cut, we believe the bank will defer such a decision ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31332]]></link><description><![CDATA[While the decline in inflation can certainly accommodate a rate cut, we believe the bank will defer such a decision until any potential petroleum price hikes and their likely impact on inflation becomes clearer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19796]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If someone someday in this country Decides to raise a memorial to me, I give my consent to this festivity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29397]]></link><description><![CDATA[If someone someday in this country Decides to raise a memorial to me, I give my consent to this festivity But only on this condition - do not build it By the sea where I was born, I have severed my last ties with the sea...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sin is whatever obscures the soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sin is whatever obscures the soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56400</guid></item></channel></rss>