<?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[We will set aside more money for Social Security than what the president did in his budget; there's not a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33668]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will set aside more money for Social Security than what the president did in his budget; there's not a doubt about it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16155]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21135]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If your capacity to acquire has outstripped your capacity to enjoy, you are on the way to the scrap-heap. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13948]]></link><description><![CDATA[If your capacity to acquire has outstripped your capacity to enjoy, you are on the way to the scrap-heap.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is not solitary; it is bound to have neighbors ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60747]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is not solitary; it is bound to have neighbors]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just watching Jack Lemmon made me want to get into this business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just watching Jack Lemmon made me want to get into this business.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grief tears his heart, and drives him to and fro, In all the raging impotence of woe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grief tears his heart, and drives him to and fro, In all the raging impotence of woe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Matthew, Apostle & Evangelist  Continuing a series on God and the human condition:  If we are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6653]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Matthew, Apostle & Evangelist  Continuing a series on God and the human condition:  If we are directed only by our particular natures, and regulate our inclinations by no higher rule than that of our reasons, we are but moralists; divinity will still call us heathens. Therefore this great work of charity must have other motives, ends, and impulsions. I give no alms to satisfy the hunger of my brother, but to fulfil and accomplish the will and command of my God; I draw not my purse for his sake that demands it, but his that enjoined it; I relieve no man upon the rhetoric of his miseries, nor to content mine own commiserating disposition, for this is still but moral charity, and an act that oweth more to passion than reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Universe has as many different centers as there are living beings in it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60174]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Universe has as many different centers as there are living beings in it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38825]]></link><description><![CDATA[He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One man's wilderness is another man's theme park ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61577]]></link><description><![CDATA[One man's wilderness is another man's theme park]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is not the best sermon which makes the hearers go away talking to one another, and praising the speaker, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55204]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is not the best sermon which makes the hearers go away talking to one another, and praising the speaker, but which makes them go away thoughtful and serious, and hastening to be alone]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laughter is much more important than applause. Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24199]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laughter is much more important than applause. Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If what must be given is given willingly the kindness is doubled. [Lat., Bis gratum est, quod dato opus est, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23764]]></link><description><![CDATA[If what must be given is given willingly the kindness is doubled. [Lat., Bis gratum est, quod dato opus est, ultro si offeras.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated; it satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated; it satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time rewarding and maddening - and it is without a doubt the greatest game mankind has ever invented.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43599]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great is advertisement! 'tis almost fate; But, little mushroom-men, of puff-ball fame.  Ah, do you dream to be mistaken ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18256]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great is advertisement! 'tis almost fate; But, little mushroom-men, of puff-ball fame.  Ah, do you dream to be mistaken great   And to be really great are just the same?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63395]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear is an ague, that forsakes And haunts, by fits, those whom it takes;  And they'll opine they feel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15500]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear is an ague, that forsakes And haunts, by fits, those whom it takes;  And they'll opine they feel the pain   And blows they felt, to-day, again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With faces like dead lovers who died true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14870]]></link><description><![CDATA[With faces like dead lovers who died true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a jest, and all things show it, I thought so once, and now I know it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23217]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a jest, and all things show it, I thought so once, and now I know it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Price is what you pay. Value is what you get. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66879]]></link><description><![CDATA[Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65762]]></link><description><![CDATA[God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63542]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That rich celestial music thrilled the air From hosts on hosts shining ones, who thronged  Eastward and westward, making ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43426]]></link><description><![CDATA[That rich celestial music thrilled the air From hosts on hosts shining ones, who thronged  Eastward and westward, making bright the night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prayer is the movement of trust, of gratitude, of adoration, or of sorrow, that places us before God, seeing both ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7519]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prayer is the movement of trust, of gratitude, of adoration, or of sorrow, that places us before God, seeing both Him and ourselves in the light of His infinite truth, and moves us to ask Him for the mercy, the spiritual strength, the material help, that we all need. The man whose prayer is so pure that he never asks God for anything does not know who God is, and does not know who he is himself: for he does not know his own need of God. All true prayer somehow confesses our absolute dependence on the Lord of life and death. It is, therefore, a deep and vital contact with Him whom we know not only as Lord but as Father. It is when we pray truly that we really are. Our being is brought to a high perfection by this.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience, time and money accommodate all things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience, time and money accommodate all things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Corruption is a tree, whose branches are Of an immeasurable length: they spread  Ev'rywhere; and the dew that drops ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10190]]></link><description><![CDATA[Corruption is a tree, whose branches are Of an immeasurable length: they spread  Ev'rywhere; and the dew that drops from thence   Hath infected some chairs and stools of authority.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leisure time is that five or six hours when you sleep at night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24605]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leisure time is that five or six hours when you sleep at night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in.  A pessimist stays up to make sure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64511]]></link><description><![CDATA[An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in.  A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11945]]></link><description><![CDATA[The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deceit is in haste, but honesty can wait a fair leisure ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11512]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deceit is in haste, but honesty can wait a fair leisure]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is wiser to find out than to suppose ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22898]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is wiser to find out than to suppose]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are like steel: when they lose their temper, they lose their worth. -Chuck Norris. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2619]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are like steel: when they lose their temper, they lose their worth. -Chuck Norris.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ay, every inch a king. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54507]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ay, every inch a king.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is hard. After all it kills you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63558]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is hard. After all it kills you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fly that sips treacle is lost in the sweets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16223]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fly that sips treacle is lost in the sweets.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are haunters of the silence, ghosts that hold the heart and brain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56279]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are haunters of the silence, ghosts that hold the heart and brain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nine tenths of education is encouragement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13446]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nine tenths of education is encouragement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I had to refute all the other articles of the Jewish faith, I should be obliged to write against ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23458]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I had to refute all the other articles of the Jewish faith, I should be obliged to write against them as much and for as long a time as they have used for inventing their lies - that is, longer than two thousand years]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58370]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60798]]></link><description><![CDATA[Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with cats is that they've got no tact. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5343]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with cats is that they've got no tact.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not pleading with the Father, but expressing the Father's good pleasure is the key-note of true intercession. Forgiveness is God's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6494]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not pleading with the Father, but expressing the Father's good pleasure is the key-note of true intercession. Forgiveness is God's idea, God's desire; and it is He who appoints both the Judge and the Counsel for the Defense. It was He who inaugurated the priestly work, that men might receive His cleansing and turn to the Lamb of God slain from the foundation of the world. God has provided for himself a Lamb. It is He who sends His Son to be our Elder Brother, and to incorporate us as adopted sons into the circle of His Fatherly love. So then it is the voice of His beloved Son which is most clearly heard by the Father in heaven. In that voice of intercession, all the voices of intercession are contained and heard. The Son is talking to the Father about us, and what He says is not Please but Yes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The king to Oxford sent a troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force;  With equal care, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24524]]></link><description><![CDATA[The king to Oxford sent a troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force;  With equal care, to Cambridge books he sent,   For Whigs allow no force but argument.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It began of nothing and in nothing it ends. [Lat., Et redit in nihilum quod fuit ante nihil.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3952]]></link><description><![CDATA[It began of nothing and in nothing it ends. [Lat., Et redit in nihilum quod fuit ante nihil.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3952</guid></item></channel></rss>