<?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[Mysterious haunts of echoes old and far, The voice divine of human loyalty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13293]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mysterious haunts of echoes old and far, The voice divine of human loyalty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/682]]></link><description><![CDATA[Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24594]]></link><description><![CDATA[Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opinions have vested interests just as men have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opinions have vested interests just as men have.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Successful villany is called virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51184]]></link><description><![CDATA[Successful villany is called virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their hearts sweat with undivulged guilt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50512]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their hearts sweat with undivulged guilt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wise understand by themselves; fools follow the reports of others ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58062]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wise understand by themselves; fools follow the reports of others]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip will be good for all students. There will be no more obstacles, no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41311]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip will be good for all students. There will be no more obstacles, no more checkpoints,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Work thou not on energized equipment, for if thou dost, thy fellow workers will surely buy beers for thy widow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Work thou not on energized equipment, for if thou dost, thy fellow workers will surely buy beers for thy widow and console her in other ways.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This is the cutting edge of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9384]]></link><description><![CDATA[The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This is the cutting edge of modeling technology.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Albrecht Dürer, artist, 1528, and Michelangelo Buonarrotti, artist, spiritual writer, 1564  It is my opinion that art ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7797]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Albrecht Dürer, artist, 1528, and Michelangelo Buonarrotti, artist, spiritual writer, 1564  It is my opinion that art lost its basic creative drive the moment it was separated from worship. It severed an umbilical cord... In former days the artist remained unknown and his work was to the glory of God... Today the individual has become the highest form and the greatest bane of artistic creation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9781]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our biggest concern is our time, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our biggest concern is our time,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first step to improvement, whether mental, moral, or religious, is to know ourselves - our weakness,errors, deficiencies, and sins, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20676]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first step to improvement, whether mental, moral, or religious, is to know ourselves - our weakness,errors, deficiencies, and sins, that, by divine grace, we may overcome and turn from them all]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A doctrine insulates the devout not only against the realities around them but also against their own selves. The fanatical ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56840]]></link><description><![CDATA[A doctrine insulates the devout not only against the realities around them but also against their own selves. The fanatical believer is not conscious of his envy, malice, pettiness and dishonesty. There is a wall of words between his consciousness and his real self.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1764]]></link><description><![CDATA[To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52076]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The chief pang of most trials is not so much the actual suffering itself as our own spirit of resistance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6203]]></link><description><![CDATA[The chief pang of most trials is not so much the actual suffering itself as our own spirit of resistance to it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have met the enemy and it is us. - "Pogo comic strip". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44230]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have met the enemy and it is us. - "Pogo comic strip".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smile; it the second best thing one can do with one's lips. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56668]]></link><description><![CDATA[Smile; it the second best thing one can do with one's lips.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chess first of all teaches you to be objective. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28836]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chess first of all teaches you to be objective.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his life trying to remove ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3293]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laugh and the world laughs with you; snore and you sleep alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laugh and the world laughs with you; snore and you sleep alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17962]]></link><description><![CDATA[Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is politics, raw and urgent, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36896]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is politics, raw and urgent,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They need to be permanent employees. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40089]]></link><description><![CDATA[They need to be permanent employees.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40089</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[Don't waste time learning the "tricks of the trade. Instead, learn the trade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59505]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't waste time learning the "tricks of the trade. Instead, learn the trade.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The company has gone out of business. They've not been able to stay financially afloat and are unable to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38055]]></link><description><![CDATA[The company has gone out of business. They've not been able to stay financially afloat and are unable to do the work they've been contracted to perform.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24328]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are but as the instrument of Heaven. Our work is not design, but destiny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12069]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are but as the instrument of Heaven. Our work is not design, but destiny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63303]]></link><description><![CDATA[When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chris kept taking him down, but he got caught a few times. They're both really good wrestlers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36472]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chris kept taking him down, but he got caught a few times. They're both really good wrestlers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a slow but perceptible fraying of our employment-based system, ... what I call the drip, drip, drip (of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34060]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a slow but perceptible fraying of our employment-based system, ... what I call the drip, drip, drip (of health coverage).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64546]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15297]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The school district is pleased that a national publication recognizes that you can be an excellent school district without spending ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39188]]></link><description><![CDATA[The school district is pleased that a national publication recognizes that you can be an excellent school district without spending more than another school district, ... We have one of the lower per pupil costs in Delaware County. Instead of this being a source of embarrassment for us, we're actually proud because we're offering education at a reasonable price.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13286]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The miserable have no other medicine but hope. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42749]]></link><description><![CDATA[The miserable have no other medicine but hope.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home, which answer the same purpose as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27319]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home, which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now these be the last words of David. David the son of Jesse said, and the man who was raised ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54902]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now these be the last words of David. David the son of Jesse said, and the man who was raised up on high, the anointed of the God of Jacob, and the sweet psalmist of Israel, said, The Spirit of the Lord spake by me, and his word was in my tongue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judge a tree from its fruit, not from its leaves ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23472]]></link><description><![CDATA[Judge a tree from its fruit, not from its leaves]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune is like glass; she breaks when she is brightest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51595]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune is like glass; she breaks when she is brightest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adam, well may we labour, still to dress This garden, still to tend plant, herb, and flower. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1959]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adam, well may we labour, still to dress This garden, still to tend plant, herb, and flower.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56310]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester, 1095   The truth is that so long as we hold both sides ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8604]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester, 1095   The truth is that so long as we hold both sides of the proposition together they contain nothing inconsistent with orthodoxy, but as soon as one is divorced from the other, it is bound to prove a stumbling-block. "Only those who believe obey" is what we say to that part of a believer's soul which obeys, and "only those who obey believe" is what we say to that part of the soul of the obedient which believes. If the first half of the proposition stands alone, the believer is exposed to the danger of cheap grace, which is another word for damnation. If the second half stands alone, the believer is exposed to the danger of salvation through works, which is also another word for damnation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the degree we can live without the things of this world, to thatdegree we are wealthy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21380]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the degree we can live without the things of this world, to thatdegree we are wealthy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26401]]></link><description><![CDATA[My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think of that, Master Brook. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 5. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55369]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think of that, Master Brook. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 5.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55369</guid></item></channel></rss>