<?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[Life is short but a smile takes barely a second. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56667]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is short but a smile takes barely a second.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pessimist is an optimist with experience ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45184]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pessimist is an optimist with experience]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shelters here are less than comfortable, and poor sanitation can develop quickly. Residents who decide to stay in the county, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shelters here are less than comfortable, and poor sanitation can develop quickly. Residents who decide to stay in the county, even those who go to local shelters, are risking their health and safety.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25634]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No great deed is done By falterers who ask for certainty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18252]]></link><description><![CDATA[No great deed is done By falterers who ask for certainty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With something that's more emotionally based, you can't sort of screw the line up a little bit and adlib and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37945]]></link><description><![CDATA[With something that's more emotionally based, you can't sort of screw the line up a little bit and adlib and something.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wrong is but falsehood put in practice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62448]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wrong is but falsehood put in practice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The genuine creator creates something that has a life of its own, something that can exist and function without him. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52284]]></link><description><![CDATA[The genuine creator creates something that has a life of its own, something that can exist and function without him. This is true not only of the writer, artist and scientist, but of creators in other fields...With the noncreative it is the other way around: in whatever they do, they arrange things so that they themselves become indispensable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. . . . Speak what you think to-day in words ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9873]]></link><description><![CDATA[With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. . . . Speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon balls, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said to-day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This ban was enacted at the federal level, and Congress decided that it was an ineffective tool to combat violent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29261]]></link><description><![CDATA[This ban was enacted at the federal level, and Congress decided that it was an ineffective tool to combat violent crime, and as a result they did not renew it in 2004.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you educate a man you educate an individual; when you educate a woman you educate a whole family. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13515]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you educate a man you educate an individual; when you educate a woman you educate a whole family.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Joseph of Nazareth  It is the custom of unbelievers to speak as if the air of Palestine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7063]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Joseph of Nazareth  It is the custom of unbelievers to speak as if the air of Palestine were then surcharged with belief in the supernatural, miracles were everywhere. Thus they would explain away the significance of the popular belief that our Lord wrought signs and wonders. But in so doing they set themselves a worse problem than they evade. If miracles were so very common, it would be as easy to believe that Jesus wrought them as that He worked at His father's bench, but also it would be as inconclusive.  And how then are we to explain the astonishment which all the evangelists so constantly record? On any conceivable theory, these writers shared the beliefs of that age, and so did the readers who accepted their assurance that all were amazed, and that His report "went out straightway everywhere into all the region of Galilee." These are emphatic words, and both the author and his readers must have considered a miracle to be more surprising than modern critics believe they did. Yet we do not read of any one was converted by this miracle. All were amazed, but wonder is not self-surrender. They were content to let their excitement die out -- as every violent emotion must -- without any change of life, any permanent devotion to the new Teacher and His doctrine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a short series about the early church:   The sure way to success for any commercial venture is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a short series about the early church:   The sure way to success for any commercial venture is to suggest that those people who buy things from it, or gamble on its terms, are members of a "club", a "circle". Study the advertisements in any popular magazine: people are "invited to apply for membership"; "members will receive a catalogue"; they are even offered "rules", which they gladly accept because the need for authority lies heavily upon them; they then receive a card admitting them to the circle, with the "President's signature" printed on it. In the need for belonging, the acknowledgement of dependence, may lie the greatest opportunity of the Christian evangelist. It is not unlike the conditions under which the early Church worked. In the later Roman Empire, crumbling under its own size, its communications and resources stretched to the utmost, the mystery-religions came into their own. Rites of initiation, the sharing of secret knowledge, offered to people of all classes an escape from the perplexities of life, a retreat into a closed circle of the elect where they might feel that their transformed personalities had some significance. Who can know how many weary souls there were who strayed into the Church through rumours of a secret rite of purification, of a shared meal that conferred wisdom, and who remained to comprehend the fullness of the Godhead, a belonging greater than they had ever imagined.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have learned long ago to possess my soul in patience and accept the inevitable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27590]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have learned long ago to possess my soul in patience and accept the inevitable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remission is for all prisoners without looking at the type of crimes which had been carried out, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remission is for all prisoners without looking at the type of crimes which had been carried out,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side ;of the face can smile while the other is pinched.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Above all, we must abolish hope in the heart of man. A calm despair, without angry convulsions, without reproaches to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12001]]></link><description><![CDATA[Above all, we must abolish hope in the heart of man. A calm despair, without angry convulsions, without reproaches to Heaven, is the essence of wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poor and content is rich, and rich enough; But riches fineless is as poor as winter  To him that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51452]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poor and content is rich, and rich enough; But riches fineless is as poor as winter  To him that ever fears he shall be poor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Six years--six little years--six drops of time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59296]]></link><description><![CDATA[Six years--six little years--six drops of time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47570]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't stand for something, you will fall for anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5659]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't stand for something, you will fall for anything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the First Amendment, people have the right to petition the government. That is a constitutional right and we take ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33564]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the First Amendment, people have the right to petition the government. That is a constitutional right and we take that obligation very seriously.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63052]]></link><description><![CDATA[The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15700]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But ere we could arrive the point proposed, Caesar cried, 'Help me, Cassius, or I sink!' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19170]]></link><description><![CDATA[But ere we could arrive the point proposed, Caesar cried, 'Help me, Cassius, or I sink!']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think most people will believe that Arthur Anderson died because (after Enron imploded) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29654]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think most people will believe that Arthur Anderson died because (after Enron imploded)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remembrance of death saves one from this world's deceit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36716]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remembrance of death saves one from this world's deceit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44332]]></link><description><![CDATA[The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61225]]></link><description><![CDATA[War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't mind being a little bit lower and a little underestimated. It presents a different challenge. It motivates us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35664]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't mind being a little bit lower and a little underestimated. It presents a different challenge. It motivates us to step up. Our backs are against the wall right now. We want people to think we aren't as good as last year that way we can come out and show them who we really are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Needle in a bottle of hay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48543]]></link><description><![CDATA[Needle in a bottle of hay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48605]]></link><description><![CDATA[Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Value is what people are willing to pay for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21382]]></link><description><![CDATA[Value is what people are willing to pay for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just pulled up two of my boats out of the water. The gas stations are full. People are filling ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33157]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just pulled up two of my boats out of the water. The gas stations are full. People are filling their tanks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness of mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22500]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A young man married is a man that 's marr'd. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act ii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55724]]></link><description><![CDATA[A young man married is a man that 's marr'd. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act ii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our fervent hope is it brings some peace, comfort or satisfaction to the victims. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32460]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our fervent hope is it brings some peace, comfort or satisfaction to the victims.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To stop sinning suddenly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11215]]></link><description><![CDATA[To stop sinning suddenly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We envy those whose possessions or achievements are a reflection on our own. They are our neighbors and equals. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52115]]></link><description><![CDATA[We envy those whose possessions or achievements are a reflection on our own. They are our neighbors and equals. It is they, above all who make plain the nature of our failure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where may the wearied eye repose, When gazing on the Great;  Where neither guilty glory glows,   Nor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where may the wearied eye repose, When gazing on the Great;  Where neither guilty glory glows,   Nor despicable state?    Yes--one the first, the last, the best,     The Cincinnatus of the West      Whom envy dared not hate,       Bequeathed the name of Washington        To make man blush; there was but one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's funny, this thing about happiness. It's a commodity that was imported from America in the Fifties. I see myself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34971]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's funny, this thing about happiness. It's a commodity that was imported from America in the Fifties. I see myself simply as living my life . . . I feel it's pushing your luck to define how happy you are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I had spent as much time in the weight room as I did designing football uniforms, I probably would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66231]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I had spent as much time in the weight room as I did designing football uniforms, I probably would have had a free college education.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She said some very good things. But her very soft phrases are encouraging our leaders to oppose new leadership. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30896]]></link><description><![CDATA[She said some very good things. But her very soft phrases are encouraging our leaders to oppose new leadership.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hannah will catch that ball more times than not. Part of the issue is the lack of quality practice time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38020]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hannah will catch that ball more times than not. Part of the issue is the lack of quality practice time that we've had. Yes, it's late in the year, but how much of the practice time have we missed. A play that you should make will be harder on you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19632]]></link><description><![CDATA[A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66782]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle;  Though every prospect pleases,   And only man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62308]]></link><description><![CDATA[What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle;  Though every prospect pleases,   And only man is vile;    In vain with lavish kindness     The gifts of God are strown;      The heathen in his blindness       Bows down to wood and stone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ethelburga, Abbess of Barking, 675  Like the eye which sees everything in front of it and never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7261]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ethelburga, Abbess of Barking, 675  Like the eye which sees everything in front of it and never sees itself, faith is occupied with the Object upon which it rests and pays no attention to itself at all. While we are looking at God, we do not see ourselves -- blessed riddance. The man who has struggled to purify himself and has had nothing but repeated failures will experience real relief when he stops tinkering with his soul and looks away to the perfect One.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As good be out of the World as out of the Fashion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15342]]></link><description><![CDATA[As good be out of the World as out of the Fashion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15342</guid></item></channel></rss>