<?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[What we can have as a matter of course, is not valued; what is denied we eagerly covet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50806]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we can have as a matter of course, is not valued; what is denied we eagerly covet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The law is not a "light" for you or any man to see by; the law is not an instrument ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24290]]></link><description><![CDATA[The law is not a "light" for you or any man to see by; the law is not an instrument of any kind. The law is a causeway upon which so long as he keeps to it a citizen may walk safely.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men. [Lat., Homines ad deos nulla ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18916]]></link><description><![CDATA[In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men. [Lat., Homines ad deos nulla re propius accedunt quam salutem hominibus dando.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. -Tolstoy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5579]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. -Tolstoy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context -- a chair in a room, a room ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9552]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context -- a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan. - "Time", July 2, 1956.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep holidays than commandments. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53702]]></link><description><![CDATA[How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep holidays than commandments.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing impossible to him who will try. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63300]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing impossible to him who will try.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue; Though he spare it, and forsake ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59474]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue; Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:  Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was no fire. We started out a little down in the beginning. We were lucky to still be winning, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34198]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was no fire. We started out a little down in the beginning. We were lucky to still be winning, I thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4668]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Social values in general are incrementally variable: neither safety, diversity, rational articulation, nor morality is categorically a "good thing" to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52177]]></link><description><![CDATA[Social values in general are incrementally variable: neither safety, diversity, rational articulation, nor morality is categorically a "good thing" to have more of, without limits. All are subject to diminishing returns, and ultimately negative returns.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our new installation projectors are really bright and feature-rich. Anyone who needs high performance, versatility and rich colors in an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35044]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our new installation projectors are really bright and feature-rich. Anyone who needs high performance, versatility and rich colors in an easy-to-use and easy-to-maintain installation projector will find the XD1000U and XD2000U perfect choices.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger assists hands however weak. [Lat., Quamlibet infirmas adjuvat ira manus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2548]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger assists hands however weak. [Lat., Quamlibet infirmas adjuvat ira manus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every path hath a puddle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every path hath a puddle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The living need charity more than the dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5716]]></link><description><![CDATA[The living need charity more than the dead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Angel ended, and in Adam's ear So charming left his voice, that he awhile  Thought him still speaking, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60919]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Angel ended, and in Adam's ear So charming left his voice, that he awhile  Thought him still speaking, still stood fix'd to hear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47495]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, Teacher, 397   To the good man to die is gain. The foolish ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, Teacher, 397   To the good man to die is gain. The foolish fear death as the greatest of evils, the wise desire it as a rest after labors and the end of ills.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52921]]></link><description><![CDATA[The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45698]]></link><description><![CDATA[I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66838]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fools admire, but men of sense approve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/627]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fools admire, but men of sense approve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To fight is a radical instinct; if men have nothing else to fight over they will fight over words, fancies, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15672]]></link><description><![CDATA[To fight is a radical instinct; if men have nothing else to fight over they will fight over words, fancies, or women, or they will fight because they dislike each other's looks, or because they have met walking in opposite directions]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For myself I am an optimist--it does not seem to be much use being anything else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45218]]></link><description><![CDATA[For myself I am an optimist--it does not seem to be much use being anything else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tragedy of human life consists in our vain attempts to stretch the limits of things which can never become ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59532]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tragedy of human life consists in our vain attempts to stretch the limits of things which can never become unlimited, to reach the infinite by absurdly adding to the rungs of the ladder of the finite.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Philo swears that he has never dined at home, and it is so; he does not dine at all, except ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Philo swears that he has never dined at home, and it is so; he does not dine at all, except when invited out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That which will not be spun, let it not come betweene the spindle and the distaffe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49790]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which will not be spun, let it not come betweene the spindle and the distaffe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61456]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5955]]></link><description><![CDATA[Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Misfortune shows those who are not really friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65916]]></link><description><![CDATA[Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perversnes makes one squint ey'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perversnes makes one squint ey'd.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I buried a lot of my ironing in the back yard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19917]]></link><description><![CDATA[I buried a lot of my ironing in the back yard.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neither shall the wave, which has passed on, ever be recalled; nor can the hour, which has once fled by, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50746]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neither shall the wave, which has passed on, ever be recalled; nor can the hour, which has once fled by, return again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now they have come to the place where their faith can no longer feed on the bread of repression and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now they have come to the place where their faith can no longer feed on the bread of repression and violence. They ask for the bread of liberty, of public equality, and public responsibility. It must not be denied them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When [he] kisses you he isn't doing anything else. You're his whole universe..and the moment is eternal because he doesn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23854]]></link><description><![CDATA[When [he] kisses you he isn't doing anything else. You're his whole universe..and the moment is eternal because he doesn't have any plans and isn't going anywhere. Just kissing you...it's overwhelming.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea of endless and limitless progress and development seems unsatisfying both philosophically and religiously; a process only finds its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6875]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea of endless and limitless progress and development seems unsatisfying both philosophically and religiously; a process only finds its meaning in its goal. However far off be the Beatific Vision, to see the King in His glory, "to know Thee and Jesus Christ whom Thou hast sent" -- this is heaven, and "it were a well-spent journey though seven deaths lay between".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4675]]></link><description><![CDATA[Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64317]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65671]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are an alchemist; make gold of that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1983]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are an alchemist; make gold of that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all our possessions, wisdom alone is imortal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64390]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all our possessions, wisdom alone is imortal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You win some, you lose some, and some get rained out, but you gotta suit up for them all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10424]]></link><description><![CDATA[You win some, you lose some, and some get rained out, but you gotta suit up for them all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But when does flesh receive the bread which He calls His flesh? The faithful know and receive the Body of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8448]]></link><description><![CDATA[But when does flesh receive the bread which He calls His flesh? The faithful know and receive the Body of Christ if they labor to be the body of Christ; and they become the body of Christ if they study to live by the Spirit of Christ: for that which lives by the Spirit of Christ is the body of Christ.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cosmos is interesting rather than perfect, and everything is not part of some greater plan, nor is all necessarily ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10204]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cosmos is interesting rather than perfect, and everything is not part of some greater plan, nor is all necessarily under control]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So many men, so little time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27003]]></link><description><![CDATA[So many men, so little time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had an excellent setup all day, ... We never had to take any bite out of the car or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30346]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had an excellent setup all day, ... We never had to take any bite out of the car or make any changes all day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Joseph of Nazareth Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  Jeremy Taylor gives us some fundamental rules for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7492]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Joseph of Nazareth Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  Jeremy Taylor gives us some fundamental rules for prayer. And the chief of them is this: "Do not lie to God." And that curt piece of advice, so bluntly thrown down for us, is indeed all-important. Do not burn false fire upon God's altar; do not pose and pretend, either to Him or to yourself, in your religious exercises; do not say more than you mean, or use exagerated language that goes beyond the facts, when speaking to Him whose word is truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The major difference is that in the fall we had 22 percent of college students saying we should withdraw all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40254]]></link><description><![CDATA[The major difference is that in the fall we had 22 percent of college students saying we should withdraw all troops and now we only have 11 percent who say that. However, the percentage of college students who think we should withdraw some troops is much higher.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63642]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63642</guid></item></channel></rss>