<?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[There is no such thing as an innocent purchaser of stocks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15698]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no such thing as an innocent purchaser of stocks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Folks who have no vices have plaguey few virtues. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60551]]></link><description><![CDATA[Folks who have no vices have plaguey few virtues.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've been in this business for years, and this has been the hardest three days. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32491]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've been in this business for years, and this has been the hardest three days.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22043]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This, this is misery! the last, the worst, That man can feel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42760]]></link><description><![CDATA[This, this is misery! the last, the worst, That man can feel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the kind of thing you sort of always hope you're going to see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33371]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the kind of thing you sort of always hope you're going to see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wee leave more to do when wee dye, then wee have done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50050]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wee leave more to do when wee dye, then wee have done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65441]]></link><description><![CDATA[Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding things from within.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58953]]></link><description><![CDATA[The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57006]]></link><description><![CDATA[And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to bring this uniformity up to the highest possible point. A school is a hopper into which children are heaved while they are still young and tender; therein they are pressed into certain standard shapes and covered from head to heels with official rubber-stamps.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13422]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a lot of factors we don't know definite answers to yet, to know whether this is OK or not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40986]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a lot of factors we don't know definite answers to yet, to know whether this is OK or not OK.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The biggest thing that would help the markets right now would be a sustained drop in crude oil, but I'm ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40733]]></link><description><![CDATA[The biggest thing that would help the markets right now would be a sustained drop in crude oil, but I'm not holding my breath for that. It's drawing attention away from third-quarter numbers that, despite GM, are really pretty good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20289]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1448]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/107]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no room for second place. There is only one place in my game and that is first place. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64439]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no room for second place. There is only one place in my game and that is first place. I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay and I never want to finish second again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only safe ruler is he who has learned to obey willingly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44740]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only safe ruler is he who has learned to obey willingly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/962]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. - Mahfouz.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As all Nature's thousands changes But one changeless God proclaim;  So in Art's wide kingdom ranges   One ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3180]]></link><description><![CDATA[As all Nature's thousands changes But one changeless God proclaim;  So in Art's wide kingdom ranges   One sole meaning still the same:    This is Truth, eternal Reason,     Which from Beauty takes its dress,      And serene through time and season       Stands aye in loveliness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continued from yesterday:  The result of all this is that the Christian is a free man. It is here ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7479]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continued from yesterday:  The result of all this is that the Christian is a free man. It is here to be observed that the term "freedom" is ambiguous in common usage. It is sometimes used to imply that a man can do just as he likes, undetermined by any external force. To this the determinist replies that as a matter of fact this freedom is so limited by the laws which condition man's empirical existence as to be illusory. The rejoinder from the advocates of free will is that no external force can determine a man's moral conduct (and with mere automatism we are not concerned), unless it is presented in consciousness, and that in being so presented it becomes a desire, a temptation, or a motive. In suffering himself to be determined by these, the man is not submitting to external control, but to something which he has already made a part of himself, for good or ill. When, however, we have said that, we are faced with a further problem. Not all that is desired is desirable, and in being moved by my immediate desire I may be balking myself of that ultimate satisfaction which is the real object of all effort. If that is so, then to "do as I like" may well be no freedom at all. There is a law of our being which forbids satisfaction to be found along that line, as it is written, "He gave them their desire, and sent leanness into their souls." (Ps. 106:15) (Continued tomorrow).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A book might be written on the injustice of the just. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4574]]></link><description><![CDATA[A book might be written on the injustice of the just.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do all the appropriating. They do not do any of it down at the White House. They send a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40349]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do all the appropriating. They do not do any of it down at the White House. They send a budget up here, and we don't have to pay any attention it to at all. We do what we want to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He gives a benefit twice who gives quickly. [Lat., Inopi beneficium bis dat, qui dat celeriter.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4141]]></link><description><![CDATA[He gives a benefit twice who gives quickly. [Lat., Inopi beneficium bis dat, qui dat celeriter.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God heals, and the Doctor takes the Fees ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12612]]></link><description><![CDATA[God heals, and the Doctor takes the Fees]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the first time in my life I feel important. I'd like to have five babies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39349]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the first time in my life I feel important. I'd like to have five babies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being directed down that pathway is very helpful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33056]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being directed down that pathway is very helpful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And bold and hard adventures t' undertake, Leaving his country for his country's sake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45778]]></link><description><![CDATA[And bold and hard adventures t' undertake, Leaving his country for his country's sake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18381]]></link><description><![CDATA[But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20885]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is no hard matter to adhere to God while you are in the enjoyment of His comforts and consolations; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6559]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is no hard matter to adhere to God while you are in the enjoyment of His comforts and consolations; but if you would prove your fidelity to Him, you must be willing to follow Him through the paths of dryness and desertion. The truth of a friend is not known while he is receiving favours and benefits from us; but if he remain faithful to us when we treat him with coldness and neglect, it will be a proof of the sincerity of his attachment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Luke the Evangelist   He who prays as he ought will endeavour to live as he prays. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7301]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Luke the Evangelist   He who prays as he ought will endeavour to live as he prays.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65422]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As with a little girl playing with her nurse, the toy which she eagerly sought she soon tires of and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50189]]></link><description><![CDATA[As with a little girl playing with her nurse, the toy which she eagerly sought she soon tires of and discards.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13235]]></link><description><![CDATA[However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66272]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58890]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger, tears and sadness are only for those who have given up ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54619]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger, tears and sadness are only for those who have given up]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/954]]></link><description><![CDATA[We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Health and cheerfulness mutually beget each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18914]]></link><description><![CDATA[Health and cheerfulness mutually beget each other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We feel Johnson County is the best location for the rain forest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37846]]></link><description><![CDATA[We feel Johnson County is the best location for the rain forest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Northbrook was playing pretty tough today and we struggled out there (but) there's no time for us to get upset ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32434]]></link><description><![CDATA[Northbrook was playing pretty tough today and we struggled out there (but) there's no time for us to get upset about today because we have to get right back at it in Two Rivers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27796]]></link><description><![CDATA[If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no substitute for guts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10427]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no substitute for guts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When workmen strive to do better than well, They do confound their skill in covetousness,  And oftentimes excusing of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10463]]></link><description><![CDATA[When workmen strive to do better than well, They do confound their skill in covetousness,  And oftentimes excusing of a fault   Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse,    As patches set upon a little breach     Discredit more in hiding of the fault      Than did the fault before it was so patched.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Sundar Singh of India, Sadhu, Evangelist, Teacher, 1929   The breadth and depth of [William] Carey's missionary ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Sundar Singh of India, Sadhu, Evangelist, Teacher, 1929   The breadth and depth of [William] Carey's missionary service [in India] is well illustrated in the principles laid down for themselves by the Serampore Brotherhood to be read three times a year in each station in their charge. Here is a summary:  To set an infinite value on men's souls. To abstain from whatever deepens India's prejudice against the Gospel. To watch for every chance of doing the people good. To preach Christ crucified as the grand means of conversions. To esteem and treat Indians always as equals. To be instant in the nurture of personal religion. To cultivate the spiritual gifts of the Indian brethren, ever pressing upon them their missionary obligation, since only Indians can win India for Christ.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57361]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her time is about 4.33, which she's capable of. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57645]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her time is about 4.33, which she's capable of.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a question of putting into the text the language of our accord. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32872]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a question of putting into the text the language of our accord.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel the coast is getting something rammed down the throat by the rest of the state and in particular ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28696]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel the coast is getting something rammed down the throat by the rest of the state and in particular by Haley Barbour who used to be a lobbyist for the petroleum industry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28696</guid></item></channel></rss>