<?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[It's not the will to win, but the will to prepare to winthat makes the difference. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21217]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not the will to win, but the will to prepare to winthat makes the difference.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24933]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Haven't you ever been using an operating system and said, 'Well, that's stupid, why do the menus look like that?' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40468]]></link><description><![CDATA[Haven't you ever been using an operating system and said, 'Well, that's stupid, why do the menus look like that?']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God's manifestation of Himself has not been for our personal experience only, but all creation, and all time, all mankind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6591]]></link><description><![CDATA[God's manifestation of Himself has not been for our personal experience only, but all creation, and all time, all mankind and all man's life upon the earth, are manifestations of God; and the man turns to barrenness and folly who limits himself to his own narrow thought and futile endeavours. All human experience is revelation if the great purpose of life is the discipline of souls, and the one unchanging guidance for all men is duty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12271]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12934]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'll try to recoup whatever it costs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38937]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'll try to recoup whatever it costs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope is ambiguous, but fear is precise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is ambiguous, but fear is precise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are like fine wine. They all start out like grapes, and it's our job to stomp on them and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59031]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are like fine wine. They all start out like grapes, and it's our job to stomp on them and keep them in the dark until they mature into something you'd like to have dinner with]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I lately stood with a friend before [the cathedral of] Amiens, . . . he asked me how it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3024]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I lately stood with a friend before [the cathedral of] Amiens, . . . he asked me how it happens that we can no longer build such piles? I replied: "Dear Alphonse, men in those days had convictions (Ueberzeugungen), we moderns have opinions (Meinungen) and it requires something more than an opinion to build a Gothic cathedral.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None but the lark so shrill and clear; Now at heaven's gate she claps her wings,  The morn not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24095]]></link><description><![CDATA[None but the lark so shrill and clear; Now at heaven's gate she claps her wings,  The morn not waking till she sings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51031]]></link><description><![CDATA[The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was a bold man that first eat an oyster. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45357]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was a bold man that first eat an oyster.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It isn't always about adding resources, it's about ensuring your resources are appropriately allocated. It really elevates the focus on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31214]]></link><description><![CDATA[It isn't always about adding resources, it's about ensuring your resources are appropriately allocated. It really elevates the focus on professional development.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's definitely going to be a positive for the bottom line, but we're talking pennies here. All of this is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34321]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's definitely going to be a positive for the bottom line, but we're talking pennies here. All of this is gravy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One takes a risk when one invites the Lord Whether to dine, or talk the afternoon Away, for always the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6475]]></link><description><![CDATA[One takes a risk when one invites the Lord Whether to dine, or talk the afternoon Away, for always the unexpected soon Turns up: a woman breaks her precious nard, A sinner does the task you should assume, A leper who is cleansed must show his proof: Suddenly you see your very roof remove And a cripple clutters up your living-room. There's no telling what to expect when Christ Walks in the door. The table set for four Must often be enlarged, and decorum Thrown to the winds. It's His voice that calls them, And it's no use to bolt and bar the door: His kingdom knows no bounds of roof, of wall or floor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not good fishing before the net. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49581]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not good fishing before the net.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2215]]></link><description><![CDATA[We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beginning a short series on education:   The history of our student movement [Inter-Varsity] has demonstrated that a prayer-less ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beginning a short series on education:   The history of our student movement [Inter-Varsity] has demonstrated that a prayer-less chapter is a fruitless chapter. Prayer spells all the difference between working for God in our own strength and wisdom or being fellow laborers together with Him in the work that He is seeking to do in the University.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64939]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has not been at a tavern knows not what a paradise it is. O holy tavern! O miraculous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20986]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has not been at a tavern knows not what a paradise it is. O holy tavern! O miraculous tavern!--holy, because no carking cares are there, nor weariness, nor pain; and miraculous, because of the spits, which themselves turn round and round!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45217]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Low gurgling laughter, as sweet As the swallow's song i' the South,  And a ripple of dimples that, dancing, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24177]]></link><description><![CDATA[Low gurgling laughter, as sweet As the swallow's song i' the South,  And a ripple of dimples that, dancing, meet   By the curves of a perfect mouth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have the courage of my opinions, but I have not the temerity to give a political blank cheque to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57842]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have the courage of my opinions, but I have not the temerity to give a political blank cheque to Lord Salisbury.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some values are ... like sugar on the doughnut, legitimate, desirable, but insufficient, apart from the doughnut itself. We need ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60348]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some values are ... like sugar on the doughnut, legitimate, desirable, but insufficient, apart from the doughnut itself. We need substance as well as frosting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Choose being kind over being right, and you'll be right every time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23767]]></link><description><![CDATA[Choose being kind over being right, and you'll be right every time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many have quarreled about religion that never practiced it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many have quarreled about religion that never practiced it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man cannot be uncomfortable without his own approval ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2970]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man cannot be uncomfortable without his own approval]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace is more precious than a piece of land. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45934]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace is more precious than a piece of land.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything that can be invented, has been invented. - 1899. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9440]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything that can be invented, has been invented. - 1899.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2368]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of William Law, Priest, Mystic, 1761 Commemoration of William of Ockham, Franciscan Friar, Philosopher, Teacher, 1347 Commemoration of Pierre ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7013]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of William Law, Priest, Mystic, 1761 Commemoration of William of Ockham, Franciscan Friar, Philosopher, Teacher, 1347 Commemoration of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Priest, Scientist, Visionary, 1955   Read whatever chapter of Scripture you will, and be ever so delighted with it -- yet it will leave you as poor, as empty and unchanged as it found you unless it has turned you wholly and solely to the Spirit of God, and brought you into full union with and dependence upon Him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sodomite got very excited looking at a zoology text. Does this make it pornography? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47735]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sodomite got very excited looking at a zoology text. Does this make it pornography?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Holy Father, so passes away the glory of the world. [Lat., Pater sancte, sic transit gloria mundi.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Holy Father, so passes away the glory of the world. [Lat., Pater sancte, sic transit gloria mundi.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diseases of the mind impair the bodily powers. [Lat., Vitiant artus aegrae contagia mentis.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12491]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diseases of the mind impair the bodily powers. [Lat., Vitiant artus aegrae contagia mentis.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn the fundamentals of the game at your leisure and stick with them. Band-aid remedies never last. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn the fundamentals of the game at your leisure and stick with them. Band-aid remedies never last.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is perhaps common in the world for individuals and nations to suffer for their noble qualities more than for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44591]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is perhaps common in the world for individuals and nations to suffer for their noble qualities more than for their ignoble ones. For nobility is an occasion for pride, the most treacherous of sentiments.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16428]]></link><description><![CDATA[While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sence I've ben here, I've hired a chap to look about for me, To git me a transplantable an' thrifty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2498]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sence I've ben here, I've hired a chap to look about for me, To git me a transplantable an' thrifty fem'ly-tree.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64881]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shall I, like Curtius, desperate in my zeal, O'er head and ears plunge for the common weal?  Or rob ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17199]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shall I, like Curtius, desperate in my zeal, O'er head and ears plunge for the common weal?  Or rob Rome's ancient geese of all their glories,   And cackling save the monarchies of Tories?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fair Venus shines Even in the eye of day; with sweetest beam  Propitious shines, and shakes a trembling flood ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59914]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fair Venus shines Even in the eye of day; with sweetest beam  Propitious shines, and shakes a trembling flood   Of softened radiance from her dewy locks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hello Montreal! 'Fuck You' would be a good sign at your highways! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30245]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hello Montreal! 'Fuck You' would be a good sign at your highways!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life must be understood backwards. But it must be lived forward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life must be understood backwards. But it must be lived forward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will be judges of the fact. You are the sole and exclusive judges of what the truth is. You ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23582]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will be judges of the fact. You are the sole and exclusive judges of what the truth is. You will bring with you here your common sense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is it where the flow'r of the orange blows, And the fireflies dance thro' the myrtle boughs? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16029]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is it where the flow'r of the orange blows, And the fireflies dance thro' the myrtle boughs?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Successful leaders have the courage to take action where others hesitate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6115]]></link><description><![CDATA[Successful leaders have the courage to take action where others hesitate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6115</guid></item></channel></rss>