<?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[When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43949]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The land is exceptionally beautiful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39578]]></link><description><![CDATA[The land is exceptionally beautiful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many (companies) in fact believe that (employees) are less effective in their jobs when 'dressed down', ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40054]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many (companies) in fact believe that (employees) are less effective in their jobs when 'dressed down',]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pint can't hold a quart -- if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22593]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pint can't hold a quart -- if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10062]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What used to seem inappropriate has become commonplace. The question is: Is Discovery going to make clear about whether Disney ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32181]]></link><description><![CDATA[What used to seem inappropriate has become commonplace. The question is: Is Discovery going to make clear about whether Disney funded the programs or provided any services? Essentially, if it's nothing more than an infomercial, will it be presented as such? Or will it be presented as an independent production that's separate from promoting a theme park?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart seldom feels what the mouth expresses. [Fr., Le coeur sent rarement ce que la bouche exprime.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57347]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart seldom feels what the mouth expresses. [Fr., Le coeur sent rarement ce que la bouche exprime.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sorrow preys upon Its solitude, and nothing more diverts it  From its sad visions of the other world  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sorrow preys upon Its solitude, and nothing more diverts it  From its sad visions of the other world   Than calling it at moments back to this.    The busy have no time for tears.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The psychologists and the metaphysicians wrangle endlessly over the nature of the thinking process in man, but no matter how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52201]]></link><description><![CDATA[The psychologists and the metaphysicians wrangle endlessly over the nature of the thinking process in man, but no matter how violently they differ otherwise they all agree that it has little to do with logic and is not much conditioned by overt facts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you were not a sinful, polluted, helpless, and miserable creature, this Savior would not be suited to you, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29559]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you were not a sinful, polluted, helpless, and miserable creature, this Savior would not be suited to you, and you would not be comprehended in his gracious invitations to the children of men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Reading history is good for all of us," he says, not surprisingly, perhaps, but his rationale is a fresh, somewhat ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4219]]></link><description><![CDATA["Reading history is good for all of us," he says, not surprisingly, perhaps, but his rationale is a fresh, somewhat bracing thought: "If you know history, you know that there is no such thing as a self-made man or self-made woman. We are shaped by people we have never met. Yes, reading history will make you a better citizen and more appreciative of the law, and of freedom, and of how the economy works or doesn't work, but it is also an immense pleasure—the way art is, or music is, or poetry is. And it's never stale."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Still fisheth he that catcheth one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49770]]></link><description><![CDATA[Still fisheth he that catcheth one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who hate most fervently must have once loved deeply; those who want to deny the world must have once ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who hate most fervently must have once loved deeply; those who want to deny the world must have once embraced what they now set on fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall,  Atoms or systems ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall,  Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd,   And now a bubble burst, and now a world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Which cheers the sad, revives the old, inspires The young, makes Weariness forget his toil,  And Fear her danger; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61675]]></link><description><![CDATA[Which cheers the sad, revives the old, inspires The young, makes Weariness forget his toil,  And Fear her danger; opens a new world   When this, the present, palls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're here to endorse the plan of Kevin Helfer. We've read the plan, we like the plan and that's why ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33833]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're here to endorse the plan of Kevin Helfer. We've read the plan, we like the plan and that's why we're here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65187]]></link><description><![CDATA[The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread I broke with you was more than bread. Now ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread I broke with you was more than bread. Now that I am without you, all is desolate; all that was once so beautiful is dead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5468]]></link><description><![CDATA[Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a "fix" of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/589]]></link><description><![CDATA[If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a "fix" of something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than cocaine]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was learning the importance of names -- having them, making them --but at the same time I sensed the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62475]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was learning the importance of names -- having them, making them --but at the same time I sensed the dangers. Recognition was followed by oblivion, a yawning maw whose victims disappeared without a trace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9722]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bad forgery's the ultimate insult. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15764]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bad forgery's the ultimate insult.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15156]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ther n' is no werkman whatever he be, That may both werken wel and hastily.  This wol be done ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62089]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ther n' is no werkman whatever he be, That may both werken wel and hastily.  This wol be done at leisure parfitly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56404]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am sure care's an enemy to life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51523]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am sure care's an enemy to life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The marquise has a disagreeable day for her journey. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59630]]></link><description><![CDATA[The marquise has a disagreeable day for her journey.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you make a habit of buying things you do not need, you will soon be selling things you do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5157]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you make a habit of buying things you do not need, you will soon be selling things you do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11019]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45298]]></link><description><![CDATA[The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There will be a huge political change within eight months and someone really huge is going to come in behind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32096]]></link><description><![CDATA[There will be a huge political change within eight months and someone really huge is going to come in behind Stephen Harper in support of him and it will surprise Canadians. I had a dream a couple of years ago about Harper living at 24 Sussex and I still maintain that he's going to take the majority one day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We wanted to get someone else some work at the catcher spot, just in case one girl happens to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35402]]></link><description><![CDATA[We wanted to get someone else some work at the catcher spot, just in case one girl happens to be struggling. These girls are so new, I'm still finding out what positions they can play.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hunger is the best sauce in the world. [Sp., La mejor salsa del mundo es la hambre.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20149]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hunger is the best sauce in the world. [Sp., La mejor salsa del mundo es la hambre.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Conversion of Paul  The God of Pharisaism was like the God of the Deists, He stood ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Conversion of Paul  The God of Pharisaism was like the God of the Deists, He stood aloof from the world He had made, and let law take its course. He did not here and now deal with sinful men. Paul lets us see how new and wonderful was the experience when God "flashed on his heart" in personal dealing with him. He had not suspected that God was like that. His theological studies had told him that God was loving and merciful; but he had thought this love and mercy were expressed once and for all in the arrangements He had made for Israel's blessedness... It was a new thing to be assured by an inward experience admitting of no further question that God loved him, and that the eternal mercy was a Father's free forgiveness of His erring child. This was the experience that Christ had brought him: he had seen the splendour of God's own love in the face of "the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me." [Continued tomorrow].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you belong to a minority, you have to be better in order to have the right to be equal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14114]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you belong to a minority, you have to be better in order to have the right to be equal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19123]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the cheif ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60791]]></link><description><![CDATA[The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Columba, Abbot of Iona, Missionary, 597 Commemoration of Ephrem of Syria, Deacon, Hymnographer, Teacher, 373   Although ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6395]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Columba, Abbot of Iona, Missionary, 597 Commemoration of Ephrem of Syria, Deacon, Hymnographer, Teacher, 373   Although it is indisputable that our Lord founded a church, it is an unproved assumption that the church is an aggregation of visible and organized societies. The theory upon which the public worship of the primitive churches proceeded was that each community was complete in itself, and that, in every act of public worship, every element of the community was present.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's an opportunity for citizens who care about issues to communicate with lawmakers about what's happening in their communities. Without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33566]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's an opportunity for citizens who care about issues to communicate with lawmakers about what's happening in their communities. Without that input, lawmakers might not be able to make informed decisions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The shoulders of a borrower are always a little straighter than those of a beggar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4753]]></link><description><![CDATA[The shoulders of a borrower are always a little straighter than those of a beggar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22864]]></link><description><![CDATA[In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are consumed very quickly at the first of the year, and we need to look at increasing that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31977]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are consumed very quickly at the first of the year, and we need to look at increasing that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poets are sultans, if they had their will: For every author would his brother kill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46841]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poets are sultans, if they had their will: For every author would his brother kill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged. [Fr., Je ne te quitterai point que je ne ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54091]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged. [Fr., Je ne te quitterai point que je ne t'aie vu pendu.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whip me such honest knaves! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23902]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whip me such honest knaves!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I hear somebody sigh that "Life is hard," I am alwaystempted to ask, "Compared to what?". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22350]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I hear somebody sigh that "Life is hard," I am alwaystempted to ask, "Compared to what?".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Swami Vivekanand, during his last days, had expressed need for a man-making machinery in India. The RSS formed by Dr ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40871]]></link><description><![CDATA[Swami Vivekanand, during his last days, had expressed need for a man-making machinery in India. The RSS formed by Dr Hegdewar in 1925, did the same work Vivekanand aspired for - making men,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40871</guid></item></channel></rss>