<?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://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/533]]></link><description><![CDATA[Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Chad, Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop of Lichfield, Missionary, 672 Continuing a short series on the Bible: Come, Holy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Chad, Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop of Lichfield, Missionary, 672 Continuing a short series on the Bible: Come, Holy Ghost, for moved by thee The prophets wrote and spoke; Unlock the truth, thyself the key, Unseal the sacred book.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every extreme attitude is a flight from the self. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52301]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every extreme attitude is a flight from the self.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We Don't Need Yellow Ribbons, We Need Help, We Need Jobs ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31428]]></link><description><![CDATA[We Don't Need Yellow Ribbons, We Need Help, We Need Jobs]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To God I speak Spanish, to women Italian, to men French, and to my horse--German. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23997]]></link><description><![CDATA[To God I speak Spanish, to women Italian, to men French, and to my horse--German.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vulgarity is more obvious in satin than in homespun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61053]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vulgarity is more obvious in satin than in homespun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My biological work convinced me that the One who was declared dead by Nietzsche, and silent by Sartre, actually is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6266]]></link><description><![CDATA[My biological work convinced me that the One who was declared dead by Nietzsche, and silent by Sartre, actually is very much alive and speaking to us through all things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58912]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A doctrine capable of being stated only in obscure and involved terms is open to reasonable suspicion of being either ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12625]]></link><description><![CDATA[A doctrine capable of being stated only in obscure and involved terms is open to reasonable suspicion of being either crude or erroneous]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That loss is common would not make My own less bitter, rather more:  Too common! Never morning wore  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25587]]></link><description><![CDATA[That loss is common would not make My own less bitter, rather more:  Too common! Never morning wore   To evening, but some heart did break.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He best can paint them who shall feel them most. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45428]]></link><description><![CDATA[He best can paint them who shall feel them most.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The feelings, sentiments, values and responses of our children, or of any citizen, are none of the government's damned business. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47171]]></link><description><![CDATA[The feelings, sentiments, values and responses of our children, or of any citizen, are none of the government's damned business. That we must support a government agency that gives itself to the emotional and ideological manipulation of citizens is infamous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A few strong instincts and a few plain rules. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22832]]></link><description><![CDATA[A few strong instincts and a few plain rules.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fumes spread from the construction area into the records office. Several employees reported smelling noxious fumes. Several became lightheaded. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33715]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fumes spread from the construction area into the records office. Several employees reported smelling noxious fumes. Several became lightheaded. A few became nauseated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reason is the wise man's guide, example the fool's. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reason is the wise man's guide, example the fool's.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15136]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46365]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and sensual.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has great tranquillity of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men. He will easily ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7056]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has great tranquillity of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men. He will easily be content and pacified, whose conscience is pure. You are not holier if you are praised, nor the more worthless if you are found fault with. What you are, that you are; neither by word can you be made greater than what you are in the sight of God.  Thomas à Kempis, Of the Imitation of Christ  [With thanks to Roger E. Doriot]    February 12, 1997  Ash Wednesday  Were Christians duly instructed how many lesser differences in mind and judgment and practice are really consistent with the nature, ends, and genuine fruit of the unity that Christ requires among them, it would undoubtedly prevail with them so as to manage themselves in their differences by mutual forbearance and condescension in their love, as not to contract the guilt of being disturbers or breakers of it. To speak plainly, among all the churches in the world which are free from idolatry and persecution, it is not different opinions, nor a difference in judgment about revealed truths, nor a different practice in sacred administrations, but pride, self-interest, love of honour, reputation, and dominion, with the influence of civil or political intrigues and considerations, that are the true cause of that defect of evangelical unity that is at this day amongst them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis thus we heed no instincts but our own, Believe no evil, till the evil's done.  [Fr., Nous n'ecoutons ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22825]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis thus we heed no instincts but our own, Believe no evil, till the evil's done.  [Fr., Nous n'ecoutons d'instincts que ceux qui sont les notres.   Et ne croyons le mal que quand il est venu.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend is a gift you give yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63535]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend is a gift you give yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And what is more melancholy than the old apple-trees that linger about the spot where once stood a homestead, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2944]]></link><description><![CDATA[And what is more melancholy than the old apple-trees that linger about the spot where once stood a homestead, but where there is now only a ruined chimney rising our of a grassy and weed-grown cellar? They offer their fruit to every wayfarer--apples that are bitter-sweet with the moral of times vicissitude.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mills of God work like lightning compared with the law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24284]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mills of God work like lightning compared with the law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This confirms what we have long suspected that the government is involved in putting together a deal to sell out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42457]]></link><description><![CDATA[This confirms what we have long suspected that the government is involved in putting together a deal to sell out British sovereignty and try and bounce the people of Gibraltar into accepting such a deal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are ready to try our fortunes To the last man. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act iv. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55936]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are ready to try our fortunes To the last man. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The art of losing isn't hard to masters; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44337]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art of losing isn't hard to masters; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not chaos-like together crush'd and bruis'd, But, as the world, harmoniously confused:  Where order in variety we see,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45266]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not chaos-like together crush'd and bruis'd, But, as the world, harmoniously confused:  Where order in variety we see,   And where tho' all things differ, all agree.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26405]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here the heart May give a useful lesson to the head,  And learning wiser grow without his books. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24536]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here the heart May give a useful lesson to the head,  And learning wiser grow without his books.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Overall, we are pretty optimistic. We think the September and December quarters will be good ones for the enterprise software ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30311]]></link><description><![CDATA[Overall, we are pretty optimistic. We think the September and December quarters will be good ones for the enterprise software providers. The business software cycle is on the rise, rebounding nicely from the Y2K problem of last year and the successful transition from client-server architecture to Internet architecture software.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another ... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another ...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Japanese economy is turning around, as evidenced by the machine tool orders. If signs of growth in the economy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30651]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Japanese economy is turning around, as evidenced by the machine tool orders. If signs of growth in the economy continue, eventually they (Japan) will depart from the zero interest rate policy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In robe and crown the king stepped down, To meet and greet her on her way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51701]]></link><description><![CDATA[In robe and crown the king stepped down, To meet and greet her on her way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Mason Neale, Priest, Poet, 1866   For all the vigour of his polemic, St. Paul does ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Mason Neale, Priest, Poet, 1866   For all the vigour of his polemic, St. Paul does not content himself with the denunciation of error, but finds the best defense against its insidious approaches in a closer adherence to the love of God and faith in Christ.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you would know secrets, looke them in griefe or pleasure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49525]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you would know secrets, looke them in griefe or pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Burroughs was a very political writer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39591]]></link><description><![CDATA[Burroughs was a very political writer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18974]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She shows the worst qualities of masochists. She is boastful, she tramples upon the rights of others ... and because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31115]]></link><description><![CDATA[She shows the worst qualities of masochists. She is boastful, she tramples upon the rights of others ... and because the majority of Filipinos are women, she is abusing the rights of women.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And wisely tell what hour o' th' day The clock does strike by Algebra. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24527]]></link><description><![CDATA[And wisely tell what hour o' th' day The clock does strike by Algebra.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cat may look like a king. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5310]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cat may look like a king.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4302]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are examining what alternative documents we could use for people in those border areas to go back and forth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37282]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are examining what alternative documents we could use for people in those border areas to go back and forth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man forget not, though in rags he lies, And know the mortal through a crown's disguise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26244]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man forget not, though in rags he lies, And know the mortal through a crown's disguise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mountain was in labour, and Jove was afraid, but it brought forth a mouse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43317]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mountain was in labour, and Jove was afraid, but it brought forth a mouse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/526]]></link><description><![CDATA[The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man that blushes is not quite a brute. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27140]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man that blushes is not quite a brute.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41523]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you didn't even know you'd done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give what thou canst, without Thee we are poor; And with Thee rich, take what Thou wilt away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give what thou canst, without Thee we are poor; And with Thee rich, take what Thou wilt away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our understanding of the world is achieved more effectively by conceptual improvements than by discovery of new facts... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our understanding of the world is achieved more effectively by conceptual improvements than by discovery of new facts...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15980]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing dries sooner than a tear. [Lat., Nihil enim lacryma citius arescit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58792]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing dries sooner than a tear. [Lat., Nihil enim lacryma citius arescit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58792</guid></item></channel></rss>