<?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[It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts -- you have no idea of the pain it gives ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11485]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts -- you have no idea of the pain it gives one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have heard professing Christians of our own day speak as though the historicity of the Gospels does not matter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7791]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have heard professing Christians of our own day speak as though the historicity of the Gospels does not matter -- all that matters is the contemporary Spirit of Christ. I contend that the historicity does matter, and I do not see why we, who live nearly two thousand years later, should call into question an Event for which there were many eye-witnesses still living at the time when most of the New Testament was written. It was no "cunningly devised fable" but an historic irruption of God into human history which gave birth to a young church so sturdy that the pagan world could not stifle or destroy it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47297]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64910]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He did a great job for us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35540]]></link><description><![CDATA[He did a great job for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Corinthian, a lad of mettle, a good boy. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55854]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Corinthian, a lad of mettle, a good boy. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue, the strength and beauty of the soul, Is the best gift of Heaven: a happiness  That even above ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue, the strength and beauty of the soul, Is the best gift of Heaven: a happiness  That even above the smiles and frowns of fate   Exalts great Nature's favourites: a wealth    That ne'er encumbers, nor can be transferr'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lots of promises were made last year. And in terms of public awareness, we've already won. Now we have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33148]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lots of promises were made last year. And in terms of public awareness, we've already won. Now we have to shift the focus to the money, and how the money is used.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell. •Anonymous    Many an opportunity is lost ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45105]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell. •Anonymous    Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I saw the chair in design magazines. It was also in Child Magazine. The designers really thought about who their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34386]]></link><description><![CDATA[I saw the chair in design magazines. It was also in Child Magazine. The designers really thought about who their user was.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Appearances to save, his only care; So things seem right, no matter what they are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Appearances to save, his only care; So things seem right, no matter what they are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Christian message is not an exhortation -- "try hard to be good." Good advice, but there is no saving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6643]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Christian message is not an exhortation -- "try hard to be good." Good advice, but there is no saving gospel in that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On behalf of all of those who have a special place in their hearts for Vail Mountain, I would like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28403]]></link><description><![CDATA[On behalf of all of those who have a special place in their hearts for Vail Mountain, I would like to thank and congratulate the many law enforcement bodies who worked so hard over such a long period of time to find the individuals who are allegedly responsible for the shocking Vail arson in 1998.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a few years there will be only five kings in the world -- the King of England and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19537]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a few years there will be only five kings in the world -- the King of England and the four kings in a pack of cards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9168]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It currently seems a pretty safe bet that interest rates will not change for several more months to come, if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36610]]></link><description><![CDATA[It currently seems a pretty safe bet that interest rates will not change for several more months to come, if at all this year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think many experiences are bound to be failures, and sometimes I regret them before they even happen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39914]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think many experiences are bound to be failures, and sometimes I regret them before they even happen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Karma-yoga no effort is ever lost, and there is no harm. Even a little practice of this discipline protects ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62521]]></link><description><![CDATA[In Karma-yoga no effort is ever lost, and there is no harm. Even a little practice of this discipline protects one from great fear [of birth and death].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think people are willing to spend more to have a premium experience so they're buying less but they're buying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30542]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think people are willing to spend more to have a premium experience so they're buying less but they're buying higher quality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This flower that first appeared as summer's guest Preserves her beauty 'mid autumnal leaves  And to her mournful habits ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25938]]></link><description><![CDATA[This flower that first appeared as summer's guest Preserves her beauty 'mid autumnal leaves  And to her mournful habits fondly cleaves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14330]]></link><description><![CDATA[Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ours is not a race to compete dollar for dollar with Ed Rendell. Ours is a race to ensure that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40657]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ours is not a race to compete dollar for dollar with Ed Rendell. Ours is a race to ensure that we have the necessary funds to mount the most competitive race possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44141]]></link><description><![CDATA[There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If by fire Of sooty coal th' empiric alchymist  Can turn, or holds it possible to turn,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1981]]></link><description><![CDATA[If by fire Of sooty coal th' empiric alchymist  Can turn, or holds it possible to turn,   Metals of drossiest ore to perfect gold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people recognize themselves in their commodities; they find their soul in their automobile, hi-fi set, split-level home, kitchen equipment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2875]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people recognize themselves in their commodities; they find their soul in their automobile, hi-fi set, split-level home, kitchen equipment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15833]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54634]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What can be found equal to modesty, uncorrupt faith, the sister of justice, and undisguised truth? [Lat., Cui pudor et ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42909]]></link><description><![CDATA[What can be found equal to modesty, uncorrupt faith, the sister of justice, and undisguised truth? [Lat., Cui pudor et justitiae soror incorrupta fides nudaque veritas quando ullum inveniet parem?]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Piglet, the Sheep, and the GoatA young pig was shut up in a fold-yard with a Goat and a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1549]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Piglet, the Sheep, and the GoatA young pig was shut up in a fold-yard with a Goat and a Sheep. On one occasion when the shepherd laid hold of him, he grunted and squeaked and resisted violently. The Sheep and the Goat complained of his distressing cries, saying, He often handles us, and we do not cry out. To this the Pig replied, Your handling and mine are very different things. He catches you only for your wool, or your milk, but he lays hold on me for my very life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two starving men cannot be twice as hungry as one; but two rascals can be ten times as vicious as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61542]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two starving men cannot be twice as hungry as one; but two rascals can be ten times as vicious as one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But now thy kingdom shall not continue: the Lord hath sought him a man after his own heart, and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26253]]></link><description><![CDATA[But now thy kingdom shall not continue: the Lord hath sought him a man after his own heart, and the Lord hath commanded him to be captain over his people, because thou hast not kept that which the Lord commanded thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is something peculiarly sinister and insidious in even a charge of disloyalty. Such a charge all too frequently places ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59665]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is something peculiarly sinister and insidious in even a charge of disloyalty. Such a charge all too frequently places a strain on the reputation of an individual which is indelible and lasting, regardless of the complete innocence later proved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15915]]></link><description><![CDATA[If money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Know thyself. [Lat., Ne quis nimis. (From the Greek)] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Know thyself. [Lat., Ne quis nimis. (From the Greek)]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The villany you teach me I will execute, and it shall go hard, but I will better the instruction. -The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55588]]></link><description><![CDATA[The villany you teach me I will execute, and it shall go hard, but I will better the instruction. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone wants Steve to do well because he really is the nicest guy you would ever come across. When we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39257]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone wants Steve to do well because he really is the nicest guy you would ever come across. When we were working on the movie he said to me ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â and he wasn't kidding ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â 'I'm just trying to be nice to the casting director, so if this bombs she'll at least cast me in another movie.' This was the casting director he hired.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust in the Lord with all you do and you will be prosperous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust in the Lord with all you do and you will be prosperous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We believe in and are developing a broad-based equity plan so that all our people can participate in a stock-option ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34291]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe in and are developing a broad-based equity plan so that all our people can participate in a stock-option program that will enable them to share in the growth potential of the company.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're comfortable that if the Time Warner partnership is not attributable to AT&T that we can fit under the 30 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42519]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're comfortable that if the Time Warner partnership is not attributable to AT&T that we can fit under the 30 percent cap,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sow an act...reap a habit; Sow a habit...reap a character; Sow a character...reap a destiny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63221]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sow an act...reap a habit; Sow a habit...reap a character; Sow a character...reap a destiny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether the weather be fine, Whether the weather be not, Whether the weather be cold, Whether the weather be hot, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61479]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether the weather be fine, Whether the weather be not, Whether the weather be cold, Whether the weather be hot, We'll weather the weather, Whatever the whether, Whether we like it or not]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14215]]></link><description><![CDATA[To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership is happening, but it\'s not coming from the leaders of the old institutions. Everywhere you look, you see these ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66582]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership is happening, but it\'s not coming from the leaders of the old institutions. Everywhere you look, you see these extraordinary, sparkling new initiatives that are under way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62640]]></link><description><![CDATA[A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And in this mountain shall the Lord of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13166]]></link><description><![CDATA[And in this mountain shall the Lord of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46352]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought we had a chance despite what I thought was one of the most uninspiring performances by my team ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34668]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought we had a chance despite what I thought was one of the most uninspiring performances by my team since I've been the head coach here. But of course, the two things that have hurt us all season, turnovers and poor shooting percentage, cost us at the end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When religion is in the hands of the mere natural man, he is always the worse for it; it adds ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7338]]></link><description><![CDATA[When religion is in the hands of the mere natural man, he is always the worse for it; it adds a bad heat to his own dark fire and helps to inflame his four elements of selfishness, envy, pride, and wrath. And hence it is that worse passions, or a worse degree of them are to be found in persons of great religious zeal than in others that made no pretenses to it. History also furnishes us with instances of persons of great piety and devotion who have fallen into great delusions and deceived both themselves and others. The occasion of their fall was this: ... They considered their whole nature as the subject of religion and divine graces; and therefore their religion was according to the workings of their whole nature, and the old man was as busy and as much delighted in it as the new.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7338</guid></item></channel></rss>