<?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[Among Christians so much prominence has been given to the disciplinary effects of sorrow, affliction, bereavement, that they have been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6629]]></link><description><![CDATA[Among Christians so much prominence has been given to the disciplinary effects of sorrow, affliction, bereavement, that they have been in danger of overlooking the other and more obvious side: that by every joy, by every favor, by every sign of prosperity -- yea, and by these chiefly -- God designs to educate and discipline His children. This one-sided view of the truth has made many morbid, gloomy Christians, who look for God's hand only in the lightning and never think of seeing it in the sunlight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before we give you billions more, we want to know what you've done with the trillion you've got. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before we give you billions more, we want to know what you've done with the trillion you've got.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56874]]></link><description><![CDATA[How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every day brings his bread with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every day brings his bread with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think countries in the region are ruled by constitutions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34953]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think countries in the region are ruled by constitutions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They killed my character off and as God would have it, just when they told me I would never work ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38555]]></link><description><![CDATA[They killed my character off and as God would have it, just when they told me I would never work again, I got cast in a little program called Roots, and as they would say, the rest is history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a wonderful make-up crew. They're the same people restoring the Statue of Liberty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63546]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a wonderful make-up crew. They're the same people restoring the Statue of Liberty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flirting is the art of keeping intimacy at a safe distance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16237]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flirting is the art of keeping intimacy at a safe distance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nor can his blessed soul look down from heaven, Or break the eternal sabbath of his rest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nor can his blessed soul look down from heaven, Or break the eternal sabbath of his rest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19987]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46171]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A long, long kiss, a kiss of youth, and love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23824]]></link><description><![CDATA[A long, long kiss, a kiss of youth, and love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Curiosity is only vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Curiosity is only vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea voyage for the sole pleasure of seeing without hope of ever telling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5449]]></link><description><![CDATA[Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art, as far as it is able, follow nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3174]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art, as far as it is able, follow nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild. [It., L'arte vostra quella, quanto puote,  Seque, come il maestro fa il discente;   Si che vostr'arte a Dio quasi e nipote.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving to the citizen as much freedom of action and of being, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20775]]></link><description><![CDATA[Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving to the citizen as much freedom of action and of being, as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When they were filled, he said unto his disciples, Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13167]]></link><description><![CDATA[When they were filled, he said unto his disciples, Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58227]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are you upset little friend? Have you been lying awake worrying? Well, don't worry...I'm here. The flood waters will recede, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16850]]></link><description><![CDATA[Are you upset little friend? Have you been lying awake worrying? Well, don't worry...I'm here. The flood waters will recede, the famine will end, the sun will shine tomorrow, and I will always be here to take care of you. -Charlie Brown to Snoopy]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How could you put methadone in a Dimetapp bottle? They look the same, you dumb s..., ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29451]]></link><description><![CDATA[How could you put methadone in a Dimetapp bottle? They look the same, you dumb s...,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Parent of golden dreams, Romance! Auspicious queen of childish joys,  Who lead'st along, in airy dance,   Thy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Parent of golden dreams, Romance! Auspicious queen of childish joys,  Who lead'st along, in airy dance,   Thy votive train of girls and boys.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the mistake a lot of us make is thinking the state-appointed shrink is our friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11705]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the mistake a lot of us make is thinking the state-appointed shrink is our friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Lanfranc, Prior of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1089  Only he who flings himself upward when the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Lanfranc, Prior of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1089  Only he who flings himself upward when the pull comes to drag him down, can hope to break the force of temptation. Temptation may be an invitation to hell, but much more is it an opportunity to reach heaven. At the moment of temptation, sin and righteousness are both very near the Christian; but, of the two, the latter is the nearer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History never looks like history when you are living through it. It always looks confusing and messy, and it always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19395]]></link><description><![CDATA[History never looks like history when you are living through it. It always looks confusing and messy, and it always feels uncomfortable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We wanted to keep the speed and stability of a longer ski but make it a lot more maneuverable. It's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30031]]></link><description><![CDATA[We wanted to keep the speed and stability of a longer ski but make it a lot more maneuverable. It's just all about the surface area. All of our skis are shorter than most, but they have the same surface area -- and that's what determines the speed and stability, the actual amount of ski on the snow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't let the University get in the way of your education. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60252]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't let the University get in the way of your education.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game even starts. -Addison Walker. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4029]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game even starts. -Addison Walker.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nor all that heralds rake from coffin'd clay, Nor florid prose, nor honied lies of rhyme,  Can blazon evil ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10654]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nor all that heralds rake from coffin'd clay, Nor florid prose, nor honied lies of rhyme,  Can blazon evil deeds, or consecrate a crime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would not want to be the one to tell parents of the lastman to die in a war termed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45957]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would not want to be the one to tell parents of the lastman to die in a war termed a mistake that he was dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And internalization is used in this country as a very effective political tool. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39590]]></link><description><![CDATA[And internalization is used in this country as a very effective political tool.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even a small star shines in the darkness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even a small star shines in the darkness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Half this game is ninety percent mental. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13628]]></link><description><![CDATA[Half this game is ninety percent mental.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In most parts of the Bible, everything is implicitly or explicitly introduced with "Thus saith the Lord". It is... not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8511]]></link><description><![CDATA[In most parts of the Bible, everything is implicitly or explicitly introduced with "Thus saith the Lord". It is... not merely a sacred book but a book so remorselessly and continuously sacred that it does not invite -- it excludes or repels -- the merely aesthetic approach. You can read it as literature only by a tour de force... It demands incessantly to be taken on its own terms: it will not continue to give literary delight very long, except to those who go to it for something quite different. I predict that it will in the future be read, as it always has been read, almost exclusively by Christians.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for - getting paid for doing what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57749]]></link><description><![CDATA[I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for - getting paid for doing what you love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like they've taken on the role, but they're not bosses. It's easy to be a boss, but not a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34153]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like they've taken on the role, but they're not bosses. It's easy to be a boss, but not a leader.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is impossible to get exhausted in work for God. We get exhausted because we try to do God’s work ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14481]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is impossible to get exhausted in work for God. We get exhausted because we try to do God’s work in our own way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. the opportunity is lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51055]]></link><description><![CDATA[While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. the opportunity is lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An two men ride of a horse, one must ride behind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19841]]></link><description><![CDATA[An two men ride of a horse, one must ride behind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great men rejoice in adversity just as brave soldiers triumph in war. [Lat., Gaudent magni viri rebus adversis non aliter, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/698]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great men rejoice in adversity just as brave soldiers triumph in war. [Lat., Gaudent magni viri rebus adversis non aliter, quam fortes milites bellis.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And I don't say that we didn't expect it, but we were pleasantly surprised to see the generosity of their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35739]]></link><description><![CDATA[And I don't say that we didn't expect it, but we were pleasantly surprised to see the generosity of their foreign policy; and the generosity of their foreign policy at that moment was expressed through the Marshall Plan.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To my friends: My work is done. Why wait?. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15213]]></link><description><![CDATA[To my friends: My work is done. Why wait?.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a fun group and I knew there was a competitive bent, but I just didn't know how competitive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41754]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a fun group and I knew there was a competitive bent, but I just didn't know how competitive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and to take as a gift whatever the day brings forth. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and to take as a gift whatever the day brings forth. [Lat., Quid sit futurum cras, fuge quaerere: et  Quem Fors dierum cunque dabit, lucro   Appone.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The diseases of the mind are more and more destructive than those of the body. [Lat., Morbi perniciores pluresque animi ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27513]]></link><description><![CDATA[The diseases of the mind are more and more destructive than those of the body. [Lat., Morbi perniciores pluresque animi quam corporis.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Lord get his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.   - Charles Hadden Spurgeon, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1665]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Lord get his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.   - Charles Hadden Spurgeon,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's important to come prepared. Particularly during night digs, we also ask people to keep a close eye on young ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32515]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's important to come prepared. Particularly during night digs, we also ask people to keep a close eye on young children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32515</guid></item></channel></rss>