<?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[You, O Books, are the golden vessels of the temple, the arms of the clerical militia with which the missiles ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4529]]></link><description><![CDATA[You, O Books, are the golden vessels of the temple, the arms of the clerical militia with which the missiles of the most wicked are destroyed; fruitful olives, vines of Engaddi, fig-trees knowing no sterility; burning lamps to be ever held in the hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most difficult task facing us today is to persuade the person who is enjoying Christian culture and Christian standards ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7635]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most difficult task facing us today is to persuade the person who is enjoying Christian culture and Christian standards that these do not survive of themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between involvement and commitment is like ham and eggs.The chicken is involved; the pig is committed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21723]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between involvement and commitment is like ham and eggs.The chicken is involved; the pig is committed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Welcome the task that makes you go beyond yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21905]]></link><description><![CDATA[Welcome the task that makes you go beyond yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to follow the old rule for a while. In fact, once you masterthe old rule, you are then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21483]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to follow the old rule for a while. In fact, once you masterthe old rule, you are then the master-and masters get to change things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1130]]></link><description><![CDATA[Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exercising and eating a Mediterranean-style diet will improve your changes of staying healthy, regardless of your cholesterol, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Exercising and eating a Mediterranean-style diet will improve your changes of staying healthy, regardless of your cholesterol,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inflation is the senility of democracies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inflation is the senility of democracies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46575]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Should anyone attempt to deceive you by false expressions, and not be a true friend at heart, act in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48806]]></link><description><![CDATA[Should anyone attempt to deceive you by false expressions, and not be a true friend at heart, act in the same manner, and thus art will defeat art. [If you would catch a man let him think he is catching you.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In every countrey the sun rises in the morning. [In every country the sun rises in the morning.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49538]]></link><description><![CDATA[In every countrey the sun rises in the morning. [In every country the sun rises in the morning.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are going to do something, you will see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28745]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are going to do something, you will see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42848]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas! for the rarity Of Christian charity  Under the sun.   Oh! it was pitiful!    ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46466]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas! for the rarity Of Christian charity  Under the sun.   Oh! it was pitiful!    Near a whole city full,     Home had she none.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pagan heart, a Christian soul had he. He followed Christ, yet for dead Pan he sighed,  As if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6126]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pagan heart, a Christian soul had he. He followed Christ, yet for dead Pan he sighed,  As if Theocritus in Sicily   Had come upon the Figure crucified,    And lost his gods in deep, Christ-given rest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was glad she was done hitting me, but I didn't want her to hit anyone else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42588]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was glad she was done hitting me, but I didn't want her to hit anyone else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58520]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of the summer. My bank of wild grass is majestic and full ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43920]]></link><description><![CDATA[I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of the summer. My bank of wild grass is majestic and full of music. It is a fire that solitude presses against my lips.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As soon as the legitimate Lebanese government is convinced that the conditions have ripened and that Lebanon is able to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29882]]></link><description><![CDATA[As soon as the legitimate Lebanese government is convinced that the conditions have ripened and that Lebanon is able to maintain stability on its own... Then, the Syrian forces will return to their homeland.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dark as pitch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11083]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dark as pitch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He thanked them for their service to our country. And wanted to let them know ... that the American people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28972]]></link><description><![CDATA[He thanked them for their service to our country. And wanted to let them know ... that the American people are behind them and support them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cosmetics is a boon to every woman, but a girl's best beauty aid is still a near-sighted man ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cosmetics is a boon to every woman, but a girl's best beauty aid is still a near-sighted man]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2413]]></link><description><![CDATA[America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life without music would be a mistake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43522]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life without music would be a mistake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The branded industry is losing drugs from patent and the generic industry is circling like buzzards to pick them up. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31166]]></link><description><![CDATA[The branded industry is losing drugs from patent and the generic industry is circling like buzzards to pick them up. It's wonderful for the generic pharmaceutical industry. There's more food on the plate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of George Herbert, Priest, Poet, 1633 Immortal Love, author of this great frame,  Sprung from that beauty which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6949]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of George Herbert, Priest, Poet, 1633 Immortal Love, author of this great frame,  Sprung from that beauty which can never fade;  How hath man parcel'd out thy glorious name, And thrown it on that dust which thou hast made, While mortal love doth all the title gain!  Which siding with invention, they together  Bear all the sway, possessing heart and brain (Thy workmanship), and give thee share in neither. Wit fancies beauty, beauty raiseth wit:  The world is theirs; they two play out the game,  Thou standing by: and though thy glorious name Wrought our deliverance from th' infernal pit, Who sings thy praise? only a scarf or glove  Doth warm our hands, and make them write of love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her years Were ripe, they might make six-and-twenty springs;  But there are forms which Time to touch forbears.  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62564]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her years Were ripe, they might make six-and-twenty springs;  But there are forms which Time to touch forbears.   And turns aside his scythe to vulgar things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Creator Venus, genial power of love, The bliss of men below, and gods above!  Beneath the sliding sun thou ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Creator Venus, genial power of love, The bliss of men below, and gods above!  Beneath the sliding sun thou runn'st thy race,   Dost fairest shine, and best become thy place;    For thee the winds their eastern blasts forbear,     Thy mouth reveals the spring, and opens all the year;      Thee, goddess, thee, the storms of winter fly,       Earth smiles with flowers renewing, laughs the sky.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52099]]></link><description><![CDATA[As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape. - Aphorisms and Reflections.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is like a sixth sense, and you can't make use of the other five without it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43012]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is like a sixth sense, and you can't make use of the other five without it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wanted real kids. I didn't want Hollywood kids doing weird accents. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29230]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wanted real kids. I didn't want Hollywood kids doing weird accents.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59608]]></link><description><![CDATA[Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dispel this cloud, the light of heaven restore; Give me to see, and Ajax asks no more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4338]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dispel this cloud, the light of heaven restore; Give me to see, and Ajax asks no more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52646]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. Therefore, the man who stands in the midst of the struggle and says, "I have it," merely shows by doing so that he has just lost it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, He had not the method of making a fortune. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4902]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, He had not the method of making a fortune.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What baron or squire Or knight of the shire  Lives half so well as a holy friar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13240]]></link><description><![CDATA[What baron or squire Or knight of the shire  Lives half so well as a holy friar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To live is to love; all reason is against it; instinct is for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25832]]></link><description><![CDATA[To live is to love; all reason is against it; instinct is for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alone I walked on the ocean strand, A pearly shell was in my hand;  I stooped, and wrote upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44889]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alone I walked on the ocean strand, A pearly shell was in my hand;  I stooped, and wrote upon the sand   My name, the year, the day.    As onward from the sport I passed,     One lingering look behind I cast,      A wave came rolling high and fast,       And washed my lines away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[He] called me a 'rapist' and a 'recluse'. I'm not a recluse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57655]]></link><description><![CDATA[[He] called me a 'rapist' and a 'recluse'. I'm not a recluse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've heard of hearts unkind, kind deeds With coldness still returning;  Alas! the gratitude of men   Hath ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18166]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've heard of hearts unkind, kind deeds With coldness still returning;  Alas! the gratitude of men   Hath often left me mourning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In essence we have become addicted to the certainty, sureness or sense of security that our faith provides ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5451]]></link><description><![CDATA[In essence we have become addicted to the certainty, sureness or sense of security that our faith provides]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53030]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deceive not thy Physitian, Confessor, nor Lawyer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49196]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deceive not thy Physitian, Confessor, nor Lawyer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behind a frowning Providence He hides a smiling face. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51921]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behind a frowning Providence He hides a smiling face.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[CHRISTMAS DAY He has come! the Christ of God; Left for us His glad abode, Stooping from His throne of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6680]]></link><description><![CDATA[CHRISTMAS DAY He has come! the Christ of God; Left for us His glad abode, Stooping from His throne of bliss, To this darksome wilderness. He has come! the Prince of Peace; Come to bid our sorrows cease; Come to scatter with His light All the darkness of our night. He, the Mighty King, has come! Making this poor world His home; Come to bear our sin's sad load,-- Son of David, Son of God! He has come whose name of grace Speaks deliverance to our race; Left for us His glad abode,-- Son of Mary, Son of God! Unto us a Child is born! Ne'er has earth beheld a morn, Among all the morns of time, Half so glorious in its prime! Unto us a Son is given! He has come from God's own heaven, Bringing with Him, from above, Holy peace and holy love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64355]]></link><description><![CDATA[No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In my nearly 18 months here what I have found is that instead of getting better it may in fact ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35307]]></link><description><![CDATA[In my nearly 18 months here what I have found is that instead of getting better it may in fact be worse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one is happy there is no time to be fatigued; being happy engrosses the whole attention. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18683]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one is happy there is no time to be fatigued; being happy engrosses the whole attention.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18683</guid></item></channel></rss>