<?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["God works in many ways His wonders to perform." But He's not a skillful mechanic. A man drived over a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27576]]></link><description><![CDATA["God works in many ways His wonders to perform." But He's not a skillful mechanic. A man drived over a cliff and "by a miracle" he only breaks his back. It would be more divine if he were a better driver and stayed on the road.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude. [Lat., Domini pudet non servitutis.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55221]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude. [Lat., Domini pudet non servitutis.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silence is the genius of fools and one of the virtues of the wise. [Fr., Le silence est l'esprit des ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56271]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silence is the genius of fools and one of the virtues of the wise. [Fr., Le silence est l'esprit des sots, et l'une des vertus du sage.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cinema is an old whore, like circus and variety, who knows how to give many kinds of pleasure. Besides, you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8693]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cinema is an old whore, like circus and variety, who knows how to give many kinds of pleasure. Besides, you can't teach old fleas new dogs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Superior strength is found in the long run to lie with those who had right on their side. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Superior strength is found in the long run to lie with those who had right on their side.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thy father's merit sets thee up to view, And shows thee in the fairest point of light,  To make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27380]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thy father's merit sets thee up to view, And shows thee in the fairest point of light,  To make thy virtues, or thy faults, conspicuous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were going to start south of San Francisco in Half Moon Bay and go see every lighthouse on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42392]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were going to start south of San Francisco in Half Moon Bay and go see every lighthouse on the Northern California and Oregon coast. That was our (goal). My wife has always been kind of a lighthouse nut.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How many time do I love, again? Tell me how many beads there are  In a silver chain  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25622]]></link><description><![CDATA[How many time do I love, again? Tell me how many beads there are  In a silver chain   Of evening rain    Unravelled from the trembling main     And threading the eye of a yellow star:--      So many time do I love again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Envy eats nothing but its own heart ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Envy eats nothing but its own heart]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no abiding success without commitment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64632]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no abiding success without commitment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55179]]></link><description><![CDATA[Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was nice being offered the role and not having to audition, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29124]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was nice being offered the role and not having to audition,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Progress is precisely that which the rules and regulations did not foresee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Progress is precisely that which the rules and regulations did not foresee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Meux Benson, Founder of the Society of St John the Evangelist, 1915   When law and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6862]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Meux Benson, Founder of the Society of St John the Evangelist, 1915   When law and sin ceased to be distinguished in Israel, compassion induced Him to appoint judges again. If these are gifted with heroic qualities, to vanquish the oppressors of Israel, it is nevertheless not this heroism that forms their principal characteristic. That consists in judging. They restore... the authority of the law. For this reason, God raises up judges, not princes. The title sets forth both their work and the occasion of their appointment. Israel is free and powerful when its law is observed throughout the land.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...passionate intensity may serve as a substitute for confidence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52277]]></link><description><![CDATA[...passionate intensity may serve as a substitute for confidence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man is a volume if you know how to read him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4606]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our guys are eager. They're ready to go. We'd like to play tonight if we could. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36148]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our guys are eager. They're ready to go. We'd like to play tonight if we could.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is passion? It is surely the becoming of a person. Are we not, for most of our lives, marking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2170]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is passion? It is surely the becoming of a person. Are we not, for most of our lives, marking time? Most of our being is at rest, unlived. In passion, the body and the spirit seek expression outside of self. Passion is all that is other from self. Sex is only interesting when it releases passion. The more extreme and the more expressed that passion is, the more unbearable does life seem without it. It reminds us that if passion dies or is denied, we are partly dead and that soon, come what may, we will be wholly so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Till taught by pain, Men really know not what good water's worth;  If you had been in Turkey or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61289]]></link><description><![CDATA[Till taught by pain, Men really know not what good water's worth;  If you had been in Turkey or in Spain,   Or with a famish'd boat's-crew had your berth,    Or in the desert heard the camel's bell,     You'd wish yourself where Truth is--in a well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That government is best which governs least, because its people discipline themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18031]]></link><description><![CDATA[That government is best which governs least, because its people discipline themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ship of heaven guides itself and will not accept a wooden rudder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11924]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ship of heaven guides itself and will not accept a wooden rudder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By low ambition and the thirst of praise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2317]]></link><description><![CDATA[By low ambition and the thirst of praise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44067]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the worst of all superstitions to assume that the epistemological characteristics of one branch of knowledge must necessarily ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52025]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the worst of all superstitions to assume that the epistemological characteristics of one branch of knowledge must necessarily be applicable to any other branch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our God and soldier we alike adore - Just at the brink of ruin not before - The danger past, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our God and soldier we alike adore - Just at the brink of ruin not before - The danger past, both are alike requited; God is forgotten and the soldier slighted]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God provides for him that trusteth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49274]]></link><description><![CDATA[God provides for him that trusteth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, how full of briers is this working-day world! -As You Like It. Act i. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55631]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, how full of briers is this working-day world! -As You Like It. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet is the infant's waking smile, And sweet the old man's rest--  But middle age by no fond wile, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3638]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet is the infant's waking smile, And sweet the old man's rest--  But middle age by no fond wile,   No soothing calm is blest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always read the last page of a book first so that if I die before I finish I'll know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65544]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always read the last page of a book first so that if I die before I finish I'll know how it turned out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was thinking there was somebody there to help me, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41442]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was thinking there was somebody there to help me,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It doesn't surprise me. A few clubs have looked at him. He's six foot four and he's top drawer. But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39684]]></link><description><![CDATA[It doesn't surprise me. A few clubs have looked at him. He's six foot four and he's top drawer. But we've offered him a professional contract and we want to keep him here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Within that awful volume lies The mystery of mysteries!  Happiest they of human race,   To whom God ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54918]]></link><description><![CDATA[Within that awful volume lies The mystery of mysteries!  Happiest they of human race,   To whom God has granted grace    To read, to fear, to hope, to pray,     To lift the latch, and force the way:      And better had they ne'er been born,       Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Agribusiness professionals are concerned that there's been a decline in the number of farmers who make purchases based on their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32139]]></link><description><![CDATA[Agribusiness professionals are concerned that there's been a decline in the number of farmers who make purchases based on their long-standing relationships with businesses. Our study shows they are correct and provides insight into how today's farmer makes those decisions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3156]]></link><description><![CDATA[The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honour sinks where commerce long prevails. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5061]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Denys, Bishop of Paris, & his Companions, Martyrs, 258 Commemoration of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, Philosopher, Scientist, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8315]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Denys, Bishop of Paris, & his Companions, Martyrs, 258 Commemoration of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, Philosopher, Scientist, 1253   Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why He should grant this, or that; He knows best what is good for us. If your boy should ask you [for] a suit of clothes, and give you reasons, would you endure it? You know his needs better than he: let him ask a suit of clothes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Baseball is a lot like life. The line drives are caught, the squibbles go for base hits. It's an unfair ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Baseball is a lot like life. The line drives are caught, the squibbles go for base hits. It's an unfair game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't even know their last name, but we know they have lost everything, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42181]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't even know their last name, but we know they have lost everything,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The place of justice is a hallowed place ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23611]]></link><description><![CDATA[The place of justice is a hallowed place]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd like to see it convince others to do it like we do. It was the most amazing thing I've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29973]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd like to see it convince others to do it like we do. It was the most amazing thing I've ever been a part of in my whole life. I think everyone should feel that way about prom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My son's death meant nothing to him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42668]]></link><description><![CDATA[My son's death meant nothing to him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is probably an element of malice in the readiness to overestimate people: we are laying up for ourselves the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52343]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is probably an element of malice in the readiness to overestimate people: we are laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Columba, Abbot of Iona, Missionary, 597 Commemoration of Ephrem of Syria, Deacon, Hymnographer, Teacher, 373  Then are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7252]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Columba, Abbot of Iona, Missionary, 597 Commemoration of Ephrem of Syria, Deacon, Hymnographer, Teacher, 373  Then are we servants of God, then are we the disciples of Christ, when we do what is commanded us and because it is commanded us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Martin, Monk, Bishop of Tours, 397   The concept of Israel as the chosen people does not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6732]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Martin, Monk, Bishop of Tours, 397   The concept of Israel as the chosen people does not imply a certain divine favoritism, as some seem to think, but an opportunity of grace, a calling that involved the assumption of the servant role among the nations. It was the fact that they had interpreted themselves as special objects of God's favor, and rejected the servant role, that led to their own rejection.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26143]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For enemies carry about slander not in the form in which it took its rise. . . . The scandal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56546]]></link><description><![CDATA[For enemies carry about slander not in the form in which it took its rise. . . . The scandal of men is everlasting; even then does it survive when you would suppose it to be dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All human things are subject to decay, And when fate summons, monarchs must obey. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15390]]></link><description><![CDATA[All human things are subject to decay, And when fate summons, monarchs must obey.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The road to success runs uphill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/925]]></link><description><![CDATA[The road to success runs uphill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In time of war the first casualty is truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27850]]></link><description><![CDATA[In time of war the first casualty is truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27850</guid></item></channel></rss>