<?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[Perhaps our eyes are merely a blank film which is taken from us after our deaths to be developed elsewhere ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21187]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps our eyes are merely a blank film which is taken from us after our deaths to be developed elsewhere and screened as our life story in some infernal cinema or dispatched as microfilm into the sidereal void.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shall I, to please another wine-sprung minde, Lose all mine own? God hath giv'n me a measure  Short of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22922]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shall I, to please another wine-sprung minde, Lose all mine own? God hath giv'n me a measure  Short of His can and body; must I find   A pain in that, wherein he finds a pleasure?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our neighbour's crop is always more fruitful and his cattle produce more milk than our own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50752]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our neighbour's crop is always more fruitful and his cattle produce more milk than our own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and an invisible labor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59177]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and an invisible labor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Cecilia, Martyr at Rome, c.230 Commemoration of Clive Staples Lewis, Spiritual Writer, 1963  The word religion is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8527]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Cecilia, Martyr at Rome, c.230 Commemoration of Clive Staples Lewis, Spiritual Writer, 1963  The word religion is extremely rare in the New Testament and the writings of mystics. The reason is simple. Those attitudes and practices to which we give the collective name of religion are themselves concerned with religion hardly at all. To be religious is to have one's attention fixed on God and on one's neighbour in relation to God. Therefore, almost by definition, a religious man, or a man when he is being religious, is not thinking about religion; he hasn't the time. Religion is what we (or he himself at a later moment) call his activity from outside.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58486]]></link><description><![CDATA[More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has been said that although God cannot alter the past, historians can --it is perhaps because they can be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19488]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has been said that although God cannot alter the past, historians can --it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in this respect that He tolerates their existence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning how to access a continuity of common sense can be one of your most efficient accomplishments in this decade. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning how to access a continuity of common sense can be one of your most efficient accomplishments in this decade. Can you imagine "common sense" surpassing science and technology in the quest to unravel the human stress mess? In time, society will have a new measure for confirming truth. It's inside the people-not at the mercy of current scientific methodology. Let scientists facilitate discovery, but not invent your inner truth. -Doc Childre.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our life is frittered away by detail... Simplify, simplify -Henry Thoreau. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56359]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our life is frittered away by detail... Simplify, simplify -Henry Thoreau.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cell phone has transformed public places into giant phone-a-thons in which callers exist within narcissistic cocoons of private conversations. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9382]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cell phone has transformed public places into giant phone-a-thons in which callers exist within narcissistic cocoons of private conversations. Like faxes, computer modems and other modern gadgets that have clogged out lives with phony urgency, cell phones represent the 20th Century's escalation of imaginary need. We didn't need cell phones until we had them. Clearly, cell phones cause not only a breakdown of courtesy, but the atrophy of basic skills.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is to be feared lest our long quarrels about the manner of His presence cause the matter of His ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7705]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is to be feared lest our long quarrels about the manner of His presence cause the matter of His absence, for our want of charity to receive Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We experienced a steady increase in 1394-equipped products throughout 2005, and foresee continued expansion this year as developers demand the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34587]]></link><description><![CDATA[We experienced a steady increase in 1394-equipped products throughout 2005, and foresee continued expansion this year as developers demand the proven quality-of-service, high bandwidth, and peer-to-peer features that the 1394 standard delivers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If folks can learn to be racist, then they can learn to be anti racist. If being sexist ain't genetic, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17203]]></link><description><![CDATA[If folks can learn to be racist, then they can learn to be anti racist. If being sexist ain't genetic, then, dad gum, people can learn about gender equality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24186]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Bosco, Priest, Founder of the Salesian Teaching Order, 1888   "The Bible," we are told sometimes, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7380]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Bosco, Priest, Founder of the Salesian Teaching Order, 1888   "The Bible," we are told sometimes, "gives us such a beautiful picture of what we should be." Nonsense! It gives us no picture at all. It reveals to us a fact: it tells us what we really are; it says, This is the form in which God created you, to which He has restored you; this is the work which the Eternal Son, the God of Truth and Love, is continually carrying on within you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There have been a couple times when it was a Monday morning quarterback-type thing. Things where I wish I had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33506]]></link><description><![CDATA[There have been a couple times when it was a Monday morning quarterback-type thing. Things where I wish I had rested a little more or could have been more aggressive in a meet. It's not anything major, just little things here and there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes much from the account, to which his sin doth amount. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49566]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes much from the account, to which his sin doth amount.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am leaning toward business courses, when I am in college full time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28401]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am leaning toward business courses, when I am in college full time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you could runne, as you drinke, you might catch a hare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49521]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you could runne, as you drinke, you might catch a hare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
 ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62758]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The university is very concerned by this disturbance and any injury to students, ... We will reevaluate the security procedures ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42399]]></link><description><![CDATA[The university is very concerned by this disturbance and any injury to students, ... We will reevaluate the security procedures for this type of event and make every effort to assure that it will not happen again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had 20 million people following us, we just can't believe it. We're there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38515]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had 20 million people following us, we just can't believe it. We're there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["I can't" isn't a reason to give up, it's a reason to try harder ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53083]]></link><description><![CDATA["I can't" isn't a reason to give up, it's a reason to try harder]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing more hostile to a city that a tyrant, under whom in the first and chiefest place, there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59964]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing more hostile to a city that a tyrant, under whom in the first and chiefest place, there are not laws in common, but one man, keeping the law himself to himself, has the sway, and this is no longer equal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think there's enough evidence to support the argument that there is a recovery in information technology. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28343]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think there's enough evidence to support the argument that there is a recovery in information technology.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40474]]></link><description><![CDATA[Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The high wage begins down in the shop. If it is not created there it cannot get into pay envelopes. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61062]]></link><description><![CDATA[The high wage begins down in the shop. If it is not created there it cannot get into pay envelopes. There will never be a system invented which will do away with the necessity for work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've kind of been in denial about this problem. Denial is no longer an option. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30388]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've kind of been in denial about this problem. Denial is no longer an option.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42950]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27778]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14272]]></link><description><![CDATA[The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order: the continuous thread of revelation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's what seniors are for, to win a ballgame for you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37179]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's what seniors are for, to win a ballgame for you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19069]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This backlog affects not just the ability to identify and convict the guilty, but it also affects our ability to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31697]]></link><description><![CDATA[This backlog affects not just the ability to identify and convict the guilty, but it also affects our ability to identify the innocent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20477]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't just learn the tricks of the trade. Learn the trade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1241]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't just learn the tricks of the trade. Learn the trade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take heed of the wrath of a mighty man, and the tumult of the people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take heed of the wrath of a mighty man, and the tumult of the people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This ae nighte, this ae nighte Every nighte and all;  Fire and sleete, and candle lighte   And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57263]]></link><description><![CDATA[This ae nighte, this ae nighte Every nighte and all;  Fire and sleete, and candle lighte   And Christe receive thye saule.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is not absence death to those who love? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/178]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is not absence death to those who love?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14179]]></link><description><![CDATA[All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pleasure of what we enjoy is lost by coveting more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51030]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pleasure of what we enjoy is lost by coveting more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I miss reading . . . how I'm situated, you can't read, you just can't, it's not conducive to reading. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36310]]></link><description><![CDATA[I miss reading . . . how I'm situated, you can't read, you just can't, it's not conducive to reading.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pride attaches undue importance to the superiority of one's status in the eyes of others; And shame is fear of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pride attaches undue importance to the superiority of one's status in the eyes of others; And shame is fear of humiliation at one's inferior status in the estimation of others. When one sets his heart on being highly esteemed, and achieves such rating, then he is automatically involved in fear of losing his status.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32007]]></link><description><![CDATA[My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need of something better than local lore and weather proverbs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am a writer and always was; being a writer is an integral part of my identity. Being published, being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30583]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am a writer and always was; being a writer is an integral part of my identity. Being published, being well regarded, is a component of that identity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Mary Magdalen, Apostle to the Apostles  The more vigor you need, the more gentleness and kindness you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Mary Magdalen, Apostle to the Apostles  The more vigor you need, the more gentleness and kindness you must combine with it. All stiff, harsh goodness is contrary to Jesus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24640]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only the women whose eyes have been washed clear with tears who get the broad vision that makes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14843]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only the women whose eyes have been washed clear with tears who get the broad vision that makes them little sisters to all the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14843</guid></item></channel></rss>