<?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[No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11846]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11846</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[The capital of the orator is in the bank of the highest sentimentalities and the purest enthusiasms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45241]]></link><description><![CDATA[The capital of the orator is in the bank of the highest sentimentalities and the purest enthusiasms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62595]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in him...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always be closing...That doesn’t mean you’re always closing the deal, but it does mean that you need to be always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11146]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always be closing...That doesn’t mean you’re always closing the deal, but it does mean that you need to be always closing on the next step in the process.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57611]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4016]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought girls would be impressed because I had read a big dictionary. I guess I thought it would get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16238]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought girls would be impressed because I had read a big dictionary. I guess I thought it would get their attention when I told them I was sesquipedalian. One look down at my feet usually dispelled the deception though.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not hard to find the truth. What is hard is not to run away from it once you have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12253]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not hard to find the truth. What is hard is not to run away from it once you have found it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9379]]></link><description><![CDATA[The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8814]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The large white owl that with eye is blind, That hath sate for years in the old tree hollow,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45334]]></link><description><![CDATA[The large white owl that with eye is blind, That hath sate for years in the old tree hollow,  Is carried away in a gust of wind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Try moving off NT easily. You can move from Solaris to HP/UX to AIX or DEC easily relative to moving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Try moving off NT easily. You can move from Solaris to HP/UX to AIX or DEC easily relative to moving off of NT, which is like a Roach Motel. Once you check in, you never check out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57112</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[The Reverb Communications team brings the type of gaming experience we are looking for as we get ready to ship ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31454]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Reverb Communications team brings the type of gaming experience we are looking for as we get ready to ship a number of exciting console and PC titles into the marketplace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4840]]></link><description><![CDATA[Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61593]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not. [Ger., Der Mensch kann was er soll; und wenn er sagt er kann nicht, so will er nicht.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've been very lucky with them. They work hard and everything I ask them to do they approach it with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37474]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've been very lucky with them. They work hard and everything I ask them to do they approach it with a workmanlike attitude. I often see the girls working by themselves. It's paid off. We started off against some of the bigger schools and we got better as the season went on. Defense, hitting, it's all coming together now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whereas wine disorders the mental faculties, opium introduces amongst them the most exquisite order, legislation and harmony. Wine robs a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45017]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whereas wine disorders the mental faculties, opium introduces amongst them the most exquisite order, legislation and harmony. Wine robs a man of self-possession; opium greatly invigorates it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10597]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has come.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Greatly his foes he dreads, but more his friends, He hurts me most who lavishly commends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Greatly his foes he dreads, but more his friends, He hurts me most who lavishly commends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As to virtue . . . it is an act of the will, a habit which increases the quantity, intensity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52676]]></link><description><![CDATA[As to virtue . . . it is an act of the will, a habit which increases the quantity, intensity and quality of life. It builds up, strengthens and vivifies personality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that we all carry the divine within us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36773]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that we all carry the divine within us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe God has a plan. God has a direction for me. He may put me on a few detours, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31990]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe God has a plan. God has a direction for me. He may put me on a few detours, but the path with ultimately reveal itself. My job is to be a decent human being no matter how rocky the road gets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43297]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But every fool describes, in these bright days, His wondrous journey to some foreign court,  And spawns his quarto, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3519]]></link><description><![CDATA[But every fool describes, in these bright days, His wondrous journey to some foreign court,  And spawns his quarto, and demands your praise,--   Death to his publisher, to him 'tis sport.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Parsons are soules waggoners. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Parsons are soules waggoners.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is a political animal by nature; he is a scientist by chance or choice; he is a moralist because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26266]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is a political animal by nature; he is a scientist by chance or choice; he is a moralist because he is a man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we get rain, things could really perk up and look good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40172]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we get rain, things could really perk up and look good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Count not fowre except you have them in a wallett. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49184]]></link><description><![CDATA[Count not fowre except you have them in a wallett.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When promise and patience are wearing thin, When endurance is almost driven in,  When our angels stand in a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26927]]></link><description><![CDATA[When promise and patience are wearing thin, When endurance is almost driven in,  When our angels stand in a waiting hush,   Remember the Marne and Ferdinand Foch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus, 1556  Jesus used the term abba (which means ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6261]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus, 1556  Jesus used the term abba (which means father or "daddy" in his Aramaic mother tongue), as an address in his prayers to God. There are no other examples of this usage in contemporary Judaism, but Jesus always addressed God in this way. The others perhaps regarded it as child's talk, a form of expression too disrespectful to be so used. But for Jesus, abba expressed the filial intimacy he felt toward his Father. As the divine Son of the Father, Jesus enjoyed a unique relationship with him, and his mission in the world consisted in opening up the blessings of sonship to those who believe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The shoulders of a borrower are always a little straighter than those of a beggar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4753]]></link><description><![CDATA[The shoulders of a borrower are always a little straighter than those of a beggar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just once I would like to persuade the audience not to wear any article of blue denim. If only they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just once I would like to persuade the audience not to wear any article of blue denim. If only they could see themselves in a pair of brown corduroys like mine instead of this awful, boring blue denim.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2462]]></link><description><![CDATA[A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am the very slave of circumstance And impulse--borne away with every breath. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8703]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am the very slave of circumstance And impulse--borne away with every breath.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lend money to an enemy, and thou will gain him, to a friend and thou will lose him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13819]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lend money to an enemy, and thou will gain him, to a friend and thou will lose him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sweet calm sunshine of October, now Warms the low spot; upon its grassy mould  The purple oak-leaf falls; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44896]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sweet calm sunshine of October, now Warms the low spot; upon its grassy mould  The purple oak-leaf falls; the birchen bough   Drops its bright spoil like arrow-heads of gold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more a man hath unity and simplicity in himself, the more things and the deeper things he understandeth; and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7836]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more a man hath unity and simplicity in himself, the more things and the deeper things he understandeth; and that without labour, because he receiveth the light of understanding from above. The spirit which is pure, sincere and steadfast, is not distracted though it hath many works to do, because it doth all things to the honour of God, and striveth to be free from all thoughts of self-seeking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What has 'theology' ever said that is of the smallest use to anybody? When has 'theology' ever said anything that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59080]]></link><description><![CDATA[What has 'theology' ever said that is of the smallest use to anybody? When has 'theology' ever said anything that is demonstrably true and is not obvious? What makes you think that 'theology' is a subject at all?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And lives to clutch the golden keys, To mould a mighty state's decrees,  And shape the whisper of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57853]]></link><description><![CDATA[And lives to clutch the golden keys, To mould a mighty state's decrees,  And shape the whisper of the throne.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25554]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart ran o'er With silent worship of the great of old!--  The dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62304]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart ran o'er With silent worship of the great of old!--  The dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule   Our spirits from their urns.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of man, - the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13572]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of man, - the balance-wheel of the social machinery. -Horace Mann.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/489]]></link><description><![CDATA[Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/489</guid></item></channel></rss>