<?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[Feast of Columba, Abbot of Iona, Missionary, 597 Commemoration of Ephrem of Syria, Deacon, Hymnographer, Teacher, 373   If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Columba, Abbot of Iona, Missionary, 597 Commemoration of Ephrem of Syria, Deacon, Hymnographer, Teacher, 373   If we would indeed know God in growing intimacy, we must go this way of renunciation. And if we are set upon the pursuit of God, He will sooner or later bring us to this test. Abraham's testing was, at the time, not known to him as such, yet if he had taken some course other than the one he did, the whole history off the Old Testament would have been different. God would have found His man, no doubt, but the loss to Abraham would have been tragic beyond the telling. So we will be brought one by one to the testing place, and we may never know when we are there. At that testing place there will be no dozen possible choices for us; just one and an alternative, but our whole future will be conditioned by the choice we make.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You rely on senior hitters to do their job. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35543]]></link><description><![CDATA[You rely on senior hitters to do their job.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9503]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63796]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But who would scorn the month of June, Because December with his breath so hoary,  Must come? Much rather ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48728]]></link><description><![CDATA[But who would scorn the month of June, Because December with his breath so hoary,  Must come? Much rather should he court the ray,   To hoard up warmth against a wintry day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Applause should be an emotional response to the music, rather than a regulated social duty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Applause should be an emotional response to the music, rather than a regulated social duty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I remember a passage in Goldsmith's "Vicar of Wakefield," which he was afterwards fool enough to expunge: "I do not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62624]]></link><description><![CDATA[I remember a passage in Goldsmith's "Vicar of Wakefield," which he was afterwards fool enough to expunge: "I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25510]]></link><description><![CDATA[No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6101]]></link><description><![CDATA[Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The same dish cooked over and over again wears out the irksome life of the teacher. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50506]]></link><description><![CDATA[The same dish cooked over and over again wears out the irksome life of the teacher.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64299]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We still have a full load (of coaches) this week, but next week they'll be gone and we'll have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33919]]></link><description><![CDATA[We still have a full load (of coaches) this week, but next week they'll be gone and we'll have to ad lib a little bit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that gives should not remember, he that receives should neverforget. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21572]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that gives should not remember, he that receives should neverforget.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43463]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When at the close of each sad, sorrowing day, Fancy restores what vengeance snatch'd away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15285]]></link><description><![CDATA[When at the close of each sad, sorrowing day, Fancy restores what vengeance snatch'd away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flowers are words Which even a babe may understand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16263]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flowers are words Which even a babe may understand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A thousand hearts beat happily; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell,  Soft eyes look'd love to eyes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11023]]></link><description><![CDATA[A thousand hearts beat happily; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell,  Soft eyes look'd love to eyes which spake again,   And all went merry as a marriage bell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who give bad advice to the prudent, both lose their pains and are laughed to scorn. [Lat., Consilia qui ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who give bad advice to the prudent, both lose their pains and are laughed to scorn. [Lat., Consilia qui dant prava cautis hominibus,  Et perdunt operam et deridentur tupiter.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with gardening is that it does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17188]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with gardening is that it does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go where glory waits thee; But while fame elates thee,  Oh! still remember me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17555]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go where glory waits thee; But while fame elates thee,  Oh! still remember me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're more concerned with the closed areas within the perimeter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29377]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're more concerned with the closed areas within the perimeter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This bold bad man. -King Henry VIII. Act ii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56034]]></link><description><![CDATA[This bold bad man. -King Henry VIII. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They say Princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast is no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54477]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say Princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a Prince as soon as his groom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[External nature is only internal nature writ large. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66641]]></link><description><![CDATA[External nature is only internal nature writ large.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56926]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66051]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Palm Sunday  In the person of Christ, the formidable law of God, which by itself appalls us by its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7796]]></link><description><![CDATA[Palm Sunday  In the person of Christ, the formidable law of God, which by itself appalls us by its vast comprehensiveness and truth, and makes us hide ourselves from its dread sanctity, is brought down into the life of a brother, ... and we see it illustrated and ratified in human action, we see righteousness that makes us feel more bitterly our sin, that makes us look more disparagingly upon our own efforts, yet leaves in us a longing to be like Him, as if we ought to be as He is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13525]]></link><description><![CDATA[The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never thrust your own sickle into another's corn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59141]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never thrust your own sickle into another's corn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13956]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I found golf was too time consuming, but I did enjoy it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65494]]></link><description><![CDATA[I found golf was too time consuming, but I did enjoy it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do nothing twice over. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48831]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do nothing twice over.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diseases, desperate grown, By desperate appliance are reliev'd,  Or not at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51270]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diseases, desperate grown, By desperate appliance are reliev'd,  Or not at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding on the back of the tiger ended up inside. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13658]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding on the back of the tiger ended up inside.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have culled about 20,000 birds. Until now they are still looking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29304]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have culled about 20,000 birds. Until now they are still looking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lanscape shapes culture. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23986]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lanscape shapes culture.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A beautiful thing is never perfect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46102]]></link><description><![CDATA[A beautiful thing is never perfect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbial disgrace. [Lat., Culpa enim illa, bis ad eundem, vulgari reprehensa ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16334]]></link><description><![CDATA[To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbial disgrace. [Lat., Culpa enim illa, bis ad eundem, vulgari reprehensa proverbio est.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25297]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joe has gotten the most out of his senior season and his selection to the all-star game reflects that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38274]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joe has gotten the most out of his senior season and his selection to the all-star game reflects that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Change your language and you change your thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Change your language and you change your thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, I decided earlier this year that I would run for president, and obviously I needed something to run on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32241]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, I decided earlier this year that I would run for president, and obviously I needed something to run on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Russia will search for ways of settlement without sanctions and the use of force ... but Iran must show wisdom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28852]]></link><description><![CDATA[Russia will search for ways of settlement without sanctions and the use of force ... but Iran must show wisdom and flexibility. If Iran doesn't help, Russia won't be able to do anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There 's small choice in rotten apples. -The Taming of the Shrew. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55704]]></link><description><![CDATA[There 's small choice in rotten apples. -The Taming of the Shrew. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66699]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearance, as though they were realities and are often more influenced ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20847]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearance, as though they were realities and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17428]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever longs for paradise forgets his desires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36719]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever longs for paradise forgets his desires.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of evils one should choose the least. [Lat., Ex malis eligere minima oportere.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14302]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of evils one should choose the least. [Lat., Ex malis eligere minima oportere.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14302</guid></item></channel></rss>