<?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[Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But I do hate him as I hate the devil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18856]]></link><description><![CDATA[But I do hate him as I hate the devil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For God, ... declaring that he will be gentle and kind to all, gives to the utterly miserable hope that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7488]]></link><description><![CDATA[For God, ... declaring that he will be gentle and kind to all, gives to the utterly miserable hope that they will get what they have sought. Accordingly we must note the general forms by which no one from first to last (as people say) is excluded, provided sincerity of heart, dissatisfaction with ourselves, humility, and faith are present in order that our hypocrisy may not profane God's name by calling upon him deceitfully. Our most gracious Father will not cast out those whom he not only urges, but stirs up with every possible means, to come to him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Timothy and Titus, Companions of Paul Commemoration of Dorothy Kerin, Founder of the Burrswood Healing Community, 1963  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7005]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Timothy and Titus, Companions of Paul Commemoration of Dorothy Kerin, Founder of the Burrswood Healing Community, 1963   That you cannot have Christian principles without Christ is becoming increasingly clear [in the world today], because their validity as principles depends on Christ's authority.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I trust in Nature for the stable laws Of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant  And Autumn garner to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43792]]></link><description><![CDATA[I trust in Nature for the stable laws Of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant  And Autumn garner to the end of time.   I trust in God--the right shall be the right    And other than the wrong, while he endures;     I trust in my own soul, that can perceive      The outward and the inward, Nature's good       And God's.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sense of death is most in apprehension, And the poor beetle that we tread upon  In corporal sufferance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3918]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sense of death is most in apprehension, And the poor beetle that we tread upon  In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great   As when a giant dies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[General wisdom is not a threat to the gospel, because everything good traces to God. God is merciful and kind; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6547]]></link><description><![CDATA[General wisdom is not a threat to the gospel, because everything good traces to God. God is merciful and kind; he bestows truth, as well as rain and sunshine, upon the just and the unjust. Christ is the "true light that enlightens every man". This bestowal should inspire feelings of joy, not resentment, in the heart of a Christian. Aristotle said many wise things about logic, Confucius many wise things about morals. When a Christian attacks general wisdom in the name of the gospel, the natural man will attack the gospel in the name of general wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64580]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4649]]></link><description><![CDATA[Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Lanfranc, Prior of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1089   I whould be very sorry that any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7332]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Lanfranc, Prior of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1089   I whould be very sorry that any man living should outgo me in desires that all who fear God throughout the world, especially in these nations, were of one way as well as of one heart. I know I desire it sincerely; but I do verily believe that when God shall accomplish it, it will be the effect of love, and not the cause of love. It will proceed from love, before it brings forth love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Force is the antithesis of freedom, but force must be used, if only to defend against other force. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Force is the antithesis of freedom, but force must be used, if only to defend against other force.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Duncan Gray cam here to woo, Ha, ha, the wooing o't!  On blithe Yuletide when we were fou,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Duncan Gray cam here to woo, Ha, ha, the wooing o't!  On blithe Yuletide when we were fou,   Ha, ha, the wooing o't!    Maggie coost her head fu' high,     Looked asklent and unco skeigh,      Gart poor Duncan stand abeigh:       Ha, ha! the wooing o't!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom of expression must be considered sacred and thought can only be corrected by counter thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65360]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom of expression must be considered sacred and thought can only be corrected by counter thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marxists are people whose insides are torn up day after day because they want to rule the world and no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marxists are people whose insides are torn up day after day because they want to rule the world and no one will even publish their letter to the editor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is nearly 100 percent of the ministry's (procurement) budget that has gone AWOL (absent without leave), ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28943]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is nearly 100 percent of the ministry's (procurement) budget that has gone AWOL (absent without leave),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57168]]></link><description><![CDATA[Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35952]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like to enjoy myself, but rest assured that I can be as serious as anyone else can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65823]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like to enjoy myself, but rest assured that I can be as serious as anyone else can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So there are five ways of knowing who will win. Those who know when to fight and when not to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9717]]></link><description><![CDATA[So there are five ways of knowing who will win. Those who know when to fight and when not to fight are victorious. Those who discern when to use many or few troops are victorious. Those whose upper and lower ranks have the same desire are victorious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We realized that as a system we could handle those cases ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã‚Â¦ in a family-centered way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33224]]></link><description><![CDATA[We realized that as a system we could handle those cases ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã‚Â¦ in a family-centered way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why, that's spoken like an honest drovier. So they sell bullocks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5137]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why, that's spoken like an honest drovier. So they sell bullocks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Mary Magdalen, Apostle to the Apostles  We are so farre off from condemning any of their labours ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Mary Magdalen, Apostle to the Apostles  We are so farre off from condemning any of their labours that traveiled before us in this kinds, either in this land or beyond sea, ... that we acknowledge them to have been raised up of God, ... and that they deserve to be had of us and of posteritie in everlasting remembrance... Therefore blessed be they, and most honoured be their name, that breake the yce and give the onset upon that which helpeth forward to the saving of soules. Now what can be more available thereto, than to deliver Gods booke unto the Gods people in a tongue which they understand? ... So if we, building upon their foundation that went before us, and being holpen by their labours, doe endeavor to make that better which they left so good; no man, we are sure, has cause to mislike us; they, we persuade ourselves, if they were alive, would thank us. For is the Kingdom of God become words or syllables? Why should we be in bondage to them if we may be free? [Some antique spelling fixed -- Ed.].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reasoning of the strongest is always the best. [Fr., La raison du plus fort est toujours la meilleure.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53097]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reasoning of the strongest is always the best. [Fr., La raison du plus fort est toujours la meilleure.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laughter is man's most distinctive emotional expression. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24217]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laughter is man's most distinctive emotional expression.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Constancy is the complement of all other human virtues ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Constancy is the complement of all other human virtues]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the talk slid north, and the talk slid south With the sliding puffs from the hookah-mouth;  Four things ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58615]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the talk slid north, and the talk slid south With the sliding puffs from the hookah-mouth;  Four things greater than all things are--   Women and Horses and Power and War.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Demons in act, but gods at least in face. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48729]]></link><description><![CDATA[Demons in act, but gods at least in face.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the hawk is wont to pursue the trembling doves. [Lat., Ut solet accipiter trepidas agitare columbas.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12807]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the hawk is wont to pursue the trembling doves. [Lat., Ut solet accipiter trepidas agitare columbas.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13413]]></link><description><![CDATA[The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester, 1095   As for the miseries and sins he heard of daily in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8344]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester, 1095   As for the miseries and sins he heard of daily in the world, he was so far from wondering at them that, on the contrary, he was surprised that there were not more, considering the malice sinners were capable of... For his part, he prayed for them: but, knowing that God could remedy the mischiefs they did, when He pleased, he gave himself no further trouble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's too bad that stupidity isn't painful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58058]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's too bad that stupidity isn't painful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And as in men's bodies, so in government, that disease is most serious which proceeds from the head. [Lat., Utque ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12493]]></link><description><![CDATA[And as in men's bodies, so in government, that disease is most serious which proceeds from the head. [Lat., Utque in corporibus, sic in imperio, gravissimus est morbus qui a capite diffunditur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of praise a mere glutton, he swallow'd what came, And the puff a dunce, he mistook it for fame;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16160]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of praise a mere glutton, he swallow'd what came, And the puff a dunce, he mistook it for fame;  Till his relish grown callous, almost to displease,   Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good man never dies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20603]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good man never dies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20829</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[Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45253]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fill the bright goblet, spread the festive board! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51089]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fill the bright goblet, spread the festive board!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one enemy will meet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13833]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's our bread and butter. Sometimes it's good and it was good tonight. The first time we played them they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32525]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's our bread and butter. Sometimes it's good and it was good tonight. The first time we played them they handled it very well and last Friday they played it well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In honest plainness thou hast heard me say My daughter is not for thee; and now, in madness,  Being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22932]]></link><description><![CDATA[In honest plainness thou hast heard me say My daughter is not for thee; and now, in madness,  Being full of supper and distemp'ring draughts,   Upon malicious knavery does thou come    To start my quiet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They talk about a woman's sphere, as though it had a limit. There's not a place in earth or heaven. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27195]]></link><description><![CDATA[They talk about a woman's sphere, as though it had a limit. There's not a place in earth or heaven. There's not a task to mankind given... without a woman in it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This wide and generous spirit of love, not the religious egotist's longing to get away from the world to God, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7702]]></link><description><![CDATA[This wide and generous spirit of love, not the religious egotist's longing to get away from the world to God, is the fruit of true self-oblation; for a soul totally possessed by God is a soul totally possessed by Charity. By the path of self-offering, the Church and the soul have come up to the frontiers of the Holy. There we are required, not to cast the world from us, but to do our best for all others as well as ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn't met me yet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53264]]></link><description><![CDATA[I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn't met me yet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every intense desire is perhaps a desire to be different from what we are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52289]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every intense desire is perhaps a desire to be different from what we are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet recreation barred, what doth ensue But moody and dull melancholy,  Kinsman to a grim and comfortless despair,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42769]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet recreation barred, what doth ensue But moody and dull melancholy,  Kinsman to a grim and comfortless despair,   And at her heels a huge infectious troop    Of pale distemperatures and foes to life?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42769</guid></item></channel></rss>