<?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[I started with my buddies when I was in high school, ... We all had shelves of old beer cans. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36415]]></link><description><![CDATA[I started with my buddies when I was in high school, ... We all had shelves of old beer cans.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34932]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54572]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Listening to both sides does not necessarily bring about a correct judgment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25182]]></link><description><![CDATA[Listening to both sides does not necessarily bring about a correct judgment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bee not idle and you shall not bee longing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49151]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bee not idle and you shall not bee longing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At this point, with the mixture of the slushy snow because the temperature is at 32 or just a little ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37582]]></link><description><![CDATA[At this point, with the mixture of the slushy snow because the temperature is at 32 or just a little above, it is heavy snow to push off the roadway.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If youth knew; if age could. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62531]]></link><description><![CDATA[If youth knew; if age could.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Open-mindedness should not be fostered because, as Scripture teaches, Truth is great and will prevail, nor because, as Milton suggests, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27698]]></link><description><![CDATA[Open-mindedness should not be fostered because, as Scripture teaches, Truth is great and will prevail, nor because, as Milton suggests, Truth will always win in a free and open encounter. It should be fostered for its own sake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32660]]></link><description><![CDATA[O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John, Apostle & Evangelist    The Rev. David Bronnert, who was quoted in CQOD at the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6316]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John, Apostle & Evangelist    The Rev. David Bronnert, who was quoted in CQOD at the beginning of the month, has kindly sent me the following meditation taken from the church magazine of St. John's Church, Southall, in London, where he serves as vicar, living out, under God, the previous quotation he wrote thirty years ago. I am grateful to brother David for sending me this timely teaching so that I could present it to you. The light shines in the darkness   Candles are always popular for giving a warm romantic glow and this time of year they are to be seen on many different occasions. Of course a candle is easy to blow out! So much so that its flickering light was chosen by Shakespeare as a picture of the transitory nature of life. Out out brief candle!   Darkness is a reminder of evil, for it is in the darkness that people get lost, stumble and fall. It is in the darkness that power is misused, corruption reigns and evil is done. It is easy to imagine that in the end evil will triumph and the light will disappear. Situations change. Familiar landmarks -- like this magazine! -- disappear. There is the unrelenting pressure of a vanity fair society. The candle burns down and gives a thin wisp of smoke before going out.   But there are also the special party candles that keep bursting back into life. They are a much better picture of the light of the gospel! For though they have been numerous attempts down the centuries to extinguish the light, it has kept on bursting back into flame.   The light of Christ keeps on shining. New ways of sharing the good news come along. New believers are attracted to his light. Sleepy Christians are re-awakened. Fresh discoveries give even more confidence in the truth of the Bible.   The light keeps on shining in the darkness. It is a statement and a promise at the same time. It is isn't that once the light shone, but rather, that in the present it shines, and it will do so in the future as well. For the light comes from the one who is, as well as who was, and is also the one who is to come.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(The county) being 50 percent federally owned already, we're opposed. This is the third time it has come up now, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37880]]></link><description><![CDATA[(The county) being 50 percent federally owned already, we're opposed. This is the third time it has come up now, and we opposed it every time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis pleasant to have a large heap to take from. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50372]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis pleasant to have a large heap to take from.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60014]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nouvelle Cuisine, roughly translated, means: I can't believe I paid ninety-six dollars and I'm still hungry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nouvelle Cuisine, roughly translated, means: I can't believe I paid ninety-six dollars and I'm still hungry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not in the position where we need to sell anyone here, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32831]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not in the position where we need to sell anyone here,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I 'll speak in a monstrous little voice. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55515]]></link><description><![CDATA[I 'll speak in a monstrous little voice. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living. [Lat., Vita enim mortuorum in memoria vivorum ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26931]]></link><description><![CDATA[The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living. [Lat., Vita enim mortuorum in memoria vivorum est posita.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for someone you are not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18797]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for someone you are not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grandeur . . . consists in form, and not in size: and to the eye of the philosopher, the curve ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3026]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grandeur . . . consists in form, and not in size: and to the eye of the philosopher, the curve drawn on a paper two inches long, is just as magnificent, just as symbolic of divine mysteries and melodies, as when embodied in the span of some cathedral roof.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Lehigh Valley economy in 2005 is a lot healthier than it has been in a long time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39399]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Lehigh Valley economy in 2005 is a lot healthier than it has been in a long time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you're walking from the Broadhurst, those eight minutes make a huge difference. They could be the difference between a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41661]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you're walking from the Broadhurst, those eight minutes make a huge difference. They could be the difference between a hectic end to a night on the town and a leisurely one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since when was genius found respectable? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53985]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since when was genius found respectable?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,  Signifying nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51386]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,  Signifying nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have no idea how to classify ourselves. We pull from everything -- rock, hardcore, punk, indie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40113]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have no idea how to classify ourselves. We pull from everything -- rock, hardcore, punk, indie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ACC, Pac-10, whoever it is, we go into the games expecting to win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35380]]></link><description><![CDATA[ACC, Pac-10, whoever it is, we go into the games expecting to win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5225]]></link><description><![CDATA[The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you're alive, it isn't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58971]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you're alive, it isn't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can do no great things; only small things with great love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25860]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can do no great things; only small things with great love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54068]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13601]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61070]]></link><description><![CDATA[The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We make a vessel from a lump of clay; It is the space inside the vessel that makes it useful. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21114]]></link><description><![CDATA[We make a vessel from a lump of clay; It is the space inside the vessel that makes it useful. ... Thus, while the tangible has advantages, It is the intangible that makes it useful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every evil in the bud is easily crushed; as it grows older, it becomes stronger. [Lat., Omne malum nascens facile ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14303]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every evil in the bud is easily crushed; as it grows older, it becomes stronger. [Lat., Omne malum nascens facile opprimitur; inveteratum fit pleurumque robustius.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26771]]></link><description><![CDATA[Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most urgent necessity in human life is to be able to face life victoriously. For many are living mentally, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60610]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most urgent necessity in human life is to be able to face life victoriously. For many are living mentally, physically, morally and spiritually defeated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64206]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, and the skillful direct it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45014]]></link><description><![CDATA[The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, and the skillful direct it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair and all the terrible things that happen to us, come because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60168]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair and all the terrible things that happen to us, come because actually deserve them? So now I take comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the Universe]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5528]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is no easy matter to say commonplace things in an original way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50281]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is no easy matter to say commonplace things in an original way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63758]]></link><description><![CDATA[Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My nearest And dearest enemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13858]]></link><description><![CDATA[My nearest And dearest enemy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who runs behind truck is exhausted, he who runs in front of truck is tired. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46475]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who runs behind truck is exhausted, he who runs in front of truck is tired.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock'd in the cradle of the western breeze. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57782]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock'd in the cradle of the western breeze.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To die will be an awfully big adventure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/663]]></link><description><![CDATA[To die will be an awfully big adventure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/663</guid></item></channel></rss>