<?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[Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44296]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is dependent on effort. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58171]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is dependent on effort.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aggravate your choler. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act ii. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55927]]></link><description><![CDATA[Aggravate your choler. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26465]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51983]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21760]]></link><description><![CDATA[Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're going to trade a guy of that caliber, you're not going to get the same caliber of talent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36121]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're going to trade a guy of that caliber, you're not going to get the same caliber of talent in return.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the prettiest foot! Oh, if a man could but fasten his eyes to her feet, as they steal in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15559]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the prettiest foot! Oh, if a man could but fasten his eyes to her feet, as they steal in and out, and play at bo-peep under her petticoats!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am climbing a difficult road; but the glory gives me strength. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17559]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am climbing a difficult road; but the glory gives me strength.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A humanist is anyone who rejects the attempt to describe or account for man wholly on the basis of physics, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19979]]></link><description><![CDATA[A humanist is anyone who rejects the attempt to describe or account for man wholly on the basis of physics, chemistry or animal behaviour.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10708]]></link><description><![CDATA[A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is made more sacred by adversity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/728]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is made more sacred by adversity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whither art thou rushing to destruction? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51841]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whither art thou rushing to destruction?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Picking] an interim CEO is just one of many discussions, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29660]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Picking] an interim CEO is just one of many discussions,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66307]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The boy hath sold him a bargain,—a goose. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55484]]></link><description><![CDATA[The boy hath sold him a bargain,—a goose. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Amy Carmichael, Founder of the Dohnavour Fellowship, 1951   How often we look upon God as our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8240]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Amy Carmichael, Founder of the Dohnavour Fellowship, 1951   How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65141]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53403]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step in repairing our loss. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61347]]></link><description><![CDATA[The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step in repairing our loss.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11803]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jesus' moral teaching does not consist of a universal scheme of ethics, a series of precepts which would be universally ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7401]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jesus' moral teaching does not consist of a universal scheme of ethics, a series of precepts which would be universally valid, by whomever they had been spoken. They are to be heard as His word, spoken by Him, with the impact of His person behind them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prejudice is the child of ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20440]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prejudice is the child of ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oft expectation fails, and most oft there Where most it promises; and oft it hits  Where hope is coldest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oft expectation fails, and most oft there Where most it promises; and oft it hits  Where hope is coldest and despair most fits.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51271]]></link><description><![CDATA[When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being English, I always laugh at anything to do with the lavatory or bottoms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being English, I always laugh at anything to do with the lavatory or bottoms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[CHRISTMAS DAY GOOD WILL TOWARD MEN Lo, God, our God has come!   To us a Child is born, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6853]]></link><description><![CDATA[CHRISTMAS DAY GOOD WILL TOWARD MEN Lo, God, our God has come!   To us a Child is born, To us a Son is given;   Bless, bless the blessed morn! O happy, lowly lofty birth, Now God, our God, has come to earth! Rejoice, our God has come!   In love and lowliness; The Son of God has come   The sons of men to bless. God with us now descend to dwell, God in our flesh, Immanuel. Praise ye the word made flesh!   True God, true man is He. Praise ye the Christ of God!   To Him all glory be. Praise ye the Lamb that once was slain, Praise ye the king that comes to reign.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consider the hour-glass; there is nothing to be accomplished by rattling or shaking; you have to wait patiently until the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consider the hour-glass; there is nothing to be accomplished by rattling or shaking; you have to wait patiently until the sand, grain by grain, has run from one funnel into the other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith, that's as well said as if I had said it myself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9615]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith, that's as well said as if I had said it myself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Familiarity breeds contempt. [Lat., Nimia familiaritas parit contemptum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Familiarity breeds contempt. [Lat., Nimia familiaritas parit contemptum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The U.S. case is more important because of the economic implications, ... a nice psychological boost but you can't extrapolate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31183]]></link><description><![CDATA[The U.S. case is more important because of the economic implications, ... a nice psychological boost but you can't extrapolate the U.S. ruling from this because of the different legal standards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60737]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those things that hurt, instruct. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18316]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those things that hurt, instruct.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18316</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[Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the one ascends the other descends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the one ascends the other descends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No matter how far you have gone on the wrong road, turn back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42845]]></link><description><![CDATA[No matter how far you have gone on the wrong road, turn back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43185]]></link><description><![CDATA[All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that hath a Fox for his mate, hath neede of a net at his girdle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49449]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that hath a Fox for his mate, hath neede of a net at his girdle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To our real, naked selves there is not a thing on earth or in heaven worth dying for. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56871]]></link><description><![CDATA[To our real, naked selves there is not a thing on earth or in heaven worth dying for. It is only when we see ourselves as actors in a staged (and therefore unreal) performance that death loses its frightfulness and finality and becomes an act of make-believe and a theatrical gesture. It is one of the main tasks of a real leader to mask the grim reality of dying and killing by evoking in his followers the illusion that they are participating in a grandiose spectacle, a solemn or lighthearted dramatic performance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Rolle of Hampole, Writer, Hermit, Mystic, 1349   The Christian is the real radical of our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Rolle of Hampole, Writer, Hermit, Mystic, 1349   The Christian is the real radical of our generation, for he stands against the monolithic, modern concept of truth as relative. But too often, instead of being the radical, standing against the shifting sands of relativism, he subsides into merely maintaing the status quo. If it is true that evil is evil, that God hates it to the point of the cross, and that there is a moral law fixed in what God is in Himself, then Christians should be the first into the field against what is wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An unlesson'd girl, unschool'd, unpractised; Happy in this, she is not yet so old But she may learn. -The Merchant ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55595]]></link><description><![CDATA[An unlesson'd girl, unschool'd, unpractised; Happy in this, she is not yet so old But she may learn. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We ask people not to duck the ropes, but they can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29383]]></link><description><![CDATA[We ask people not to duck the ropes, but they can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52549]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I used to have a drug problem, now I make enough money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13029]]></link><description><![CDATA[I used to have a drug problem, now I make enough money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This gives us a range of things we could do. Some of that is pretty big dollar amounts. The next ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31908]]></link><description><![CDATA[This gives us a range of things we could do. Some of that is pretty big dollar amounts. The next step will be ... how do we choose among those options and how do we pay for it?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The essentials of poetry are rhythm, dance, and the human voice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46810]]></link><description><![CDATA[The essentials of poetry are rhythm, dance, and the human voice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very tough to deal with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30335]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very tough to deal with.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't psyche myself up. I psyche myself down. I think clearer when I'm not psyched up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57542]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't psyche myself up. I psyche myself down. I think clearer when I'm not psyched up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, this is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60169]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, this is love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60169</guid></item></channel></rss>