<?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[Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19177]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3428]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53901]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10189]]></link><description><![CDATA[The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted. [Lat., Spiritalis enim virtus sacramenti ita est ut lux: etsi per immundos transeat, non inquinatur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not do what you would undo if caught. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19672]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not do what you would undo if caught.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's ironic, but until you can free those final monsters within the jungle of yourself, your life, your soul is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23577]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's ironic, but until you can free those final monsters within the jungle of yourself, your life, your soul is up for grabs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's amazing to me that 16- and 17-year-olds are treated as adults no matter what. If we make a big ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28202]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's amazing to me that 16- and 17-year-olds are treated as adults no matter what. If we make a big enough presence and have enough people, maybe the General Assembly will listen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am a novelist, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41917]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am a novelist,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vulgarity is more obvious in satin than in homespun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61053]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vulgarity is more obvious in satin than in homespun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's starting to settle in by getting in a groove. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38568]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's starting to settle in by getting in a groove.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why should we fear; and what? The laws? They all are armed in virtue's cause;  And aiming at the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54703]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why should we fear; and what? The laws? They all are armed in virtue's cause;  And aiming at the self-same end,   Satire is always virtue's friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A nation never falls but by suicide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43692]]></link><description><![CDATA[A nation never falls but by suicide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27601]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20542]]></link><description><![CDATA[Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53336]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Philosophy is nothing but Discretion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46496]]></link><description><![CDATA[Philosophy is nothing but Discretion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wouldn't have turned out the way I was if I didn't have all those old-fashioned values to rebel against. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53146]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wouldn't have turned out the way I was if I didn't have all those old-fashioned values to rebel against.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5695]]></link><description><![CDATA[But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, to be in England, Now that April's there,  And whoever wakes in England   Sees some morning, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13906]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, to be in England, Now that April's there,  And whoever wakes in England   Sees some morning, unaware,    That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf,     Round the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf      While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough       In England--now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In everything one thing is impossible: rationality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63607]]></link><description><![CDATA[In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The notion of a farseeing and despotic statesman, who can lay down plans for ages yet unborn, is a fancy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47048]]></link><description><![CDATA[The notion of a farseeing and despotic statesman, who can lay down plans for ages yet unborn, is a fancy generated by the pride of the human intellect to which facts give no support.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who meditates a crime secretly within himself has all the guilt of the act. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50450]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who meditates a crime secretly within himself has all the guilt of the act.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The poetry of the earth is never dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43918]]></link><description><![CDATA[The poetry of the earth is never dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've never let my school interfere with my education. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13367]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've never let my school interfere with my education.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty is another's ugliness; one man's wisdom is another's folly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59997]]></link><description><![CDATA[One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty is another's ugliness; one man's wisdom is another's folly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ignorance is always afraid of change. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66751]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ignorance is always afraid of change.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's all about being flexible, and avoiding choices whenever possible. Choices suck, they are inherently limiting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32239]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's all about being flexible, and avoiding choices whenever possible. Choices suck, they are inherently limiting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[According to the statistics agency of the Chinese government, China invested US$ 7 billion in Sudan in 2005. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42602]]></link><description><![CDATA[According to the statistics agency of the Chinese government, China invested US$ 7 billion in Sudan in 2005.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't, it is easier to ignore the facts than to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5556]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't, it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions. -Jessamyn West.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing can be done at once hastily and prudently. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62151]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing can be done at once hastily and prudently.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They simply don't want a recession. It's an insurance policy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37051]]></link><description><![CDATA[They simply don't want a recession. It's an insurance policy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the games end we shall see who gaines. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49144]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the games end we shall see who gaines.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He may effect us directly by His Spirit, with the force of a thunderbolt, or He may choose to woo ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7100]]></link><description><![CDATA[He may effect us directly by His Spirit, with the force of a thunderbolt, or He may choose to woo us gently by stirring up our conscience. But, in addition, God affects us by determining that in the universe certain causes shall bring about certain effects. Cause and effect is, therefore, the operation of God through normal channels rather than through special channels. We have our normal way of acting when we drive a car. We can more or less put it in "automatic pilot" while we carry on a conversation, but when an emergency arises, we take conscious personal control. I have a hunch that God has something for which this automatic pilot will serve as an illustration. That is, His routine way of operating is cause and effect, and He is in control of it, so that when cause and effect affects us, then God is affecting us. That is what the Apostle Paul means in Galatians when he says, "Do not kid yourself -- God is not blind. What you do, you will get paid for." The causes which we have set in operation by our own personal choices will inevitably bring about certain results. But God is involved because God makes cause and effect to work. [Continued tomorrow].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do not hear the term "compassionate" applied to business executives or entrepreneurs, certainly not when they are engaged in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15793]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do not hear the term "compassionate" applied to business executives or entrepreneurs, certainly not when they are engaged in their normal work. Yet in terms of results in the measurable form of jobs created, lives enriched, communities built, living standards raised, and poverty healed, a handful of capitalists has done infinitely more for mankind than all the self-serving politicians, academics, social workers, and religionists who march under the banner of "compassion".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Victory belongs to the most persevering. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22155]]></link><description><![CDATA[Victory belongs to the most persevering.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who is so deafe, as he that will not hear? [Who is so deaf as he that will not hear?] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who is so deafe, as he that will not hear? [Who is so deaf as he that will not hear?]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a violence that liberates, and a violence that enslaves; there is a violence that is moral and a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60690]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a violence that liberates, and a violence that enslaves; there is a violence that is moral and a violence that is immoral.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53318]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brigid, Abbess of Kildare, c.525  God does not lead His children around hardship, but leads them straight ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brigid, Abbess of Kildare, c.525  God does not lead His children around hardship, but leads them straight through hardship. But He leads! And amidst the hardship, He is nearer to them than ever before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15264]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Day is a snow-white Dove of heaven That from the East glad message brings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11120]]></link><description><![CDATA[Day is a snow-white Dove of heaven That from the East glad message brings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure-- fearlessness and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62508]]></link><description><![CDATA[The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure-- fearlessness and achievement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature encourages no looseness, pardons no errors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature encourages no looseness, pardons no errors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired-you quit when the gorilla is tired. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62385]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired-you quit when the gorilla is tired.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has been called a mediocre man; but this is unwarranted flattery. He was a politician of monumental littleness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47353]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has been called a mediocre man; but this is unwarranted flattery. He was a politician of monumental littleness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God never built a Christian strong enough to carry today's duties and tomorrow's anxieties piled on the top of them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44137]]></link><description><![CDATA[God never built a Christian strong enough to carry today's duties and tomorrow's anxieties piled on the top of them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11061]]></link><description><![CDATA[In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If some people didn't tell you, you'd never know they'd been away on a vacation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60316]]></link><description><![CDATA[If some people didn't tell you, you'd never know they'd been away on a vacation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for tobe what they choose for themselves, without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21513]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for tobe what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that theysatisfy you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65183]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65183</guid></item></channel></rss>