<?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[Mathematics seems to endow one with something like a new sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26533]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mathematics seems to endow one with something like a new sense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each of us is a being in himself and a being in society, each of us needs to understand himself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4025]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each of us is a being in himself and a being in society, each of us needs to understand himself and understand others, take care of others and be taken care of himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Matthew, Apostle & Evangelist  True progress is not found in breaking away from the old ways, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7103]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Matthew, Apostle & Evangelist  True progress is not found in breaking away from the old ways, but in abiding in the teaching of Christ and His Spirit in the Church. There is an apparent contradiction here, for how can we abide, and yet advance? It is a paradox, like much else in scripture; but Christian experience proves it true. Those make the best progress in religion who hold fast by the faith once for all delivered to the saints, and not those who drift away from their moorings, rudderless upon a sea of doubt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am sadly afraid that I must have done some wicked thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29532]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am sadly afraid that I must have done some wicked thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing so awkward as courting a woman whilst she is making sausages. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52045]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing so awkward as courting a woman whilst she is making sausages.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The act of putting pen to paper encourages pause for thought, this in turn makes us think more deeply about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59158]]></link><description><![CDATA[The act of putting pen to paper encourages pause for thought, this in turn makes us think more deeply about life, which helps us regain our equilibrium.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...the crimes of violence committed for selfish, personal motives are historically insignificant compared to those committed ad majorem gloriam Dei, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47191]]></link><description><![CDATA[...the crimes of violence committed for selfish, personal motives are historically insignificant compared to those committed ad majorem gloriam Dei, out of a self-sacrificing devotion to the flag, a leader, a religious faith or political conviction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47191</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[My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4558]]></link><description><![CDATA[My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hope that after they get their degrees, they'll make their home and careers back in Texas, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34174]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hope that after they get their degrees, they'll make their home and careers back in Texas,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8454]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46921]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every Christian, by virtue of membership in the Church, has a vocation to share in the ministry of Christ to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6548]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every Christian, by virtue of membership in the Church, has a vocation to share in the ministry of Christ to the world which has been entrusted to the Church. The vocation is answered in the home and office and factory and field. There it is that the People of God bears its witness to the vocation of the People of God, a people with a people's diversity and complex vitality, a people comprising a multiplicity of cultures and histories and colours and tongues, a people and not a collection of individuals, a people bound together in allegiance to one King and in obedience to one purpose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nay, but make haste, the better foot before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18783]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nay, but make haste, the better foot before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why men are more interested in better justifying themselves than in better behaving themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12790]]></link><description><![CDATA[In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64726]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything has returned to normal. We expect everything to be fine and for him to be available [on Friday] unless ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35904]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything has returned to normal. We expect everything to be fine and for him to be available [on Friday] unless there is some setback.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is like a butterfly. The more you chase it, the more it eludes you. But if you turn your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18660]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is like a butterfly. The more you chase it, the more it eludes you. But if you turn your attention to other things, It comes and sits softly on your shoulder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I played djembe, percussion, keyboards and I sang. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37649]]></link><description><![CDATA[I played djembe, percussion, keyboards and I sang.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I look upon you as a gem of the old rock. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2480]]></link><description><![CDATA[I look upon you as a gem of the old rock.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has expanded beyond my wildest dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31206]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has expanded beyond my wildest dreams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is that "Tomorrow" for which all our lives are spent waiting!Man is constantly building the "Image."It is an Edifice ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is that "Tomorrow" for which all our lives are spent waiting!Man is constantly building the "Image."It is an Edifice for the entombment of bones!Best to "Realize" the temporal nature of thingsand simply "Do and Die!1973]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25589]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3332]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your messages I hear, but faith has not been given; The dearest child of Faith is Miracle  [Ger., Die ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14971]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your messages I hear, but faith has not been given; The dearest child of Faith is Miracle  [Ger., Die Botschaft hor' ich wohl, allein mir fehlt der Glaube;   Das Wunder ist des Glaubens liebstes Kind.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't control what you can't measure ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26646]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't control what you can't measure]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I could do what a lot of people are doing and that's sign the best Nicaraguan fighters and then sell ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28862]]></link><description><![CDATA[I could do what a lot of people are doing and that's sign the best Nicaraguan fighters and then sell them to Don King, but there's no way I'll do that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9319]]></link><description><![CDATA[It will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What restricts the use of the word 'lady' among the courteous is that it is intended to set a woman ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23967]]></link><description><![CDATA[What restricts the use of the word 'lady' among the courteous is that it is intended to set a woman apart from ordinary humanity, and in the working world that is not a help, as women have discovered in many bitter ways.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Christian is not one who has gone all the way with Christ. None of us has. The Christian is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31370]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Christian is not one who has gone all the way with Christ. None of us has. The Christian is one who has found the right road.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man of maxims only, is like a cyclops with one eye, and that in the back of his head. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26603]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man of maxims only, is like a cyclops with one eye, and that in the back of his head.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such to me is the new image of aging: growth in self and service for all mankind ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such to me is the new image of aging: growth in self and service for all mankind]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boldness is a mask for fear, however great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4464]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ships are but boards, sailors but men: there be land-rats and water-rats, water-thieves and land-thieves. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ships are but boards, sailors but men: there be land-rats and water-rats, water-thieves and land-thieves. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66246]]></link><description><![CDATA[To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It means a lot to me to have the honor to sing at the School Board meeting. I take it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40480]]></link><description><![CDATA[It means a lot to me to have the honor to sing at the School Board meeting. I take it pretty seriously.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kites rise highest against the wind; not with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/711]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kites rise highest against the wind; not with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maintain your post: That's all the fame you need; For 'tis impossible you should proceed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maintain your post: That's all the fame you need; For 'tis impossible you should proceed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A rainbow in the morning Is the Shepherd's warning;  But a rainbow at night   Is the Shepherd's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52951]]></link><description><![CDATA[A rainbow in the morning Is the Shepherd's warning;  But a rainbow at night   Is the Shepherd's delight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How happy is the blameless vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44768]]></link><description><![CDATA[How happy is the blameless vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can run one business well, you can run any business well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15987]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of my work is based on nature. I grew up in a rural environment and living in the Bay ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39267]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of my work is based on nature. I grew up in a rural environment and living in the Bay Area allows for immediate access to wonderful natural environs. Basically nature is my Genus Loci, or the place where my spirit resides.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish. [Fr., Il est difficile d'estimer quelqu'un comme ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60389]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish. [Fr., Il est difficile d'estimer quelqu'un comme il veut l'etre.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5932]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first duty of love is to listen. -Paul Tillich. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25204]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first duty of love is to listen. -Paul Tillich.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith, if it be a living faith, will be a working faith. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7032]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith, if it be a living faith, will be a working faith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26058]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would have liked to have 12 points but we must learn our lessons. I don't think England are the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31030]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would have liked to have 12 points but we must learn our lessons. I don't think England are the best team in Europe but they are one of the best with three young forwards and a good defense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31030</guid></item></channel></rss>