<?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[But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58513]]></link><description><![CDATA[But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man. The mountain of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3017]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man. The mountain of granite blooms into an eternal flower, with the lightness and delicate finish, as well as the aerial proportions and perspective of vegetable beauty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one day what I did at work. I told ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20947]]></link><description><![CDATA[When my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one day what I did at work. I told her I worked at the college - that my job was to teach people how to draw. She stared at me, incredulous, and said, "You mean they forget?"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two angels guide The path of man, both aged and yet young.  As angels are, ripening through endless years, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two angels guide The path of man, both aged and yet young.  As angels are, ripening through endless years,   On one he leans: some call her Memory,    And some Tradition; and her voice is sweet,     With deep mysterious accords: the other,      Floating above, holds down a lamp with streams       A light divine and searching on the earth,        Compelling eyes and footsteps. Memory yields,         Yet clings with loving check, and shines anew,          Reflecting all the rays of that bright lamp           Our angel Reason holds. We had not walked            But for Tradition; we walk evermore             To higher paths by brightening Reason's lamp.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We always love those who admire us, and we do not always love those whom we admire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/611]]></link><description><![CDATA[We always love those who admire us, and we do not always love those whom we admire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We see it as a trusted traveler program. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29340]]></link><description><![CDATA[We see it as a trusted traveler program.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And with necessity, The tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50649]]></link><description><![CDATA[And with necessity, The tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deeds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hypocrisy and distortion are passing currents under the name of religion ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hypocrisy and distortion are passing currents under the name of religion]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, Martyr in Uganda, 1885  Give me a stout heart to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, Martyr in Uganda, 1885  Give me a stout heart to bear my own burdens. Give me a willing heart to bear the burdens of others. Give me a believing heart to cast all burdens upon Thee, O Lord.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is generally said, "Past labors are pleasant," Euripides says, for you all know the Greek verse, "The recollection of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23927]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is generally said, "Past labors are pleasant," Euripides says, for you all know the Greek verse, "The recollection of past labors is pleasant." [Lat., Vulgo enim dicitur, Jucundi acti labores: nec male Euripides: concludam, si potero, Latine: Graecum enim hunc versum nostis omnes: Suavis laborum est proeteritorum memoria.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For a grown man with a fully developed personality, try as you might, it's hard to start acting like a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30743]]></link><description><![CDATA[For a grown man with a fully developed personality, try as you might, it's hard to start acting like a different person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Allen Gardiner, founder of the South American Missionary Society, 1851 Commemoration of Albert Schweitzer, Teacher, Physician, Missionary, 1965 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Allen Gardiner, founder of the South American Missionary Society, 1851 Commemoration of Albert Schweitzer, Teacher, Physician, Missionary, 1965  As we look out upon history and the world, it is with the same vision of all things in Christ which dominates the perceptions of all believers, without distinction of age, or race, or Church. Not a saint, a thinker, a hero, or a martyr of the Church, but we claim a share in his character, influence and achievements, by confessing the debt we owe to the great tradition which he has enriched by saintly consecration, true thought, or noble conduct.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heart presence is about having more of your real self show up in each moment. It's about being mentally, emotionally, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44699]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heart presence is about having more of your real self show up in each moment. It's about being mentally, emotionally, and physically present in the heart. We often put so much energy and focus on how we "present" ourselves - the way we appear, what we wear,what we say, what car we drive. If we put a fraction of that energy into how we present ourselves to ourselves on the mental and emotional levels, we can greatly reduce anxiety and increase our vitality. -Doc Childre.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had a problem staying together yesterday. I told them to stay together and play together to get through the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37635]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had a problem staying together yesterday. I told them to stay together and play together to get through the ups and downs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it is bolstering management rather than bringing in someone who is going to say yes to a bid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29360]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it is bolstering management rather than bringing in someone who is going to say yes to a bid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There cannot be two kinds of medicine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41458]]></link><description><![CDATA[There cannot be two kinds of medicine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Will the theater disappear? No. Is it healthy? Also no. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34499]]></link><description><![CDATA[Will the theater disappear? No. Is it healthy? Also no.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47020]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A house is made of walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19597]]></link><description><![CDATA[A house is made of walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, don't be sorrowful darling, And don't be sorrowful, pray:  Taking the year together, my dear,   There ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57240]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, don't be sorrowful darling, And don't be sorrowful, pray:  Taking the year together, my dear,   There isn't more night than day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Margaret, Queen of Scotland, Philanthropist, Reformer of the Church, 1093 Commemoration of Edmund Rich of Abingdon, Archbishop of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7041]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Margaret, Queen of Scotland, Philanthropist, Reformer of the Church, 1093 Commemoration of Edmund Rich of Abingdon, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1240  We get our moral bearings by looking at God. We must begin with God. We are right when, and only when, we stand in a right position relative to God, and we are wrong so far and so long as we stand in any other position.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a good opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30555]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a good opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bibles read without prayer; sermons heard without prayer; marriages contracted without prayer; journeys undertaken without prayer; residences chosen without prayer; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bibles read without prayer; sermons heard without prayer; marriages contracted without prayer; journeys undertaken without prayer; residences chosen without prayer; friendships formed without prayer; the daily act of prayer itself hurried over, or gone through without heart: these are the kind of downward steps by which many a Christian descends to a condition of spiritual palsy, or reaches the point where God allows them to have a tremendous fall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only conquests which are permanent and leave no regrets are our conquests over ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9775]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only conquests which are permanent and leave no regrets are our conquests over ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64398]]></link><description><![CDATA[A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64398</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[The qualities all in a bee that we meet, In an epigram never should fail;  The body should always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14082]]></link><description><![CDATA[The qualities all in a bee that we meet, In an epigram never should fail;  The body should always be little and sweet,   And a sting should be felt in its tail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15820]]></link><description><![CDATA[My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quality is a proud and soaring thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52662]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quality is a proud and soaring thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A culture is made -- or destroyed -- by its articulate voices. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10824]]></link><description><![CDATA[A culture is made -- or destroyed -- by its articulate voices.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16544]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note--torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What I will learn over the years will be of benefit and interest to me personally but, as far as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42539]]></link><description><![CDATA[What I will learn over the years will be of benefit and interest to me personally but, as far as the program is concerned, I'm the mouthpiece of the viewers as well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9723]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4689]]></link><description><![CDATA[The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our quarrel with the world is an echo of the endless quarrel proceeding within us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our quarrel with the world is an echo of the endless quarrel proceeding within us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wage hike is very hard to take away, but bonuses and profit-sharing can disappear very quickly in hard times...More ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22582]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wage hike is very hard to take away, but bonuses and profit-sharing can disappear very quickly in hard times...More people are realizing that bonuses look like raises, but really aren't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I long to believe in immortality. . . . If I am destined to be happy with you here--how short ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20617]]></link><description><![CDATA[I long to believe in immortality. . . . If I am destined to be happy with you here--how short is the longest life. I wish to believe in immortality--I wish to live with you forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What all the ads and all the whoreoscopes seemed to imply was that if only you were narcissistic enough, if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15573]]></link><description><![CDATA[What all the ads and all the whoreoscopes seemed to imply was that if only you were narcissistic enough, if only you took proper care of your smells, your hair, your boobs, your eyelashes, your armpits, your crotch, your stars, your scars, and your choice of Scotch in bars--you would meet a beautiful, powerful, potent, and rich man who would satisfy every longing, fill every hole, make your heart skip a beat (or stand still), make you misty, and fly you to the moon (preferably on gossamer wings), where you would live totally satisfied forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I knew we were quick on defense, but they needed to be game-tested. We needed to see if they'd hit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33450]]></link><description><![CDATA[I knew we were quick on defense, but they needed to be game-tested. We needed to see if they'd hit somebody.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65364]]></link><description><![CDATA[We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47008]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We once worried that democracy could not survive if an undereducated populace knew too little. Now we worry if it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47041]]></link><description><![CDATA[We once worried that democracy could not survive if an undereducated populace knew too little. Now we worry if it can survive us knowing too much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Falstaff sweats to death, And lards the lean earth as he walks along. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Falstaff sweats to death, And lards the lean earth as he walks along. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we need is to use what we have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44098]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we need is to use what we have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that followes the Lord hopes to goe before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49338]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that followes the Lord hopes to goe before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A medium Vodka dry Martini--with a slice of lemon peel. Shaken and not stirred. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61683]]></link><description><![CDATA[A medium Vodka dry Martini--with a slice of lemon peel. Shaken and not stirred.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is a rebel? A man who says no ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53143]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is a rebel? A man who says no]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53143</guid></item></channel></rss>