<?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 men dislike a teaching which lays upon them strict moral requirements that check their natural desires. Yet they like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6281]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most men dislike a teaching which lays upon them strict moral requirements that check their natural desires. Yet they like to be considered as Christians, and listen willingly to the hypocrites who preach that our righteousness is only that God holds us to be righteous, even if we are bad people, and that our righteousness is without us and not in us, for, according to such teaching, they can be counted as holy people. Woe to those who preach that men of sinful walk can not be considered pious; most are furious when they hear this, as we see and experience, and would like all such preachers to be driven away or even killed; but where that cannot be done, they strengthen their hypocrite preachers with praise, comfort, presents and protection, so that they may go on happily and give no place to the truth, however clear it may be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God wanted to redeem men and open the way of salvation to those who seek Him. But men make themselves ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7807]]></link><description><![CDATA[God wanted to redeem men and open the way of salvation to those who seek Him. But men make themselves so unworthy of it that it is only just that God should refuse to some because of the hardness of heart what He gives to others from a compassion that they do not deserve. If He had wanted to overcome the obstinacy of the most hardened, He could have done so by revealing Himself to them so obviously that they could not have doubted the truth of His Being -- just as He will appear at the last day with such a clap of thunder and such an upheaval of nature that the dead will revive and the blindest will see. It is not in this way, however, that He willed to appear at His gentle coming: because so many men had made themselves unworthy of His mercy, He willed to leave them deprived of the good which they did not desire. And so it would not have been fair for Him to have appeared in an obviously divine manner, absolutely capable of convincing all men. But also it would not have been fair for Him to appear in a manner so hidden that even those who were sincerely seeking Him should not be able to recognize Him... So He has tempered His knowledge, by giving marks of Himself which were visible to those who seek Him, and not to those who seek Him not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's an expectation built into Nortel's valuation for the company to outperform relative to expectation and with all of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31761]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's an expectation built into Nortel's valuation for the company to outperform relative to expectation and with all of the indications prior to the call that the demand for optical remained quite strong, especially with service providers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civilization is hideously fragile [and] there's not much between us and the horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19820]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civilization is hideously fragile [and] there's not much between us and the horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had wanted to say that my song was far too painful to sing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57200]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had wanted to say that my song was far too painful to sing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am young. I didn't know that. But I don't recognize myself. That's my problem with the mirror. I see ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32685]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am young. I didn't know that. But I don't recognize myself. That's my problem with the mirror. I see only the ugliness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion, if we want to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20472]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22026]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the purpose that makes strong the vow; But vows to every purpose must not hold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61033]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the purpose that makes strong the vow; But vows to every purpose must not hold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let but the hours of idleness cease, and the bow of Cupid will become broken and his torch extinguished. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50739]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let but the hours of idleness cease, and the bow of Cupid will become broken and his torch extinguished.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day,  Which now shows all the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51533]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day,  Which now shows all the beauty of the sun,   And by and by a cloud takes all away!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're very genuine, very humble. They really appreciate it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41676]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're very genuine, very humble. They really appreciate it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hugh, Carthusian Monk, Bishop of Lincoln, 1200   Frightful this is in a sense, but it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8090]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hugh, Carthusian Monk, Bishop of Lincoln, 1200   Frightful this is in a sense, but it is true, and every one who has merely some little knowledge of the human heart can verify it: there is nothing to which a man holds so desperately as to his sin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a sexually transmitted disease. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21764]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a sexually transmitted disease.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bureaucracy is the art of making the possible impossible ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bureaucracy is the art of making the possible impossible]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails fastened by the masters of assemblies, which are given ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61743]]></link><description><![CDATA[The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails fastened by the masters of assemblies, which are given from one shepherd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through snow covered forests of spirited dreamsnourished to life by crystalline streams.Jan of  http://jsmagic.net/emissary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12940]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through snow covered forests of spirited dreamsnourished to life by crystalline streams.Jan of  http://jsmagic.net/emissary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even in a day of overdone distinctions, one might point out that interpretations are not properly to be classified as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7515]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even in a day of overdone distinctions, one might point out that interpretations are not properly to be classified as historical or dogmatic, but as true or false. If they are false, it does not matter whether they be called dogmatic or historical; and if they are true, they may quite well be both.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm a bad dater - I'm just not good at it. It's so weird dating in this town. It's like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39298]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm a bad dater - I'm just not good at it. It's so weird dating in this town. It's like high school. I get a lot of people who have their publicist call my agent to ask, 'Is she dating anyone?']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20383]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes when I feel like killing someone, I do a little trick to calm myself down. I'll go over to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20069]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes when I feel like killing someone, I do a little trick to calm myself down. I'll go over to the person's house and ring the doorbell. When the person comes to the door, I'm gone, but you know what I've left on the porch? A jack-o-lantern with a knife stuck in the side of its head with a note that says 'You.' After that I usually feel a lot better, and no harm done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a workable document from which good things can flow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38366]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a workable document from which good things can flow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An espionage organization is a collector: it collects raw information. That gets processed by a machinery that is supposed to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28750]]></link><description><![CDATA[An espionage organization is a collector: it collects raw information. That gets processed by a machinery that is supposed to resolve its reliability, and to present a finished product.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His studie was but litel on the Bible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54905]]></link><description><![CDATA[His studie was but litel on the Bible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57635]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the devil when he purports any evil against man, first perverts his mind. [Lat., At daemon, homini quum struit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21013]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the devil when he purports any evil against man, first perverts his mind. [Lat., At daemon, homini quum struit aliquid malum,  Pervertit illi primitus mentem suam.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No poor bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making other bastards die ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27978]]></link><description><![CDATA[No poor bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making other bastards die for their country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come what come may, Time and the hour runs through the roughest day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51375]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come what come may, Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It basically describes a day in the life of Charlie Brown. The show takes the form of the comic strip, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36903]]></link><description><![CDATA[It basically describes a day in the life of Charlie Brown. The show takes the form of the comic strip, with its separate frames and short vignettes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The strength of our infield is our biggest improvement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33640]]></link><description><![CDATA[The strength of our infield is our biggest improvement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In other circumstances it would not be a very big deal, but I would say the Election Commission was too ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35928]]></link><description><![CDATA[In other circumstances it would not be a very big deal, but I would say the Election Commission was too complacent about explaining the changes to the people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A willing heart adds feather to the heel And makes the clown a winged Mercury. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61588]]></link><description><![CDATA[A willing heart adds feather to the heel And makes the clown a winged Mercury.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Espionage, for the most part, involves finding a person who knows something or has something that you can induce them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Espionage, for the most part, involves finding a person who knows something or has something that you can induce them secretly to give to you. That almost always involves a betrayal of trust.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is singular how soon we lose the impression of what ceases to be constantly before us. A year impairs, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26949]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is singular how soon we lose the impression of what ceases to be constantly before us. A year impairs, a luster obliterates. There is little distinct left without an effort of memory, then indeed the lights are rekindled for a moment -- but who can be sure that the Imagination is not the torch-bearer?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accursed; Man is more than Constitutions; better rot beneath the sod,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59648]]></link><description><![CDATA[The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accursed; Man is more than Constitutions; better rot beneath the sod,  Than be true to Church and State while we are doubly false to God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In (the) tsunami-affected region, we are trying to do that, to say 'This is an opportunity to go about things ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41515]]></link><description><![CDATA[In (the) tsunami-affected region, we are trying to do that, to say 'This is an opportunity to go about things the right way and take the time to do it right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any community that fails to prepare -- with the expectation that the federal government can or will offer a lifeline ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28822]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any community that fails to prepare -- with the expectation that the federal government can or will offer a lifeline -- will be tragically wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And sleep in dull cold marble. -King Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56044]]></link><description><![CDATA[And sleep in dull cold marble. -King Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mystical union, on the one hand. The resurrection of the body, on the other. I can't reach the ghost ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6704]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mystical union, on the one hand. The resurrection of the body, on the other. I can't reach the ghost of an image, a formula, or even a feeling, that combines them. But the reality, we are given to understand, does. Reality is the iconoclast once more. Heaven will solve our problems--but not, I think, by showing us subtle reconciliations between all our apparently contradictory notions. The notions will all be knocked from under our feet. We shall see that there never was any problem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think with the wise, but talk with the vulgar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61050]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think with the wise, but talk with the vulgar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aim at heaven and you get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Aim at heaven and you get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's part of our culture and firm belief that smart, talented local bankers make the best decisions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41946]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's part of our culture and firm belief that smart, talented local bankers make the best decisions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Wolf and the SheepA wolf, sorely wounded and bitten by dogs, lay sick and maimed in his lair. Being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1593]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Wolf and the SheepA wolf, sorely wounded and bitten by dogs, lay sick and maimed in his lair. Being in want of food, he called to a Sheep who was passing, and asked him to fetch some water from a stream flowing close beside him. For, he said, if you will bring me drink, I will find means to provide myself with meat. Yes, said the Sheep, if I should bring you the draught, you would doubtless make me provide the meat also. Hypocritical speeches are easily seen through.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Agribusiness professionals are concerned that there's been a decline in the number of farmers who make purchases based on their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Agribusiness professionals are concerned that there's been a decline in the number of farmers who make purchases based on their longstanding relationships with businesses. Our study shows they are correct and provides insight into how today's farmer makes those decisions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48241]]></link><description><![CDATA[The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The undressed is vulgar - the nude is pure ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52586]]></link><description><![CDATA[The undressed is vulgar - the nude is pure]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23405]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I dunno. I never smoked any Astroturf. (When asked whether he preferred grass or Astroturf) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57587]]></link><description><![CDATA[I dunno. I never smoked any Astroturf. (When asked whether he preferred grass or Astroturf)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57587</guid></item></channel></rss>