<?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[Ah! the perfidious English! [Fr., Ah! la perfide Angleterre!] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13904]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah! the perfidious English! [Fr., Ah! la perfide Angleterre!]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is never easy for those who dream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12850]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is never easy for those who dream.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are bugs everywhere. We share the world with bugs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39767]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are bugs everywhere. We share the world with bugs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enjoy the successes that you have, and don't be too hard on yourself when you don't do well. Too many ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9234]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enjoy the successes that you have, and don't be too hard on yourself when you don't do well. Too many times we beat up on ourselves. Just relax and enjoy it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, Martyr in Uganda, 1885  In America, it is hard to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6588]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, Martyr in Uganda, 1885  In America, it is hard to distinguish Christianity from its social and cultural setting. It blends into the scenery. Many people assume that we live in a "Christian society". Obviously, the Christian church has no strong witness against society. In [a communist country], the situation is exactly the opposite. Christians there live under a political regime which makes a point of distinguishing itself from all religion, and which is grounded philosophically on atheism and materialism. The Church lives in a hostile social order. The result is that the weak Christians are weeded out, and the strong Christians are tremendously strengthened by adversity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6588</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[Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for, his sins. One may passively be cast ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for, his sins. One may passively be cast down by God's terrors, and yet not willingly throw himself down as he ought at God's footstool.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17335]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None is borne Master. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49659]]></link><description><![CDATA[None is borne Master.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hell has three gates: lust, anger, and greed ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18289]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hell has three gates: lust, anger, and greed]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error, and nothing we achieve without some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53270]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error, and nothing we achieve without some measure of finitude and fallibility we call humanness, we are saved by forgiveness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the bookseller happens to desire a privilege for his merchandise, whether he is selling Rabelais or the Fathers of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52525]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the bookseller happens to desire a privilege for his merchandise, whether he is selling Rabelais or the Fathers of the Church, the magistrate grants the privilege without answering for the contents of the book.   - Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Katie's only a junior, but she really stepped up this year. She always works hard. You know you can count ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Katie's only a junior, but she really stepped up this year. She always works hard. You know you can count on her when you're out there on the court.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a dog I got, his favorite bone is in my arm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66693]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a dog I got, his favorite bone is in my arm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16875]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53789]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can observe a lot by just watching. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66855]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can observe a lot by just watching.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay to an author ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52846]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay to an author]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58890]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's just another layer of protection for the residents, ... You're preserving property values. You pay into a fund that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40090]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's just another layer of protection for the residents, ... You're preserving property values. You pay into a fund that makes everybody's property values higher.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The happiest miser on earth is the man who saves up every friend he can make. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42733]]></link><description><![CDATA[The happiest miser on earth is the man who saves up every friend he can make.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to talk about pride, I'm so proud that Fredericksburg could bring this quality of entertainment to town. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35431]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to talk about pride, I'm so proud that Fredericksburg could bring this quality of entertainment to town.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bride received into the home is like a horse that you have just bought; you break her in by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4915]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bride received into the home is like a horse that you have just bought; you break her in by constantly mounting her and continually beating her]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58114]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26958]]></link><description><![CDATA[A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't have a political bone in my body. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37951]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't have a political bone in my body.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4735]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wagner's music is better than it sounds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43448]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wagner's music is better than it sounds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But sighs subside, and tears (even widows') shrink, Like Arno in the summer, to a shallow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48724]]></link><description><![CDATA[But sighs subside, and tears (even widows') shrink, Like Arno in the summer, to a shallow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with theidea of a cathedral in mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22773]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with theidea of a cathedral in mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The problem with people is that they're only human. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19933]]></link><description><![CDATA[The problem with people is that they're only human.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too often in the past, Tony Blair has gone to Washington and instead of pressing the British case or British ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too often in the past, Tony Blair has gone to Washington and instead of pressing the British case or British arguments, he has effectively done what the president asked him to do and forgotten that he should be arguing Britain's corner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From our experience, most of the folks that we work with are all staying here for the holidays. They're definitely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37761]]></link><description><![CDATA[From our experience, most of the folks that we work with are all staying here for the holidays. They're definitely staying for fear of not getting back in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever . . . prefers the service of princes before his duty to his Creator, will be sure, early or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever . . . prefers the service of princes before his duty to his Creator, will be sure, early or late, to repent in vain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45628]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18606]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is subtle but he is not malicious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63282]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is subtle but he is not malicious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is my hope that the 2006 Season of Justice will not only be a time to raise awareness on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29044]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is my hope that the 2006 Season of Justice will not only be a time to raise awareness on our campus and in our community about justice issues around the world, but also a time for spiritual growth. It is our belief, and the belief of IJM, that God cares deeply about justice. As Christians, we are called to seek God and to do that fully we must also seek justice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Franklin Roosevelt stands like a sharply formed rock in a shapeless sea.spoken on Book TV by a Jackson biographer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18015]]></link><description><![CDATA[Franklin Roosevelt stands like a sharply formed rock in a shapeless sea.spoken on Book TV by a Jackson biographer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15825]]></link><description><![CDATA[I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they'll just have to learn how to be babies ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1898]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they'll just have to learn how to be babies longer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59228]]></link><description><![CDATA[The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40938]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve of latent power in the masses which, if it is called into play, the minority can seldom resist. But from the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1775]]></link><description><![CDATA[Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a problem of timing for us. If the world championships were held earlier we would have time to get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37196]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a problem of timing for us. If the world championships were held earlier we would have time to get all of our judges up to speed. The men's trial in January won't be affected.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24931]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24931</guid></item></channel></rss>