<?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[And however are Dennises take offence, A double meaning shows double sense;  And if proverbs tell truth,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23232]]></link><description><![CDATA[And however are Dennises take offence, A double meaning shows double sense;  And if proverbs tell truth,   A double tooth    Is wisdom's adopted dwelling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Arabs will turn round and point out the United States gives billions of dollars to Israel. It's just an area ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38947]]></link><description><![CDATA[Arabs will turn round and point out the United States gives billions of dollars to Israel. It's just an area where they will have to agree to disagree.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to repent of our blindness, our lukewarmness, and our disobedience, and turn back to the central truth of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6873]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to repent of our blindness, our lukewarmness, and our disobedience, and turn back to the central truth of Christ as Lord and Saviour; an ethical system will not save us here, nor a timid sentimentalism, nor an excited emotional return, nor a dilettante mysticism. We have to find that deep contrition which is the condition of His abiding. Repentance is not a mere feeling of sorrow or contrition for an act of wrongdoing. The regret I feel when I act impatiently or speak crossly is not repentance... Repentance is contrition for what we are in our fundamental beings, that we are wrong in our deepest roots because our internal government is by Self and not by God. And it is an activity of the whole person. Unless I will to be different, the mind will not follow. True repentance brings an urge to be different, because of the sense of the incessant movement of what I am, forming, forming, forming what I shall be in the years to come.   ... The Notebooks of Florence Allshorn  January 11, 1996 Commemoration of Mary Slessor, Missionary in West Africa, 1915   Every virtue is a form of obedience to God. Every evil word or act is a form of rebellion against Him. This may not be clear at first; but, if we think patiently, we shall find that it is true. Why were you angry? You will probably find that it was because you were not willing to accept the world as God has made it, or because you were not willing to leave it to God to deal with the people that He has made.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17834]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In liberal democracy and anxious anarchy, the traditional classic dance, compact of aristocratic authority and absolute freedom in a necessity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2472]]></link><description><![CDATA[In liberal democracy and anxious anarchy, the traditional classic dance, compact of aristocratic authority and absolute freedom in a necessity of order, has never been so promising as an independent expression as it is today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24680]]></link><description><![CDATA[But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first and continuing argument for the curtailment of working hours and the raising of the minimum age was that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35935]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first and continuing argument for the curtailment of working hours and the raising of the minimum age was that education was necessary in a democracy and working children could not attend school.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/221]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not only are these fine wines presented in eco-friendly packaging, these smaller formats will give consumers the convenience and versatility ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29286]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not only are these fine wines presented in eco-friendly packaging, these smaller formats will give consumers the convenience and versatility in their wine drinking occasions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Plus those guys don't have mascots. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29326]]></link><description><![CDATA[Plus those guys don't have mascots.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59103]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great masses of the people ... will more easily fall victims to a great lie than to a small ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10628]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great masses of the people ... will more easily fall victims to a great lie than to a small one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down your sentences. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62390]]></link><description><![CDATA[You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down your sentences.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2439]]></link><description><![CDATA[America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly until you learn to do it well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22585]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly until you learn to do it well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sense is our helmet, wit is but the plume; The plume exposes, 'tis our helmet saves.  Sense is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55114]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sense is our helmet, wit is but the plume; The plume exposes, 'tis our helmet saves.  Sense is the diamond, weighty, solid, sound;   When cut by wit, it casts a brighter beam;    Yet, wit apart, it is a diamond still.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And they three passed over the white sands, between the rocks, silent as the shadows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56281]]></link><description><![CDATA[And they three passed over the white sands, between the rocks, silent as the shadows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we're trying to do is walk the line between not giving out any more [incentives] than absolutely necessary and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35923]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we're trying to do is walk the line between not giving out any more [incentives] than absolutely necessary and ensuring ... the program is not being taken advantage of.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such is the way of all superstition, whether in astrology, dreams, omens, divine judgments, or the like; wherein men, having ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such is the way of all superstition, whether in astrology, dreams, omens, divine judgments, or the like; wherein men, having a delight in such vanities, mark the events where they are fulfilled, but where they fail, though this happen much oftener, n]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had great intensity the second half. But half a game is not going to get it done against a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39633]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had great intensity the second half. But half a game is not going to get it done against a good team. The opportunities were definitely there. We got some great defensive stops, but we couldn't convert on the other side.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I sing of brooks, of blossoms, birds, and bowers: Of April, May, of June, and July flowers.  I sing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57796]]></link><description><![CDATA[I sing of brooks, of blossoms, birds, and bowers: Of April, May, of June, and July flowers.  I sing of Maypoles, Hock-carts, wassails, wakes,   Of bridegrooms, brides, and of their bridal cakes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a surplus of natural gas in inventories. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39173]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a surplus of natural gas in inventories.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She's had many double-doubles. She's a hard post to stop, and a dominating post inside. She's solid for us in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40164]]></link><description><![CDATA[She's had many double-doubles. She's a hard post to stop, and a dominating post inside. She's solid for us in the middle of our zone. She's the best post player in the district.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most merciful thing in the world ... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27954]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most merciful thing in the world ... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there is peace, God is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50083]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there is peace, God is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27171]]></link><description><![CDATA[One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After that first trout I was alone in there. But I didn'tknow it until later. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16095]]></link><description><![CDATA[After that first trout I was alone in there. But I didn'tknow it until later.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more you sweat in peacetime, the less you bleed during war. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61111]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more you sweat in peacetime, the less you bleed during war.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let him laugh who wins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51007]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let him laugh who wins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66781]]></link><description><![CDATA[The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we have no respect for our viewers, then how can we have any respect for ourselves and what we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31752]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we have no respect for our viewers, then how can we have any respect for ourselves and what we do?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's one of the few jobs in which you sign a contract to risk your life on your job. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35043]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's one of the few jobs in which you sign a contract to risk your life on your job.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40474]]></link><description><![CDATA[Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opposition inflames the enthusiast, never converts him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opposition inflames the enthusiast, never converts him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For use almost can change the stamp of nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51268]]></link><description><![CDATA[For use almost can change the stamp of nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2296]]></link><description><![CDATA[The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know because I've done it a thousand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18950]]></link><description><![CDATA[To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know because I've done it a thousand times.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was a huge conference game for us. We needed that bad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32716]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was a huge conference game for us. We needed that bad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a manner which matches the fortuity, if not the consequence, of Archimedes' bath and Newton's apple, the 3.6 million ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9347]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a manner which matches the fortuity, if not the consequence, of Archimedes' bath and Newton's apple, the 3.6 million year old fossil footprints were eventually noticed one evening in September 1976 by the paleontologist Andrew Hill, who fell while avoiding a ball of elephant dung hurled at him by the ecologist David Western.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16960]]></link><description><![CDATA[False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57051]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56639]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mysterious haunts of echoes old and far, The voice divine of human loyalty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13293]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mysterious haunts of echoes old and far, The voice divine of human loyalty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Devill is not alwaies at one doore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49831]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Devill is not alwaies at one doore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without dreams, there can be no courage. And without courage, there can be no action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without dreams, there can be no courage. And without courage, there can be no action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. Thus people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52320]]></link><description><![CDATA[Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. Thus people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance. A mass movement offers them unlimited opportunities for both.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have retired, but if there's anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66438]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have retired, but if there's anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UK banks provide a crucial service to the community and our economic security depends on them. Amicus is calling on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42007]]></link><description><![CDATA[UK banks provide a crucial service to the community and our economic security depends on them. Amicus is calling on National Australia to reverse this decision.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10792]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mergers are a nightmare. I'm sure everybody has thought about it but half of the reason that airlines like US ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33901]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mergers are a nightmare. I'm sure everybody has thought about it but half of the reason that airlines like US Airways find themselves in this position is that previous mergers have not gone entirely well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33901</guid></item></channel></rss>