<?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[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["The Kingdom of Heaven", said the Lord Christ, "is among you." But what, precisely, is the Kingdom of Heaven? You ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7232]]></link><description><![CDATA["The Kingdom of Heaven", said the Lord Christ, "is among you." But what, precisely, is the Kingdom of Heaven? You cannot point to existing specimens, saying, "Lo, here!" or "Lo, there!" You can only experience it. But what is it like, so that when we experience it we may recognize it? Well, it is a change, like being born again and relearning everything from the start. It is secret, living power -- like yeast. It is something that grows, like seed. It is precious like buried treasure, like a rich pearl, and you have to pay for it. It is a sharp cleavage through the rich jumble of things which life presents: like fish and rubbish in a draw-net, like wheat and tares; like wisdom and folly; and it carries with it a kind of menacing finality; it is new, yet in a sense it was always there -- like turning out a cupboard and finding there your own childhood as well as your present self; it makes demands, it is like an invitation to a royal banquet -- gratifying, but not to be disregarded, and you have to live up to it; where it is equal, it seems unjust; where it is just it is clearly not equal -- as with the single pound, the diverse talents, the labourers in the vineyard, you have what you bargained for; it knows no compromise between an uncalculating mercy and a terrible justice -- like the unmerciful servant, you get what you give; it is helpless in your hands like the King's Son, but if you slay it, it will judge you; it was from the foundations of the world; it is to come; it is here and now; it is within you. It is recorded that the multitudes sometimes failed to understand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more I see the representatives of the people, the more I love my dogs. [Fr., Plus je vois des ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12661]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more I see the representatives of the people, the more I love my dogs. [Fr., Plus je vois des representants du peuple, plus j'aime mes chiens.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing a poem is discovering ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46734]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing a poem is discovering]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weren't the last drop in the well, As I gasp'd upon the brink,  Ere my fainting spirit fell,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59384]]></link><description><![CDATA[Weren't the last drop in the well, As I gasp'd upon the brink,  Ere my fainting spirit fell,   'Tis to thee that I would drink.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For there's nothing we read of in torture's inventions, Like a well-meaning dunce, with the best of intentions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43256]]></link><description><![CDATA[For there's nothing we read of in torture's inventions, Like a well-meaning dunce, with the best of intentions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5339]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jest not in earnest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50691]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jest not in earnest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doubt not but God who sits on high, Thy secret prayers can hear;  When a dead wall thus cunningly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doubt not but God who sits on high, Thy secret prayers can hear;  When a dead wall thus cunningly   Conveys soft whispers to the ear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While most of us are breathing a sigh of relief I want to remind residents that hurricane season does not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31036]]></link><description><![CDATA[While most of us are breathing a sigh of relief I want to remind residents that hurricane season does not end until Nov. 30, ... We have been extremely fortunate this time around, but this is an active hurricane season and more named storms are likely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are wiser than we know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26299]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are wiser than we know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have no fear of being less beautiful, I've always been afraid of not being beautiful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36772]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have no fear of being less beautiful, I've always been afraid of not being beautiful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the heart is enlivened again, it feels like the sun coming out after a week of rainy days. There ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19810]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the heart is enlivened again, it feels like the sun coming out after a week of rainy days. There is hope in the heart that chases the clouds away. Hope is a higher heart frequency and as you begin to reconnect with your heart, hope is waiting to show you new possibilities and arrest the downward spiral of grief and loneliness. It becomes a matter of how soon you want the sun to shine. Listening to the still, small voice in your heart will make hope into a reality. Sara Paddison, The Hidden Power of the Heart Hope is a higher heart frequency, and as you begin to re-connect with your heart, hope is waiting to show you new possibilities and arrest the downward spiral of grief and loneliness. Listening to the still small voice in your heart will make hope into a reality. Benjamin Franklin, preface, Poor Richard's Almanac, 1758 He that lives upon hope will die fasting. -Sara Paddison.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is most powerful who has power over himself ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47909]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is most powerful who has power over himself]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The end crowns all, And that old common arbitrator, Time,  Will one day end it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13789]]></link><description><![CDATA[The end crowns all, And that old common arbitrator, Time,  Will one day end it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts. [Lat., Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51846]]></link><description><![CDATA[I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts. [Lat., Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What I see at this moment are the signs of a normal market. Previously, there was a frenzy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31828]]></link><description><![CDATA[What I see at this moment are the signs of a normal market. Previously, there was a frenzy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56427]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To build castles in Spain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20520]]></link><description><![CDATA[To build castles in Spain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Were there no hearers, there would be no backbiters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50056]]></link><description><![CDATA[Were there no hearers, there would be no backbiters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15268]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63450]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The majority of investors would like to keep the current tenant, and if someone wants to stay, we will try ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31124]]></link><description><![CDATA[The majority of investors would like to keep the current tenant, and if someone wants to stay, we will try to match them up with an investor. The ones that really want to stay express an interest and come talk to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An old man at school is a contemptible and ridiculous object. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51128]]></link><description><![CDATA[An old man at school is a contemptible and ridiculous object.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24861]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19963]]></link><description><![CDATA[But hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not mightbut lightlit Maccabees'lampthrough the night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not mightbut lightlit Maccabees'lampthrough the night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There can be a fundamental gulf of gracelessness in a human heart which neither our love nor our courage can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27835]]></link><description><![CDATA[There can be a fundamental gulf of gracelessness in a human heart which neither our love nor our courage can bridge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47365]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27966]]></link><description><![CDATA[For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all the home remedies, a good wife is best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61565]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all the home remedies, a good wife is best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/936]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes nine tailors to make a man. [Fr., Il faut neuf tailleurs pour faire un homme.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58565]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes nine tailors to make a man. [Fr., Il faut neuf tailleurs pour faire un homme.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is so unlike theory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59111]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is so unlike theory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59273]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing's more dull and negligent Than an old, lazy government,  That knows no interest of state,   But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing's more dull and negligent Than an old, lazy government,  That knows no interest of state,   But such as serves a present strait.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You think that upon the score of fore-knowledge and divining I am infinitely inferior to the swans. When they perceive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58463]]></link><description><![CDATA[You think that upon the score of fore-knowledge and divining I am infinitely inferior to the swans. When they perceive approaching death they sing more merrily than before, because of the joy they have in going to the God they serve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Last week I helped my friend stay put. It's a lot easier than helping someone move. I just went over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24376]]></link><description><![CDATA[Last week I helped my friend stay put. It's a lot easier than helping someone move. I just went over to his house and made sure that he did not start to load his shit into a truck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A favorite has no friend! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1304]]></link><description><![CDATA[A favorite has no friend!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21050]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For what are they all in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9607]]></link><description><![CDATA[For what are they all in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination is more important than knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination is more important than knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is nothing without friendship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10933]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is nothing without friendship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am the cygnet to this pale faint swan, Who chants a doleful hymn to his own death,  And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58459]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am the cygnet to this pale faint swan, Who chants a doleful hymn to his own death,  And from the organ-pipe of fraity sings   His soul and body to their lasting rest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone in law enforcement can tell you that our work to combat the problems of underage drinking has to start ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone in law enforcement can tell you that our work to combat the problems of underage drinking has to start with prevention.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ancient of days! august Athena! where, Where are thy men of might? thy grand in soul?  Gone--glimmering through the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3417]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ancient of days! august Athena! where, Where are thy men of might? thy grand in soul?  Gone--glimmering through the dream of things that were;   First in the race that led to glory's goal,    They won, and pass'd away--Is this the whole?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A nation is a society united by a delusion about it's ancestry and by common hatred of it's neighbours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44380]]></link><description><![CDATA[A nation is a society united by a delusion about it's ancestry and by common hatred of it's neighbours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44380</guid></item></channel></rss>