<?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[Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63533]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8875]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It may be said of them [the Hollanders], as of the Spaniards, that the sun never sets upon their Dominions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47764]]></link><description><![CDATA[It may be said of them [the Hollanders], as of the Spaniards, that the sun never sets upon their Dominions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Youth is the trustee of prosperity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62584]]></link><description><![CDATA[Youth is the trustee of prosperity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, Martyr in Uganda, 1885  Continuing a short series on prayer: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, Martyr in Uganda, 1885  Continuing a short series on prayer:   Madness frequently discovers itself merely by unnecessary deviation from the usual modes of the world. My poor friend Christopher Smart showed the disturbance of his mind, by falling upon his knees, and saying his prayers in the street, or in any other unusual place. Now although, rationally speaking, it is greater madness not to pray at all, than to pray as Smart did, I am afraid there are so many who do not pray, that their understanding is not called in question... I did not think he ought to be shut up. His infirmities were not noxious to society. He insisted on people praying with him; and I'd as lief pray with Kit Smart as any.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We played a pretty clean game against a veteran, skilled team that's been at this a lot longer than we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40094]]></link><description><![CDATA[We played a pretty clean game against a veteran, skilled team that's been at this a lot longer than we have. You can draw a lot of positives from that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mediocrity is self-inflicted. Genius is self-bestowed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21974]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mediocrity is self-inflicted. Genius is self-bestowed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so thy labor sweeten thy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54016]]></link><description><![CDATA[Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so thy labor sweeten thy rest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Merton, Monk, Spiritual Writer, 1968   This matter of "salvation" is, when seen intuitively, a very ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7555]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Merton, Monk, Spiritual Writer, 1968   This matter of "salvation" is, when seen intuitively, a very simple thing. But when we analyze it, it turns into a complex tangle of paradoxes. We become ourselves by dying to ourselves. We gain only what we give up, and if we give up everything we gain everything. We cannot find ourselves within ourselves, but only in others; yet at the same time, before we can go out to others we must first find ourselves. We must forget ourselves in order to become truly conscious of who we are. The best way to love ourselves is to love others; yet we cannot love others unless we love ourselves, since it is written, "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." But if we love ourselves in the wrong way, we become incapable of loving anybody else. And indeed when we love ourselves wrongly, we hate ourselves; if we hate ourselves we cannot help hating others. Yet there is a sense in which we must hate others and leave them in order to find God... As for this finding of God, we cannot even look for Him unless we have already found Him, and we cannot find Him unless He has first found us. We cannot begin to seek Him without a special gift of His grace; yet if we wait for grace to move us before beginning to seek Him, we will probably never begin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a terrible tragedy, but I was pleased ÃƒÂƒÃ‚Â¹ being out of town and having these discussions (of retirement) ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37445]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a terrible tragedy, but I was pleased ÃƒÂƒÃ‚Â¹ being out of town and having these discussions (of retirement) going on ÃƒÂƒÃ‚Â¹ to see all these good things that the company and my team did without me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52065]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the centre of gravity of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18232]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the centre of gravity of the universe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64674]]></link><description><![CDATA[We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No, no! The devil is an egotist, And is not apt, without why or wherefore,  "For God's sake," others ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12144]]></link><description><![CDATA[No, no! The devil is an egotist, And is not apt, without why or wherefore,  "For God's sake," others to assist.   [Ger., Nein, nein! Der Teufel ist ein Egoist    Und thut nicht leicht um Gottes Willen,     Was einem Andern nutzlich ist.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If each man or woman could understand that every other human life is as full of sorrows, or joys, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19943]]></link><description><![CDATA[If each man or woman could understand that every other human life is as full of sorrows, or joys, or base temptations, of heartaches and of remorse as his own . . . how much kinder, how much gentler he would be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The influence of a beautiful, helpful character is contagious, and may revolutionize a whole town. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60956]]></link><description><![CDATA[The influence of a beautiful, helpful character is contagious, and may revolutionize a whole town.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . his master was in a manner always in a wrong Boxe and building castels in the ayre ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20509]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . his master was in a manner always in a wrong Boxe and building castels in the ayre or catching Hares with Tabers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He sat among his bags, and, with a look Which hell might be ashamed of, drove the poor  Away ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42743]]></link><description><![CDATA[He sat among his bags, and, with a look Which hell might be ashamed of, drove the poor  Away unalmed; and midst abundance died--   Sorest of evils!--died of utter want.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Foxhunting... the unspeakable pursuing the inedible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Foxhunting... the unspeakable pursuing the inedible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too quick a sense of constant infelicity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55145]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too quick a sense of constant infelicity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660   The greatest curse which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7976]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660   The greatest curse which can be entailed upon mankind is a state of war. All the atrocious crimes committed in years of peace -- all that is spent in peace by the secret corruptions or by the thoughtless extravagances of nations -- are mere trifles compared with the gigantic evils which stalk over the world in a state of war. God is forgotten in war -- every principle of Christian charity is trampled upon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The book which you are reading aloud is mine, Fidentinus; but, while you read it so badly, it begins to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14062]]></link><description><![CDATA[The book which you are reading aloud is mine, Fidentinus; but, while you read it so badly, it begins to be yours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, either side could win it, or it could be a draw. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57654]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, either side could win it, or it could be a draw.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19967]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65940]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The purpose of medicine is to prevent significant disease, to decrease pain and to postpone death... Technology has to support ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12478]]></link><description><![CDATA[The purpose of medicine is to prevent significant disease, to decrease pain and to postpone death... Technology has to support these goals-if not, it may even be counterproductive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't mind your thinking slowly; I mind your publishing faster than you think. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58075]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't mind your thinking slowly; I mind your publishing faster than you think.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's going to be a good game. Hannan played us tough in the playoffs the last two years but we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39217]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's going to be a good game. Hannan played us tough in the playoffs the last two years but we won both games.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The interpretation of dreams is a great art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64990]]></link><description><![CDATA[The interpretation of dreams is a great art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[luck is what happens , when the preparation meets the opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/397]]></link><description><![CDATA[luck is what happens , when the preparation meets the opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tucked-up sempstress walks hasty strides, While streams run down her oil'd umbrella's sides. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60007]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tucked-up sempstress walks hasty strides, While streams run down her oil'd umbrella's sides.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that's liberal To all alike, may do a good by chance,  But never out of judgment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24661]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that's liberal To all alike, may do a good by chance,  But never out of judgment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53951]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm signing up kids right now. Some of these kids think they can play without coming to practice. I'm not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39926]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm signing up kids right now. Some of these kids think they can play without coming to practice. I'm not going to take the liability.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51934]]></link><description><![CDATA[For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor. [Lat., Mutos enim nasci, et egere omni ratione satius fuisset, quam providentiae munera in mutuam perniciem convertere.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54290]]></link><description><![CDATA[In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[desires are dreams,if they are not transformed into deeds.. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/398]]></link><description><![CDATA[desires are dreams,if they are not transformed into deeds..]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After a bad harvest sow again. [Yield not to difficulties.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51127]]></link><description><![CDATA[After a bad harvest sow again. [Yield not to difficulties.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/395]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The shredder at Andersen's office at the Enron building was used virtually constantly and, to handle the overload, dozens of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29653]]></link><description><![CDATA[The shredder at Andersen's office at the Enron building was used virtually constantly and, to handle the overload, dozens of large trunks filled with Enron documents were sent [to] Andersen's main Houston office to be shredded,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you play with the big dogs, you're going to get hurt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31486]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you play with the big dogs, you're going to get hurt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The relationship is the communication bridge between people. -Alfred Kadushin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9071]]></link><description><![CDATA[The relationship is the communication bridge between people. -Alfred Kadushin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48613]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47243]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This assassination will not undermine our efforts to impose law and public order. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41286]]></link><description><![CDATA[This assassination will not undermine our efforts to impose law and public order.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I trust no rich man who is officiously kind to a poor man. [Lat., Nemini credo, qui large blandus est ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61420]]></link><description><![CDATA[I trust no rich man who is officiously kind to a poor man. [Lat., Nemini credo, qui large blandus est dives pauperi.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was gratuitously insulting 50 million Americans who call themselves Republicans, some of whom we hope will vote Democrat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33258]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was gratuitously insulting 50 million Americans who call themselves Republicans, some of whom we hope will vote Democrat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The priest is the personification of falsehood ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15073]]></link><description><![CDATA[The priest is the personification of falsehood]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15073</guid></item></channel></rss>