<?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[In teaching the medical student the primary requisite is to keep him awake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27606]]></link><description><![CDATA[In teaching the medical student the primary requisite is to keep him awake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Joseph of Nazareth  ... it be a certain truth, that none can understand [the prophets' and apostles'] ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Joseph of Nazareth  ... it be a certain truth, that none can understand [the prophets' and apostles'] writings aright, without the same Spirit by which they were written.  ... The Journal of George Fox  March 20, 1999  Feast of Cuthbert, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 687  It is no longer the fashion to suffer for the sake of God, and to bear the Cross for Him; for the diligence and real earnestness, that perchance were found in man, have been extinguished and have grown cold; and now no one is willing any longer to suffer distress for the sake of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The cancer treatment, combined with a bout of flu last year, left Farrakhan feeling] weak and drained, ... He was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28257]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The cancer treatment, combined with a bout of flu last year, left Farrakhan feeling] weak and drained, ... He was not his usual, energetic self.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where can a person be better than in the bosom of their family. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27151]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where can a person be better than in the bosom of their family.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two men look out a window. One sees mud, the other sees the stars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46087]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two men look out a window. One sees mud, the other sees the stars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think her overwhelming legacy is one of having made the office of Governor General visible and engaged in a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38458]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think her overwhelming legacy is one of having made the office of Governor General visible and engaged in a way that it certainly hadn't been in at least a generation, if not more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One doctor described it as 18th-century medicine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36333]]></link><description><![CDATA[One doctor described it as 18th-century medicine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Americans continue to suffer from a notoriously short attention span. They get mad as hell with reasonable frequency, but quickly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34582]]></link><description><![CDATA[Americans continue to suffer from a notoriously short attention span. They get mad as hell with reasonable frequency, but quickly return to their families and sitcoms. Meanwhile, the corporate lobbies stay right where they are, outlasting all the populist hysteria.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Denys, Bishop of Paris, & his Companions, Martyrs, 258 Commemoration of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, Philosopher, Scientist, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7260]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Denys, Bishop of Paris, & his Companions, Martyrs, 258 Commemoration of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, Philosopher, Scientist, 1253  Thou knowest how far Thou hast already changed me, who first healed me of the lust of vindicating myself, that so Thou mightest forgive all the rest of my iniquities, and heal all my infirmities, and redeem my life from corruption, and crown me with mercy and pity, and satisfy my desire with good things; who didst curb my pride with Thy fear, and tame my neck to Thy yoke. And now I bear it and it is light unto me, because so hast Thou promised, and hast made it; and verily it was so, and I knew it not, when I feared to take it.  ... The Confessions of St. Augustine    October 10, 1999  Feast of Paulinus, Bishop of York, Missionary, 644  Wilberforce, Lord Shaftesbury, and many other evangelicals, have been leaders in social reform, but it was not their religion. Their efforts succeeded because they put first things first, and believed firmly in the Word of God, in the conversion of the individual, in prayer, and in using spiritual means for spiritual work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think housework is the reason most women go to the office. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19906]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think housework is the reason most women go to the office.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your bottom line starts with your front line. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22663]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your bottom line starts with your front line.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Charity: a thing that begins at home, and usually stays there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Charity: a thing that begins at home, and usually stays there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53768]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bigotry's birthplace is the sinister back room of the mind where plots and schemes are hatched for the persecution and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bigotry's birthplace is the sinister back room of the mind where plots and schemes are hatched for the persecution and oppression of other human beings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48180]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seek the Infinite, for that alone is Joy unlimited, imperishable, unfailing, self-sustaining, unconditioned, timeless. When you have this joy, human ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seek the Infinite, for that alone is Joy unlimited, imperishable, unfailing, self-sustaining, unconditioned, timeless. When you have this joy, human life becomes a paradise; the light, the grace, the power, the perfections of that which is highest in your inner consciousness, appear in your everyday life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In arguing, too, the parson own'd his skill, For even though vanquished he could argue still. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3050]]></link><description><![CDATA[In arguing, too, the parson own'd his skill, For even though vanquished he could argue still.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,rnLove like you'll never be hurt,rnSing like there's nobody listening,rnAnd live like it's heaven ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65455]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,rnLove like you'll never be hurt,rnSing like there's nobody listening,rnAnd live like it's heaven on earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In my deepest troubles, I frequently would wrench myself from the persons around me and retire to some secluded part ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38841]]></link><description><![CDATA[In my deepest troubles, I frequently would wrench myself from the persons around me and retire to some secluded part of our noble forests.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people are like water and the ruler a boat. Water can support a boat or overturn it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61304]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people are like water and the ruler a boat. Water can support a boat or overturn it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage: A word which should be pronounced "mirage";. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26426]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage: A word which should be pronounced "mirage";.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would be difficult, in this day and age, to fund art that made racial slurs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37187]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would be difficult, in this day and age, to fund art that made racial slurs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't belive what others tell you. You belive in what you belive; there is nothing better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2245]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't belive what others tell you. You belive in what you belive; there is nothing better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you score one more goal than the other team, you win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57775]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you score one more goal than the other team, you win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11511]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what world calls a romance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life's cares are comforts; such by heaven design'd He that has none, must make them or be wretched. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51865]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life's cares are comforts; such by heaven design'd He that has none, must make them or be wretched.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some folks can look so busy doing nothing that they seem indispensable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some folks can look so busy doing nothing that they seem indispensable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They (corporations) cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5025]]></link><description><![CDATA[They (corporations) cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The happiness of the domestic fireside is the first boon of Heaven; and it is well it is so, since ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63267]]></link><description><![CDATA[The happiness of the domestic fireside is the first boon of Heaven; and it is well it is so, since it is that which is the lot of the mass of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If any man claims the Negro should be content ... let him say he would willingly change the color of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14414]]></link><description><![CDATA[If any man claims the Negro should be content ... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19273]]></link><description><![CDATA[How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One good man, one man who does not put on his religion once a week with his Sunday coat, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6417]]></link><description><![CDATA[One good man, one man who does not put on his religion once a week with his Sunday coat, but wears it for his working dress, and lets the thought of God grow into him, and through and through him, till everything he says and does becomes religious, that man is worth a thousand sermons -- he is a living Gospel -- he comes in the spirit and power of Elias -- he is the image of God. And men see his good works, and admire them in spite of themselves, and see that they are God-like, and that God's grace is no dream, but that the Holy Spirit is still among men, and that all nobleness and manliness is His gift, His stamp, His picture: and so they get a glimpse of God again in His saints and heroes, and glorify their Father who is in heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't have to touch someone to love them, It's not in the kiss, It's in the times you don't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25889]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't have to touch someone to love them, It's not in the kiss, It's in the times you don't kiss.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ye holy angels bright, Who wait at God's right hand, Or through the realms of light Fly at your Lord's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7914]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ye holy angels bright, Who wait at God's right hand, Or through the realms of light Fly at your Lord's command,  Assist our song;  For else the theme  Too high doth seem  For mortal tongue.  Ye blessed souls at rest, Who ran this earthly race, And now, from sin released, Behold the Saviour's face,  God's praises sound,  As in his sight,  With sweet delight,  Ye do abound.  Ye saints, who toil below, Adore your heavenly King. And onward as ye go Some joyful anthem sing;  Take what he gives  And praise him still,  Through good or ill,  Who ever lives!  My soul, bear thou thy part, Triumph in God above: And with a well-tuned heart Sing thou the songs of love!  Let all thy days  Till life shall end,  Whate'er he send,  Be filled with praise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't promise twice what you can do at once. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't promise twice what you can do at once.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28125]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation. - The Would-be Gentleman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16189]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such is human psychology that if we don't express our joy, we soon cease to feel it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52155]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such is human psychology that if we don't express our joy, we soon cease to feel it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Lord let the house of a brute to the soul of a man, And the man said, "Am I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14363]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Lord let the house of a brute to the soul of a man, And the man said, "Am I your debtor?"  And the Lord--"Not yet: but make it as clean as you can,   And then I will let you a better."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more haste, ever the worst speed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18773]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more haste, ever the worst speed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1637]]></link><description><![CDATA[You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who after his transgression doth repent, Is halfe, or altogether, innocent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53819]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who after his transgression doth repent, Is halfe, or altogether, innocent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But I didn't know much about directing a movie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37334]]></link><description><![CDATA[But I didn't know much about directing a movie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4885]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ann, Ann! Come! quick as you can!  There's a fish that talks   In the frying-pan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16069]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ann, Ann! Come! quick as you can!  There's a fish that talks   In the frying-pan.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5428]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Fox and the CrowA crow having stolen a bit of meat, perched in a tree and held it in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1598]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Fox and the CrowA crow having stolen a bit of meat, perched in a tree and held it in her beak. A Fox, seeing this, longed to possess the meat himself, and by a wily stratagem succeeded. How handsome is the Crow, he exclaimed, in the beauty of her shape and in the fairness of her complexion! Oh, if her voice were only equal to her beauty, she would deservedly be considered the Queen of Birds! This he said deceitfully; but the Crow, anxious to refute the reflection cast upon her voice, set up a loud caw and dropped the flesh. The Fox quickly picked it up, and thus addressed the Crow: My good Crow, your voice is right enough, but your wit is wanting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good cheape is deare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49282]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good cheape is deare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42980</guid></item></channel></rss>