<?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[It is the merest truism, evident at once to unsophisticated observation, that mathematics is a human invention. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26526]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the merest truism, evident at once to unsophisticated observation, that mathematics is a human invention.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24674]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ideal condition would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; but since we are all likely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22823]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ideal condition would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; but since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If your folks were Democrat or Republican you tend to vote that way. If your folks were green and red ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28697]]></link><description><![CDATA[If your folks were Democrat or Republican you tend to vote that way. If your folks were green and red you tend to follow that tradition. My theory is that has a tendency to follow through with what equipment you run.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that tells a secret is anothers servant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49403]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that tells a secret is anothers servant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether it would be a feature film or not I didn't know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42429]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether it would be a feature film or not I didn't know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11145]]></link><description><![CDATA[In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is a higher faculty than reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14958]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is a higher faculty than reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And lilies are still lilies, pulled By smutty hands, though spotted from their white. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16246]]></link><description><![CDATA[And lilies are still lilies, pulled By smutty hands, though spotted from their white.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27074]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He will continue to receive treatment and will be monitored over the next couple of days and a decision regarding ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34718]]></link><description><![CDATA[He will continue to receive treatment and will be monitored over the next couple of days and a decision regarding his availability for Sunday will be made in due course.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man is mechanically turned, and made for getting. . . . It was verily prettily said that we may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61428]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man is mechanically turned, and made for getting. . . . It was verily prettily said that we may learn the little value of fortune by the persons on whom Heaven is pleased to bestow it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24946]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't open a shop unless you like to smile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62817]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't open a shop unless you like to smile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All, as they say, that glitters is not gold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2818]]></link><description><![CDATA[All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just hope that teams realize my foot injury really hampered me, ... Playing in the SEC, you've got to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33491]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just hope that teams realize my foot injury really hampered me, ... Playing in the SEC, you've got to be fast -- and I'm faster than 4.5.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John of the Cross, Mystic, Poet, Teacher, 1591   A Christian should always remember that the value ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7556]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John of the Cross, Mystic, Poet, Teacher, 1591   A Christian should always remember that the value of his good works is not based on their number and excellence, but on the love of God which prompts him to do these things.   St. John of the Cross  December 15, 2000   Two thousand years of failure have not taught some reformers that you can't stop sin by declaring it illegal. Two thousand years have not taught them that you can't save a man's soul by force -- you can only lose your own in the attempt. Drunkenness and gambling and secularism and lechery -- various hopeful churchmen have earnestly tried to outlaw them all; and what is the result? A drunken nation, a gambling nation, a secularist nation, an adulterous nation. And, often, a ruined Church.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Figures won't lie, but liars will figure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27854]]></link><description><![CDATA[Figures won't lie, but liars will figure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Calumniate, calumniate; there will always be something which sticks. [Fr., Calumniez, calumniez; il en reste toujours quelque chose.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5182]]></link><description><![CDATA[Calumniate, calumniate; there will always be something which sticks. [Fr., Calumniez, calumniez; il en reste toujours quelque chose.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Farewell, my children; remain always in the fear of the Lord. That temptation and tribulation which is to come is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15220]]></link><description><![CDATA[Farewell, my children; remain always in the fear of the Lord. That temptation and tribulation which is to come is now at hand and happy shall they who persevere in the good they have begun. I hasten to go to our Lord, to whose grace I recommend you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1395]]></link><description><![CDATA[I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then let thy love be younger than thyself, Or thy affection cannot hold the bent. -Twelfth Night. Act ii. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55750]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then let thy love be younger than thyself, Or thy affection cannot hold the bent. -Twelfth Night. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The untalented are more at ease in a society that gives them valid alibis for not achieving than in one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52328]]></link><description><![CDATA[The untalented are more at ease in a society that gives them valid alibis for not achieving than in one where opportunities are abundant. In an affluent society, the alienated who clamor for power are largely untalented people who cannot make use of the unprecedented opportunities for self-realization, and cannot escape the confrontation with an ineffectual self.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And all to leave what with his toil he won, To that unfeather'd two-legged thing, a son. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20906]]></link><description><![CDATA[And all to leave what with his toil he won, To that unfeather'd two-legged thing, a son.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No matter how well you know the rules of netiquette, you will eventually offend someone who doesn't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14237]]></link><description><![CDATA[No matter how well you know the rules of netiquette, you will eventually offend someone who doesn't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before you can hit the jackpot, you have to put a coin in the machine ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26175]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before you can hit the jackpot, you have to put a coin in the machine]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45672]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are only trying to protect our investments. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32606]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are only trying to protect our investments.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's gone, and who knows how may he report Thy words by adding fuel to the flame? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17886]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's gone, and who knows how may he report Thy words by adding fuel to the flame?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weak withering age no rigid law forbids. With frugal nectar, smooth and slow with balm,  The sapless habit daily ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Weak withering age no rigid law forbids. With frugal nectar, smooth and slow with balm,  The sapless habit daily to bedew,   And give the hesitating wheels of life    Gliblier to play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was instrumental in saving as many ash trees as he could, and just a terrific guy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33955]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was instrumental in saving as many ash trees as he could, and just a terrific guy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pentecost Feast of Edward King, Bishop of Lincoln, Teacher, 1910 Commemoration of Martyrs of Uganda, 1886 & 1978   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6390]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pentecost Feast of Edward King, Bishop of Lincoln, Teacher, 1910 Commemoration of Martyrs of Uganda, 1886 & 1978   The life of holiness is the life of faith in which the believer, with a deepening knowledge of his own sin and helplessness apart from Christ, increasingly casts himself upon the Lord, and seeks the power of the Spirit and the wisdom and comfort of the Bible to battle against the world, the flesh, and the devil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings, goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48363]]></link><description><![CDATA[So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings, goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury, and make sharper the contest between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8786]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jamie started the idea when she was in high school. She seemed to befriend the exchange students. She had an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jamie started the idea when she was in high school. She seemed to befriend the exchange students. She had an Easter egg coloring and an egg hunt. It was so much fun to see the teenagers having such a good time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're toting that flag for right now. We just want to come in and do what we have to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36934]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're toting that flag for right now. We just want to come in and do what we have to do as a team, and hopefully come away with a win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're in an epidemic, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37038]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're in an epidemic,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39488]]></link><description><![CDATA[Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living. [Lat., Vita enim mortuorum in memoria vivorum ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26931]]></link><description><![CDATA[The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living. [Lat., Vita enim mortuorum in memoria vivorum est posita.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62427]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cannot answer all the curious questions of the brain concerning prayer and law, not half of them, indeed, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6601]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cannot answer all the curious questions of the brain concerning prayer and law, not half of them, indeed, and I will not attempt to; but I will cast my anchor here in this revealing fact, that He, the Holiest of the Holy and the Wisest of the Wise, He prays. Therefore I am assured that this anchorage of Divine example will hold the vessel in the tossings of the wildest sea of doubt, and I shall be as safe as He was, if the vessel itself is engulfed in the waves of suffering and sorrow. His act is an argument. His prayer is an inspiration. His achievements are the everlasting and all-sufficient vindication of prayer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I decided that I would be one of the biggest new names; and I actually had some little fancy business ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43671]]></link><description><![CDATA[I decided that I would be one of the biggest new names; and I actually had some little fancy business cards printed up to announce it, "Count Basie. Beware, the Count is Here."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It never was our guise To slight the poor, or aught humane despise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46464]]></link><description><![CDATA[It never was our guise To slight the poor, or aught humane despise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To whom much is given, much is required. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21090]]></link><description><![CDATA[To whom much is given, much is required.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62747]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1457]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66268]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will have to act like a serious efficient government with a small number of ministers, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35815]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will have to act like a serious efficient government with a small number of ministers,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35815</guid></item></channel></rss>