<?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[The well-being for this area was dependent upon tobacco especially in the Pee Dee and in the state of South ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37065]]></link><description><![CDATA[The well-being for this area was dependent upon tobacco especially in the Pee Dee and in the state of South Carolina.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26237]]></link><description><![CDATA[Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not with whom you are born, but with whom you are bred. [Sp., No con quien naces, sino con quien ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not with whom you are born, but with whom you are bred. [Sp., No con quien naces, sino con quien paces.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Josephine Butler, Social Reformer, 1906 Commemoration of Apolo Kivebulaya, Priest, Evangelist, 1933  If the appetite alone hath ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8409]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Josephine Butler, Social Reformer, 1906 Commemoration of Apolo Kivebulaya, Priest, Evangelist, 1933  If the appetite alone hath sinned, let it alone fast, and it sufficeth. But if the other members also have sinned, why should they not fast, too... Let the eye fast from strange sights and from every wantonness, so that that which roamed in freedom in fault-doing may, abundantly humbled, be checked by penitence. Let the ear, blameably eager to listen, fast from tales and rumors, and from whatsoever is of idle import, and tendeth least to salvation. Let the tongue fast from slanders and murmurings, and from useless, vain, and scurrilous words, and sometimes also, in the seriousness of silence, even from things which may seem of essential import. Let the hand abstain from ... all toils which are not imperatively necessary. But also let the soul herself abstain from all evils and from acting out her own will. For without such abstinence the other things find no favor with the Lord.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43297]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8898]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2287]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who start war often know that because of theirhigh political position their own lives will not be indanger.on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18503]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who start war often know that because of theirhigh political position their own lives will not be indanger.on the Diane Rehm Show.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much of our difficulty as seeking Christians stems from our unwillingness to take God as He is and adjust our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7031]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much of our difficulty as seeking Christians stems from our unwillingness to take God as He is and adjust our lives accordingly. We insist upon trying to modify Him and bring Him nearer to our own image.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You were made for enjoyment, and the world was filled with things which you will enjoy, unless you are too ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13934]]></link><description><![CDATA[You were made for enjoyment, and the world was filled with things which you will enjoy, unless you are too proud to be pleased by them, or too grasping to care for what you cannot turn to other account than mere delight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The downfall of the Dracula of the century is a day of happiness for every Palestinian and every Muslim. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28323]]></link><description><![CDATA[The downfall of the Dracula of the century is a day of happiness for every Palestinian and every Muslim.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because we do not understand the brain very well we are constantly tempted to use the latest technology as a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because we do not understand the brain very well we are constantly tempted to use the latest technology as a model for trying to understand it. In my childhood we were always assured that the brain was a telephone switchboard. ('What else could it be?') I was amused to see that Sherrington, the great British neuroscientist, thought that the brain worked like a telegraph system. Freud often compared the brain to hydraulic and electro-magnetic systems. Leibniz compared it to a mill, and I am told some of the ancient Greeks thought the brain functions like a catapult. At present, obviously, the metaphor is the digital computer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This power of being outwardly genial and inwardly austere, which is the real Christian temper, depends entirely upon the time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7856]]></link><description><![CDATA[This power of being outwardly genial and inwardly austere, which is the real Christian temper, depends entirely upon the time set apart for personal religion. It is always achieved if courageously and faithfully sought; and there are no heights of love and holiness to which it cannot lead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So liv'd our sires, ere doctors learn'd to kill, And multiplied with theirs the weekly bill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26690]]></link><description><![CDATA[So liv'd our sires, ere doctors learn'd to kill, And multiplied with theirs the weekly bill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst thing about work in the house or home is that whatever you do is destroyed, laid waste or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19641]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst thing about work in the house or home is that whatever you do is destroyed, laid waste or eaten within twenty four hours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't know if this will be the shareholders' choice, or a political choice. For the steel industry, this is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42677]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't know if this will be the shareholders' choice, or a political choice. For the steel industry, this is Microsoft buying Apple.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The issue with technology is, it's -- by definition -- change. You can't just go to sleep and say I'm ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41888]]></link><description><![CDATA[The issue with technology is, it's -- by definition -- change. You can't just go to sleep and say I'm going to forget it for 20 years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An exquisite invention this, Worthy of Love's most honeyed kiss,--  This art of writing billet-doux--   In buds, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47818]]></link><description><![CDATA[An exquisite invention this, Worthy of Love's most honeyed kiss,--  This art of writing billet-doux--   In buds, and odors, and bright hues!    In saying all one feels and thinks     In clever daffodils and pinks;      In puns of tulips; and in phrases,       Charming for their truth, of daisies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[A woman] fiercer than a cubless tigress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50427]]></link><description><![CDATA[[A woman] fiercer than a cubless tigress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[... the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60980]]></link><description><![CDATA[... the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a drop in the bucket. It's only meaningful to the extent that it doesn't support the notion that the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33985]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a drop in the bucket. It's only meaningful to the extent that it doesn't support the notion that the family thinks the sale of the company is imminent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, Martyr, 1980 Commemoration of Paul Couturier, Priest, Ecumenist, 1953  Continuing a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8521]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, Martyr, 1980 Commemoration of Paul Couturier, Priest, Ecumenist, 1953  Continuing a short series on prayer:  Even if all the things that people prayed for happened -- which they do not -- this would not prove what Christians mean by the efficacy of prayer. For prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted. And if an infinitely wise Being listens to the requests of finite and foolish creatures, of course He will sometimes grant and sometimes refuse them. Invariable "success" in prayer would not prove the Christian doctrine at all. It would prove something more like magic -- a power in certain human beings to control, or compel, the course of nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fun is like life insurance; the older you get, the more it costs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65234]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fun is like life insurance; the older you get, the more it costs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a whole group of adults on the drug court team that cares about (the juveniles). We impress upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31173]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a whole group of adults on the drug court team that cares about (the juveniles). We impress upon them this group of adults care about them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As ofthis second, quit doing less-than-excellent work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22234]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As ofthis second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62742]]></link><description><![CDATA[I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65857]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18739]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of François de Sales, Bishop of Geneva, Teacher, 1622   What is worst of all is to advocate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8028]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of François de Sales, Bishop of Geneva, Teacher, 1622   What is worst of all is to advocate Christianity, not because it is true, but because it might prove useful... To justify Christianity because it provides a foundation of morality, instead of showing the necessity of Christian morality from the truth of Christianity, is a very dangerous inversion; and we may reflect that a good deal of the attention of totalitarian states has been devoted with a steadfastness of purpose not always found in democracies, to providing their national life with a foundation of morality -- the wrong kind, perhaps, but a good deal more of it. It is not enthusiasm, but dogma, that differentiates a Christian from a pagan society.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The awareness of their individual blemishes and shortcomings inclines the frustrated to detect ill will and meanness in their fellow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52306]]></link><description><![CDATA[The awareness of their individual blemishes and shortcomings inclines the frustrated to detect ill will and meanness in their fellow men. Self-contempt, however vague, sharpens our eyes for the imperfections of others. We usually strive to reveal in others the blemishes we hide in ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9285]]></link><description><![CDATA[What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52838]]></link><description><![CDATA[She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Caroline Chisholm, Social Reformer, 1877  In saying God is there, we are saying God exists, and not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6219]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Caroline Chisholm, Social Reformer, 1877  In saying God is there, we are saying God exists, and not just talking about the word God, or the idea God. We are speaking of the proper relationship to the living God who exists. In order to understand the problems of our generation, we should be very alive to this distinction. Semantics (linguistic analysis) makes up the heart of modern philosophical study in the Anglo-Saxon world. Though the Christian cannot accept this study as a total philosophy, there is no reason why he should not be glad for the concept that words need to be defined before they can be used in communication. As Christians, we must understand that there is no word so meaningless as the word "god" until it is defined. No word has been used to reach absolutely opposite concepts as much as the word "god". Consequently, let us not be confused. There is much "spirituality" about us today that would relate itself to the word god or to the idea god; but this is not what we are talking about. Biblical truth and spirituality is not a relationship to the word god, or to the idea god. It is a relationship to the one who is there, which is an entirely different concept.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because interrogations are intended to coerce confessions, interrogators feel themselves justified in using their coercive means. Consistency regarding the technique ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28751]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because interrogations are intended to coerce confessions, interrogators feel themselves justified in using their coercive means. Consistency regarding the technique is not important; inducing anxiety and fear is the point.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lovers have a right to betray you... friends don't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lovers have a right to betray you... friends don't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Alfred the Great, King of the West Saxons, Scholar, 899 Commemoration of Cedd, Founding Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Alfred the Great, King of the West Saxons, Scholar, 899 Commemoration of Cedd, Founding Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop of the East Saxons, 664 Sunshine let it be, or frost,  Storm or calm, as Thou shalt choose; Though Thine every gift were lost,  Thee Thyself we cannot lose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions, inspirations, flashes of genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10282]]></link><description><![CDATA[The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions, inspirations, flashes of genius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have been going to the gym instead of the bar, trying to get back down to my fighting weight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36144]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have been going to the gym instead of the bar, trying to get back down to my fighting weight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16692]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A song to the oak, the brave old oak, Who hath ruled in the greenwood long;  Here's health and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44712]]></link><description><![CDATA[A song to the oak, the brave old oak, Who hath ruled in the greenwood long;  Here's health and renown to his broad green crown,   And his fifty arms so strong.    There's fear in his frown when the Sun goes down,     And the fire in the West fades out;      And he showeth his might on a wild midnight,       When the storms through his branches shout.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Edinburgh has had a huge increase in out-of-town shopping in recent years and we have to decide whether we have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33844]]></link><description><![CDATA[Edinburgh has had a huge increase in out-of-town shopping in recent years and we have to decide whether we have reached the point where it's unsustainable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This woman is amazing. I should take her to one of the classes I teach on debt, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39470]]></link><description><![CDATA[This woman is amazing. I should take her to one of the classes I teach on debt,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is useless to send armies against ideas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9555]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is useless to send armies against ideas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God;  And only he who sees takes off his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3548]]></link><description><![CDATA[Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God;  And only he who sees takes off his shoes;   The rest sit round it and pluck blackberries.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man. -Leon Trotsky. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1822]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man. -Leon Trotsky.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66220]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22865]]></link><description><![CDATA[Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22865</guid></item></channel></rss>