<?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[Habit is overcome by habit. [Lat., Consuetudo consuetudine vincitur.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18524]]></link><description><![CDATA[Habit is overcome by habit. [Lat., Consuetudo consuetudine vincitur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right, you'll probably never do much of anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24808]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right, you'll probably never do much of anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9389]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/763]]></link><description><![CDATA[To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mellitus, First Bishop of London, 624   Having tried, we must hold fast [to the truth] (I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8098]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mellitus, First Bishop of London, 624   Having tried, we must hold fast [to the truth] (I Thes. 5:21), upon [the penalty of] the loss of a crown (Rev. 3:11); we must not let go for all the fleabitings of the present afflictions, etc. Having bought truth dear, we must not sell it cheap, not the least grain of it for the whole world; no, not for the saving of souls, though our own most precious; least of all for the bitter sweetening of a little vanishing pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Energy costs are a growing concern among Maine?s working families. Providing contractors with information on how to build energy-efficient homes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40282]]></link><description><![CDATA[Energy costs are a growing concern among Maine?s working families. Providing contractors with information on how to build energy-efficient homes will give them the tools to meet the needs of homeowners seeking to reduce energy costs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How blessings brighten as they take their flight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51863]]></link><description><![CDATA[How blessings brighten as they take their flight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisely, I say, I am a bachelor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51289]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisely, I say, I am a bachelor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always remember that the future comes one day at a time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54626]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47352]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is most free from danger, who, even when safe, is on his guard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60643]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is most free from danger, who, even when safe, is on his guard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Agnes, Child Martyr at Rome, 304  It is not in the gifts He received but in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7685]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Agnes, Child Martyr at Rome, 304  It is not in the gifts He received but in the virtues He practiced that Christ is our model. That which is asked of you, so that you may resemble Him, is to make the same use as He did of the gifts of God, according to the measure in which you have received them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those learned in the law, when they do give advice without the usual fee, and in the confidence of friendship, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24311]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those learned in the law, when they do give advice without the usual fee, and in the confidence of friendship, generally say, "Pay, pay anything rather than go to law.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. -As You Like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55688]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. -As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such words fall to often on our cold and careless ears with the triteness of long familiarity; but to Octavia ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58288]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such words fall to often on our cold and careless ears with the triteness of long familiarity; but to Octavia . . . they seemed to be written in sunbeams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An upright judge, a learned judge! -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55609]]></link><description><![CDATA[An upright judge, a learned judge! -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes we may learn more from a man's error than from his virtues. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14164]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes we may learn more from a man's error than from his virtues.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1217]]></link><description><![CDATA[The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Thief and His MotherA boy stole a lesson-book from one of his schoolfellows and took it home to his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1588]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Thief and His MotherA boy stole a lesson-book from one of his schoolfellows and took it home to his Mother. She not only abstained from beating him, but encouraged him. He next time stole a cloak and brought it to her, and she again commended him. The Youth, advanced to adulthood, proceeded to steal things of still greater value. At last he was caught in the very act, and having his hands bound behind him, was led away to the place of public execution. His Mother followed in the crowd and violently beat her breast in sorrow, whereupon the young man said, I wish to say something to my Mother in her ear. She came close to him, and he quickly seized her ear with his teeth and bit it off. The Mother upbraided him as an unnatural child, whereon he replied, Ah! if you had beaten me when I first stole and brought to you that lesson-book, I should not have come to this, nor have been thus led to a disgraceful death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[the upper end of the range. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41845]]></link><description><![CDATA[the upper end of the range.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are very confident that those extremists will also fail to disrupt and derail voting day, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37524]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are very confident that those extremists will also fail to disrupt and derail voting day,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have reached an agreement in principle for the creation of a joint company. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35714]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have reached an agreement in principle for the creation of a joint company.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He will give the devil his due. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55839]]></link><description><![CDATA[He will give the devil his due. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We often use strong language not to express a powerful emotion but to evoke it in us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52296]]></link><description><![CDATA[We often use strong language not to express a powerful emotion but to evoke it in us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of All Saints  From every pulpit in the land it needs to be thundered forth that God still ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of All Saints  From every pulpit in the land it needs to be thundered forth that God still lives, that God still observes, ... still reigns. Faith is now in the crucible, it is being tested by fire, and there is no fixed... resting place for the heart and mind but in the Throne of God. What is needed now, as never before, is a full, positive, constructive setting forth of the Godhood of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21066]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27805]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37170]]></link><description><![CDATA[The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23222]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, could I fly, I'd fly with thee! We'd make, with joyful wing,  Our annual visit o'er the globe, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10810]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, could I fly, I'd fly with thee! We'd make, with joyful wing,  Our annual visit o'er the globe,   Companions of the spring.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61285]]></link><description><![CDATA[For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect any person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The privilege of absurdity, to which no living creature is subject but men only. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/210]]></link><description><![CDATA[The privilege of absurdity, to which no living creature is subject but men only.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61833]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Re-examine all you have been told . . . Dismiss what insults your Soul. -Walt Whitman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1035]]></link><description><![CDATA[Re-examine all you have been told . . . Dismiss what insults your Soul. -Walt Whitman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flowers are words which even a baby can understand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As you sit on the hillside, or lie prone under the trees of the forest, or sprawl wet-legged by a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43869]]></link><description><![CDATA[As you sit on the hillside, or lie prone under the trees of the forest, or sprawl wet-legged by a mountain stream, the great door, that does not look like a door, opens.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5889]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wanted them to come away with the feeling that they could make a positive difference in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32676]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wanted them to come away with the feeling that they could make a positive difference in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christianity is not a voice in the wilderness, but a life in the world. It is not an idea in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8303]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christianity is not a voice in the wilderness, but a life in the world. It is not an idea in the air but feet on the ground going God's way. It is not an exotic to be kept under glass, but a hardy plant to bear twelve months of fruits in all kinds of weather. Fidelity to duty is its root and branch. Nothing we can say to the Lord, no calling Him by great or dear names, can take the place of the plain doing of His will. We may cry out about the beauty of eating bread with Him in His kingdom, but it is wasted breath and a rootless hope unless we plow and plant in His kingdom here and now. To remember Him at His table and to forget Him at ours, is to have invested in bad securities. There is no substitute for plain, every-day goodness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is more difficult, to think of an encampment on the moon or of Harlem rebuilt? Both are now within ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9402]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is more difficult, to think of an encampment on the moon or of Harlem rebuilt? Both are now within the reach of our resources. Both now depend upon human decision and human will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64001]]></link><description><![CDATA[In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They now say this was about Ford 'refraining from choosing sides' by supporting gay groups. No. AFA said this was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38657]]></link><description><![CDATA[They now say this was about Ford 'refraining from choosing sides' by supporting gay groups. No. AFA said this was about Ford promoting 'gay marriage' by advertising its products to gay consumers, by providing its gay employees with company benefits, and by including sexual-orientation discrimination in the company's diversity training. Corporate America, meet with these extremists at your own risk.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52399</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[We try not to have ideas, preferring accidents. To create, you must empty yourself of every artistic thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10561]]></link><description><![CDATA[We try not to have ideas, preferring accidents. To create, you must empty yourself of every artistic thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57432]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57432</guid></item></channel></rss>