<?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[Joking decides great things, Stronger and better oft than earnest can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joking decides great things, Stronger and better oft than earnest can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A great fortune depends on luck, a small one on diligence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12297]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great fortune depends on luck, a small one on diligence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36440]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51669]]></link><description><![CDATA[The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fatigue is the best pillow ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fatigue is the best pillow]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true musician is to bring light into people's hearts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23136]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true musician is to bring light into people's hearts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dutifulness of children is the foundation of all virtues. [Lat., Pietas fundamentum est omnium virtutum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5902]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dutifulness of children is the foundation of all virtues. [Lat., Pietas fundamentum est omnium virtutum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concluding a short series about the early church:   The early Christians... enjoyed the inestimable advantage of believing that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7981]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concluding a short series about the early church:   The early Christians... enjoyed the inestimable advantage of believing that the millennium was near, which precluded them from seeking to establish a beneficent regime in this world. In the time at their disposal, it was just not worth while. Perhaps the best hope of reviving the Christian religion would be to convince the Pope, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and other dignitaries likewise, that the world will shortly be coming to an end. A difficult undertaking, I fear, notwithstanding much evidence pointing that way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62435]]></link><description><![CDATA[One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A decision is what a man makes when he can't find anybody to serve on a committee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11597]]></link><description><![CDATA[A decision is what a man makes when he can't find anybody to serve on a committee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Meux Benson, Founder of the Society of St John the Evangelist, 1915   Our critical day ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8238]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Meux Benson, Founder of the Society of St John the Evangelist, 1915   Our critical day is not the very day of our death, but the whole course of our life; I thank him, that prays for me when my bell tolls; but I thank him much more, that catechizes me, or preaches to me, or instructs me how to live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good laugh is sunshine in the house. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63987]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good laugh is sunshine in the house.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Thomas] Carlyle believed that every man has a special duty to do in this world. If he had been asked ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7998]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Thomas] Carlyle believed that every man has a special duty to do in this world. If he had been asked what especially he conceived his own duty to be, he would have said that it was to force men to realize once more that the world was actually governed by a just God; that the old familiar story, acknowledged everywhere in words on Sundays and disregarded or openly denied on week-days, was, after all, true. His writings, every one of them, ... were to this same purpose and on this same text -- that truth must be spoken and justice must be done; on any other conditions, no real commonwealth, no common welfare, is permitted or possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My friend asked me if I wanted a frozen banana. I said 'No, but I want a regular banana later, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8973]]></link><description><![CDATA[My friend asked me if I wanted a frozen banana. I said 'No, but I want a regular banana later, so... yeah.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books are humanity in print. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4503]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books are humanity in print.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O lovers! Be careful in those dangerous first days! Once you’ve brought breakfast in bed you’ll have to bring it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4166]]></link><description><![CDATA[O lovers! Be careful in those dangerous first days! Once you’ve brought breakfast in bed you’ll have to bring it forever, unless you want to be accused of lovelessness and betrayal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being holiday, the beggar's shop is shut. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19576]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being holiday, the beggar's shop is shut.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, 988   In coming to know Jesus, you have come to know yourself, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7020]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, 988   In coming to know Jesus, you have come to know yourself, too: naturally, this is more pleasant for some than for others, but to see yourself as you really are can never be entirely pleasant. And when a Christian fails at something he ought to have done, it isn't just the failure that hurts -- there is also the knowledge that he has let Jesus down. And those little shortcomings of ours, that used to matter so little, compared with the glaring faults of others: we know now that our temper, or our gloom, or our selfishness, reflects on Jesus; and knowing that people are judging your Lord by you is not always a joyous thought to live with. Even the growing up to His measure is hard on a man: we have so little aptitude for such a transformation that it always means conflict, and often rebellion. And temptations hurt as they never did before: not just in the conscience, but in the heart. The assaults of temptation are not on our prudence now, or even on our morals, but on the love for Jesus. His love for us has made Him quite defenseless against our hurting Him, and so temptation is no longer an urge to do a bad thing but an urge to hurt a loving Person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63476]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58374]]></link><description><![CDATA[Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The child is father of the man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6012]]></link><description><![CDATA[The child is father of the man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I felt like these days, people are building silos in their lives. I wanted to restore the relationships and connected-ness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40989]]></link><description><![CDATA[I felt like these days, people are building silos in their lives. I wanted to restore the relationships and connected-ness of a community.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody who owns the stock for a long-term investment is going to sell over a $60 million miss ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody who owns the stock for a long-term investment is going to sell over a $60 million miss]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48165]]></link><description><![CDATA[The power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It will never come out of the flesh that's bred in the bone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50419]]></link><description><![CDATA[It will never come out of the flesh that's bred in the bone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Against nature and within nature there is no freedom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Against nature and within nature there is no freedom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ordinary people believe only in the possible. Extraordinary people visualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22230]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ordinary people believe only in the possible. Extraordinary people visualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is impossible. And by visualizing the impossible, they begin to see it as possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24335]]></link><description><![CDATA[About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope is the dream of a soul awake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19742]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is the dream of a soul awake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Listen to your intuition. It will tell you everything you need to know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Listen to your intuition. It will tell you everything you need to know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear not the future, weep not for the past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51543]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear not the future, weep not for the past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16823]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the hood of the horses shakes the crumbling field as they run. [Lat., Quadrupedumque putrem cursu quatit ungula campum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19848]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the hood of the horses shakes the crumbling field as they run. [Lat., Quadrupedumque putrem cursu quatit ungula campum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62889]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Out in the lonely woods the jasmine burns Its fragrant lamps, and turns  Into a royal court with green ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23126]]></link><description><![CDATA[Out in the lonely woods the jasmine burns Its fragrant lamps, and turns  Into a royal court with green festoons   The banks of dark lagoons.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58806]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21882]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fair daffadils, we weep to see You haste away so soone;  As yet the early-rising sun   Has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10970]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fair daffadils, we weep to see You haste away so soone;  As yet the early-rising sun   Has not attained its noone.    . . . .     We have short time to stay as you,      We have as short a spring;       As quick a growth to meet decay        As you or anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Earnings have been good, but what you're starting to see is a return to the attitude about earnings that we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34038]]></link><description><![CDATA[Earnings have been good, but what you're starting to see is a return to the attitude about earnings that we saw in the late 1990's, where you're seeing more talk about whisper numbers, higher expectations, and a more punitive reaction to numbers that disappoint.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And wild-scatter'd cowslips bedeck the green dale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10535]]></link><description><![CDATA[And wild-scatter'd cowslips bedeck the green dale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3617]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's what we put up with here. We don't need that type of stuff here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37245]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's what we put up with here. We don't need that type of stuff here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cure for anything is salt water -- sweat, tears, or the sea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61311]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cure for anything is salt water -- sweat, tears, or the sea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's the subject of life - to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5035]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's the subject of life - to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing around the real subject of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is absolute highway robbery and it really does show that the agency doesn't have a clue in getting real ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39739]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is absolute highway robbery and it really does show that the agency doesn't have a clue in getting real value of contracts. I've done the math in my head 100 times and I don't know how they computed this cost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Holy Saturday   If I ask to be delivered from trial rather than for deliverance out of it, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7930]]></link><description><![CDATA[Holy Saturday   If I ask to be delivered from trial rather than for deliverance out of it, to the praise of His glory; if I forget that the way of the Cross leads to the Cross and not to a bank of flowers; if I regulate my life on these lines, or even unconsciously my thinking, so that I am surprised when the way is rough and think it strange, "Think it not strange, Count it all joy," then I know nothing of Calvary love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43549]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together; our virtues would be proud if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51222]]></link><description><![CDATA[The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together; our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not, and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We love orthodoxy. It is good. It is the best. It is the clean, clear cut teaching of God's Word, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8381]]></link><description><![CDATA[We love orthodoxy. It is good. It is the best. It is the clean, clear cut teaching of God's Word, the trophies won by truth in its conflict with error, the levees which faith has raised against the desolating floods of honest or reckless misbelief or unbelief; but orthodoxy, clear and hard as crystal, suspicious and militant, may be but the letter well shaped, well named, and well learned, the letter which kills. Nothing is so dead as a dead orthodoxy -- too dead to speculate, too dead to think, to study, or to pray.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8381</guid></item></channel></rss>