<?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[Commemoration of Swithun, Bishop of Winchester, c.862 Commemoration of Bonaventure, Franciscan Friar, Bishop, Peacemaker, 1274  It is necessary to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8455]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Swithun, Bishop of Winchester, c.862 Commemoration of Bonaventure, Franciscan Friar, Bishop, Peacemaker, 1274  It is necessary to die, but nobody wants to; you don't want to, but you are going to, willy-nilly. A hard necessity that is, not to want something which can not be avoided. If it could be managed, we would much rather not die; we would like to become like the angels by some other means than death. "We have a building from God," says St. Paul, "a home not made with hands, everlasting in heaven. For indeed we groan, longing to be clothed over with our dwelling from heaven; provided, though we be found clothed, and not naked. For indeed we who are in this dwelling place groan, being burdened; in that we do not wish to be stripped, but to covered over, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life." We want to reach the kingdom of God, but we don't want to travel by way of death. And yet there stands Necessity saying: "This way, please." Do you hesitate, man, to go this way, when this is the way that God came to you?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For peace of mind, resign as general manager of the universe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22606]]></link><description><![CDATA[For peace of mind, resign as general manager of the universe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18929]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live fast, die young, leave a good-looking corpse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Live fast, die young, leave a good-looking corpse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total disaster. But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9517]]></link><description><![CDATA[By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost a fortune to maintain and is still in danger of collapsing. There are no plans to replace it, since it was never needed in the first place. I expect every installation has its own pet software which is analogous to the above.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was something that Jenny felt she had to do. I still love her very much and always will, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38756]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was something that Jenny felt she had to do. I still love her very much and always will, and we will always be friends. We will always have each other's back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have triedand succeeded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21982]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have triedand succeeded.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sanely applied advertising could remake the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sanely applied advertising could remake the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Skiing: I do not participate in any sport with ambulances at the bottom of the hill ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56501]]></link><description><![CDATA[Skiing: I do not participate in any sport with ambulances at the bottom of the hill]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why fools are endowed by nature with voices so much louder than sensible people possess is a mystery. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1301]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why fools are endowed by nature with voices so much louder than sensible people possess is a mystery. It is a fact emphasized throughout history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's only a thought, and a thought can be changed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59244]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's only a thought, and a thought can be changed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel that everyone who wants to say anything, do anything, should be able to say anything or do anything, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63899]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel that everyone who wants to say anything, do anything, should be able to say anything or do anything, within the limits of not hurting another person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But he washed me ashoreand he took my pearland left an empty shell of me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34905]]></link><description><![CDATA[But he washed me ashoreand he took my pearland left an empty shell of me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hatred is like fire -- it makes even light rubbish deadly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18827]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hatred is like fire -- it makes even light rubbish deadly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's Christmas in August for big energy, and consumers get lumps of coal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29406]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's Christmas in August for big energy, and consumers get lumps of coal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/576]]></link><description><![CDATA[A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Order is never observed; it is disorder that attracts attention because it is awkward and intrusive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Order is never observed; it is disorder that attracts attention because it is awkward and intrusive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This event was intended to raise money for the victims of Hurricane Katrina while bringing people together, regardless of faith. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37861]]></link><description><![CDATA[This event was intended to raise money for the victims of Hurricane Katrina while bringing people together, regardless of faith. Everyone understands the need to help others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One joy shatters a hundred griefs ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18319]]></link><description><![CDATA[One joy shatters a hundred griefs]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had 10 dropped passes. Shane easily could have had 400 passing yards. And that's no surprise at all. He's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31889]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had 10 dropped passes. Shane easily could have had 400 passing yards. And that's no surprise at all. He's an unbelievable athlete.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Future shock [is] the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Future shock [is] the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23182]]></link><description><![CDATA[Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind is its own place, and in itself can make aHeav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22097]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind is its own place, and in itself can make aHeav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a woman is undisguisedly bad, then indeed she is good. [Comparatively speaking, as she at least lacks deception.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51646]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a woman is undisguisedly bad, then indeed she is good. [Comparatively speaking, as she at least lacks deception.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces. In the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15844]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces. In the boardroom, it is different. I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52631]]></link><description><![CDATA[The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laugh not once at one's misfortune for one will laugh twice as much at you later. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42785]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laugh not once at one's misfortune for one will laugh twice as much at you later.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have seen that Man moves over with each new generation into a bigger body, more awful, more reverent and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48369]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have seen that Man moves over with each new generation into a bigger body, more awful, more reverent and more free than he has had before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only indispensable, but positive hindrances to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behind the dim unknown, Standeth God with the shadow, keeping watch above his own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51927]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behind the dim unknown, Standeth God with the shadow, keeping watch above his own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ideal man is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56291]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ideal man is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties or you alter yourself meeting them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44149]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties or you alter yourself meeting them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Scholastica, Abbess of Plombariola, c.543  Since becoming a disciple of Christ, Paul knows that all mere orthodoxy, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Scholastica, Abbess of Plombariola, c.543  Since becoming a disciple of Christ, Paul knows that all mere orthodoxy, all mere knowledge concerning God's will, is not only nothing but less than nothing. The more knowledge, the more obligation. The maintaining of revealed doctrine becomes blasphemy if it is not borne out by the corresponding testimony of the life. He who is always appealing to the Word of God without his life and conduct corresponding to this knowledge of God, dishonours God's name, making Him an object of mockery and hatred. It is just those who know so well how to talk about God who make His name hateful among men, because their lives darken the picture of God and turn it into a caricature. The Lord is judged by the life of His servants; this is the truer, the more zealously they appeal to Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Allen Gardiner, founder of the South American Missionary Society, 1851 Commemoration of Albert Schweitzer, Teacher, Physician, Missionary, 1965 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8221]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Allen Gardiner, founder of the South American Missionary Society, 1851 Commemoration of Albert Schweitzer, Teacher, Physician, Missionary, 1965   But first I said, ... "Some people think it is not proper for a clergyman to dance. I mean to assert my freedom from any such law. If our Lord chose to represent, in His parable of the Prodigal Son, the joy in Heaven over a repentant sinner by the figure of "music and dancing', I will hearken to Him rather than to man, be they as good as they may." For I had long thought that the way to make indifferent things bad, was for good people not to do them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a trader-dominated society, the scribe is usually kept out of the management of affairs, but it given a more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15795]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a trader-dominated society, the scribe is usually kept out of the management of affairs, but it given a more or less free hand in the cultural field. By frustrating the scribe's craving for commanding action, the trader draws upon himself the scribe's wrath and scorn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pig bought on credit is forever grunting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10607]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pig bought on credit is forever grunting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[However often marriage is dissolved, it remains indissoluble. Real divorce, the divorce of heart and nerve and fiber, does not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25943]]></link><description><![CDATA[However often marriage is dissolved, it remains indissoluble. Real divorce, the divorce of heart and nerve and fiber, does not exist, since there is no divorce from memory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way was long and weary, But gallantly they strode,  A country lad and lassie,   Along the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25459]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way was long and weary, But gallantly they strode,  A country lad and lassie,   Along the heavy road.    The night was dark and stormy,     But blithe of heart were they,      For shining in the distance       The lights of London lay.        O gleaming lights of London, that gem of the city's crown;         What fortunes be within you, O Lights of London Town!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27623]]></link><description><![CDATA[In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This paper will no doubt be found interesting by those who take an interest in it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22950]]></link><description><![CDATA[This paper will no doubt be found interesting by those who take an interest in it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Japan, 1597   To have faith is to rely upon Christ, the Person, with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7382]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Japan, 1597   To have faith is to rely upon Christ, the Person, with the whole heart. It is not the understanding of the mind, not the theological opinion, not creed, not organization, not ritual. It is the koinonia of the whole personality with God and Christ, ... This experience of communion with Christ is itself the continual attitude of dependence on the Saviour which we call faith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want to put the kids at ease and focus on the things that they're going to need to get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32201]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want to put the kids at ease and focus on the things that they're going to need to get past the falling-down part. Instead of telling them, 'Oh, well, this first day or two is going to be brutal,' the focus is on the things that will really help them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12432]]></link><description><![CDATA[All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sir, my circumstances, Being so near the truth as I will make them,  Must first induce you to believe; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8722]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sir, my circumstances, Being so near the truth as I will make them,  Must first induce you to believe; whose strength   I will confirm with oath, which I doubt not    You'll give me leave to spare when you shall find     You need it not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19926]]></link><description><![CDATA[In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leaders don't force people to follow-they invite them on a journey. Harold S. Hulbert -Charles S. Lauer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leaders don't force people to follow-they invite them on a journey. Harold S. Hulbert -Charles S. Lauer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm always on a train or a plane, so wherever I happen to be is home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39916]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm always on a train or a plane, so wherever I happen to be is home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44311]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44311</guid></item></channel></rss>