<?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 finest amusements are the most pointless ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24618]]></link><description><![CDATA[The finest amusements are the most pointless ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes our work feels small and insignificant. But remember, a small ripple can gain momentum and build a current so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63381]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes our work feels small and insignificant. But remember, a small ripple can gain momentum and build a current so strong that is insurmountable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They told me I could fill right in at the four spot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32712]]></link><description><![CDATA[They told me I could fill right in at the four spot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We think that the new draft document is balanced and mentions the rights of North Korea to peaceful nuclear technology ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28842]]></link><description><![CDATA[We think that the new draft document is balanced and mentions the rights of North Korea to peaceful nuclear technology and the possibility of building a light water reactor in due time in the future,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that for the highest achievements nowadays... need to have the stable as a rock scientific base. And also ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28832]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that for the highest achievements nowadays... need to have the stable as a rock scientific base. And also need to own modesty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The church alone beyond all question Has for ill-gotten goods the right digestion.  [Ger., Die Kirch' allein, meine lieben ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8675]]></link><description><![CDATA[The church alone beyond all question Has for ill-gotten goods the right digestion.  [Ger., Die Kirch' allein, meine lieben Frauen,   Kann ungerechtes Gut verdauen.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coming off a tough win against Minuteman, it's good to get a win against Swampscott over here. We just did ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Coming off a tough win against Minuteman, it's good to get a win against Swampscott over here. We just did what we do best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4594]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A tree growing out of the ground is as wonderful today as it ever was. It does not need to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1289]]></link><description><![CDATA[A tree growing out of the ground is as wonderful today as it ever was. It does not need to adopt new and startling methods.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever man decides that he is competent to do as he pleases he is soon enjoying Hell on earth, partly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6632]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever man decides that he is competent to do as he pleases he is soon enjoying Hell on earth, partly because much of what he pleases, except he know he must obey God, is low-down disgusting and partly because, even when he pleases to do something decent, he is mostly too weak-willed and too addle-pated to bring the same to good effect. Man must be redeemed by a power outside himself. I do not regard the over-determined "optimists" as silly; they seem to me only the victims of a wishful thinking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ZENITH, n. The point in the heavens directly overhead to a man standing or a growing cabbage. A man in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62659]]></link><description><![CDATA[ZENITH, n. The point in the heavens directly overhead to a man standing or a growing cabbage. A man in bed or a cabbage in the pot is not considered as having a zenith, though Horizontalists hold that the posture of the body was immaterial.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Under Modi's leadership, Gujarat will be able to achieve rural development in a manner in which it has not been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Under Modi's leadership, Gujarat will be able to achieve rural development in a manner in which it has not been achieved previously in India.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wealth is enjoying what we already have, not getting more of what wethink will make us happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21465]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wealth is enjoying what we already have, not getting more of what wethink will make us happy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! corn shall make the young men cheerful, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5837]]></link><description><![CDATA[For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! corn shall make the young men cheerful, and new wine the maids.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leisure is time for doing something useful; this leisure the diligent man will obtain, but the lazy man never ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24597]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leisure is time for doing something useful; this leisure the diligent man will obtain, but the lazy man never]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life without a friend is death without a witnesse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49599]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life without a friend is death without a witnesse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I did not expect to hear that it could be, in an assembly convened for the propagation of Christian knowledge, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7956]]></link><description><![CDATA[I did not expect to hear that it could be, in an assembly convened for the propagation of Christian knowledge, a question whether any nation uninstructed in religion should receive instruction; or whether that, instruction should be imparted to them by a translation of the holy-books into their own language. If obedience to the will of GOD be necessary to happiness, and knowledge of his will be necessary to obedience, I know not how he that withholds this knowledge, or delays it, can be said to love his neighbour as himself. He, that voluntarily continues ignorance, is guilty of all the crimes which ignorance produces; as to him that should extinguish the tapers of a light-house, might justly be imputed the calamities of shipwrecks. (Continued tomorrow)   ... a letter from Samuel Johnson to William Drummond of Edinburgh, 1766  July 13, 2002   Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity; and as no man is good but as he wishes the good of others, so no man can be good in the highest degree, who wishes not to others the largest measures of the greatest good. To omit for a year, or for a day, the most efficacious method of advancing Christianity [i.e., the Bible], in compliance with any purposes that terminate this side of the grave, is a crime [the like] of which I know not that the world has yet had an example.   ... a letter from Samuel Johnson to William Drummond of Edinburgh, 1766  July 14, 2002 Feast of John Keble, Priest, Poet, Tractarian, 1866   The "good" man, the man whose god is righteousness, has as his life's ambition the keeping of rules and commandments and the keeping of himself uncontaminated by the world. This sounds admirable; but, as the truth of Christ showed, the whole of such living, the whole drive and ambition, the whole edifice, is self-centered. That entire process of effort must be abandoned if a man is to give himself in love to God and his fellows. He must lose his life if he is ever going to find it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10856]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When God gave you to me he never said that you were mine, that I could keep you always--only borrowed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17643]]></link><description><![CDATA[When God gave you to me he never said that you were mine, that I could keep you always--only borrowed for a time. Now, He's called you home, I'm sad and I shed tears. Yet, I'm glad He loaned you to me and we had these many years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just want to put some positive stuff out there. If it works, great. If it doesn't, no problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66361]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just want to put some positive stuff out there. If it works, great. If it doesn't, no problem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't be disquieted in time of adversity. Be firm with dignity and self-reliant with vigor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12272]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't be disquieted in time of adversity. Be firm with dignity and self-reliant with vigor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64755]]></link><description><![CDATA[With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1178]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Villain, a horse--Villain, I say, give me a horse to fly, To swim the river, villain, and to fly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19838]]></link><description><![CDATA[Villain, a horse--Villain, I say, give me a horse to fly, To swim the river, villain, and to fly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one ever pruned me. If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41549]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one ever pruned me. If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1745]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Wolves and the SheepWhy should there always be this fear and slaughter between us? said the Wolves to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1568]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Wolves and the SheepWhy should there always be this fear and slaughter between us? said the Wolves to the Sheep. Those evil-disposed Dogs have much to answer for. They always bark whenever we approach you and attack us before we have done any harm. If you would only dismiss them from your heels, there might soon be treaties of peace and reconciliation between us. The Sheep, poor silly creatures, were easily beguiled and dismissed the Dogs, whereupon the Wolves destroyed the unguarded flock at their own pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Therefore, friends, As far as to the sepulchre of Christ--  Whose soldier now, under whose blessed cross   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6139]]></link><description><![CDATA[Therefore, friends, As far as to the sepulchre of Christ--  Whose soldier now, under whose blessed cross   We are impressed and engaged to fight--    Fourthwith a power of English shall we levy,     Whose arms were moulded in their mother's womb      To chase these pagans in those holy fields       Over whose acres walked those blessed feet        Which fourteen hundred years ago were nailed         For our advantage on the bitter cross.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lawyers, I suppose, were children once. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As seniors, we've been through two coaches. We just kept playing basketball. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28583]]></link><description><![CDATA[As seniors, we've been through two coaches. We just kept playing basketball.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Ourrewards will always be in exact ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21749]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Ourrewards will always be in exact proportion to our service.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This appears to be a very viable solution. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33937]]></link><description><![CDATA[This appears to be a very viable solution.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19525]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What mare's nest hast thou found? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48618]]></link><description><![CDATA[What mare's nest hast thou found?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is of no avail to know what is about to happen; for it is a sad thing to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48844]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is of no avail to know what is about to happen; for it is a sad thing to be grieved when grief can do no good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65501]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56699]]></link><description><![CDATA[Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sabi is the color of haikai. It is different from tranquility. For example, if an old man dresses up in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sabi is the color of haikai. It is different from tranquility. For example, if an old man dresses up in armor and helmet and goes to the battlefield, or in colorful brocade kimono, attending (his lord) at a banquet, [sabi] is like this old figure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are all the President's men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10400]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are all the President's men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Change starts when someone sees the next step. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5498]]></link><description><![CDATA[Change starts when someone sees the next step.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Human beings need pleasure the way they need vitamins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62898]]></link><description><![CDATA[Human beings need pleasure the way they need vitamins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know why he chose to post that. There was sufficient food and water in that hospital for at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36336]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know why he chose to post that. There was sufficient food and water in that hospital for at least another four days when we evacuated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The inversion of the curve could continue certainly well into the second quarter. It depends on the appetite for buying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33749]]></link><description><![CDATA[The inversion of the curve could continue certainly well into the second quarter. It depends on the appetite for buying U.S. Treasuries and how far the Fed goes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was a fun question. A different way of looking at the extent people trust each other is that question. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39925]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was a fun question. A different way of looking at the extent people trust each other is that question. Again, that's normative behavior. I know growing up we never had our door locked. That has changed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tasteful rather than expensive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tasteful rather than expensive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the younger generation, we've been raised to think that everything is OK and if you look down on anyone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30027]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the younger generation, we've been raised to think that everything is OK and if you look down on anyone else, you judge anyone else, then you're a racist or you're a religious zealot, or you're not open-minded. So I think that people my age have been forced to be too accepting and too open-minded, whereas older people are sometimes narrow- minded.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thy spirit, Independence, let me share! Lord of the lion-heart and eagle-eye,  Thy steps I follow with my bosom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thy spirit, Independence, let me share! Lord of the lion-heart and eagle-eye,  Thy steps I follow with my bosom bare,   Nor heed the storm that howls along the sky.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20733</guid></item></channel></rss>