<?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[Continuing a series on the person of Jesus:  When Christ was in the world, He was despised by men; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7278]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a series on the person of Jesus:  When Christ was in the world, He was despised by men; in the hour of need He was forsaken by acquaintances and left by friends to the depths of scorn. He was willing to suffer and to be despised; do you dare to complain of anything? He had enemies and defamers; do you want everyone to be your friend, your benefactor? How can your patience be rewarded if no adversity tests it? How can you be a friend of Christ if you are not willing to suffer any hardship? Suffer with Christ and for Christ if you wish to reign with Him.  Had you but once entered into perfect communion with Jesus or tasted a little of His ardent love, you would care nothing at all for your own comfort or discomfort but would rejoice in the reproach you suffer; for love of Him makes a man despise himself.  ... Thomas à Kempis, Of the Imitation of Christ May 11, 2000 Concluding a series on the person of Jesus:  Jesus' good news, then, was that the Kingdom of God had come, and that he, Jesus, was its herald and expounder to men. More than that, in some special and mysterious was, he was the kingdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's always been Tom's philosophy and to this day that if we are going to do it -- we are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40458]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's always been Tom's philosophy and to this day that if we are going to do it -- we are going to do it right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you only have one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9404]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you only have one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want success, then don't rely on other people to do what YOU can do! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26381]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want success, then don't rely on other people to do what YOU can do!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In my country we go to prison first and then become President. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66439]]></link><description><![CDATA[In my country we go to prison first and then become President.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems that nothing ever gets to going good till there's a few resignations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53947]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems that nothing ever gets to going good till there's a few resignations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In your free time, you will choose who to hang out with. If you were to show me your friends, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41768]]></link><description><![CDATA[In your free time, you will choose who to hang out with. If you were to show me your friends, I could tell you your future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even in animals there exists the spirit of their sires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even in animals there exists the spirit of their sires.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're trying to do something different and winning this is just an extra benefit, ... It was kind of a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37929]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're trying to do something different and winning this is just an extra benefit, ... It was kind of a bummer last year to get DQ for that. Things happen, but that's racing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['T is not for gravity to play at cherry-pit with Satan. -Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55762]]></link><description><![CDATA['T is not for gravity to play at cherry-pit with Satan. -Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild harmless, rather ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dark as pitch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11083]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dark as pitch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3475]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had more opportunities. Maybe it could have been like 63-55. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30589]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had more opportunities. Maybe it could have been like 63-55.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25515]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pessimists are usually kind. The gay, bubbling over, have to time for the pitiful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pessimists are usually kind. The gay, bubbling over, have to time for the pitiful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63694]]></link><description><![CDATA[As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Necessity is the author of change ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Necessity is the author of change]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had the opportunity to try camel steak while in Western Australia. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33638]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had the opportunity to try camel steak while in Western Australia.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens can not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2449]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens can not cure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10022]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Girls are like butterflies...pretty to look at, too hard to catch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27323]]></link><description><![CDATA[Girls are like butterflies...pretty to look at, too hard to catch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For over-warmth, if false, is worse than truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48736]]></link><description><![CDATA[For over-warmth, if false, is worse than truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who the hell wants to hear actors talk? -- H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15200]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who the hell wants to hear actors talk? -- H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24068]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Win or lose, do it fairly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9230]]></link><description><![CDATA[Win or lose, do it fairly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant; but the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant; but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37232]]></link><description><![CDATA[Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children learn to smile from their parents. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15410]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children learn to smile from their parents.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patriotism has become a mere national self assertion, a sentimentality of flag-cheering with no constructive duties. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45827]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patriotism has become a mere national self assertion, a sentimentality of flag-cheering with no constructive duties.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value. -- Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15215]]></link><description><![CDATA[Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value. -- Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can always get someone to love you, even if you have to do it yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25798]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can always get someone to love you, even if you have to do it yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Dominic, Priest, Founder of the Order of Preachers, 1221   Theologically, we have been discovering anew that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6929]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Dominic, Priest, Founder of the Order of Preachers, 1221   Theologically, we have been discovering anew that the Church is not an appendage to the Gospel: it is itself a part of the Gospel. The Gospel cannot be separated from that new people of God in which its nature is to be made manifest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith, if it be a living faith, will be a working faith. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7032]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith, if it be a living faith, will be a working faith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The love of their country is with them only a mode of flattering its master; as soon as they think ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47286]]></link><description><![CDATA[The love of their country is with them only a mode of flattering its master; as soon as they think that master can no longer hear, they speak of everything with a frankness which is the more startling because those who listen to it become responsible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd attribute the lack of wild fruits to the drought we've been experiencing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38723]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd attribute the lack of wild fruits to the drought we've been experiencing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They've removed anything you can tie a rope to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41524]]></link><description><![CDATA[They've removed anything you can tie a rope to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freud: If it’s not one thing, it’s your mother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51987]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freud: If it’s not one thing, it’s your mother.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sacred burden is this life ye bear: Look on it, lift it, bear it solemnly, Stand up and walk ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4976]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sacred burden is this life ye bear: Look on it, lift it, bear it solemnly, Stand up and walk beneath it steadfastly. Fail not for sorrow, falter not for sin, But onward, upward, till the goal ye win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2083]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56918]]></link><description><![CDATA[Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weep not that the world changes--did it keep A stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Weep not that the world changes--did it keep A stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In robe and crown the king stepped down, To meet and greet her on her way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51701]]></link><description><![CDATA[In robe and crown the king stepped down, To meet and greet her on her way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winning isn't everything, but losing is nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61701]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winning isn't everything, but losing is nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is never any peace for those who resist God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7786]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is never any peace for those who resist God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even a fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it won't keep the wise from trying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even a fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it won't keep the wise from trying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is nearly 100 percent of the ministry's (procurement) budget that has gone AWOL (absent without leave), ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28943]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is nearly 100 percent of the ministry's (procurement) budget that has gone AWOL (absent without leave),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These surveys confirm the country's growing concern about excessive secrecy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29285]]></link><description><![CDATA[These surveys confirm the country's growing concern about excessive secrecy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For them that think death's honesty won't fall upon them naturally life sometimes must get lonely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11380]]></link><description><![CDATA[For them that think death's honesty won't fall upon them naturally life sometimes must get lonely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1097]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven't grasped the situation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1097</guid></item></channel></rss>