<?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[An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition. •Michael Korda   We ought to see far enough ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20243]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition. •Michael Korda   We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity. •G. K. Chesterton  Often a noble face hides filthy ways. •Euripides  The only vice which cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lower rates on loans will create quite tough conditions for consumer lenders because interest income accounts for the majority of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36517]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lower rates on loans will create quite tough conditions for consumer lenders because interest income accounts for the majority of their revenue. It's almost impossible to foresee clearly what their profits will be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conscience--the only incorruptible thing about us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9824]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conscience--the only incorruptible thing about us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop of Winchester, Spiritual Writer, 1626 Commemoration of Sergius of Radonezh, Russian Monastic Reformer, Teacher, 1392 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7750]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop of Winchester, Spiritual Writer, 1626 Commemoration of Sergius of Radonezh, Russian Monastic Reformer, Teacher, 1392  The one great fear which is a holy fear is, I think, lest you make your adventure too small, too easy, too self-full, too mediocre. Christianity fails because people will keep on the surface too much, they will not go down to face these deep inner obediences; and that is ultimately to be beaten by themselves. We talk big and play so small. And the world has found it out --the great bulk have discarded Christianity as the way of Hope and put their hope in other things.  ... The Notebooks of Florence Allshorn  September 26, 1998  Commemoration of Wilson Carlile, Priest, Founder of the Church Army, 1942  Even those of us who are inside it will agree that, in the main, the Church and all for which it stands occupy a palpably smaller place in the life of the average member than it did in former days. We explain it on the ground that life has become fuller, and that, of necessity, our attention nowadays has to percolate over a wide area instead of rushing foam-flecked down a narrower channel -- which is to say, in other words, that Christ is getting lost to us in the crush and throng of things, does not loom up as arresting, as unique, as all-important, as He did to our forefathers. Yet that, when you come to think of it, is no bad definition of unspirituality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people confuse acceptance with apathy, but there's all the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish between what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people confuse acceptance with apathy, but there's all the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish between what can and what cannot be helped; acceptance makes that distinction. Apathy paralyzes the will-to-action; acceptance frees it by relieving it of impossible burdens.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As ten millions of circles can never make a square, so the united voice of myriads cannot lend the smallest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26122]]></link><description><![CDATA[As ten millions of circles can never make a square, so the united voice of myriads cannot lend the smallest foundation to falsehood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then there is that glorious Epicurean paradox, uttered by my friend, the Historian in one of his flashing moments: "Give ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then there is that glorious Epicurean paradox, uttered by my friend, the Historian in one of his flashing moments: "Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is the transmission of civilization. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13494]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is the transmission of civilization.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take her, fair son, and from her blood raise up Issue to me, that the contending kingdoms  Of France ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take her, fair son, and from her blood raise up Issue to me, that the contending kingdoms  Of France and England, whose very shores look pale   With envy of each other's happiness,    May cease their hatred, and this dear conjunction     Plant neighborhood and Christian-like accord      In their sweet bosoms, that never war advance       His bleeding sword 'twixt England and fair France.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ethical person ought to do more than he's required to do and less than he's allowed to do ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43090]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ethical person ought to do more than he's required to do and less than he's allowed to do]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The spacious firmament on high, With all the blue ethereal sky,  And spangled heavens, a shining frame,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57810]]></link><description><![CDATA[The spacious firmament on high, With all the blue ethereal sky,  And spangled heavens, a shining frame,   Their great Original proclaim.    Forever singing, as they shine,     The hand that made us is divine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Woe to the vanquished! [Lat., Vae victis.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60590]]></link><description><![CDATA[Woe to the vanquished! [Lat., Vae victis.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are used as they use others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26297]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are used as they use others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3465]]></link><description><![CDATA[Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I picked up some software and some books and got online, ... and there were all these Danni Ashe pictures ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32614]]></link><description><![CDATA[I picked up some software and some books and got online, ... and there were all these Danni Ashe pictures all over the newsgroup. I started striking up conversations with people, saying, 'Hey, you know, hi, I'm Danni. Where'd you get that picture?']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Capitalism and communism stand at opposite poles. Their essential difference is this: The communist, seeing the rich man and his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Capitalism and communism stand at opposite poles. Their essential difference is this: The communist, seeing the rich man and his ;fine home, says: "No man should have so much." The capitalist, seeing the same thing, says: "All men should have as much.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60612]]></link><description><![CDATA[I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the eyes of the West, they have the right to occupy our land, rob our wealth and then insult ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29808]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the eyes of the West, they have the right to occupy our land, rob our wealth and then insult us and our religion, and humiliate our Koran and our prophet, prayers be upon him. After that they give us lessons in freedom, justice and human rights.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One cost people don't factor in is that of a tried-and-true support mechanism. If [a Microsoft] product fails, we have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31923]]></link><description><![CDATA[One cost people don't factor in is that of a tried-and-true support mechanism. If [a Microsoft] product fails, we have a single phone number we can call.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12316]]></link><description><![CDATA[To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man has a mob self and an individual self, in varying proportions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42859]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man has a mob self and an individual self, in varying proportions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything around us is made up of energy. To attract positive things in your life, start by giving off positive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything around us is made up of energy. To attract positive things in your life, start by giving off positive energy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[E'en his failings leaned to virtue's side. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48988]]></link><description><![CDATA[E'en his failings leaned to virtue's side.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64155]]></link><description><![CDATA[As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concluding a short series on authenticity:   Think thyself at that Tribunal, that judgment, now: Where thou shalt not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8107]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concluding a short series on authenticity:   Think thyself at that Tribunal, that judgment, now: Where thou shalt not only hear all thy sinful works, and words, and thoughts repeated, which thou thy self hadst utterly forgot, but thou shalt hear thy good works, thine alms, thy coming to Church, thy hearing of Sermons, given in evidence against thee, because they had hypocrisy mingled in them; yea, thou shalt find even thy repentance to condemn thee, because thou madest that but a door to a relapse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to hide the bodies of those people I had to kill because they pissed me off.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet May hath come to love us, Flowers, trees, their blossoms don;  And through the blue heavens above us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26610]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet May hath come to love us, Flowers, trees, their blossoms don;  And through the blue heavens above us   The very clouds move on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has put a good finish to his undertaking is said to have placed a golden crown to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13780]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has put a good finish to his undertaking is said to have placed a golden crown to the whole.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A timid person is frightened before danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59370]]></link><description><![CDATA[A timid person is frightened before danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is to see the faults of others, but difficult to see once own faults. One shows the faults of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15437]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is to see the faults of others, but difficult to see once own faults. One shows the faults of others like chaff winnowed in the wind, but one conceals one's own faults as a cunning gambler conceals his dice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's our job -- to come in the game, bring energy and change the tempo of the game. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31054]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's our job -- to come in the game, bring energy and change the tempo of the game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all the plants that cover the earth and lie like a fringe of hair upon the body of our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46670]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all the plants that cover the earth and lie like a fringe of hair upon the body of our grandmother, try to obtain knowledge that you may be strengthened in life]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66636]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Libraries are as the shrines where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24764]]></link><description><![CDATA[Libraries are as the shrines where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more unpredictable the world is the more we rely on predictions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17124]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more unpredictable the world is the more we rely on predictions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we had the slowest bus driver in Pennsylvania. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37572]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we had the slowest bus driver in Pennsylvania.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the prerogative of great men only to have great defects. [Fr., Il n'appartient qu'aux grands hommes d'avoir de ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18264]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the prerogative of great men only to have great defects. [Fr., Il n'appartient qu'aux grands hommes d'avoir de grands defauts.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Orleans is the soul of the country. We feel it's important to support the city, and it's music. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41707]]></link><description><![CDATA[New Orleans is the soul of the country. We feel it's important to support the city, and it's music.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A region of repose it seems, A place of slumber and of dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20995]]></link><description><![CDATA[A region of repose it seems, A place of slumber and of dreams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we're ready to play them when the puck drops, and we're expecting a battle for 60 minutes. When ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32573]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we're ready to play them when the puck drops, and we're expecting a battle for 60 minutes. When we do play 60 minutes, we're a tough team to beat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People can travel faster than sound, yes, but not nearly so fast as rumor! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28072]]></link><description><![CDATA[People can travel faster than sound, yes, but not nearly so fast as rumor!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pretty and sweet manner of it forced Those waters from me which I would have stopped;  But I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43210]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pretty and sweet manner of it forced Those waters from me which I would have stopped;  But I had not so much of man in me,   And all my mother came into mine eyes    And gave me up to tears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62601]]></link><description><![CDATA[Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[President means chief servant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48155]]></link><description><![CDATA[President means chief servant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[luck is what happens , when the preparation meets the opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/397]]></link><description><![CDATA[luck is what happens , when the preparation meets the opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've never made choices based on money - I always trust my gut. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65038]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've never made choices based on money - I always trust my gut.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kindness is the beginning of cruelty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63498]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Into each life some rain must fall, some days be dark and dreary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12225]]></link><description><![CDATA[Into each life some rain must fall, some days be dark and dreary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12225</guid></item></channel></rss>