<?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[For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63406]]></link><description><![CDATA[For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was not made of common calf, Nor ever meant for country loon;  If with an axe I seem ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56208]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was not made of common calf, Nor ever meant for country loon;  If with an axe I seem cut out,   The workman was no cobbling clown;    A good jack boot with double sole he made,     To roam the woods, or through the rivers wade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yield themselves up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46192]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yield themselves up when taken little by little.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great unity which true science seeks is found only by beginning with our knowledge of God, and coming down ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7223]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great unity which true science seeks is found only by beginning with our knowledge of God, and coming down from Him along the stream of causation to every fact and event that affects us.  .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who hastens a glutton choakes him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who hastens a glutton choakes him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first wan cowslip, wet With tears of the first morn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10539]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first wan cowslip, wet With tears of the first morn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53606]]></link><description><![CDATA[Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A joke's a very serious thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23225]]></link><description><![CDATA[A joke's a very serious thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is wrong to suppose that for Paul faith is a meritorious act on man's part, which wins salvation, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7859]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is wrong to suppose that for Paul faith is a meritorious act on man's part, which wins salvation, or even, in a more modern way of speech, a creative moral principle in itself. Paul does not, in fact, speak (when he is using the language strictly) of "justification by faith", but of "justification by grace through faith," or "on the grounds of faith." This is not mere verbal subtlety. It means that the "righteousness of God" becomes ours, not by the assertion of the individual will as such, but by the willingness to let God work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13726]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There were times I didn't feel right not cheering for Seneca. They'd make a run and I'd feel the jolt, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30543]]></link><description><![CDATA[There were times I didn't feel right not cheering for Seneca. They'd make a run and I'd feel the jolt, but I had to hold it back. It was really different. ... I'll do more cheering this weekend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Could anything be absurder than a man? The animal who knows everything about himself--except why he was born and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20001]]></link><description><![CDATA[Could anything be absurder than a man? The animal who knows everything about himself--except why he was born and the meaning of his unique existence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The seal went into the restaurant and was askedby the waiter if he would like a Canadian Clubon the rocks. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20116]]></link><description><![CDATA[The seal went into the restaurant and was askedby the waiter if he would like a Canadian Clubon the rocks. He repliedno thank you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60557]]></link><description><![CDATA[Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The breaking waves dashed high On a stern and rock-bound coast;  And the woods against a stormy sky,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2409]]></link><description><![CDATA[The breaking waves dashed high On a stern and rock-bound coast;  And the woods against a stormy sky,   Their giant branches toss'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are seeing some very strong global growth trends so that should prop up exports. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36352]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are seeing some very strong global growth trends so that should prop up exports.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43120]]></link><description><![CDATA[All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. [For] to a degree, people read the press to inform ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48162]]></link><description><![CDATA[The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. [For] to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves-and the better the teacher, the better the student body.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14116]]></link><description><![CDATA[The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Posterity pays for the sins of their fathers. [Lat., Culpam majorum posteri luunt.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Posterity pays for the sins of their fathers. [Lat., Culpam majorum posteri luunt.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can not sing the old songs now! It is not that I deem them low,  'Tis that I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57212]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can not sing the old songs now! It is not that I deem them low,  'Tis that I can't remember how   They go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference is no less real because it is of degree. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12214]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference is no less real because it is of degree.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True praise rootes and spreedes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50021]]></link><description><![CDATA[True praise rootes and spreedes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want anything I don't deserve, [but] if they offer me more money, I'm not stupid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46329]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want anything I don't deserve, [but] if they offer me more money, I'm not stupid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We make it mandatory: wherever they go, that dog must be with them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36422]]></link><description><![CDATA[We make it mandatory: wherever they go, that dog must be with them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This has been an amazing market -- a 'Benny Goodman' market with plenty of swing, ... My sense is mood, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28648]]></link><description><![CDATA[This has been an amazing market -- a 'Benny Goodman' market with plenty of swing, ... My sense is mood, momentum and money flow are still up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We                    ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40691]]></link><description><![CDATA[We                                                             want to give a visual example of the project's intention, inspire other artists to submit proposals and get local merchants to sponsor those artists,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44348]]></link><description><![CDATA[It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For piety lies not in being often seen turning a veiled head to stones, nor in approaching every altar, nor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57047]]></link><description><![CDATA[For piety lies not in being often seen turning a veiled head to stones, nor in approaching every altar, nor in lying prostrate...before the temples of the gods, nor in sprinkling altars with the blood of beasts...but rather in being able to look upon all things with a mind at peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remission is for all prisoners without looking at the type of crimes which had been carried out, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remission is for all prisoners without looking at the type of crimes which had been carried out,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Find me next a Poppy posy, Type of his harangues so dozy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47690]]></link><description><![CDATA[Find me next a Poppy posy, Type of his harangues so dozy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Christian is a man who feels repentance on Sunday for what he did on Saturday and is going to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6871]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Christian is a man who feels repentance on Sunday for what he did on Saturday and is going to do on Monday.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no evil without its compensation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51200]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no evil without its compensation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14009]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We live at the edge of the miraculous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21848]]></link><description><![CDATA[We live at the edge of the miraculous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only after the results of a recent DNA test taken by the true biological father did Amber realize that Mr. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35855]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only after the results of a recent DNA test taken by the true biological father did Amber realize that Mr. Flores was not the father of her child. To the best of Amber's knowledge, Mr. Flores did not [take a test] and he needs to take responsibility for his failure to do so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1260]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm really grateful we were able to get the grant. We couldn't have done it without that. There' s no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35600]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm really grateful we were able to get the grant. We couldn't have done it without that. There' s no way. We would have had to replace the infields with the same type of stuff we have now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts. I am no orator, as Brutus is,  But (as you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45248]]></link><description><![CDATA[I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts. I am no orator, as Brutus is,  But (as you know me all) a plain blunt man   That love my friend; and that they know full well    That gave me public leave to speak of him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend is a second self. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16855]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend is a second self.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not sacrifice, but lend myself to business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51160]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not sacrifice, but lend myself to business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am convinced that the world is not a mere bog in which men and woman trample themselves in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21424]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am convinced that the world is not a mere bog in which men and woman trample themselves in the mire and die. Something magnificent is taking place here amid the cruelties and tragedies, and the supreme challenge to intelligence is that of making the noblest and best in our curious heritage prevail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65057]]></link><description><![CDATA[Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65022]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soon as midnight brought on the dusky hour Friendliest to sleep and silence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Soon as midnight brought on the dusky hour Friendliest to sleep and silence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12054]]></link><description><![CDATA[As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this is my destiny and the meaning of my life]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You yawn to equalize the pressure on your eardrums. This pressure change outside your eardrums unbalances other people's ear pressures, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62473]]></link><description><![CDATA[You yawn to equalize the pressure on your eardrums. This pressure change outside your eardrums unbalances other people's ear pressures, so they must yawn to even it out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except a desperate case. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10224]]></link><description><![CDATA["My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10224</guid></item></channel></rss>