<?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[Fame is a bee. / It has a song / It has a sting / Ah, too, it has a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fame is a bee. / It has a song / It has a sting / Ah, too, it has a wing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's a real good kid. Real quick, great skills. You'll see a lot of him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29191]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's a real good kid. Real quick, great skills. You'll see a lot of him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23189]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one gossips about other people's secret virtues. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17877]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Profits are like breathing. You have to have them. But who would stay alive just to breathe? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15781]]></link><description><![CDATA[Profits are like breathing. You have to have them. But who would stay alive just to breathe?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They live that they may eat, but he himself [Socrates] eats that he may live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24838]]></link><description><![CDATA[They live that they may eat, but he himself [Socrates] eats that he may live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not stand on a high pedestal and take 5 cents in your hand and say, "here, my poor man", ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17496]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not stand on a high pedestal and take 5 cents in your hand and say, "here, my poor man", but be grateful that the poor man is there, so by making a gift to him you are able to help yourself.It is not the reciever that is blessed, but it is the giver.Be thankful that you are allowed to exercise your power of benevolence and mercy in the world, and thus become pure and perfect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45163]]></link><description><![CDATA[A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The search for someone to blame is always successful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63890]]></link><description><![CDATA[The search for someone to blame is always successful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death! -Earl Wilson. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10382]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death! -Earl Wilson.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She lovede Right fro the firste sighte. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25791]]></link><description><![CDATA[She lovede Right fro the firste sighte.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no talks going on, and CNN is not for sale, ... These types of stories just stir up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34171]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no talks going on, and CNN is not for sale, ... These types of stories just stir up issues that don't exist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O child! O new-born denizen Of life's great city! on thy head  The glory of morn is shed,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3642]]></link><description><![CDATA[O child! O new-born denizen Of life's great city! on thy head  The glory of morn is shed,   Like a celestial benison!    Here at the portal thou dost stand,     And with thy little hand      Thou openest the mysterious gate       Into the future's undiscovered land.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's like giving birth to a kindergartener, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40182]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's like giving birth to a kindergartener,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a powerful potential in out youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62552]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a powerful potential in out youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8564]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance. But what is Repentance? Not the last and noblest and most refined achievement of the righteousness of men in the service of God, but the first elemental act of the righteousness of God in the service of men; the work that God has written in their hearts and which, because it is from God and not from men, occasions joy in heaven; that looking forward to God, and to Him only, which is recognized only by God and by God Himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wouldn't mind paying taxes -- if I knew they were going to a friendly country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58693]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wouldn't mind paying taxes -- if I knew they were going to a friendly country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Augustus Muhlenberg of New York, Priest, 1877  Nobody seriously believes the universe was made by God ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8045]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Augustus Muhlenberg of New York, Priest, 1877  Nobody seriously believes the universe was made by God without being persuaded that He takes care of His works.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Timothy and Titus, Companions of Paul Commemoration of Dorothy Kerin, Founder of the Burrswood Healing Community, 1963  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Timothy and Titus, Companions of Paul Commemoration of Dorothy Kerin, Founder of the Burrswood Healing Community, 1963   The... task of the ministry is, not to undertake some specialist activity from which the rest of the faithful are excluded, but to pioneer in doing that which the whole church must do. And the ministry itself is no originator, but receives its task from Christ. The ordained ministers only exercise the ministry which Christ himself has first exercised, and which he continues to exercise through them, and through their activity in the whole church also.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43469]]></link><description><![CDATA[A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Misfortune is asleep, let no one wake her. [Lat., Quando la mala ventura se duerme, nadie la despierte.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42804]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Misfortune is asleep, let no one wake her. [Lat., Quando la mala ventura se duerme, nadie la despierte.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Earnings of our conventional TV businesses were negatively impacted in the quarter by the Olympic Winter Games, which distorted normal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40652]]></link><description><![CDATA[Earnings of our conventional TV businesses were negatively impacted in the quarter by the Olympic Winter Games, which distorted normal ratings and advertising revenues in all television markets over a two-week period in February.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on forgiveness:   With this sweet hope of ultimate acceptance with God, I have always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6770]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on forgiveness:   With this sweet hope of ultimate acceptance with God, I have always enjoyed much cheerfulness before men; but I have at the same time laboured incessantly to cultivate the deepest humiliation before God. I have never thought that the circumstance of God's having forgiven me was any reason why I should forgive myself; on the contrary, I have always judged it better to loathe myself the more, in proportion as I was assured that God was pacified towards me (Ezekiel 16:63).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is more comfortable to feel that we are a slight improvement on a monkey than such a fallin' off ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19993]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is more comfortable to feel that we are a slight improvement on a monkey than such a fallin' off from the angels.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wolfe eats oft of the sheep that have been warn'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49936]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wolfe eats oft of the sheep that have been warn'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her voice was ever soft, Gentle, and low, an excellent thing in woman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her voice was ever soft, Gentle, and low, an excellent thing in woman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of George Herbert, Priest, Poet, 1633 The shepherds sing; and shall I silent be?  My God, no hymn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of George Herbert, Priest, Poet, 1633 The shepherds sing; and shall I silent be?  My God, no hymn for Thee? My soul's a shepherd too: a flock it feeds  Of thoughts, and words, and deeds. The pasture is Thy Word, the streams, Thy Grace  Enriching all the place. Shepherd and flock shall sing, and all my powers  Out-sing the daylight hours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At last the Muses rose, . . . And scattered, . . . as they flew, Their blooming wreaths from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54315]]></link><description><![CDATA[At last the Muses rose, . . . And scattered, . . . as they flew, Their blooming wreaths from fair Valclusa's bowers  To Arno's myrtle border.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We believe that electricity exists, because the electric company keeps sending us bills for it, but we cannot figure out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13694]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe that electricity exists, because the electric company keeps sending us bills for it, but we cannot figure out how it travels inside wires.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The light upon her face Shines from the windows of another world.  Saints only have such faces. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14863]]></link><description><![CDATA[The light upon her face Shines from the windows of another world.  Saints only have such faces.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They either hit it hard, or they didn't hit it hard and it still found a hole. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39981]]></link><description><![CDATA[They either hit it hard, or they didn't hit it hard and it still found a hole.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you're trying to recreate habitat, you do it in hopes the amphibians can use it, and you have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33807]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you're trying to recreate habitat, you do it in hopes the amphibians can use it, and you have to manage it in hopes you keep the bullfrog from being successful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never knew what real happiness was until I got married. And by then it was too late. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26423]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never knew what real happiness was until I got married. And by then it was too late.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had to match their physicality. They [officials] let everything go. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28369]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had to match their physicality. They [officials] let everything go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Manny:'Thats wat you do in a herd, you look out for each other.' Sid:'I dont know about you guys but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36681]]></link><description><![CDATA[Manny:'Thats wat you do in a herd, you look out for each other.' Sid:'I dont know about you guys but we are the weirdest herd I have ever seen.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Palm Sunday I had no God but these, The sacerdotal trees, And they uplifted me,  "I hung upon a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6543]]></link><description><![CDATA[Palm Sunday I had no God but these, The sacerdotal trees, And they uplifted me,  "I hung upon a Tree." The sun and moon I saw, And reverential awe Subdued me day and night,  "I am the perfect light." Within a lifeless stone -- All other gods unknown -- I sought Divinity,  "The Corner-stone am I." For sacrificial feast I slaughtered man and beast, Red recompense to gain.  "So I a Lamb was slain." "Yea, such My hungering Grace That whereso'er My face Is hidden, none may grope  Beyond eternal Hope.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is no easy matter to say commonplace things in an original way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50281]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is no easy matter to say commonplace things in an original way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A library implies an act of faith ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24756]]></link><description><![CDATA[A library implies an act of faith]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We pity in others only those evils which we have ourselves experienced. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46626]]></link><description><![CDATA[We pity in others only those evils which we have ourselves experienced.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59057]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work -- the night watchman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you have completed 95 percent of your journey, you are only halfway there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23373]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you have completed 95 percent of your journey, you are only halfway there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a bit of both, ... It is a blessing because I know that I am capable but it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38882]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a bit of both, ... It is a blessing because I know that I am capable but it is a curse because I don't get the opportunities that I normally would get. But if I am in a situation that is out of my control, everyone is still going to hold me responsible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the most fashionable notions of our times is that social problems like poverty and oppression breed wars. Most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47421]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the most fashionable notions of our times is that social problems like poverty and oppression breed wars. Most wars, however, are started by well-fed people with time on their hands to dream up half-baked ideologies or grandiose ambitions, and to nurse real or imagined grievances.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should always pray with as much earnestness as those who expect everything from God; we should always act with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7691]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should always pray with as much earnestness as those who expect everything from God; we should always act with as much energy as those who expect everything from themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10339]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Start slow and taper off. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/951]]></link><description><![CDATA[Start slow and taper off.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything. - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25502]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything. - The Art of Worldly Wisdom, 1647.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, what may man within him hide, Though angel on the outward side! -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55396]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, what may man within him hide, Though angel on the outward side! -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, ''Blessed are they that mourn.'' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58189]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, ''Blessed are they that mourn.'']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A storm in a cream bowl.   - James Butler, first Duke of Ormonde, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57895]]></link><description><![CDATA[A storm in a cream bowl.   - James Butler, first Duke of Ormonde,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57895</guid></item></channel></rss>