<?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[Liberty is obedience to the law which one has laid down for oneself ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44722]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty is obedience to the law which one has laid down for oneself]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Contentment is not satisfaction. It is the grateful, faithful, fruitful use of what we have, little or much. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6689]]></link><description><![CDATA[Contentment is not satisfaction. It is the grateful, faithful, fruitful use of what we have, little or much. It is to take the cup of Providence, and call upon the name of the Lord. What the cup contains is its contents. To get all that is in the cup is the act and art of contentment. Not to drink because one has but half a cup, or because one does not like its flavor, or because somebody else has silver to one's own glass, is to lose the contents; and that is the penalty, if not the meaning, of discontent. No one is discontented who employs and enjoys to the utmost what he has. It is high philosophy to say, we can have just what we like if we like what we have; but this much at least can be done, and this is contentment: to have the most and best in life by making the most and best of what we have.   ... Maltbie D. Babcock August 7, 2000 Commemoration of John Mason Neale, Priest, Poet, 1866   For all the vigour of his polemic, St. Paul does not content himself with the denunciation of error, but finds the best defense against its insidious approaches in a closer adherence to the love of God and faith in Christ.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9341]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3582]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better speake truth rudely, then lye covertly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49160]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better speake truth rudely, then lye covertly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13842]]></link><description><![CDATA[Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Superstition is ... religion which is incongruous with intelligence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Superstition is ... religion which is incongruous with intelligence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58509]]></link><description><![CDATA[His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65195]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Night was drawing and closing her curtain up above the world, and down beneath it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Night was drawing and closing her curtain up above the world, and down beneath it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The future is purchased by the present. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48133]]></link><description><![CDATA[The future is purchased by the present.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're excited about qualifying for the tournament. It's our first goal. We want to continue to focus on improving, getting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37543]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're excited about qualifying for the tournament. It's our first goal. We want to continue to focus on improving, getting better, so we can try to extend the season as long as possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mortgage casts a shadow on the sunniest field. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11502]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mortgage casts a shadow on the sunniest field.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are slipping back into a war situation. If the attacks go on, there will come a time when the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36732]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are slipping back into a war situation. If the attacks go on, there will come a time when the army has to retaliate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Henry Martyn, Translator of the Scriptures, Missionary in India & Persia, 1812  Weak and imperfect men shall, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7203]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Henry Martyn, Translator of the Scriptures, Missionary in India & Persia, 1812  Weak and imperfect men shall, notwithstanding their frailties and effects, be received as having pleased God, if they have done their utmost to please Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Contemplation makes a rare turkey cock of him. How he jets under his advanced plumes! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9926]]></link><description><![CDATA[Contemplation makes a rare turkey cock of him. How he jets under his advanced plumes!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am very happy. I feel like I skied very well. It's unbelievable, I feel very strange. I never expected ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35212]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am very happy. I feel like I skied very well. It's unbelievable, I feel very strange. I never expected this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Charles Simeon, Pastor, Teacher, 1836  Do not desire crosses, unless you have borne well those laid on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7208]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Charles Simeon, Pastor, Teacher, 1836  Do not desire crosses, unless you have borne well those laid on you; it is an abuse to long after martyrdom while unable to bear an insult patiently.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24378]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two men look out through the same bars: One sees the mud, and one the stars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56255]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two men look out through the same bars: One sees the mud, and one the stars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9619]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am happy that these next two games we're going to give them a chance to get on the field ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30788]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am happy that these next two games we're going to give them a chance to get on the field and show us what they can do. Our next game is vitally important for our opponent. If our guys can respond well on that game that speaks volumes for them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52838]]></link><description><![CDATA[She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you're away, I'm restless, lonely Wretched, bored, dejected; only here's the rub, my darling dear, I feel the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22012]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you're away, I'm restless, lonely Wretched, bored, dejected; only here's the rub, my darling dear, I feel the same when you are here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thoughtto be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22762]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thoughtto be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61375]]></link><description><![CDATA[Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign: that all the dunces are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1083]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in confederacy against him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[C. S. Lewis] was leery of too many prayers that leave all the work to God and other people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7980]]></link><description><![CDATA[[C. S. Lewis] was leery of too many prayers that leave all the work to God and other people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4945]]></link><description><![CDATA[We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As long as our culture continues to fawn over its downward-aspiring lowest common denominators, the United States will remain a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60119]]></link><description><![CDATA[As long as our culture continues to fawn over its downward-aspiring lowest common denominators, the United States will remain a social and political punch line. As long as we continue tracking the every deed and fart of the Paris Hiltons and Kevin Federlines among us, we will continue to come out sixteenth best with regard to producing and introducing to the human race things of true substance worth appreciating for their aesthetic ingenuity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're learning now that the destruction was even greater than we thought. What we need most now is skeleton staffs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34147]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're learning now that the destruction was even greater than we thought. What we need most now is skeleton staffs to protect these collections not just in New Orleans but all along the Gulf Coast.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12518]]></link><description><![CDATA[The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was a little kid, I took tap and ballet. I've always loved to dance. I'm a rhythm machine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3707]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was a little kid, I took tap and ballet. I've always loved to dance. I'm a rhythm machine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64579]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And all may think which way their judgments lead 'em. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48721]]></link><description><![CDATA[And all may think which way their judgments lead 'em.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64368]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do know that some of the players inside the house on that evening knew what transpired, and we need ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32926]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do know that some of the players inside the house on that evening knew what transpired, and we need them to come forward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11422]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you a formula forfailure-which is: Try to please ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21967]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you a formula forfailure-which is: Try to please everybody.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kindness is never wasted. If it has no effect on the recipient, at least it benefits the bestower. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23728]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kindness is never wasted. If it has no effect on the recipient, at least it benefits the bestower.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the most un-American thing you can say is, 'You can't say that.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2441]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the most un-American thing you can say is, 'You can't say that.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62721]]></link><description><![CDATA[The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always, your work is the same: You have to tell a story, you have to make a character. It doesn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34371]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always, your work is the same: You have to tell a story, you have to make a character. It doesn't matter if there are thousands of dollars, millions behind it, or if there is nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A very great part of the mischiefs that vex this world arises from words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62045]]></link><description><![CDATA[A very great part of the mischiefs that vex this world arises from words.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch,  Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23261]]></link><description><![CDATA[It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch,  Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest;   Would thou could'st make the time to do so too;    I'll wind thee up no more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independant, the most virtuous, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1942]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independant, the most virtuous, and they are tied to their country and wedded to it’s liberty and interests by the most lasting bands]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13770]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement - and we will make the goal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A favorite has no friend! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1304]]></link><description><![CDATA[A favorite has no friend!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a fair amount of resilience in the consumer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32880]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a fair amount of resilience in the consumer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57233]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57233</guid></item></channel></rss>