<?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[Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18057]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men need rule books. Women want men to intuit what they want. And only about 2% of men can do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men need rule books. Women want men to intuit what they want. And only about 2% of men can do that, and most of them are not heterosexual.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common sense is perhaps the most equally divided, but surely the most underemployed, talent in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common sense is perhaps the most equally divided, but surely the most underemployed, talent in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit, and not give the bread of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit, and not give the bread of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Westward the star of empire takes its way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48350]]></link><description><![CDATA[Westward the star of empire takes its way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[During that period we greatly improved the financial health of the company by selling low-return businesses, reducing debt, stabilizing AOL, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34290]]></link><description><![CDATA[During that period we greatly improved the financial health of the company by selling low-return businesses, reducing debt, stabilizing AOL, and made significant progress in resolving the company's legal challenges.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1294]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His spiritual life has been exaggerated by a chronic attack of mental gallstones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57412]]></link><description><![CDATA[His spiritual life has been exaggerated by a chronic attack of mental gallstones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a sheep of Beery, it is marked on the nose (applyed to those that have a blow). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49560]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a sheep of Beery, it is marked on the nose (applyed to those that have a blow).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430  Great art Thou, O Lord, and highly to be praised; great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6570]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430  Great art Thou, O Lord, and highly to be praised; great is Thy power, yea, and Thy wisdom is infinite. And man would praise Thee, because he is one of Thy creatures; yea, man, though he bears about with him his mortality, the proof of his sin, the proof that Thou, O God, dost resist the proud, yet would man praise Thee, because he is one of Thy creatures. Thou dost prompt us thereto, making it a joy to praise Thee; for Thou hast created us unto Thyself, and our heart finds no rest until it rests in Thee. Grant me, O Lord, to know and understand which comes first, to call upon Thee, or to praise Thee, and which comes first, to know Thee or to call upon Thee.  ... The Confessions of St. Augustine    August 29, 1998  Instead of pursuing her appointed path of separation, persecution, world-hatred, poverty, and non-resistance, [the Church] has used... Scripture to justify her in lowering her purpose to the civilization of the world, the acquisition of wealth, the use of an imposing ritual, the erection of magnificent churches, the invocation of God's blessing upon the conflicts of armies, and the division of an equal brotherhood into "clergy" and "laity".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54162]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the same mental illness, and it's based on paranoid ideations. He believes people are out to kill him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39136]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the same mental illness, and it's based on paranoid ideations. He believes people are out to kill him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Crispin & Crispinian, Martyrs at Rome, c.285 Beginning a short series on prayer:   Have you noticed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Crispin & Crispinian, Martyrs at Rome, c.285 Beginning a short series on prayer:   Have you noticed how much praying for revival has been going on of late -- and how little revival has resulted? I believe the problem is that we have been trying to substitute praying for obeying, and it simply will not work. To pray for revival while ignoring the plain precept laid down in Scripture is to waste a lot of words and get nothing for our trouble. Prayer will become effective when we stop using it as a substitute for obedience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We would want to look at the land carefully. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39577]]></link><description><![CDATA[We would want to look at the land carefully.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis an old saying, the Devil lurks behind the cross. All is not gold that glitters. From the tail of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25380]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis an old saying, the Devil lurks behind the cross. All is not gold that glitters. From the tail of the plough, Bamba was made King of Spain; and from his silks and riches was Rodrigo cast to be devoured by the snakes. - Don Quixote.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdom for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13681]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so conduct yourself in youth that your old age will not lack for nourishment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Up rose the wild old winter-king, And shook his beard of snow;  "I hear the first young hard-bell ring, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Up rose the wild old winter-king, And shook his beard of snow;  "I hear the first young hard-bell ring,   'Tis time for me to go!    Northward o'er the icy rocks,     Northward o'er the sea,      My daughter comes with sunny locks:       This land's too warm for me!"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must always take from nature what we paint and always choose the most beautiful things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40632]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must always take from nature what we paint and always choose the most beautiful things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54182]]></link><description><![CDATA[Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The miser is as much in want of that which he has, as of that which he has not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42731]]></link><description><![CDATA[The miser is as much in want of that which he has, as of that which he has not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always imagined I could be what I wanted to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66711]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always imagined I could be what I wanted to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-rangeperspective. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21669]]></link><description><![CDATA[The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-rangeperspective.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'll be glad for them to come to us, obviously. (Heidelberg) coach (Eugene) Harmon said their field had a few ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30636]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'll be glad for them to come to us, obviously. (Heidelberg) coach (Eugene) Harmon said their field had a few trees down on it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tyranny Absolves all faith; and who invades our rights,  Howe'er his own commence, can never be   But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59958]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tyranny Absolves all faith; and who invades our rights,  Howe'er his own commence, can never be   But an usurper.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15675]]></link><description><![CDATA[Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/655]]></link><description><![CDATA[A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The trains were never forgotten, but the extent of their influence only came to light with the arrival of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39532]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The trains were never forgotten, but the extent of their influence only came to light with the arrival of the internet and the subsequent flowering of genealogical research. This obsession with roots will be felt especially keenly by foundlings, who often have no way of exploring their family histories.] I notice that genealogical sites now have warnings on them saying people should be ready for little surprises, ... They're not all going to find themselves descended from King Henry VIII or Richard Cur de Lion or Wellington. This is rather strange because it was pretty taken for granted a few generations ago that families had all kinds of little moments where things had gone not according to the book. It was just one of those things. You tried to accommodate it. There was no social welfare. You just had to sort it out within villages, the families, the parish. Children went to the workhouse, but people knew about it. Nowadays, there's a kind of surprise that these cases were so commonplace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And by the meadow-trenches blow the faint sweet cuckoo-flowers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10545]]></link><description><![CDATA[And by the meadow-trenches blow the faint sweet cuckoo-flowers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That should be the measure of success for everyone. It's not money, it's not fame, it's not celebrity; my index ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66347]]></link><description><![CDATA[That should be the measure of success for everyone. It's not money, it's not fame, it's not celebrity; my index of success is happiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never tell me the odds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21590]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never tell me the odds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're going to individualize every single program for every guy in the system. That'll be the big positive. And of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38904]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're going to individualize every single program for every guy in the system. That'll be the big positive. And of course, the take-a-strike, we've modified that, that's no longer going to exist. Pitch counts will exist, but it's not one blanket program. If it needs to exist for a certain individual, it will. If it doesn't for another, it won't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the constitutional limitation of man's knowledge and interests, the fact that he cannot know more than a tiny ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52018]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the constitutional limitation of man's knowledge and interests, the fact that he cannot know more than a tiny part of the whole of society and that therefore all that can enter into his motives are the immediate effects which his actions will have in the sphere he knows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54581]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43666]]></link><description><![CDATA[However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are the richest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves. for charity shall cover the multitude of sins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5694]]></link><description><![CDATA[And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves. for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smell a rat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Smell a rat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66062]]></link><description><![CDATA[Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would I had some flowers o' th' spring that might Become your time of day, and yours, and yours, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10974]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would I had some flowers o' th' spring that might Become your time of day, and yours, and yours,  That wear upon your virgin branches yet   Your maidenheads growing. O, Proserpina,    For the flowers now that, frighted, thou let'st fall     From Dis's wagon; daffodils,      That come before the swallow dares, and take       The winds of March with beauty; violets dim,        But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes         Or Cytherea's breath; pale primroses,          That die unmarried, ere they can behold           Bright Phoebus in his strength--a malady            Most incident to maids; bold oxlips and             The crown imperial; lilies of all kinds,              The flower-de-luce being one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3262]]></link><description><![CDATA[The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my cook for sending up a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10135]]></link><description><![CDATA[I seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my cook for sending up a bad dinner. If that appears to you too trifling a cause, say for what cause you would have a cook flogged.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64661]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's most tragic is that this denial of basic education leads to over 1 million unnecessary child and maternal deaths ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33146]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's most tragic is that this denial of basic education leads to over 1 million unnecessary child and maternal deaths a year. Moreover, children who have never seen the inside of a classroom are precisely those that face the most acute poverty, and should be the prime target of the international community if it is at all serious about realizing the United Nation's Millennium Development Goals of halving extreme poverty by 2015.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57149]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee!  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2792]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee!  I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.   Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible    To feeling as to sight? or art thou but     A dagger of the mind, a false creation      Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?       I see thee yet, in form as palpable        As this which now I draw.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have to be told that they must begin destroying their stocks of chicken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29303]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have to be told that they must begin destroying their stocks of chicken.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the Christian penitent dares to ask that his many departures from the Christian norm, his impatience, gloom, self-occupation, unloving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7783]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the Christian penitent dares to ask that his many departures from the Christian norm, his impatience, gloom, self-occupation, unloving prejudices, reckless tongue, feverish desires, with all the damage they have caused to Christ's Body, be set aside, because -- because, in spite of all, he longs for God and Eternal Life: then he must set aside and forgive all that the impatience, selfishness, bitter and foolish speech, and sudden yieldings to base impulse by others have caused him to endure. Hardness is the one impossible thing. Harshness to others in those who ask and need the mercy of God sets up a conflict at the very heart of personality and shuts the door upon grace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time is the cruelest teacher; first she gives the test, then teaches the lesson. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59290]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time is the cruelest teacher; first she gives the test, then teaches the lesson.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She has the answer to everything and the solution to nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66157]]></link><description><![CDATA[She has the answer to everything and the solution to nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63667]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The end crowns all, And that old common arbitrator, Time, Will one day end it. -Troilus and Cressida. Act iv. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56072]]></link><description><![CDATA[The end crowns all, And that old common arbitrator, Time, Will one day end it. -Troilus and Cressida. Act iv. Sc. 5.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56072</guid></item></channel></rss>