<?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[Despair and misery are static factors. The dynamism of an uprising flows from hope and pride. Not actual suffering but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despair and misery are static factors. The dynamism of an uprising flows from hope and pride. Not actual suffering but the hope of better things incites people to revolt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66610]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education in Escambia County would not have been the same without her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42028]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education in Escambia County would not have been the same without her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Open confession is good for the soul ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9642]]></link><description><![CDATA[Open confession is good for the soul]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only kind of freedom that the mob can imagine is freedom to annoy and oppress its betters, and that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47505]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only kind of freedom that the mob can imagine is freedom to annoy and oppress its betters, and that is precisely the kind that we mainly have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is like a booger. You keep picking at it until you get it, then wonder what to do with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13033]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is like a booger. You keep picking at it until you get it, then wonder what to do with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And Hazael said, But what, is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing? And Elisha answered, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12650]]></link><description><![CDATA[And Hazael said, But what, is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing? And Elisha answered, The Lord hath shewed me that thou shalt be king over Syria.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Understanding Religion is kind of like understanding a manual in German. I know it's important and I really need to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36914]]></link><description><![CDATA[Understanding Religion is kind of like understanding a manual in German. I know it's important and I really need to figure it out, but it's just not happening!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12467]]></link><description><![CDATA[The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God never built a Christian strong enough to carry today's duties and tomorrow's anxieties piled on the top of them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44137]]></link><description><![CDATA[God never built a Christian strong enough to carry today's duties and tomorrow's anxieties piled on the top of them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hilda, Abbess of Whitby, 680 Commemoration of Elizabeth, Princess of Hungary, Philanthropist, 1231 Commemoration of Mechtild, Bèguine of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7267]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hilda, Abbess of Whitby, 680 Commemoration of Elizabeth, Princess of Hungary, Philanthropist, 1231 Commemoration of Mechtild, Bèguine of Magdeburg, Mystic, Prophet, 1280  If He hath promised to make us happy, though He hath not particularly declared to us wherein this happiness shall consist, yet we may trust Him that made us, to find out ways to make us happy, and may believe that He who made us, without our knowledge or desire, is able to make us happy beyond them both.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dogma of woman's complete historical subjection to men must be rated as one of the most fantastic myths ever ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43614]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dogma of woman's complete historical subjection to men must be rated as one of the most fantastic myths ever created by the human mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Snuffling through his nose some stale joke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50831]]></link><description><![CDATA[Snuffling through his nose some stale joke.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every human mind is a great slumbering power until awakened by a keen desire and by definite resolution to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11990]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every human mind is a great slumbering power until awakened by a keen desire and by definite resolution to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Summer lasts not for ever; seasons succeed each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Summer lasts not for ever; seasons succeed each other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All maxims have their antagonist maxims; proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26600]]></link><description><![CDATA[All maxims have their antagonist maxims; proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Birinus, Bishop of Dorchester (Oxon), Apostle of Wessex, 650   I belong to the "Great-God Party", and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Birinus, Bishop of Dorchester (Oxon), Apostle of Wessex, 650   I belong to the "Great-God Party", and will have nothing to do with the "Little-God Party." Christ does not want nibblers of the possible, but grabbers of the impossible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything is just better in California - the wine, the food, fruits and vegetables, the comforts of living. Even the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30128]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything is just better in California - the wine, the food, fruits and vegetables, the comforts of living. Even the instrumentalists are generous and curious. Everything is wonderful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have oftener than once endeavoured to attach some meaning to that aphorism, vulgarly imputed to Shaftesbury, which however we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54209]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have oftener than once endeavoured to attach some meaning to that aphorism, vulgarly imputed to Shaftesbury, which however we can find nowhere in his works, that "ridicule is the test of truth."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is it to serve God and to do His will? Nothing else than to show mercy to our neighbor. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8290]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is it to serve God and to do His will? Nothing else than to show mercy to our neighbor. For it is our neighbor who needs our service; God in heaven needs it not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the inexperienced it is a pleasant thing to court the favour of the great; an experienced man fears it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50373]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the inexperienced it is a pleasant thing to court the favour of the great; an experienced man fears it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of William Tyndale, Translator of the Scriptures, Martyr, 1536  God is our true Friend, who always gives us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6498]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of William Tyndale, Translator of the Scriptures, Martyr, 1536  God is our true Friend, who always gives us the counsel and comfort we need. Our danger lies in resisting Him; so it is essential that we acquire the habit of hearkening to His voice, or keeping silence within, and listening so as to lose nothing of what He says to us. We know well enough how to keep outward silence, and to hush our spoken words, but we know little of interior silence. It consists in hushing our idle, restless, wandering imagination, in quieting the promptings of our worldly minds, and in suppressing the crowd of unprofitable thoughts which excite and disturb the soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modesty in woman is a virtue most deserving, since we do all we can to cure her of it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modesty in woman is a virtue most deserving, since we do all we can to cure her of it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Will without power is like children playing at soldiers.   - quoted by Thomas Babington Macaulay, The Rovers (act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61601]]></link><description><![CDATA[Will without power is like children playing at soldiers.   - quoted by Thomas Babington Macaulay, The Rovers (act IV),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was just a huge need in the industry for some independent people with a real strong knowledge of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33170]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was just a huge need in the industry for some independent people with a real strong knowledge of the industry and their methods.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19890]]></link><description><![CDATA[A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20978]]></link><description><![CDATA[Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64582]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64582</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[The prayer of Ajax was for light; Through all that dark and desperate fight,  The blackness of that noonday ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25059]]></link><description><![CDATA[The prayer of Ajax was for light; Through all that dark and desperate fight,  The blackness of that noonday night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Etheldreda, Abbess of Ely, c.678  The soul which gives itself wholly and without reserve to God is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Etheldreda, Abbess of Ely, c.678  The soul which gives itself wholly and without reserve to God is filled with His own Peace; and inasmuch as we are prone to grow like that to which we are closely united, the closer we draw to our God, so much the stronger and more steadfast and more tranquil shall we become.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With the Kennedys, the genes are in magnificent alignment, but the stars are demonstrably crossed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19539]]></link><description><![CDATA[With the Kennedys, the genes are in magnificent alignment, but the stars are demonstrably crossed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People so seldom say I love you And then it's either too late or love goes. So when I tell ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17826]]></link><description><![CDATA[People so seldom say I love you And then it's either too late or love goes. So when I tell you I love you, It doesn't mean I know you'll never go, Only that I wish you didn't have to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must overcome the notion that we must be regular. It robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26769]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must overcome the notion that we must be regular. It robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64441]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm the best. I just haven't played yet [on his golf game]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57720]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm the best. I just haven't played yet [on his golf game].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Another thing that's pathetic is this rule that you have to look ugly to get respect as an actress. Jessica ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Another thing that's pathetic is this rule that you have to look ugly to get respect as an actress. Jessica Lange had to make herself look really bad to prove that she had amazing talent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Edward the Confessor, 1066 When night comes, list thy deeds; make plain the way 'Twixt heaven and thee; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6501]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Edward the Confessor, 1066 When night comes, list thy deeds; make plain the way 'Twixt heaven and thee; block it not with delays;  But perfect all before thou sleep'st: then say:  There's one sun more strung on my Bead of days. What's good, score up for joy; the bad, well scanned.  Wash off with tears, and get thy Master's hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Below the current, the economy has been improving far more than the market reality would indicate. And all things considered, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34033]]></link><description><![CDATA[Below the current, the economy has been improving far more than the market reality would indicate. And all things considered, the market is really behaving quite well today [Thursday]. But there's still tremendous anxiety; the market is held hostage to individual corporate news and accountability.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's an extremely difficult time for both the airline and the industry and the cuts we're proposing are painful but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38976]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's an extremely difficult time for both the airline and the industry and the cuts we're proposing are painful but in our judgment they're also necessary if the airline is going to survive. If there's an industry or business that's in worse shape than the airline industry, I don't know what it is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45033]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's not my area, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35074]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's not my area,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54010]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[John Wesley said that if you give up the witchcraft, you must give up the Bible. He is right. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53554]]></link><description><![CDATA[John Wesley said that if you give up the witchcraft, you must give up the Bible. He is right. The choice is easy for me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Staying up all night is a waste of sleeping, and a waste of sleepingis a waste of dreaming, and dreaming ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22241]]></link><description><![CDATA[Staying up all night is a waste of sleeping, and a waste of sleepingis a waste of dreaming, and dreaming is important because the moredreams you have, the better chance of one coming true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you reach the heart of life you shall find beauty in all things, even in the eyes that are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3814]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you reach the heart of life you shall find beauty in all things, even in the eyes that are blind to beauty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3814</guid></item></channel></rss>