<?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[Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sickness shows us what we are ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20450]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sickness shows us what we are]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ram thou fruitful tidings in mine ears, That long time have been barren. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44465]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ram thou fruitful tidings in mine ears, That long time have been barren.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are very mobile if they don't like it. We've put them 30 miles away, and, eventually, they are in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30419]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are very mobile if they don't like it. We've put them 30 miles away, and, eventually, they are in a farm that doesn't want them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can spend a lifetime, and, if you're honest with yourself, never once was your work perfect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22259]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can spend a lifetime, and, if you're honest with yourself, never once was your work perfect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I got 140 in the clean and jerk event, but they said it wasn't any good because I didn't lock ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42681]]></link><description><![CDATA[I got 140 in the clean and jerk event, but they said it wasn't any good because I didn't lock my arms out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lawyers, I suppose, were children once. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men commonly think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and imbibed opinions, but generally act according to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men commonly think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and imbibed opinions, but generally act according to custom]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20266]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Hospital is no place to be sick. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19877]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Hospital is no place to be sick.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Editors of open anthologies actively seek submissions from all comers, established and unknown. They are willing to read whatever the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Editors of open anthologies actively seek submissions from all comers, established and unknown. They are willing to read whatever the tide washes up at their feet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have reached zero tolerance for the cruelty against our animal brothers. If we are to nuture our culture, let’s ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4979]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have reached zero tolerance for the cruelty against our animal brothers. If we are to nuture our culture, let’s begin with the animals who have been nothing but our beasts of burden for so long.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9637]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As long as ugly people are not on TV, you should only ever have interesting people on TV. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41407]]></link><description><![CDATA[As long as ugly people are not on TV, you should only ever have interesting people on TV.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord, defend me from my friends; I can account for my enemies ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord, defend me from my friends; I can account for my enemies]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55217]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are looking for our own virtue, our own piety, our own goodness, and so live on and in our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7317]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are looking for our own virtue, our own piety, our own goodness, and so live on and in our own poverty and weakness -- today pleased and comforted with the seeming firmness and strength of our own pious tempers and fancying ourselves to be somewhat. Tomorrow, fallen into our own mire, we are dejected, but not humbled; we grieve, but it is only the grief of pride at the seeing our perfection not to be such as we had vainly imagined. And thus it will be, till the whole turn of our minds be so changed that we as fully see and know our inability to have any goodness of our own as to have a life of our own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7317</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[For enemies carry about slander not in the form in which it took its rise. . . . The scandal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56546]]></link><description><![CDATA[For enemies carry about slander not in the form in which it took its rise. . . . The scandal of men is everlasting; even then does it survive when you would suppose it to be dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22848]]></link><description><![CDATA[A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43994]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is only as good as what he loves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25876]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is only as good as what he loves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind flies back with a grand recoil From debts not due till to-morrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50167]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind flies back with a grand recoil From debts not due till to-morrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3964]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As shines the moon in clouded skies, She in her poor attire was seen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51689]]></link><description><![CDATA[As shines the moon in clouded skies, She in her poor attire was seen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and billboards. -Unknown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45123]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and billboards. -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it; anything but live for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53491]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it; anything but live for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I dreamt that I dwelt in marble halls, With vassals and serfs at my side,  And of all who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12862]]></link><description><![CDATA[I dreamt that I dwelt in marble halls, With vassals and serfs at my side,  And of all who assembled within those walls,   That I was the hope and the pride.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius is only patience. [Fr., Le Genie, c'est la patience.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17301]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius is only patience. [Fr., Le Genie, c'est la patience.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A few strong instincts and a few plain rules. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22832]]></link><description><![CDATA[A few strong instincts and a few plain rules.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The inseparable gold umbrella which in that country [Burma] as much denotes the grandee as the star or garter does ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60002]]></link><description><![CDATA[The inseparable gold umbrella which in that country [Burma] as much denotes the grandee as the star or garter does in England.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important thing is socialization. They take the dogs everywhere, to church, to restaurants, to malls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36424]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important thing is socialization. They take the dogs everywhere, to church, to restaurants, to malls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He plaies well that winnes. [He plays well that wins.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49320]]></link><description><![CDATA[He plaies well that winnes. [He plays well that wins.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flower,--its bloom is shed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48691]]></link><description><![CDATA[But pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flower,--its bloom is shed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's like part of my family. It's like one of my children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39753]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's like part of my family. It's like one of my children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57737]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8815]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While the decline in inflation can certainly accommodate a rate cut, we believe the bank will defer such a decision ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31332]]></link><description><![CDATA[While the decline in inflation can certainly accommodate a rate cut, we believe the bank will defer such a decision until any potential petroleum price hikes and their likely impact on inflation becomes clearer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Health costs, energy costs, all those things came together like a perfect storm and now the districts really have no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38765]]></link><description><![CDATA[Health costs, energy costs, all those things came together like a perfect storm and now the districts really have no choice but to go to referendum.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Houghton was the last 'independent' educational publisher left. To get into the school market, Houghton was the last one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Houghton was the last 'independent' educational publisher left. To get into the school market, Houghton was the last one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9314]]></link><description><![CDATA[You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17615]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ethelburga, Abbess of Barking, 675   Most Christians would agree with C. S. Lewis when he says ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ethelburga, Abbess of Barking, 675   Most Christians would agree with C. S. Lewis when he says [of the doctrine of the Final Judgment], "There is no doctrine which I would more willingly remove from Christianity than this, if it lay in my power". But we cannot do so, for two reasons: first, because it enjoys the full support of Christ's own teaching; and second, because it makes a good deal of sense. If the gospel is extended to us for our acceptance, it must be possible also to reject and refuse it. The alternative would be for God to compel an affirmative response.   It would be nice to be able to say that all will be saved, but the question arises, Does everyone want to be saved? What would love for God be like if it were coerced? There is a hell because God respects our freedom and takes our decisions seriously -- more seriously, perhaps, than we would sometimes wish. God wants to see hell completely empty; but if it is not, He cannot be blamed. The door is locked only on the inside. It is not Christians but the unrepentant who "want" it [to be locked].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pension never inriched young man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pension never inriched young man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For neither man nor angel can discern Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks  Invisible, except to God alone,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20228]]></link><description><![CDATA[For neither man nor angel can discern Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks  Invisible, except to God alone,   By his permissive will, through heav'n and earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Necessity is the mother of "taking chances" ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44035]]></link><description><![CDATA[Necessity is the mother of "taking chances"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go with your fate, but not beyond. Beyond leads to dark places. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go with your fate, but not beyond. Beyond leads to dark places.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not a deception, ... What John Paul II said was that these tribunals must work according to truth, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34987]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not a deception, ... What John Paul II said was that these tribunals must work according to truth, and not according to 'Oh, these people are suffering so and let us declare it invalid.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What hath God wrought? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54858]]></link><description><![CDATA[What hath God wrought?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54858</guid></item></channel></rss>