<?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[Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56404]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Again she plunges! hark! a second shock Bilges the splitting vessel on the rock;  Down on the vale of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56189]]></link><description><![CDATA[Again she plunges! hark! a second shock Bilges the splitting vessel on the rock;  Down on the vale of death, with dismal cries,   The fated victims shuddering cast their eyes    In wild despair; while yet another stroke     With strong convulsion rends the solid oak:      Ah Heaven!--behold her crashing ribs divide!       She loosens, parts, and spreads in ruin o'er the tide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man, most man, works best for men: and, if most man indeed, he gets his manhood plainest from his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27024]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man, most man, works best for men: and, if most man indeed, he gets his manhood plainest from his soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some pray to marry the man they love, my prayer will somewhat vary; I humbly pray to Heaven above that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some pray to marry the man they love, my prayer will somewhat vary; I humbly pray to Heaven above that I love the man I marry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talking is just masturbation without the mess. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talking is just masturbation without the mess.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is so oppressive as a secret: women find it difficult to keep one long; and I know a goodly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is so oppressive as a secret: women find it difficult to keep one long; and I know a goodly number of men who are women in this regard. [Fr., Rien ne pese tant qu'un secret:  Le porter loin est difficile aux dames;   Et je sais meme sur ce fait    Bon nombre d'hommes que sont femmes.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Mary Sumner, Founder of the Mothers' Union, 1921   Unbelief is actually perverted faith, for it puts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6930]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Mary Sumner, Founder of the Mothers' Union, 1921   Unbelief is actually perverted faith, for it puts its trust, not in the living God but in dying men. The unbeliever denies the selfsufficiency of God and usurps attributes that are not his. This dual sin dishonors God and ultimately destroys the soul of man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, we are weary pilgrims; to this wilderness we bring A Church without a bishop, a State without a King. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17969]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, we are weary pilgrims; to this wilderness we bring A Church without a bishop, a State without a King.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15524]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And those who paint 'em truest praise 'em most. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45411]]></link><description><![CDATA[And those who paint 'em truest praise 'em most.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47061]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1988]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Basil the Great & Gregory Nazianzen, Bishops, Teachers, 379 & 389 Commemoration of Seraphim, Monk of Sarov, Mystic, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6524]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Basil the Great & Gregory Nazianzen, Bishops, Teachers, 379 & 389 Commemoration of Seraphim, Monk of Sarov, Mystic, Staretz, 1833  We must always be on our guard lest, under the pretext of keeping one commandment, we be found breaking another.  ... St. Basil the Great  January 3, 1998  Commemoration of Gladys Aylward, Missionary in China, 1970  For us in the Pacific, in Asia, in India, and in Africa, Christian unity is not an optional extra. It is an urgent necessity, for our divisions are a real stumbling-block to the proclamation of the Gospel... Mission is at the heart of the divine reality. It is the will of God and the Kingdom of God which are to be made known. Wherever we are, our purpose is not to propagate the Church as an end in itself, but to proclaim Christ as Lord of all life and as Saviour of all men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twas twilight, and the sunless day went down Over the waste of waters; like a veil,  Which, if withdrawn, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59917]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twas twilight, and the sunless day went down Over the waste of waters; like a veil,  Which, if withdrawn, would but disclose the frown   Of one whose hate is mask'd but to assail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is putting all your eggs in God's basket, then counting your blessings before they hatch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14987]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is putting all your eggs in God's basket, then counting your blessings before they hatch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cost of health care is going up much faster than people's wages. Families are paying about (on average) $1,000 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34065]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cost of health care is going up much faster than people's wages. Families are paying about (on average) $1,000 more now just for health care premiums than they were five years ago.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head. [On her beauty pageant days]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2089]]></link><description><![CDATA[I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head. [On her beauty pageant days].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would not be in favor of doing this without notifying the public and hearing more input. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41008]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would not be in favor of doing this without notifying the public and hearing more input.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest hatred, like the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, is silent. [Ger., Der grosste Hass ist, wie die ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18860]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest hatred, like the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, is silent. [Ger., Der grosste Hass ist, wie die grosste Tugend und die schlimmsten Hunde, still.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My home is in Heaven. I\'m just traveling through this world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66681]]></link><description><![CDATA[My home is in Heaven. I\'m just traveling through this world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hizbullah is not a militia. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29885]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hizbullah is not a militia.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It wasn't so pretty, but it's a win and a guarantee of at least a share of the region championship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28189]]></link><description><![CDATA[It wasn't so pretty, but it's a win and a guarantee of at least a share of the region championship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make no judgements where you have no compassion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9179]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make no judgements where you have no compassion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10075]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel personally very compromised. Wouldn't it be wonderful for Merced County to become this one oasis in an overdeveloped ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35833]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel personally very compromised. Wouldn't it be wonderful for Merced County to become this one oasis in an overdeveloped region?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sex is an emotion in motion ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55253]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sex is an emotion in motion]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The temple of art is built of words. Painting and sculpture and music are but the blazon of its windows, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3185]]></link><description><![CDATA[The temple of art is built of words. Painting and sculpture and music are but the blazon of its windows, borrowing all their significance from the light, and suggestive only of the temple's uses.   - Josiah Gilbert Holland (used pseudonym Timothy Titcomb),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48429]]></link><description><![CDATA[Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have to be realistic. Everest has about a 33 percent success ratio. That's a one in three shot. I'm ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30877]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have to be realistic. Everest has about a 33 percent success ratio. That's a one in three shot. I'm a little older than most. This is my first trip. Most people wind up making a couple of trips before they summit. I don't know what my chances will be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is really tough. The building was made of steel and concrete. The steel is just twisted like pretzels; the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38107]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is really tough. The building was made of steel and concrete. The steel is just twisted like pretzels; the concrete is just basically disintegrated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we will need more troops then we currently have to secure the elections process in Iraq -- that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38360]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we will need more troops then we currently have to secure the elections process in Iraq -- that will probably take place in January -- but it is our belief that those troops will be Iraqi troops and there may be additional international troops that arrive to help out, as well as part of the U.N. mission. So I don't see need for more American troops, but we can't discount it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That wisdom which cannot teach me that God is love, shall ever pass for folly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6994]]></link><description><![CDATA[That wisdom which cannot teach me that God is love, shall ever pass for folly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I threw him back. Then I held him on his back for a minute. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40320]]></link><description><![CDATA[I threw him back. Then I held him on his back for a minute.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with cats is that they've got no tact. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5343]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with cats is that they've got no tact.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a bold mouse that nestles in the catts eare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49567]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a bold mouse that nestles in the catts eare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52850]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48219]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who shoots at the mid-day sun, though he be so sure he shall never hit the mark, yet as sure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52139]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who shoots at the mid-day sun, though he be so sure he shall never hit the mark, yet as sure as he is, he shall shoot higher than he who aims at a bush.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics are about power; we cannot evade that truth or its consequences. We dream of a better world but it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47458]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics are about power; we cannot evade that truth or its consequences. We dream of a better world but it is in Utopia- that is, nowhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue when concealed is a worthless thing. [Lat., Vile latens virtus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue when concealed is a worthless thing. [Lat., Vile latens virtus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But you know, I still had a dream of being able to go back home and tour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41183]]></link><description><![CDATA[But you know, I still had a dream of being able to go back home and tour.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Turkey, heresy, hops, and beer came into England all in one year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51042]]></link><description><![CDATA[Turkey, heresy, hops, and beer came into England all in one year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on love? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64564]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on love?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound; She feels no biting pang the while she sings,  Nor as she ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57215]]></link><description><![CDATA[Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound; She feels no biting pang the while she sings,  Nor as she turns the giddy wheel around,   Revolves the sad vicissitudes of things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9563]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had the wrong idea at first, and so on. So there isn't any place to publish, in a dignified manner, what you actually did in order to get to do the work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We got 200 e-mails (about it). Lots of people had the same reaction. They were assigned to read it in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40286]]></link><description><![CDATA[We got 200 e-mails (about it). Lots of people had the same reaction. They were assigned to read it in school and didn't. We try to take things that sometimes people turn off of because they're introduced to them too early or for some other reason, and try to make them entertaining.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63377]]></link><description><![CDATA[Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The issues seem to be the changing environment that we live in. There's much more access to in-home entertainment, there's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37241]]></link><description><![CDATA[The issues seem to be the changing environment that we live in. There's much more access to in-home entertainment, there's much more competition with lots of different kinds of arts, and there's a lot more fear of the unknown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In every rank, or great or small, 'Tis industry supports us all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62108]]></link><description><![CDATA[In every rank, or great or small, 'Tis industry supports us all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62108</guid></item></channel></rss>