<?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[Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It's cheaper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17609]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It's cheaper.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God's redemptive revelation in Scripture is necessary to saving faith and peace with God. Faith in a risen Savior is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7192]]></link><description><![CDATA[God's redemptive revelation in Scripture is necessary to saving faith and peace with God. Faith in a risen Savior is necessary if the vague stirrings toward immortality are to bring us to restful and satisfying communion with God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on. Terrible things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I suppose that every age has its own particular fantasy: ours is science. A seventeenth-century man like Blaise Pascal, who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7019]]></link><description><![CDATA[I suppose that every age has its own particular fantasy: ours is science. A seventeenth-century man like Blaise Pascal, who thought himself a mathematician and scientist of genius, found it quite ridiculous that anyone should suppose that rational processes could lead to any ultimate conclusions about life, but easily accepted the authority of the Scriptures. With us, it is the other way `round.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Merton, Monk, Spiritual Writer, 1968  They only renounce the world as they ought, who live in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7273]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Merton, Monk, Spiritual Writer, 1968  They only renounce the world as they ought, who live in the midst of it without worldly tempers, who comply with their share in the offices of human life without complying with the spirit that reigneth in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we work upon marble it will perish. If we work upon brass time will efface it. If we rear ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43054]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we work upon marble it will perish. If we work upon brass time will efface it. If we rear temples they will crumble to dust. But if we work upon men's immortal minds, if we imbue them with high principles, with the just fear of God and love of their fellow men, we engrave on those tablets something which no time can efface, and which will brighten and brighten to all eternity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Something this famous has no value left, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37904]]></link><description><![CDATA[Something this famous has no value left,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't disagree that if you're ill you should be able to get marijuana and decrease your pain, especially if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42336]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't disagree that if you're ill you should be able to get marijuana and decrease your pain, especially if you're critically ill. Our stand here is that we are torn between federal and state law. We don't want to violate federal law and go along with the state law, so we are making dispensaries illegal until they get the laws in order.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shall I not take mine ease in mine inn but I shall have my pocket picked? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shall I not take mine ease in mine inn but I shall have my pocket picked?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't tell you I'm satisfied with the results of the whole camera situation, because I'm not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28711]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't tell you I'm satisfied with the results of the whole camera situation, because I'm not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don't make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42939]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don't make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and then do them so well that people can't take their eyes off you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No rule is so general, which admits not some exception. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48706]]></link><description><![CDATA[No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61221]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yes I know of James Clerk Maxwell, ... And I have used his equations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30919]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yes I know of James Clerk Maxwell, ... And I have used his equations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57592]]></link><description><![CDATA[People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only make $500,000.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enthusiasm is contagious. Be a carrier. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13959]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enthusiasm is contagious. Be a carrier.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like all revolutions, the surrealist revolution was a reversion, a restitution, an expression of vital and indispensable spiritual needs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64201]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like all revolutions, the surrealist revolution was a reversion, a restitution, an expression of vital and indispensable spiritual needs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26136]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Kingdom of the LionTHE beasts of the field and forest had a Lion as their king. He was neither ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1515]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Kingdom of the LionTHE beasts of the field and forest had a Lion as their king. He was neither wrathful, cruel, nor tyrannical, but just and gentle as a king could be. During his reign he made a royal proclamation for a general assembly of all the birds and beasts, and drew up conditions for a universal league, in which the Wolf and the Lamb, the Panther and the Kid, the Tiger and the Stag, the Dog and the Hare, should live together in perfect peace and amity. The Hare said, Oh, how I have longed to see this day, in which the weak shall take their place with impunity by the side of the strong. And after the Hare said this, he ran for his life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's critical that as the host nation, Canadian athletes have spectacular results. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31224]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's critical that as the host nation, Canadian athletes have spectacular results.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63434]]></link><description><![CDATA[There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The brightest of all things, the sun, hath its spots. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51023]]></link><description><![CDATA[The brightest of all things, the sun, hath its spots.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60163]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60163</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[No wise man ever thought that a traitor should be trusted. [Lat., Nemo unquam sapiens proditori credendum putavit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59639]]></link><description><![CDATA[No wise man ever thought that a traitor should be trusted. [Lat., Nemo unquam sapiens proditori credendum putavit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2287]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65527]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only for wallowing in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can drive out nature with a pitchfork but she keeps on coming back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51050]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can drive out nature with a pitchfork but she keeps on coming back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59590]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And with them words of so sweet breath composed As made the things more rich. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51259]]></link><description><![CDATA[And with them words of so sweet breath composed As made the things more rich.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without Mr. Sullivan's cooperation, it is likely that Ebbers would never have been brought to justice. I think it's fair ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33076]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without Mr. Sullivan's cooperation, it is likely that Ebbers would never have been brought to justice. I think it's fair to describe his efforts as exceptional.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We seem to be an outlier in sales tax with this weak growth, ... We anticipate with the home heating ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42412]]></link><description><![CDATA[We seem to be an outlier in sales tax with this weak growth, ... We anticipate with the home heating oil season coming back, it's going to be bad. The sales tax will probably take a hit in the final quarter of this [calendar] year and through first quarter unless prices all of a sudden correct themselves and come back down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can be happy where you are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64784]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can be happy where you are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Does not the public repudiation of the whole Christian scheme of life in a large part of what was once ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7190]]></link><description><![CDATA[Does not the public repudiation of the whole Christian scheme of life in a large part of what was once known as Christendom force one to confront the question whether the path of Wisdom is not rather to attempt to work out a Christian doctrine of modern society and to order our national life in accordance with it? Those who would give a quick, easy or confident answer to this question have failed to understand it. It cannot even be seriously considered without a profound awareness of the extent to which Christian ideas have lost their hold over, or faded from the consciousness of, large sections of the population; of the far-reaching changes that would be called for in the structure, institutions and activities of existing society, which is in many of its features a complete denial of the Christian understanding of the meaning and end of man's existence; and of the stupendous and costly spiritual, moral, and intellectual effort that any genuine attempt to order national life in accordance with the Christian understanding of life would demand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13517]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Business demands faith, compels earnestness, requires courage, is honestly selfish, is penalized for mistakes, and is the essence of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Business demands faith, compels earnestness, requires courage, is honestly selfish, is penalized for mistakes, and is the essence of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a once in a lifetime thing to ride across the country, and he's doing it for a good reason ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30838]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a once in a lifetime thing to ride across the country, and he's doing it for a good reason -- for Habitat. We're happy for him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a job application form. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46116]]></link><description><![CDATA[The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a job application form.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consumers are statistics. Customers are people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22237]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consumers are statistics. Customers are people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An alarming amount of public information is being kept secret from citizens, and the problem is increasing by the month. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29284]]></link><description><![CDATA[An alarming amount of public information is being kept secret from citizens, and the problem is increasing by the month. Not only do citizens have a right to know, they have a need to know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In quarrelling the truth is always lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52681]]></link><description><![CDATA[In quarrelling the truth is always lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26748]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While resignation gently slopes the way; And, all his prospects brightening to the last,  His heaven commences ere the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19094]]></link><description><![CDATA[While resignation gently slopes the way; And, all his prospects brightening to the last,  His heaven commences ere the world be past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The spirit or life spark which animates this manifestation could be called God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63959]]></link><description><![CDATA[The spirit or life spark which animates this manifestation could be called God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9097]]></link><description><![CDATA[The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, people got attatched. Once you cut the umbilical cord they attatched to the other things. Sight, sound, sex, money, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2693]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, people got attatched. Once you cut the umbilical cord they attatched to the other things. Sight, sound, sex, money, mirages, mothers, masturbation, murder, and Monday morning hangovers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not going to bypass them because of a small inconvenience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32925]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not going to bypass them because of a small inconvenience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Usually in a battle sequence when a bomb is going off, you forget you're acting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Usually in a battle sequence when a bomb is going off, you forget you're acting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I find the fact that billionaires are quoted as if the fact that they are billionaires gives them some kind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66289]]></link><description><![CDATA[I find the fact that billionaires are quoted as if the fact that they are billionaires gives them some kind of wisdom is outrageous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66289</guid></item></channel></rss>