<?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[It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1408]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it weren't for Sean, I don't think there would be a triathlon club. There wouldn't have been enough influence ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37771]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it weren't for Sean, I don't think there would be a triathlon club. There wouldn't have been enough influence to get it done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've got to play catch, and we have been. I don't think we have had an error so far in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32482]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've got to play catch, and we have been. I don't think we have had an error so far in league.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because they commonly make use of treasure found in books, as of other treasure belonging to the dead and hidden ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46635]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because they commonly make use of treasure found in books, as of other treasure belonging to the dead and hidden underground; for they dispose of both with great secrecy, defacing the shape and image of the one as much as of the other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Normally by this time of the day we have a clearer picture. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35929]]></link><description><![CDATA[Normally by this time of the day we have a clearer picture.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See! he sinks Without a word; and his ensanguined bier  Is vacant in the west, while far and near ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58327]]></link><description><![CDATA[See! he sinks Without a word; and his ensanguined bier  Is vacant in the west, while far and near   Behold! each coward shadow eastward shrinks,    Thou dost not strive, O sun, nor dost thou cry     Amid thy cloud-built streets.   - Rev. Frederick William Faber,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The job of the poet is to render the world--to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46785]]></link><description><![CDATA[The job of the poet is to render the world--to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62256]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Age mellows some people; others it makes rotten. -Heard in Arkansas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Age mellows some people; others it makes rotten. -Heard in Arkansas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Observe your enemies, for they first find your faults. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15432]]></link><description><![CDATA[Observe your enemies, for they first find your faults.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Cleaner air] has been a pretty clear directive from our elected leaders and our customers. We know that our car-crazed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37326]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Cleaner air] has been a pretty clear directive from our elected leaders and our customers. We know that our car-crazed culture contributes to [air pollution] in a big way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wherever we find orderly, stable systems in Nature, we find that they are hierarchically structured, for the simple reason that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56792]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wherever we find orderly, stable systems in Nature, we find that they are hierarchically structured, for the simple reason that without such structuring of complex systems into sub-assemblies, there could be no order and stability- except the order of a dead universe filled with a uniformly distributed gas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stir up the hornets. [Fr., Irriter les freslons.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9970]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stir up the hornets. [Fr., Irriter les freslons.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God keepe me from foure houses, an Vsurers, a Taverne, a Spittle, and a Prison. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49272]]></link><description><![CDATA[God keepe me from foure houses, an Vsurers, a Taverne, a Spittle, and a Prison.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I felt invincible. My strength was that of a giant. God was certainly standing by me. I smashed five saloons ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22144]]></link><description><![CDATA[I felt invincible. My strength was that of a giant. God was certainly standing by me. I smashed five saloons with rocks before I ever took a hatchet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act iv. Sc. 5. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55939]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act iv. Sc. 5.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By penitence th' Eternal's wrath's appeas'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51538]]></link><description><![CDATA[By penitence th' Eternal's wrath's appeas'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we need is continued engagement from the United States, first of all, in the war against terror, which will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28276]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we need is continued engagement from the United States, first of all, in the war against terror, which will help stability in Afghanistan and the whole region ... and also in the reconstruction efforts of our people,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46223]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With this one I just want to make sure it was OK. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30711]]></link><description><![CDATA[With this one I just want to make sure it was OK.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hatred is the madness of the heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hatred is the madness of the heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,  Signifying nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51386]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,  Signifying nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the Lord Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon Creation, I should have recommended something simpler. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53689]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the Lord Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon Creation, I should have recommended something simpler.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a narrow circle the mind contracts. Man grows with his expanded needs.  [Ger., Im engen Kreis verengert sich ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18398]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a narrow circle the mind contracts. Man grows with his expanded needs.  [Ger., Im engen Kreis verengert sich der Sinn.   Es wachst der Mensch mit seinen grossern Zwecken.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If people take the trouble to cook, you should take the trouble to eat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10149]]></link><description><![CDATA[If people take the trouble to cook, you should take the trouble to eat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more corrupt the State the more numerous the laws. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47524]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more corrupt the State the more numerous the laws.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the looks--not the lips, is the soul reflected. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57282]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the looks--not the lips, is the soul reflected.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each man has his fancy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50824]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each man has his fancy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The scarlet of the maples can shake me like a cry, Of bugles going by. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59676]]></link><description><![CDATA[The scarlet of the maples can shake me like a cry, Of bugles going by.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Linda was a very private person. The accolades she received were not something she sought out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40075]]></link><description><![CDATA[Linda was a very private person. The accolades she received were not something she sought out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It never was our guise To slight the poor, or aught humane despise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46464]]></link><description><![CDATA[It never was our guise To slight the poor, or aught humane despise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To myself alone do I owe my fame. [Fr., Je ne dois qu'a moi seul toute ma renommee.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15104]]></link><description><![CDATA[To myself alone do I owe my fame. [Fr., Je ne dois qu'a moi seul toute ma renommee.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many northerners just arriving here have not even unpacked choosing to turn around and head north by northeast back toward ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many northerners just arriving here have not even unpacked choosing to turn around and head north by northeast back toward Jacksonville, into Georgia, etc.,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal. Prepare yourself in every way you can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8734]]></link><description><![CDATA[Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal. Prepare yourself in every way you can by increasing your knowledge and adding to your experience, so that you can make the most of opportunity when it occurs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From hence, no question, has sprung an observation . . . confirmed now into a settled opinion, that some long ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48452]]></link><description><![CDATA[From hence, no question, has sprung an observation . . . confirmed now into a settled opinion, that some long experienced souls in the world, before their dislodging, arrive to the height of prophetic spirit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20802]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who is greedy is always in want. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18292]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who is greedy is always in want.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15075]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66591]]></link><description><![CDATA[Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Frederick Denison Maurice, Priest, teacher, 1872  The truth is that every man is in Christ; the condemnation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6450]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Frederick Denison Maurice, Priest, teacher, 1872  The truth is that every man is in Christ; the condemnation of every man is that he will not own the truth, he will not act as if it were true, that except he were joined with Christ, he could not think, breathe, live a single hour.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The envious will die, but envy never. [Fr., Les envieux mourront, mais non jamais l'envie.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14020]]></link><description><![CDATA[The envious will die, but envy never. [Fr., Les envieux mourront, mais non jamais l'envie.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our prayers should be for a sound mind in a healthy body. [Lat., Orandum est ut sit mens sana in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18923]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our prayers should be for a sound mind in a healthy body. [Lat., Orandum est ut sit mens sana in corpore sano.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Mary Sumner, Founder of the Mothers' Union, 1921   We must be willing to accept the bitter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7880]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Mary Sumner, Founder of the Mothers' Union, 1921   We must be willing to accept the bitter truth that, in the end, we may have to become a burden to those who love us. But it is necessary that we face this also. The full acceptance of our abjection and uselessness is the virtue that can make us and others rich in the grace of God. It takes heroic charity and humility to let others sustain us when we are absolutely incapable of sustaining ourselves. We cannot suffer well unless we see Christ everywhere, both in suffering and in the charity of those who come to the aid of our affliction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on topics of Christian apologetics:  The critical scholar is not committed, within the area of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6249]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on topics of Christian apologetics:  The critical scholar is not committed, within the area of his research, to accepting the Church's presuppositions about Jesus, but he should not be committed to accepting naturalistic presuppositions either. If he does accept the latter, then the results of his research will in all probability contradict the beliefs of the Church, but this is because he has begged the question from the start. In examining, for instance, the evidence for the virginal conception [of Jesus], if he begins with the presupposition that such an event is impossible he will end with the same conclusion; if he begins with the presupposition that it is possible he may end with the conclusion that the evidence for it is good or that it is bad or that it is inconclusive. This is as far as scholarship can take him. The Christian will accept the virginal conception as part of the Church's faith. (Continued tomorrow).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We change, whether we like it or not ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5489]]></link><description><![CDATA[We change, whether we like it or not]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Achievement results from work realizing ambition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28371]]></link><description><![CDATA[Achievement results from work realizing ambition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Burn to be great, Pay not thy praise to lofty things alone.  The plains are everlasting as the hills, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18246]]></link><description><![CDATA[Burn to be great, Pay not thy praise to lofty things alone.  The plains are everlasting as the hills,   The bard cannot have two pursuits; aught else    Comes on the mind with the like shock as though     Two worlds had gone to war, and met in air.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of François de Sales, Bishop of Geneva, Teacher, 1622  Complain as little as possible of your wrongs, for, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7133]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of François de Sales, Bishop of Geneva, Teacher, 1622  Complain as little as possible of your wrongs, for, as a general rule, you may be sure that complaining is sin: ... because self-love always magnifies our injuries.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a down economy, our survey has found executives always pushing profitability a few years out, and this year is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30626]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a down economy, our survey has found executives always pushing profitability a few years out, and this year is no different. But what the executives are telling us this year is that they have seen the worst and that the industry is poised for a rebound.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30626</guid></item></channel></rss>