<?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[What the reason of the ant laboriously drags into a heap, the wind of accident will collect in one breadth. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/298]]></link><description><![CDATA[What the reason of the ant laboriously drags into a heap, the wind of accident will collect in one breadth. [Was der Ameise Vernunft muhsam, zu Haufen schleppt, jagt in einem Hui der Wind des Zufalls zusammen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sparrows chirped as if they still were proud Their race in Holy Writ should mentioned be.   - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57316]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sparrows chirped as if they still were proud Their race in Holy Writ should mentioned be.   - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things do not happen. Things are made to happen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65257]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rule of the road is a paradox quite, If you drive with a whip or a thong;  If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54243]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rule of the road is a paradox quite, If you drive with a whip or a thong;  If you go to the left you are sure to be right,   If you go to the right you are wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48398]]></link><description><![CDATA[A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mind conscious of its own rectitude. [Lat., Mens sibi conscia recti.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51845]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mind conscious of its own rectitude. [Lat., Mens sibi conscia recti.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How guilt once harbour'd in the conscious breast, Intimidates the brave, degrades the great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18464]]></link><description><![CDATA[How guilt once harbour'd in the conscious breast, Intimidates the brave, degrades the great.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is very midsummer madness. -Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55763]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is very midsummer madness. -Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11496]]></link><description><![CDATA[Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wept o'er his wounds, or tales of sorrow done, Shoulder'd his crutch, and show'd how fields were won. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wept o'er his wounds, or tales of sorrow done, Shoulder'd his crutch, and show'd how fields were won.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure than to take ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54289]]></link><description><![CDATA[Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much because they live in the grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Picture God as saying to you, "My son, why is it that day by day you rise, and pray, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8441]]></link><description><![CDATA[Picture God as saying to you, "My son, why is it that day by day you rise, and pray, and genuflect, and even strike the ground with your forehead, nay sometimes even shed tears, while you say to Me: 'My Father, give me wealth!' If I were to give it to you, you would think yourself of some importance, you would fancy that you had gained something very great. Because you asked for it, you have it. But take care to make good use of it. Before you had it, you were humble; now that you have begun to be rich you despise the poor. What kind of a good is that which only makes you worse? For worse you are, since you were bad already. And that it would make you worse you knew not; hence you asked it of Me. I gave it to you, and I proved you; you have found -- and you have found out! Ask of Me better things than these, greater things than these. Ask of Me spiritual things. Ask of Me Myself!".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[PRELATE, n. A church officer having a superior degree of holiness and a fat preferment. One of Heaven's aristocracy. A ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19580]]></link><description><![CDATA[PRELATE, n. A church officer having a superior degree of holiness and a fat preferment. One of Heaven's aristocracy. A gentleman of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is the art of overlooking the failings and weaknesses of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63006]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is the art of overlooking the failings and weaknesses of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42875]]></link><description><![CDATA[To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The present is a point just passed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65880]]></link><description><![CDATA[The present is a point just passed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Saint George, that swinged the dragon, and e'er since Sits on his horse back at mine hostess' door. -King John. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Saint George, that swinged the dragon, and e'er since Sits on his horse back at mine hostess' door. -King John. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11328]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He needs a million dollars to be able to be noticed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31854]]></link><description><![CDATA[He needs a million dollars to be able to be noticed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You behold in me Only a travelling Physician;  One of the few who have a mission   To ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26699]]></link><description><![CDATA[You behold in me Only a travelling Physician;  One of the few who have a mission   To cure incurable diseases,    Or those that are called so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367 Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bishop in Strathclyde & Cumbria, 603  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8026]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367 Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bishop in Strathclyde & Cumbria, 603   Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you yourself shall be the miracle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't take up a man's time talking about the smartness of your children; he wants to talk to you about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6013]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't take up a man's time talking about the smartness of your children; he wants to talk to you about the smartness of his children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're our biggest corporate donor and so of course we look forward to that funding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40106]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're our biggest corporate donor and so of course we look forward to that funding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When [Tatum] hit those three in a row, it really got them going. We weren't able to get back in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32540]]></link><description><![CDATA[When [Tatum] hit those three in a row, it really got them going. We weren't able to get back in it. They made plays, and we didn't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And weep the more, because I weep in vain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58800]]></link><description><![CDATA[And weep the more, because I weep in vain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5542]]></link><description><![CDATA[None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting a few months or a few years to change all the tenor of our lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And to hie him home, at evening's close, To sweet repast, and calm repose.  . . . .  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61390]]></link><description><![CDATA[And to hie him home, at evening's close, To sweet repast, and calm repose.  . . . .   From toil we wins his spirits light,    From busy day the peaceful night;     Rich, from the very want of wealth,      In heaven's best treasures, peace and health.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a mortal, thou must nourish each of two forebodings--that tomorrow's sunlight will be the last that thou shalt see; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24841]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a mortal, thou must nourish each of two forebodings--that tomorrow's sunlight will be the last that thou shalt see; and that for fifty years wilt live out thy life in ample wealth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15744]]></link><description><![CDATA[The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One lesson that we might draw from this incident is that we shouldn't be asking so many questions of jurors. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28729]]></link><description><![CDATA[One lesson that we might draw from this incident is that we shouldn't be asking so many questions of jurors. Maybe we should just be asking if they have ever been convicted of a crime, that we ought to know. But, do we really need to know about every arrest and every civil lawsuit and what television programs they watch?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's our savior. He was phenomenal out there. He's been that way for awhile now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37378]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's our savior. He was phenomenal out there. He's been that way for awhile now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A stone in a well is not lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49079]]></link><description><![CDATA[A stone in a well is not lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Linux is not user-friendly. It _is_ user-friendly. It is not ignorant-friendly and idiot-friendly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25146]]></link><description><![CDATA[Linux is not user-friendly. It _is_ user-friendly. It is not ignorant-friendly and idiot-friendly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world it will come through the expression of your own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46226]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world it will come through the expression of your own personality, that single spark of divinity that sets you off and makes you different from every other living creature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself thanin any other way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21521]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself thanin any other way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The folly of one man is the fortune of another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16318]]></link><description><![CDATA[The folly of one man is the fortune of another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You get fifteen Democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11860]]></link><description><![CDATA[You get fifteen Democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is a blessing and love is a gift. Do not let it go easily. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62930]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is a blessing and love is a gift. Do not let it go easily.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we forgive evil we do not excuse it, we do not tolerate it, we do not smother it. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8018]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we forgive evil we do not excuse it, we do not tolerate it, we do not smother it. We look the evil full in the face, call it what it is, let its horror shock and stun and enrage us, and only then do we forgive it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1417]]></link><description><![CDATA[How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea of "conviction" is complex. It involves the conceptions of authoritative examination, of unquestionable proof, of decisive judgment, of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6666]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea of "conviction" is complex. It involves the conceptions of authoritative examination, of unquestionable proof, of decisive judgment, of punitive power. Whatever the final issue may be, he who "convicts" another must place the truth of the case in a clear light before him, so that it must be seen and acknowledged as truth. He who then rejects the conclusion which the exposition involves, rejects it with his eyes open and at his peril. Truth seen as truth carries with it condemnation to all who refuse to welcome it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45542]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I play [golf] with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57566]]></link><description><![CDATA[I play [golf] with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is low-wage workers who are being hurt the most by the steady drip, drip, drip of coverage draining out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34063]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is low-wage workers who are being hurt the most by the steady drip, drip, drip of coverage draining out of the employer-based health insurance system.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The singing man keepes his shop in his throate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49913]]></link><description><![CDATA[The singing man keepes his shop in his throate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you were to rise early every morning, as an instance of self-denial, as a method of renouncing indulgence, as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7383]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you were to rise early every morning, as an instance of self-denial, as a method of renouncing indulgence, as a means of redeeming your time and of fitting your spirit for prayer, you would find mighty advantages from it. This method, though it seem such a small circumstance of life, would in all probability be a means [toward] great piety. It would keep it constantly in your head that softness and idleness were to be avoided and that self-denial was a part of Christianity... It would teach you to exercise power over yourself, and make you able by degrees to renounce other pleasures and tempers that war against the soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And yet, despite its military defeat, the loss of its North American possessions, and the destruction of most of its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35143]]></link><description><![CDATA[And yet, despite its military defeat, the loss of its North American possessions, and the destruction of most of its navy, France survived defeat and rapidly recovered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The anti-terrorism laws are going to create a legal nightmare for the Government. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29073]]></link><description><![CDATA[The anti-terrorism laws are going to create a legal nightmare for the Government.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who will grieve for this woman? Does she not seem too insignificant for our concern? Yet in my heart I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29402]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who will grieve for this woman? Does she not seem too insignificant for our concern? Yet in my heart I never will deny her, Who suffered death because she chose to turn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29402</guid></item></channel></rss>