<?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[Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not put on earth for ourselves, but are placed here for each other. If you are there always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44086]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not put on earth for ourselves, but are placed here for each other. If you are there always for others, then in time of need, someone will be there for you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Johann Sebastian Bach, musician, 1750   Experience makes us see an enormous difference between piety and goodness. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8195]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Johann Sebastian Bach, musician, 1750   Experience makes us see an enormous difference between piety and goodness.   ... Blaise Pascal July 29, 2000 Feast of Mary, Martha & Lazarus, Companions of Our Lord   The greatest proof of Christianity for others is not how far a man can logically analyze his reasons for believing, but how far in practice he will stake his life on his belief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The safety net is tight and strong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31972]]></link><description><![CDATA[The safety net is tight and strong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22969]]></link><description><![CDATA[One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58486]]></link><description><![CDATA[More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a fact the whole world knows; That Pobbles are happier without their toes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27794]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a fact the whole world knows; That Pobbles are happier without their toes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11987]]></link><description><![CDATA[By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19310]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Youth condemns; maturity condones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26577]]></link><description><![CDATA[Youth condemns; maturity condones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ideology of this America wants to establish reassurance through Imitation. But profit defeats ideology, because the consumers want to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53142]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ideology of this America wants to establish reassurance through Imitation. But profit defeats ideology, because the consumers want to be thrilled not only by the guarantee of the Good but also by the shudder of the Bad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that hath no hony in his pot, let him have it in his mouth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49354]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that hath no hony in his pot, let him have it in his mouth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A politician thinks of the next election -- a statesman, of the next generation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17235]]></link><description><![CDATA[A politician thinks of the next election -- a statesman, of the next generation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive believer can be seen to risk the torments of the afterlife for the smallest pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34930]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unless by the lawful judgment of their peers. [Lat., Nisi per legale judicum parum suorum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unless by the lawful judgment of their peers. [Lat., Nisi per legale judicum parum suorum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For every pass I caught in a game, I caught a thousand in practice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47987]]></link><description><![CDATA[For every pass I caught in a game, I caught a thousand in practice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Understanding human needs is half the job of meeting them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60065]]></link><description><![CDATA[Understanding human needs is half the job of meeting them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22640]]></link><description><![CDATA[What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11249]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Les Miserables. I never read the book before, but when I read this script it was so outstanding, so brilliant, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Les Miserables. I never read the book before, but when I read this script it was so outstanding, so brilliant, I wanted to make it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Others, like many of us, like ""the good Germans"" of another era, turn our heads away from this human rights ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39186]]></link><description><![CDATA[Others, like many of us, like ""the good Germans"" of another era, turn our heads away from this human rights catastrophe against, in turn, another 'despised' minority: the Palestinian people. Their resistance to brutal ethnic cleansing is, ironically, labeled ""anti-Semitic.""]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44180]]></link><description><![CDATA[As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster. The more the diamond is cut the brighter it sparkles; and in what seems hard dealing, there God has no end in view but to perfect His people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We got the job done. We scored early. When we got up 3-0 we wanted to go on from there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39940]]></link><description><![CDATA[We got the job done. We scored early. When we got up 3-0 we wanted to go on from there but they played very well defensively.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a fatal error to enter any war without the will to win it. •Douglas MacArthur   All ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61165]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a fatal error to enter any war without the will to win it. •Douglas MacArthur   All great civilisations, in their early stages, are based on success in war. •Kenneth Clark  You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake. •Jeannette Rankin   War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas! the slippery nature of tender youth. [Lat., Teneris, heu, lubrica moribus aetas!] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62569]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas! the slippery nature of tender youth. [Lat., Teneris, heu, lubrica moribus aetas!]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deep experience is never peaceful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63996]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deep experience is never peaceful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're about halfway there. The future is bright. We will continue to spiral up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36326]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're about halfway there. The future is bright. We will continue to spiral up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tenacity is a pretty fair substitute for bravery, and the best form of tenacity I know is expressed in a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58941]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tenacity is a pretty fair substitute for bravery, and the best form of tenacity I know is expressed in a Danish fur trapper's principle" "The next mile is the only one a person really has to make."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had a case confirmed yesterday which reaffirms there has been regular exposure of Somalia to the virus, probably from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30812]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had a case confirmed yesterday which reaffirms there has been regular exposure of Somalia to the virus, probably from Yemen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is it not sheer madness to live poor to die rich? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50457]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is it not sheer madness to live poor to die rich?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9270]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the evidence shows that God was actually quite a gambler, and the universe is a great casino, where dice ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60187]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the evidence shows that God was actually quite a gambler, and the universe is a great casino, where dice are thrown, and roulette wheels spin on every occasion]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm saddened that I have to work at some fundamental areas. I feel I'm starting from scratch at times. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36305]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm saddened that I have to work at some fundamental areas. I feel I'm starting from scratch at times.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're going to challenge Homer. Homer's going to dictate where we send him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38903]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're going to challenge Homer. Homer's going to dictate where we send him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2157]]></link><description><![CDATA[In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take care of yourself. Good health is everyone's major source of wealth. Without it, happiness is almost impossible. Martha Washington ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18726]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take care of yourself. Good health is everyone's major source of wealth. Without it, happiness is almost impossible. Martha Washington -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though God take the sunne out of the Heaven, yet we must have patience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49974]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though God take the sunne out of the Heaven, yet we must have patience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The effect of the release on gasoline prices is limited. Refineries are producing at full capacity and more crude will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28492]]></link><description><![CDATA[The effect of the release on gasoline prices is limited. Refineries are producing at full capacity and more crude will not lead to more gasoline.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Cecile Isherwood, Founder of the Community of the Resurrection, Grahamstown, South Africa, 1906 Continuing a short series on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6771]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Cecile Isherwood, Founder of the Community of the Resurrection, Grahamstown, South Africa, 1906 Continuing a short series on forgiveness:   He who has not forgiven an enemy has not yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Subdue By force, who reason for their law refuse,  Right reason for their law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53100]]></link><description><![CDATA[Subdue By force, who reason for their law refuse,  Right reason for their law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glory is the child of peril. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glory is the child of peril.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You do anything long enough to escape the habit of livinguntil the escape becomes the habit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/584]]></link><description><![CDATA[You do anything long enough to escape the habit of livinguntil the escape becomes the habit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All epoch-making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written, but by the spoken word ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14274]]></link><description><![CDATA[All epoch-making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written, but by the spoken word]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now I know I've got a heart, because it's breaking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now I know I've got a heart, because it's breaking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go forth and preach impostures to the world, But give them truth to build on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go forth and preach impostures to the world, But give them truth to build on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly rising o'er the azure realm  In gallant trim ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62663]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly rising o'er the azure realm  In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes,   Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others pain And perish ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45390]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others pain And perish in our own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is a carnivorous production, And must have meals, at least one meal a day;  He cannot live, like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13177]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is a carnivorous production, And must have meals, at least one meal a day;  He cannot live, like woodcocks, upon suction,   But, like the shark and tiger, must have prey;    Although his anatomical construction     Bears vegetables, in a grumbling way,      Your laboring people think beyond all question,       Beef, veal, and mutton better for digestion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13177</guid></item></channel></rss>