<?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[Cruel as death, and hungry at the grave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cruel as death, and hungry at the grave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas More, Scholar & Martyr, & John Fisher, Bishop & Martyr, 1535   Almighty God, have mercy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas More, Scholar & Martyr, & John Fisher, Bishop & Martyr, 1535   Almighty God, have mercy on N and N and on all that bear me ill will, and would me harm, and on their faults and mine together; and by such easy, tender, merciful means as Thine infinite wisdom best can divine, vouchsafe to amend and redress; and make us saved souls together in heaven where we may ever live and love together with Thee and Thy blessed saints, O glorious Trinity, for the bitter passion of our sweet saviour Christ, amen.   ... ascribed to Sir Thomas More  July 7, 2002   O God, the strength of all those who put their trust in thee; mercifully accept our prayers; and because, through the weakness of our mortal nature, we can do no good thing without thee, grant us the help of thy grace, that in keeping thy commandments we may please thee, both in will and deed; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.   ... Collect for the first Sunday after Trinity, The Book of Common Prayer [1928]  July 8, 2002   Happily for us, the fundamental Christian message concerns not what we ought to do, but what God has done and what God is willing to do. In fellowship with Him and with others who are likewise trying to be like Him, we can be lifted up above our native possibilities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Days are scrolls: Write on them only what you wantremembered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Days are scrolls: Write on them only what you wantremembered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A couple of years ago, I called Dave up to write some songs. It just snowballed from there and became ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41401]]></link><description><![CDATA[A couple of years ago, I called Dave up to write some songs. It just snowballed from there and became a Soft Cell record. There's still a strong chemistry between us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22711]]></link><description><![CDATA[All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Defining night by darkness, death by dust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Defining night by darkness, death by dust.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41337]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some folks can look so busy doing nothin' that they seem indispensable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some folks can look so busy doing nothin' that they seem indispensable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That suggests that the size of the average house is stabilizing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35894]]></link><description><![CDATA[That suggests that the size of the average house is stabilizing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They were all astonished over this blockage. By the last two or three months they were telling me not even ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30981]]></link><description><![CDATA[They were all astonished over this blockage. By the last two or three months they were telling me not even to go for a walk.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas how difficult is it to preserve a high reputation! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51582]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas how difficult is it to preserve a high reputation!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[American newspapers write about the information economy. In contrast, Europeans speak of an 'information society.' They (the Europeans) believe business ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36667]]></link><description><![CDATA[American newspapers write about the information economy. In contrast, Europeans speak of an 'information society.' They (the Europeans) believe business is there to be taxed, and to support the election of politicians.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it's bad for you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63216]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it's bad for you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A system of doctrine has risen up during the last three centuries, in which faith or spiritual-mindedness is contemplated and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7199]]></link><description><![CDATA[A system of doctrine has risen up during the last three centuries, in which faith or spiritual-mindedness is contemplated and rested on as the end of religion, instead of Christ. I do not mean to say that Christ is not mentioned as the author of all good, but that stress is laid on the believing rather than on the object of belief, on the comfort and persuasiveness of the doctrine than on the doctrine itself. And in this way religion is made to consist of contemplating ourselves, instead of Christ; not simply in looking to Christ, but in seeing that we look to Christ; not in His divinity and atonement, but in our conversion and faith in Him... [Continued tomorrow].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will play the swan, And die in music. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58461]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will play the swan, And die in music.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature goes her own way and all that to us seems an exception is reallyaccording to order. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21428]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature goes her own way and all that to us seems an exception is reallyaccording to order.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should learn to choose our words carefully, as we can hurt, and mislead others. Words...can't be taken back, once ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63188]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should learn to choose our words carefully, as we can hurt, and mislead others. Words...can't be taken back, once you give them away.Harsh words are like bullets: no matter what, they can still leave a painful injury. And sometimes, a "sorry" is not enough to heal the wounds you leave...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1648]]></link><description><![CDATA[I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a curious picture it is to find man, homo sapiens, of divine origin, we are told, seriously considering going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4486]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a curious picture it is to find man, homo sapiens, of divine origin, we are told, seriously considering going underground to escape the consequences of his own folly. With a little wisdom and foresight, surely it is not yet necessary to forsake life in the fresh air and in the warmth of the sunlight. What a paradox if our own cleverness in science should force us to live underground with the moles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11418]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To choose time is to save time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14593]]></link><description><![CDATA[To choose time is to save time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All places are filled with fools. [Lat., Stultorum plenea sunt omnia.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16333]]></link><description><![CDATA[All places are filled with fools. [Lat., Stultorum plenea sunt omnia.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the volume is up to over 100 decibels, even one and a half or two hours of use can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31793]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the volume is up to over 100 decibels, even one and a half or two hours of use can cause damage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In lang, lang days o' simmer, When the clear and cloudless sky  Refuses ae weep drap o' rain  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58253]]></link><description><![CDATA[In lang, lang days o' simmer, When the clear and cloudless sky  Refuses ae weep drap o' rain   To Nature parched and dry,    The genial night, wi' balmy breath,     Gars verdue, spring anew,      An' ilka blade o' grass       Keps its ain drap o' dew.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let 's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs. -King Richard II. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55822]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let 's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs. -King Richard II. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's just neat to be part of the story now. I know if my grandfather was alive today, he'd be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35788]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's just neat to be part of the story now. I know if my grandfather was alive today, he'd be very proud.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1924]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nature of a society is largely determined by the direction in which talent and ambition flow--by the tilt of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57003]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nature of a society is largely determined by the direction in which talent and ambition flow--by the tilt of the social landscape.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People change over the years, and that changes situations for good and for bad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64483]]></link><description><![CDATA[People change over the years, and that changes situations for good and for bad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44533]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I used to think I had ambition . . . but now I'm not so sure. It may have been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12420]]></link><description><![CDATA[I used to think I had ambition . . . but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Slackers are waiting for their ship to come in, but the haven't wandered down to the docks to meet it. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Slackers are waiting for their ship to come in, but the haven't wandered down to the docks to meet it. Most times their ship doesn't travel by water anyway.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In vain does anyone pretend that he will be a martyr for his religion, when he will not rule an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7336]]></link><description><![CDATA[In vain does anyone pretend that he will be a martyr for his religion, when he will not rule an appetite nor restrain lust nor subdue a passion nor cross his covetousness and ambition for the sake of it, and in hope of that eternal life which God that cannot lie hath promised. He that refuses to do the less is not like to do the greater. It is very improbable that a man will die for his religion, when he cannot be persuaded to live according to it. He that cannot take up a resolution to live a saint, hath a demonstration within himself that he is never like to die a martyr.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In ways and thoughts of weakness and of wrong, Threads turn to cords, and cords to cables strong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18539]]></link><description><![CDATA[In ways and thoughts of weakness and of wrong, Threads turn to cords, and cords to cables strong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Get money, money still! And then let virtue follow, if she will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50926]]></link><description><![CDATA[Get money, money still! And then let virtue follow, if she will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We but teach Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return  To plague the inventor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51381]]></link><description><![CDATA[We but teach Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return  To plague the inventor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's an attempt to sabotage the process set in motion, ... a silver lining has started to appear in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34849]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's an attempt to sabotage the process set in motion, ... a silver lining has started to appear in the dark clouds of violence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Often the fear on one evil leads us into a worse. [Fr., Souvent la peur d'un mal nous conduit dans ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Often the fear on one evil leads us into a worse. [Fr., Souvent la peur d'un mal nous conduit dans un pire.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Write what should not be forgotten ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36761]]></link><description><![CDATA[Write what should not be forgotten]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15043]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life lives, life dies. Life laughs, life cries. Life gives up and life tries. But life looks different through everyone's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11440]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life lives, life dies. Life laughs, life cries. Life gives up and life tries. But life looks different through everyone's eyes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can never understand how we have been able to follow these worn-out tracks, which have been laid down by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42625]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can never understand how we have been able to follow these worn-out tracks, which have been laid down by panic in the face of nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though I didn't play, it was nice to be wanted. It was a good experience overall, getting to see how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32230]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though I didn't play, it was nice to be wanted. It was a good experience overall, getting to see how other organizations work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13354]]></link><description><![CDATA[An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It shows a weak mind not to bear prosperity as well as adversity with moderation. [Lat., Ut adversas res, secundas ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48484]]></link><description><![CDATA[It shows a weak mind not to bear prosperity as well as adversity with moderation. [Lat., Ut adversas res, secundas immoderate ferre, levitatis est.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1135]]></link><description><![CDATA[To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11006]]></link><description><![CDATA[We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the function of the American dance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two days in the week on which I never worry; One is yesterday and the other is tomorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44173]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two days in the week on which I never worry; One is yesterday and the other is tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel that it's important for the college environment and for the students to be exposed to the issues and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39956]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel that it's important for the college environment and for the students to be exposed to the issues and opportunities the world has to offer. We could all stand to be educated and learn about different cultures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39956</guid></item></channel></rss>