<?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[Had Cain been Scot, God would have changed his doom Nor forced him wander, but confine him home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54891]]></link><description><![CDATA[Had Cain been Scot, God would have changed his doom Nor forced him wander, but confine him home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/822]]></link><description><![CDATA[Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Papua New Guinea, 1942  It has been well said that no man ever sank under ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8256]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Papua New Guinea, 1942  It has been well said that no man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear. Never load yourselves so, my friends. If you find yourselves so loaded, at least remember this: it is your own doing, not God's. He begs you to leave the future to Him and mind the present.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14360]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My doctors offered us a free round of in vitro (fertilization), ... So after all this is over, if it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39238]]></link><description><![CDATA[My doctors offered us a free round of in vitro (fertilization), ... So after all this is over, if it doesn't work out, we have the money. We can adopt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Overall, you have a very technical market pushing us to historical highs because once people got a feel for these ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34539]]></link><description><![CDATA[Overall, you have a very technical market pushing us to historical highs because once people got a feel for these higher levels, it has been an easy push to the upside and has been helped by lack of liquidity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But through the heart Should Jealousy its venom once diffuse,  'Tis then delightful misery no more,   But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23174]]></link><description><![CDATA[But through the heart Should Jealousy its venom once diffuse,  'Tis then delightful misery no more,   But agony unmix'd, incessant gall,    Corroding every thought, and blasting all     Love's paradise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Margery Kempe, Mystic, after 1433   Contempt of material things as such is, in fact, no more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7304]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Margery Kempe, Mystic, after 1433   Contempt of material things as such is, in fact, no more orthodox than pantheism -- it is the great dualist heresy which always lies in wait for an over-spiritualized Christianity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In times of stress, be bold and valiant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57977]]></link><description><![CDATA[In times of stress, be bold and valiant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are bound to our bodies like an oyster is to its shell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4452]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are bound to our bodies like an oyster is to its shell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we encountered a man or rare intellect, we should ask him what books he read.   - Ralph ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53009]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we encountered a man or rare intellect, we should ask him what books he read.   - Ralph Waldo Emerson,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the hornet hangs in the holly hock, And the brown bee drones i' the rose,  And the west ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19612]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the hornet hangs in the holly hock, And the brown bee drones i' the rose,  And the west is a red-streaked four-o'clock,   And summer is near its close--    It's--Oh, for the gate, and the locust lane;     And dusk, and dew, and home again!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambition is like a frog sitting on a Venus Flytrap. The flytrap can bite and bite, but it won't bother ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambition is like a frog sitting on a Venus Flytrap. The flytrap can bite and bite, but it won't bother the frog because it only has little tiny plant teeth. But some other stuff could happen and it could be like ambition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65852]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is simply the reification of the process of living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57085]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is simply the reification of the process of living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every age has its pleasures, its style of wit, and its own ways. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46690]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every age has its pleasures, its style of wit, and its own ways.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such is our dependence upon God that we are obliged not only to do everything for His sake, but also ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6605]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such is our dependence upon God that we are obliged not only to do everything for His sake, but also to seek from Him the very power. This happy necessity of having recourse to Him in all our wants, instead of being grievous to us, should be our greatest consolation. What a happiness is it that we are allowed to speak to Him with confidence; to open our hearts and hold familiar conversation with him, by prayer! He Himself invites us to it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59495]]></link><description><![CDATA[A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well-being of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As to honor -- you know -- it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10388]]></link><description><![CDATA[As to honor -- you know -- it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mans discontent is his worst evill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49058]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mans discontent is his worst evill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Didn't make no money today, but I'll just go to the next one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42174]]></link><description><![CDATA[Didn't make no money today, but I'll just go to the next one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most effective way to silence our guilty conscience is to convince ourselves and others that those we have sinned ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52311]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most effective way to silence our guilty conscience is to convince ourselves and others that those we have sinned against are indeed depraved creatures, deserving every punishment, even extermination. We cannot pity those we have wronged, nor can we be indifferent toward them. We must hate and persecute them or else leave the door open to self-contempt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With various readings stored his empty skull, Learn'd without sense, and venerably dull. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58066]]></link><description><![CDATA[With various readings stored his empty skull, Learn'd without sense, and venerably dull.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good manners and good morals are sworn friends and fast allies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good manners and good morals are sworn friends and fast allies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common sense is not so common. [Fr., Le sens commun n'est pas si common.]   - Voltaire (Francois Marie ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common sense is not so common. [Fr., Le sens commun n'est pas si common.]   - Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But we must believe that Judas, who repented even to agony, who repented so that his high-prized life, self, soul, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8250]]></link><description><![CDATA[But we must believe that Judas, who repented even to agony, who repented so that his high-prized life, self, soul, became worthless in his eyes and met with no mercy at his own hand, -- must we believe he could find no mercy in such a God? I think when Judas fled from his hanged and fallen body, he fled to the tender help of Jesus, and found it -- I say not how. He was in a more hopeful condition now than during any moment of his past life, for he had never repented before. But I believe that Jesus loved Judas even when he was kissing Him with traitor's kiss; and I believe that He was his Saviour still.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Albrecht Dürer, artist, 1528, and Michelangelo Buonarrotti, artist, spiritual writer, 1564   Man cannot make a redemptive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6371]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Albrecht Dürer, artist, 1528, and Michelangelo Buonarrotti, artist, spiritual writer, 1564   Man cannot make a redemptive art, but he can make an art that communicates what he experiences of redemption as a man and what he knows of it as an artist. God in his infinite wisdom may use an art work as an instrument of redemption, but what serves or can serve that purpose is beyond the knowledge of man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Get up and dance, get up and smile, get up and drink to the days that are gone in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Get up and dance, get up and smile, get up and drink to the days that are gone in the shortest while.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How pleasant to know Mr. Lear! Who has written such volumes of stuff!  Some think him ill-tempered and queer, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44611]]></link><description><![CDATA[How pleasant to know Mr. Lear! Who has written such volumes of stuff!  Some think him ill-tempered and queer,   But a few think him pleasant enough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are all kinds of forms that have to be filled in on the typewriter. I don't know why, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37016]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are all kinds of forms that have to be filled in on the typewriter. I don't know why, but universities are one of the worst for insisting on forms. There is absolutely no sense to it. They insist on putting all the information into a little box.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This special event at Vibrato brought together many people sharing a common bond - a love of jazz and a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36478]]></link><description><![CDATA[This special event at Vibrato brought together many people sharing a common bond - a love of jazz and a desire to support its future, ... It gave them the opportunity to indulge in both passions - to celebrate the great artistry of Dave Brubeck, and to support the Brubeck Institute, a program at the University of the Pacific which, through its Fellowship Program and Summer Jazz Colony, serves to train and nurture the next generation of great jazz artists and innovators.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The company has grown to appreciate ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â including our board ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â just how important the external and internal reputation of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37441]]></link><description><![CDATA[The company has grown to appreciate ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â including our board ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â just how important the external and internal reputation of Wal-Mart is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/742]]></link><description><![CDATA[As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He never is alone that is accompanied with noble thoughts. - Love's Cure, 1647. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25488]]></link><description><![CDATA[He never is alone that is accompanied with noble thoughts. - Love's Cure, 1647.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It currently seems a pretty safe bet that interest rates will not change for several more months to come, if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36610]]></link><description><![CDATA[It currently seems a pretty safe bet that interest rates will not change for several more months to come, if at all this year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As busie as a Bee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3908]]></link><description><![CDATA[As busie as a Bee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis skill not strength that governs a ship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis skill not strength that governs a ship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63419]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed; nature never pretends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48181]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed; nature never pretends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of the people who were at that board meeting, can I see a show of hands of those who heard ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40109]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of the people who were at that board meeting, can I see a show of hands of those who heard her cuss me out?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quite often the social doctors become part of the disease. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56810]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quite often the social doctors become part of the disease.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58858]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man does his best, what else is there? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13642]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man does his best, what else is there?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that's secure is not safe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54641]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that's secure is not safe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They certainly give very strange names to diseases. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43662]]></link><description><![CDATA[They certainly give very strange names to diseases.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Classical, Romantic, and Baroque music, that's what I really like. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37987]]></link><description><![CDATA[Classical, Romantic, and Baroque music, that's what I really like.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your day will come is another way of saying you get yours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17105]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your day will come is another way of saying you get yours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17105</guid></item></channel></rss>