<?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[Prayer is the creator as well as the channel of devotion. The spirit of devotion is the spirit of prayer. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8383]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prayer is the creator as well as the channel of devotion. The spirit of devotion is the spirit of prayer. Prayer and devotion are united as soul and body are united, as life and the heart are united. There is no real prayer without devotion, no devotion without prayer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seek and you will find. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seek and you will find.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I passed a typing test and became a member of the staff of Rear Adm. Newton. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36865]]></link><description><![CDATA[I passed a typing test and became a member of the staff of Rear Adm. Newton.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that makes a thing too fine, breakes it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49472]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that makes a thing too fine, breakes it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21263]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has great tranquillity of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men. He will easily ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7056]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has great tranquillity of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men. He will easily be content and pacified, whose conscience is pure. You are not holier if you are praised, nor the more worthless if you are found fault with. What you are, that you are; neither by word can you be made greater than what you are in the sight of God.  Thomas à Kempis, Of the Imitation of Christ  [With thanks to Roger E. Doriot]    February 12, 1997  Ash Wednesday  Were Christians duly instructed how many lesser differences in mind and judgment and practice are really consistent with the nature, ends, and genuine fruit of the unity that Christ requires among them, it would undoubtedly prevail with them so as to manage themselves in their differences by mutual forbearance and condescension in their love, as not to contract the guilt of being disturbers or breakers of it. To speak plainly, among all the churches in the world which are free from idolatry and persecution, it is not different opinions, nor a difference in judgment about revealed truths, nor a different practice in sacred administrations, but pride, self-interest, love of honour, reputation, and dominion, with the influence of civil or political intrigues and considerations, that are the true cause of that defect of evangelical unity that is at this day amongst them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56225]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I still don't know much about directing a movie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37336]]></link><description><![CDATA[I still don't know much about directing a movie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I feel like a Stepping Stone... I am that kind, young lady that offers a wanderer food 'n drink ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I feel like a Stepping Stone... I am that kind, young lady that offers a wanderer food 'n drink off to the side of the road -- in the middle of nowhere as they journey into the next phase of their life. I am that kind, young lady that will change a stranger's life forever, and be a burned out memory in the back of their mind... I was that lady with the sad green eyes, the kind smile... The one that offered you a helping hand and good conversation while you ate your food.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jesus lived His life in complete dependence upon God, as we all ought to live our lives. But such dependence ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jesus lived His life in complete dependence upon God, as we all ought to live our lives. But such dependence does not destroy human personality. Man is never so fully and so truly personal as when he is living in complete dependence upon God. This is how personality comes into its own. This is humanity at its most personal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To disregard what the world thinks of us is not only arrogant but utterly shameless. [Lat., Negligere quid de se ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53877]]></link><description><![CDATA[To disregard what the world thinks of us is not only arrogant but utterly shameless. [Lat., Negligere quid de se quisque sentiat, non solum arrogantis est, sed etiam omnino dissoluti.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Long ago, people used to host Sunday afternoon dances with desserts and tea. We figured with the growing popularity of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Long ago, people used to host Sunday afternoon dances with desserts and tea. We figured with the growing popularity of the tango, we might be able to bring back two lost traditions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In really good companies, you have to lead. You have to come up with big ideas and express them forcefully. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22283]]></link><description><![CDATA[In really good companies, you have to lead. You have to come up with big ideas and express them forcefully. I have always been encouraged -- or sometimes forced -- to confront the very natural fear of being wrong. I was constantly pushed to find out what I really thought and then to speak up. Over time, I came to see that waiting to discover which way the wind was blowing is an excellent way to learn how to be a follower.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With little excess capacity left in the labor market, we expect continued upward pressure on wages. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39109]]></link><description><![CDATA[With little excess capacity left in the labor market, we expect continued upward pressure on wages.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Steals timidly away, Shrinking as violets do in summer's ray. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60718]]></link><description><![CDATA[Steals timidly away, Shrinking as violets do in summer's ray.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26984]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Buddy Guy finally got a break and made it. And Buddy Guy deserves it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41177]]></link><description><![CDATA[Buddy Guy finally got a break and made it. And Buddy Guy deserves it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clearly, it's a blow to the Gore camp. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40702]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clearly, it's a blow to the Gore camp.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As you put into practice the qualities of patience, punctuality, sincerity, and solicitude, you will have a better opinion of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47983]]></link><description><![CDATA[As you put into practice the qualities of patience, punctuality, sincerity, and solicitude, you will have a better opinion of the world around you]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shallows where a lamb could wade and depths where an elephant would drown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54912]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shallows where a lamb could wade and depths where an elephant would drown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This garden is the crown jewel of the entire restoration project. The flowers cost $150,000. But it cost four times ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33091]]></link><description><![CDATA[This garden is the crown jewel of the entire restoration project. The flowers cost $150,000. But it cost four times that for the layers upon layers of work in this garden that people never see, such as the archeology, the engineering, and the irrigation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And she hath smiles to earth unknown-- Smiles that with motion of their own  Do spread, and sink, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56694]]></link><description><![CDATA[And she hath smiles to earth unknown-- Smiles that with motion of their own  Do spread, and sink, and rise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I studied the lives of great men and famous women; and I found that the men and women who got ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58030]]></link><description><![CDATA[I studied the lives of great men and famous women; and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is,is a clue to the universe. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22115]]></link><description><![CDATA[In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is,is a clue to the universe. We are enfolded in the universe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All weddings, except those with shotguns in evidence, are wonderful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61493]]></link><description><![CDATA[All weddings, except those with shotguns in evidence, are wonderful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23669]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29842]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enjoy yourself, for there is nothing in the world we can call our own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62210]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enjoy yourself, for there is nothing in the world we can call our own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Third Man Out: A Donald Strachey Mystery ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Third Man Out: A Donald Strachey Mystery]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And would it not be proud romance Falling in some obscure advance,  To rise, a poppy field of France? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47691]]></link><description><![CDATA[And would it not be proud romance Falling in some obscure advance,  To rise, a poppy field of France?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are winners, there are losers and there are people who have notyet learned how to win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21644]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are winners, there are losers and there are people who have notyet learned how to win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't have any problem with the penalty handed down. I think its fair. We have to be more diligent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40450]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't have any problem with the penalty handed down. I think its fair. We have to be more diligent in the future so this doesn't happen again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had dinner and went to bed. We were all very worried about Harry. That was the main thing on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39558]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had dinner and went to bed. We were all very worried about Harry. That was the main thing on our mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14213]]></link><description><![CDATA[And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Facts don't cease to exist because they are ignored. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14877]]></link><description><![CDATA[Facts don't cease to exist because they are ignored.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those vices [luxury and neglect of decent manners] are vices of men, not of the times. [Lat., Hominum sunt ista ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those vices [luxury and neglect of decent manners] are vices of men, not of the times. [Lat., Hominum sunt ista [vitia], non temporum.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The third man in the ring makes boxing possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4792]]></link><description><![CDATA[The third man in the ring makes boxing possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art my slats! I can paint with a shoestring dipped in lard! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3199]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art my slats! I can paint with a shoestring dipped in lard!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is like a fisherman, who, having caught a fish in his net, leaves it in the water for a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is like a fisherman, who, having caught a fish in his net, leaves it in the water for a time; the fish continues to swim about, but all the while the net is round it, and the fishermen will snatch it out in his own good time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Delphi has set a deadline where they want everything wrapped up by (Thursday). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40515]]></link><description><![CDATA[Delphi has set a deadline where they want everything wrapped up by (Thursday).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The church is always trying to get other people to reform; it might not be a bad idea to reform ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53442]]></link><description><![CDATA[The church is always trying to get other people to reform; it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little, by way of example]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You get paid to impact the world, not be impacted by it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21834]]></link><description><![CDATA[You get paid to impact the world, not be impacted by it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We pulled it out in the end, but it shouldn't have even got to that point with the kind of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36548]]></link><description><![CDATA[We pulled it out in the end, but it shouldn't have even got to that point with the kind of lead we had.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever I felt like slitting my wrists I used to like listening to depressed singers from the 1970s. It was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33570]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever I felt like slitting my wrists I used to like listening to depressed singers from the 1970s. It was great music for a misunderstood teenager. And when I'm feeling misunderstood these days, I'll stick on a bit of Leonard Cohen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29853]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When treading London's well-known ground If e'er I feel my spirits tire,  I haul my sail, look up around, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12982]]></link><description><![CDATA[When treading London's well-known ground If e'er I feel my spirits tire,  I haul my sail, look up around,   In search of Whitbread's best entire.   - Unattributed Author,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give what thou canst, without Thee we are poor; And with Thee rich, take what Thou wilt away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give what thou canst, without Thee we are poor; And with Thee rich, take what Thou wilt away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success begins with belief and ends with doubt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success begins with belief and ends with doubt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1203]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1203</guid></item></channel></rss>