<?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[But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18640]]></link><description><![CDATA[But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21674]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself. - The Art of Worldy Wisdom, 1647.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The few wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20942]]></link><description><![CDATA[The few wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60821]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The United States presents itself as a leader against terrorism, invades countries, restricts the civil rights of Americans in order ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30101]]></link><description><![CDATA[The United States presents itself as a leader against terrorism, invades countries, restricts the civil rights of Americans in order to fight terrorism, but when it is about its own terrorists, it denies that they be tried.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[rnAbsence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65335]]></link><description><![CDATA[rnAbsence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The shriek was followed by another, louder and yet more agonizing..for once started upon that journey, the hog never came ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/253]]></link><description><![CDATA[The shriek was followed by another, louder and yet more agonizing..for once started upon that journey, the hog never came back. One by one the men hooked up the hogs and slit their throats. There was a line of hogs with squeals and lifeblood ebbing away.. until at last each vanished into a huge vat of boiling water (some still alive). The hogs were so innocent. They came so very trustingly. They were so very human in their protests. They had done nothing to deserve it. in the book THE JUNGLE.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61664]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a series on the person of Jesus:  Jesus ventured to trust God far beyond the degree that any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6216]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a series on the person of Jesus:  Jesus ventured to trust God far beyond the degree that any other man had trusted God. Abraham, Moses, and David were valiant believers, but compared to Jesus they were timid souls. Consider the human disappointments Jesus endured: rejected in his home town, harassed and persecuted by the religious leaders of his nation, misunderstood by his own family, betrayed with a kiss and abandoned by all his followers. Yet through it all Jesus never complained or rebelled against God; he trusted God even on the cross. Psalm 34 sets forth Jesus' pioneering discovery of God's faithfulness and delivering power. Thus Jesus was "delivered from all his fears" (v 4), "saved ... out of all his troubles" (v 6), "delivered out of all his afflictions" (v 19).  Certainly Jesus is our primary teacher and example in trusting God. If David could teach his followers to trust in God, how much more Jesus. As we see the steadfast faith of our Lord through weariness, disappointment, rejection, and even death on a cross, we cannot but be encouraged to believe that God can deliver us through our small trials. That is why we should run the race set before us looking unto Jesus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The vertue of a coward is suspition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49928]]></link><description><![CDATA[The vertue of a coward is suspition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[American public education is a remarkable enterprise; it succeeds best where it fails. Imagine an industry that consistently fails to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56990]]></link><description><![CDATA[American public education is a remarkable enterprise; it succeeds best where it fails. Imagine an industry that consistently fails to do what it sets out to do. a factory where this year's product is invariably sleazier than last year's but, nevertheless, better than next year's. Imagine a corporation whose executives are always spending vast sums of money on studies designed to discover just what it is they are supposed to do and then vaster sums for further studies on just how to do it. Imagine a plant devoted to the manufacture of factory seconds to be sold at a loss. Imagine a producer of vacuum cleaners that rarely work hiring whole platoons of engineers who will, in time, report that it is, in fact, true that the vacuum cleaners rarely really work, and who will, for a larger fee, be glad to find out why, if that's possible. If you discover some such outfit, don't invest in it. Unfortunately, we are all required to invest in public education.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never again are we to look at the stars, as we did when we were children, and wonder how far ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6481]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never again are we to look at the stars, as we did when we were children, and wonder how far it is to God. A being outside our world would be a spectator, looking on but taking no part in this life, where we try to be brave despite all the bafflement. A god who created, and withdrew, could be mighty, but he could not be love. Who could love a God remote, when suffering is our lot? Our God is closer than our problems, for they are out there, to be faced; He is here, beside us, Emmanuel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else. -Bernadette Devlin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22799]]></link><description><![CDATA[To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else. -Bernadette Devlin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Which he by hook or crook has gather'd And by his own inventions father'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48715]]></link><description><![CDATA[Which he by hook or crook has gather'd And by his own inventions father'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When under the pretext of fraternity, the legal code imposes mutual sacrifices on the citizens, human nature is not thereby ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52220]]></link><description><![CDATA[When under the pretext of fraternity, the legal code imposes mutual sacrifices on the citizens, human nature is not thereby abrogated. Everyone will then direct his efforts toward contributing little to, and taking much from, the common fund of sacrifices. Now, is it the most unfortunate who gains from this struggle? Certainly not, but rather the most influential and calculating.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything -- and it works. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21981]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything -- and it works.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We live by our imagination, our admirations, and our sentiments. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/620]]></link><description><![CDATA[We live by our imagination, our admirations, and our sentiments.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lover without discretion is no lover at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12456]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lover without discretion is no lover at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was a place in childhood that I remember well, And there a voice of sweetest tone bright fairy tales ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43204]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was a place in childhood that I remember well, And there a voice of sweetest tone bright fairy tales did tell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is like a skilful Geometrician. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17691]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is like a skilful Geometrician.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had hoped that Republicans would respond to the challenge. Instead what we've got is more than $2 million in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38165]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had hoped that Republicans would respond to the challenge. Instead what we've got is more than $2 million in these secret stealth campaigns that are attacking Democrats and attacking the vice president right now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The character, the counsels, and example of our Washington . . . they will guide us through the doubts and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61241]]></link><description><![CDATA[The character, the counsels, and example of our Washington . . . they will guide us through the doubts and difficulties that beset us; they will guide our children and our children's children in the paths of prosperity and peace, while America shall hold her place in the family of nations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We see that our whole salvation and all its parts are comprehended in Christ. We should therefore take care not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7546]]></link><description><![CDATA[We see that our whole salvation and all its parts are comprehended in Christ. We should therefore take care not to derive the least portion of it from anywhere else. If we seek salvation, we are taught by the very name of Jesus that it is "of him". If we seek any other gifts of the Spirit, they will be found in his anointing. If we seek strength, it lies in his dominion; if purity, in his conception; if gentleness, it appears in his birth. For by his birth he was made like us in all respects that he might learn to feel our pain. If we seek redemption, it lies in his passion; if acquittal, in his condemnation; if remission of the curse, in his cross; if satisfaction, in his sacrifice; if purification, in his blood; if reconciliation, in his descent into hell; if mortification of the flesh, in his tomb; if newness of life, in his resurrection; if immortality, in the same; if inheritance of the Heavenly Kingdom, in his entrance into heaven; if protection, if security, if abundant supply of all blessings, in his Kingdom; if untroubled expectation of judgment, in the power given to him to judge. In short, since rich store of every kind of good abounds in him, let us drink our fill from this fountain, and from no other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When in doubt, do nowt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51045]]></link><description><![CDATA[When in doubt, do nowt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we did very well. We had two major benefactors that really made sure all the women and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33341]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we did very well. We had two major benefactors that really made sure all the women and the children in the shelter got their wish list.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I got Jimmy Hall from Wet Willie and he also plays now with Hank Williams Jr. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36142]]></link><description><![CDATA[I got Jimmy Hall from Wet Willie and he also plays now with Hank Williams Jr.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Design is a word that's come to mean so much that it's also a word that has come to mean ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64392]]></link><description><![CDATA[Design is a word that's come to mean so much that it's also a word that has come to mean nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Black cat or white cat, it's a good cat that catches the mice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Black cat or white cat, it's a good cat that catches the mice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Liberals have many tails, and chase them all ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24660]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Liberals have many tails, and chase them all]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since you know all, and I nothing, tell me what I dreamed last night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since you know all, and I nothing, tell me what I dreamed last night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receivinganything in return. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receivinganything in return.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have excellent shooters and had good rotation, but sometimes that just happens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35498]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have excellent shooters and had good rotation, but sometimes that just happens.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to show the disorder that must accompany reform than the order that should follow it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57026]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to show the disorder that must accompany reform than the order that should follow it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal: my strength lies solely in my tenacity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58940]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal: my strength lies solely in my tenacity]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To me, it's a good idea to always carry two sacks of something when you walk around. That way, if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20077]]></link><description><![CDATA[To me, it's a good idea to always carry two sacks of something when you walk around. That way, if anybody says, 'Hey, can you give me a hand?' you can say, 'Sorry, got these sacks.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ants and the Grasshopper THE ANTS were spending a fine winter's day drying grain collectedin the summertime. A Grasshopper, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1498]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Ants and the Grasshopper THE ANTS were spending a fine winter's day drying grain collectedin the summertime. A Grasshopper, perishing with famine, passedby and earnestly begged for a little food. The Ants inquired ofhim, Why did you not treasure up food during the summer?' Hereplied, I had not leisure enough. I passed the days insinging. They then said in derision: If you were foolish enoughto sing all the summer, you must dance supperless to bed in thewinter.It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17062]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No thanks attach to a kindness long deferred. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50748]]></link><description><![CDATA[No thanks attach to a kindness long deferred.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; Adversity is the blessing of the New. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4311]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; Adversity is the blessing of the New.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wealth and prosperity of the country are only the comeliness of the body, the fullness of the flesh and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47323]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wealth and prosperity of the country are only the comeliness of the body, the fullness of the flesh and fat; but the spirit is independent of them; it requires only muscle, bone and nerve for the true exercise of its functions. We cannot lose our liberty, because we cannot cease to think.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Into the woods, my Master went, Clean forspent, forspent,  Into the woods my Master came,   Forspent with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6133]]></link><description><![CDATA[Into the woods, my Master went, Clean forspent, forspent,  Into the woods my Master came,   Forspent with love and shame.    But the olives they were not blind to Him,     The little gray leaves were kind to Him:      The thorn-tree had a mind to Him,       When into the woods He came.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18068]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18228]]></link><description><![CDATA[We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna, Martyr, c.155  We may search so far, and reason so long of faith ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8179]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna, Martyr, c.155  We may search so far, and reason so long of faith and grace, as that we may lose not only them, but even our reason too, and sooner become mad than good. Not that we are bound to believe any thing against reason, that is, to believe, we know not why. It is but a slack opinion, it is not Belief, that is not grounded upon Reason. It is true, we have not a Demonstration; not such an Evidence as that one and two are three, to prove these to be Scriptures of God; God hath not proceeded in that manner, to drive our reason into a pound, and to force it by a peremptory necessity to accept these for Scriptures, for then, here had been no exercise of our Will, and our assent, if we could not have resisted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pessimists are usually kind. The gay, bubbling over, have to time for the pitiful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pessimists are usually kind. The gay, bubbling over, have to time for the pitiful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66419]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not trying to prove anybody wrong, I'm just trying to prove something to myself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2284]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not trying to prove anybody wrong, I'm just trying to prove something to myself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Department has refused to allow the firm to tell its story to a grand jury, in violation of both ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29658]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Department has refused to allow the firm to tell its story to a grand jury, in violation of both Department policy and the basic precepts of fundamental fairness,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I not only use all the brains I have, but all that I can borrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27527]]></link><description><![CDATA[I not only use all the brains I have, but all that I can borrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three misbegotten knaves in Kendal green. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55860]]></link><description><![CDATA[Three misbegotten knaves in Kendal green. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55860</guid></item></channel></rss>