<?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[A man must serve his time to every trade Save censure--critics all are ready made.  Take hackney'd jokes from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10728]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man must serve his time to every trade Save censure--critics all are ready made.  Take hackney'd jokes from Miller, got by rote,   With just enough of learning to misquote;    A mind well skill'd to find or forge a fault;     A turn for punning, call it Attic salt;      To Jeffrey go, be silent and discreet,       His pay is just ten sterling pounds per sheet;        Fear not to lie, 'twill seem a lucky hit;         Shrink not from blasphemy, 'twill pass for wit;          Care not for feeling--pass your proper jest,           And stand a critic, hated yet caress'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not swear at all; Or if thou wilt, swear by thy gracious self,  Which is the god of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58478]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not swear at all; Or if thou wilt, swear by thy gracious self,  Which is the god of my idolatry,   And I'll believe thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good things, when short, are twice as good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4884]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good things, when short, are twice as good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For me, elegance is not to pass unnoticed but to get to the very soul of what one is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/883]]></link><description><![CDATA[For me, elegance is not to pass unnoticed but to get to the very soul of what one is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, who art as black as hell, as dark as night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11552]]></link><description><![CDATA[For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, who art as black as hell, as dark as night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Augustine, first Archbishop of Canterbury, 605  Christians must learn again what Christians have always known -- how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6637]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Augustine, first Archbishop of Canterbury, 605  Christians must learn again what Christians have always known -- how to live without immediate hopes in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64263]]></link><description><![CDATA[If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Europeans need to show real flexibility on market access, ... We came here for a discussion basically on agriculture. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31252]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Europeans need to show real flexibility on market access, ... We came here for a discussion basically on agriculture.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66545]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence, and the downward spiral begins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Psychoanalysis is the mental illness it purports to cure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51992]]></link><description><![CDATA[Psychoanalysis is the mental illness it purports to cure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind! Brightest in dungeons, Liberty! thou art,  For there thy habitation is the heart-- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24684]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind! Brightest in dungeons, Liberty! thou art,  For there thy habitation is the heart--   The heart which love of thee alone can bind;    And when thy sons to fetters are consign'd--     To fetters and damp vault's dayless gloom,      Their country conquers with their martyrdom.   - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are so swamped, I guess that they're not getting much of anything right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34364]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are so swamped, I guess that they're not getting much of anything right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One picture is worth ten thousand words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48615]]></link><description><![CDATA[One picture is worth ten thousand words.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christmas is not a date. It is a state of mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christmas is not a date. It is a state of mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people choose not to donate their services because they believe that it somehow devalues them by "giving them away." ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people choose not to donate their services because they believe that it somehow devalues them by "giving them away." In truth, there is nothing that demonstrates the value of your skills more than putting them to good use for a cause you believe in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is geared completely to college students. The music is formulated for them. The lifestyle and news and all the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38216]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is geared completely to college students. The music is formulated for them. The lifestyle and news and all the segments around the music are geared toward what's important to a college student.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cinderella's lefts and rights To Geraldine's were frights,  And I trow   The damsel, deftly shod,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cinderella's lefts and rights To Geraldine's were frights,  And I trow   The damsel, deftly shod,    Has dutifully trod     Until now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59757]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I look through hundreds of online (applications) each year, summer camp counselors are almost always a hit because they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32199]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I look through hundreds of online (applications) each year, summer camp counselors are almost always a hit because they know what they're getting into. They choose to work with kids again, so they generally like it and relate well with them ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â and the kids really pick up on that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52723]]></link><description><![CDATA[By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mammon led them on-- Mammon, the least erected Spirit that fell  From Heaven: for even in Heaven his looks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26234]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mammon led them on-- Mammon, the least erected Spirit that fell  From Heaven: for even in Heaven his looks and thoughts   Were always downward bent, admiring more    The riches of Heaven's pavement, trodden gold,     Than aught divine or holy else enjoyed      In vision beatific.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I observe that Christ and His forerunner John in their parabolic discourses were wont to allude to things present. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8436]]></link><description><![CDATA[I observe that Christ and His forerunner John in their parabolic discourses were wont to allude to things present. The old prophets, when they would describe things emphatically, did not only draw parables from things which offered themselves, as from the rent of a garment, ... from the vessels of a potter, ... but also, when such objects were wanting, they supplied them by their own actions, as by rending a garment, ... by shooting, ... etc. By such types the prophets loved to speak. And Christ, being endued with a nobler prophet spirit than the rest, excelled also in this kind of speaking, yet so as not to speak by His own actions -- [which would have been] less grave and decent -- but to turn into parables such things as offered themselves. On occasion of the harvest approaching, He admonishes His disciples once and again of the spiritual harvest. Seeing the lilies of the field, He admonishes His disciples about clothing. In allusion to the present season of fruits, He admonishes His disciples about knowing men by their fruits. In the time of the Passover, when trees put forth their leaves, He bids His disciples, "learn a parable from the fig-tree".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Families of the 'disappeared' deserve answers immediately to their repeated demands for information about the fate of their loved ones. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Families of the 'disappeared' deserve answers immediately to their repeated demands for information about the fate of their loved ones. Above all they deserve justice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where lurk sweet echoes of the dear homevoices,Each note of which calls like a little sister,Those airs slow, slow ascending, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15173]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where lurk sweet echoes of the dear homevoices,Each note of which calls like a little sister,Those airs slow, slow ascending, as the smokewreathsRise from the hearthstones of our native hamletsCyrano Act 5.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15173</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[The Hidden Power of the Heart Realize that now, in this moment of time, you are creating. You are creating ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44698]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Hidden Power of the Heart Realize that now, in this moment of time, you are creating. You are creating your next moment. That is what's real. -Sara Paddison.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Michael & All Angels    The Law cuts into the core of the evil, it reveals ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6836]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Michael & All Angels    The Law cuts into the core of the evil, it reveals the seat of the malady, and informs us that the leprosy lies deep within.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A young lady is a female child who has just done something dreadful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23966]]></link><description><![CDATA[A young lady is a female child who has just done something dreadful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18607]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957  For the Platonic or Aristotelian philosophy it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6904]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957  For the Platonic or Aristotelian philosophy it is of no importance whether Plato or Aristotle ever lived. For the mystical practice of an Indian, Persian, Chinese, or Neo-Platonic mystic it is a matter of indifference whether Rama, Buddha, Laotse, or Porphyrius are myths or not. The mystic has no personal relation to them. It is not here a question of somebody telling me the truth which of myself I cannot find, but of my finding an access to the depths of the world in the depths of my soul. And everywhere the tendency is to eliminate personality. Even where religion does not have this mystical character, it has no relation to an historical person, who communicates himself to me. That is the characteristic essence of the Christian faith alone. Even where a prophet plays the role of a mediator of divine truth, as for example in Islam, the religious act is not directed toward him but toward his teaching or message. But the Christian does not believe in the teachings of Jesus -- which would not be Christian faith, but general religion -- he believes in Christ Himself as being the Word of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing until it gets there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60299]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing until it gets there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dave had a financial plan for 10 years before it all came together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33861]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dave had a financial plan for 10 years before it all came together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1944    If Christianity has never frightened us, we have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7896]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1944    If Christianity has never frightened us, we have not yet learnt what it is.   ... Abp. William Temple  November 7, 2001 Feast of Willibrord of York, Archbishop of Utrecht, Apostle of Frisia, 739   The social gospel is not an addendum to the gospel; it is the gospel. If we read the Gospels, it becomes clear that it was not what Jesus said about God that got him into trouble (but) his treatment of men and women, his way of being friendly with outcasts with whom no respectable Jew would have anything to do. It has always been fairly safe to talk about God; it is when we start to talk about men that the trouble starts. And yet the fact remains that there is no conceivable way of proving that we love God other than by loving men. And there is no conceivable way of proving that we love men than by doing something for those who most need help.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41594]]></link><description><![CDATA[The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With affection beaming in one eye and calculation shining out of the other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14837]]></link><description><![CDATA[With affection beaming in one eye and calculation shining out of the other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vain, froward child of empire, say, Are all thy playthings snatched away? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vain, froward child of empire, say, Are all thy playthings snatched away?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53566]]></link><description><![CDATA[The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For thou, o Lord of hosts, God of Israel, hast revealed to thy servant, saying, I will build thee an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23460]]></link><description><![CDATA[For thou, o Lord of hosts, God of Israel, hast revealed to thy servant, saying, I will build thee an house: therefore hath thy servant found in his heart to pray this prayer unto thee. (2 Samuel 7:27)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lilly's current valuation still provides an attractive entry point. The stock trades at a modest 8% to 10% premium to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31182]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lilly's current valuation still provides an attractive entry point. The stock trades at a modest 8% to 10% premium to its peers against 2006 and 2007 earnings and at a discount against our 2008 to 2010 forecast.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O these degenerate days! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48860]]></link><description><![CDATA[O these degenerate days!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36822]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just by being out you're doing your part. It's like recycling. You're doing your part for the environment if you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13315]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just by being out you're doing your part. It's like recycling. You're doing your part for the environment if you recycle; you're doing your part for the gay movement if you're out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got: everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60353]]></link><description><![CDATA[People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got: everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reality doesn't bite, rather our perception of reality bites. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46089]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reality doesn't bite, rather our perception of reality bites.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61413]]></link><description><![CDATA[But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties.   - Ik Marvel (pseudonym of Donald G. Mitchell),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of our most noble political tasks is to open up trust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65012]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of our most noble political tasks is to open up trust.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65012</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[Our supplies of natural resources are not finite in any economic sense. Nor does past experience give reason to expect ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our supplies of natural resources are not finite in any economic sense. Nor does past experience give reason to expect natural resources to become more scarce. Rather, if history is any guide, natural resources will progressively become less costly, hence less scarce, and will constitute a smaller proportion of our expenses in future years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15733</guid></item></channel></rss>