<?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[. . . the great thing to learn about life is, first, not to do what you don't want to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41508]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . the great thing to learn about life is, first, not to do what you don't want to do, and, second, to do what you do want to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Johannes] Brahms chose his own texts [for his German Requiem] from Luther's Bible to illustrate the Protestant conviction that man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6861]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Johannes] Brahms chose his own texts [for his German Requiem] from Luther's Bible to illustrate the Protestant conviction that man must hear and respond to God's word in man's own language, and that every believer must be free to deal with the Biblical text apart from priestly veto... For the word "German" he would gladly have substituted the word "human" because he was concerned to comment on "the primary text of human existence," finding there, as in the Bible, the universal themes of suffering and joy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Starting in April, the lowest tides are in the morning, so that's when we schedule the digs. These morning digs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32512]]></link><description><![CDATA[Starting in April, the lowest tides are in the morning, so that's when we schedule the digs. These morning digs tend to be very popular, partly because we often get good weather.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rather go to bed supperless than rise in debt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rather go to bed supperless than rise in debt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps the reward of the spirit who tries is not the goal but the exercise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps the reward of the spirit who tries is not the goal but the exercise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An achievement is a bondage. It obliges one to a higher achievement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/381]]></link><description><![CDATA[An achievement is a bondage. It obliges one to a higher achievement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one who has ever brought up a child can doubt for a moment that love is literally the life-giving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4260]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one who has ever brought up a child can doubt for a moment that love is literally the life-giving fluid of human existence]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again  In minds made better by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20858]]></link><description><![CDATA[O may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again  In minds made better by their presence; live   In pulses stirred to generosity,    In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn     For miserable aims that end with self.      In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars,       And with their mild persistence urge man's search        To vaster issues.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look alive. Here comes a buzzard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look alive. Here comes a buzzard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46995]]></link><description><![CDATA[The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We sometimes fear to bring our troubles to God, because they must seem small to Him who sitteth on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6907]]></link><description><![CDATA[We sometimes fear to bring our troubles to God, because they must seem small to Him who sitteth on the circle of the earth. But if they are large enough to vex and endanger our welfare, they are large enough to touch His heart of love. For love does not measure by a merchant's scales, not with a surveyor's chain. It hath a delicacy... unknown in any handling of material substance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The suggestions that umpires award free kicks without regard to the merits [of a free kick], that umpiring is not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28449]]></link><description><![CDATA[The suggestions that umpires award free kicks without regard to the merits [of a free kick], that umpiring is not a worthwhile pursuit for kids and that umpires should put their egos in a locker are offensive and damaging.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Usually, towns act when there's a crisis. And sometimes good planning decisions can arise - there's that hope here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34558]]></link><description><![CDATA[Usually, towns act when there's a crisis. And sometimes good planning decisions can arise - there's that hope here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, Teacher, 1153 Commemoration of William & Catherine Booth, Founders of the Salvation Army, 1912 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, Teacher, 1153 Commemoration of William & Catherine Booth, Founders of the Salvation Army, 1912 & 1890  Why do we talk and gossip so continually, seeing that we so rarely resume our silence without some hurt done to our conscience? ... Devout conversation on spiritual things helpeth not a little to spiritual progress, most of all where those of kindred mind and spirit find their ground of fellowship in God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[people who are willing to kill animals just to satisfy their greed for meat are ultimately, really, killing themselves by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2650]]></link><description><![CDATA[people who are willing to kill animals just to satisfy their greed for meat are ultimately, really, killing themselves by their cruelty . . . that is God at workhttp://www.egroups.com/messages/christianveg.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63879]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not want a plain box, I want a sarcophagusWith tigery stripes, and a face on itRound as the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15237]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not want a plain box, I want a sarcophagusWith tigery stripes, and a face on itRound as the moon, to stare up.I want to be looking at them when they comePicking among the dumb minerals, the roots.I see them already-the pale, star-distance faces.Now they are nothing, they are not even babies.I imagine them without fathers or mothers, like the first gods.They will wonder if I was important.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Fox Who Had Lost His TailA fox caught in a trap escaped, but in so doing lost his tail. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1564]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Fox Who Had Lost His TailA fox caught in a trap escaped, but in so doing lost his tail. Thereafter, feeling his life a burden from the shame and ridicule to which he was exposed, he schemed to convince all the other Foxes that being tailless was much more attractive, thus making up for his own deprivation. He assembled a good many Foxes and publicly advised them to cut off their tails, saying that they would not only look much better without them, but that they would get rid of the weight of the brush, which was a very great inconvenience. One of them interrupting him said, If you had not yourself lost your tail, my friend, you would not thus counsel us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To kill a relative of whom you are tired is one thing. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20911]]></link><description><![CDATA[To kill a relative of whom you are tired is one thing. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is a genuine pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If by saying that all men are born equal, you mean that they are equally born, it is true, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12213]]></link><description><![CDATA[If by saying that all men are born equal, you mean that they are equally born, it is true, but true in no other sense; birth, talent, labor, virtue, and providence, are forever making differences.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The brave man is not he who feels no fear, For that were stupid and irrational;  But he, whose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15495]]></link><description><![CDATA[The brave man is not he who feels no fear, For that were stupid and irrational;  But he, whose noble soul its fear subdues,   And bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I question not if thrushes sing, If roses load the air;  Beyond my heart I need not reach  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58256]]></link><description><![CDATA[I question not if thrushes sing, If roses load the air;  Beyond my heart I need not reach   When all is summer there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Passion and strife bow down the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51822]]></link><description><![CDATA[Passion and strife bow down the mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it's looks, most women know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55161]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it's looks, most women know otherwise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47995]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The words ending in Ique do mocke the Physician (as Hectique, Paralitique, Apoplectique, Lethargique). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49939]]></link><description><![CDATA[The words ending in Ique do mocke the Physician (as Hectique, Paralitique, Apoplectique, Lethargique).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not sacrifice, but lend myself to business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51160]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not sacrifice, but lend myself to business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want to see this issue resolved by the end of the month. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29568]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want to see this issue resolved by the end of the month.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we look carefully within ourselves, we shall find that there are certain limits beyond which we refuse to go ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6433]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we look carefully within ourselves, we shall find that there are certain limits beyond which we refuse to go in offering ourselves to God. We hover around these reservations, making believe not to see them, for fear of self-reproach. The more we shrink from giving up any such reserved point, the more certain it is that it needs to be given up. If we were not fast bound by it, we should not make so many efforts to persuade ourselves that we are free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too much. -Robert Greenleaf. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too much. -Robert Greenleaf.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25235]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things have been great this season. We've had a lot of support and we hope to see more people here ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things have been great this season. We've had a lot of support and we hope to see more people here next year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wonderful is the depth of thy words, whose surface is before us, gently leading on the little ones: and yet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8469]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wonderful is the depth of thy words, whose surface is before us, gently leading on the little ones: and yet a wonderful deepness, O my God, a wonderful deepness. It is awe to look into it; even an awfulness of honour, and a trembling of love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nomura should sow seeds not only in Japan but all across the world. Any hesitation and Japanese banks will steal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nomura should sow seeds not only in Japan but all across the world. Any hesitation and Japanese banks will steal business by joining with overseas firms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have not a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming vices. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60544]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have not a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming vices.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Someone told me I had five assists at halftime and I just laughed. It's nice, but the win is more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Someone told me I had five assists at halftime and I just laughed. It's nice, but the win is more important.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want to bring people different workshops to educate, to give them training and skills they can use in their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38137]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want to bring people different workshops to educate, to give them training and skills they can use in their businesses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61557]]></link><description><![CDATA[No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56904]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For men use, if they have an evil tourne, to write it in marble; and whoso doth us a good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43047]]></link><description><![CDATA[For men use, if they have an evil tourne, to write it in marble; and whoso doth us a good tourne we will write it in duste.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Painting is possessed of a divine power, for not only . . . does it make the absent present, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40631]]></link><description><![CDATA[Painting is possessed of a divine power, for not only . . . does it make the absent present, but it also, after many centuries, makes the dead almost alive, so that they are recognized with great admiration . . .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's nice to be honored, to work my butt off and have it pay off. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29064]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's nice to be honored, to work my butt off and have it pay off.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The distance is nothing; it is only the first step that costs. [Fr., La distance n'y fait rien; il n'y ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3951]]></link><description><![CDATA[The distance is nothing; it is only the first step that costs. [Fr., La distance n'y fait rien; il n'y a que le premier pas qui coute.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each of us inevitable; Each of us limitless - each of us with his or her right upon the earth; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26329]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each of us inevitable; Each of us limitless - each of us with his or her right upon the earth; Each of us allowed the eternal purports of the earth; Each of us here as divinely as any is here. -Walt Whitman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When it hit the civic center floor, water gushed out like a geyser. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40506]]></link><description><![CDATA[When it hit the civic center floor, water gushed out like a geyser.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one pays me to be nice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28187]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one pays me to be nice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25045]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wanted closure. And for him to thank me for being so loyal to him over the years. Instead he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40513]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wanted closure. And for him to thank me for being so loyal to him over the years. Instead he stood up and asked me if I wanted to see his penis.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Amy Carmichael, Founder of the Dohnavur Fellowship, 1951   Joy is not gush: joy is not jolliness. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8343]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Amy Carmichael, Founder of the Dohnavur Fellowship, 1951   Joy is not gush: joy is not jolliness. Joy is simply perfect acquiescence in God's will, because the soul delights itself in God himself... rejoice in the will of God, and in nothing else. Bow down your heads and your hearts before God, and let the will, the blessed will of God, be done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8343</guid></item></channel></rss>