<?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[These earthly godfathers of heaven's light, That give a name to every fixed star,  Have no more profit of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3403]]></link><description><![CDATA[These earthly godfathers of heaven's light, That give a name to every fixed star,  Have no more profit of their shining nights   Than those that walk and wot not what they are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ring out, will bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ring out, will bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The government is asleep -- there is a big administrative corruption everywhere in its institutions, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36676]]></link><description><![CDATA[The government is asleep -- there is a big administrative corruption everywhere in its institutions,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The corne hides it self in the snow, as an old man in furrs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49822]]></link><description><![CDATA[The corne hides it self in the snow, as an old man in furrs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60367]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The beginning is the most important part of the work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3940]]></link><description><![CDATA[The beginning is the most important part of the work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You shall not pile, with servile toil, Your monuments upon my breast,  Nor yet within the common soil  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43039]]></link><description><![CDATA[You shall not pile, with servile toil, Your monuments upon my breast,  Nor yet within the common soil   Lay down the wreck of power to rest,    Where man can boast that he has trod     On him that was "the scourge of God."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way others treat you when you're there, is something to be considered.. but the way they respect you when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63063]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way others treat you when you're there, is something to be considered.. but the way they respect you when you're not around is much more important.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was an awful rainbow once in heaven; We know her woof, her texture; she is given  In the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52949]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was an awful rainbow once in heaven; We know her woof, her texture; she is given  In the dull catalogue of common things.   Philosophy will clip an Angel's wings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52949</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><item><title><![CDATA[A thunderstorm is God's way of saying you spend too much time in front of the computer ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9579]]></link><description><![CDATA[A thunderstorm is God's way of saying you spend too much time in front of the computer]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With what knot shall I bind this Proteus, who is ever shifting his ground? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50396]]></link><description><![CDATA[With what knot shall I bind this Proteus, who is ever shifting his ground?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25992]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation the source of strength is one's self. When one prays he goes to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26801]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation the source of strength is one's self. When one prays he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou shalt know by experience how salt the savor is of other's bread, and how sad a path it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14676]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou shalt know by experience how salt the savor is of other's bread, and how sad a path it is to climb and descend another's stairs. [It., Tu proverai si come sa di sale  Lo pane altrui, e com e duro calle   Lo scendere e'l salir per l'altrui scale.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy it implies, then the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20213]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy it implies, then the "division" of humanity will reveal its genuine significance and the human couple will find its true form.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is a very important part of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35699]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is a very important part of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He carries well, to whom it waighes not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49312]]></link><description><![CDATA[He carries well, to whom it waighes not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is very important that we have access to safe, legal pregnancy termination services, whether it is emergency contraceptives right ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31443]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is very important that we have access to safe, legal pregnancy termination services, whether it is emergency contraceptives right after the assault or an abortion service.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was born here, ... He didn't do anything other than British culture. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29907]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was born here, ... He didn't do anything other than British culture.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44876]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I send thee pansies while the year is young, Yellow as sunshine, purple as the night;  Flowers of remembrance, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45440]]></link><description><![CDATA[I send thee pansies while the year is young, Yellow as sunshine, purple as the night;  Flowers of remembrance, ever fondly sung   By all the chiefest of the Sons of Light;    And if in recollection lives regret     For wasted days and dreams that were not true,      I tell thee that the "pansy freak'd with jet"       Is still the heart's ease that the poets knew        Take all the sweetness of a gift unsought,         And for the pansies send me back a thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23965]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pill that the present moment is daily bread to thousands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26697]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pill that the present moment is daily bread to thousands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are some things that are not the way they should be, and even the indicators that are 'best-ever' status ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34097]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are some things that are not the way they should be, and even the indicators that are 'best-ever' status have room for improvement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kurtis has grown up in a number of ways since last spring. Today he's a consistent baseball player. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kurtis has grown up in a number of ways since last spring. Today he's a consistent baseball player.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A number of members of our local government, administration and local clergy will all go in and be guest readers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38686]]></link><description><![CDATA[A number of members of our local government, administration and local clergy will all go in and be guest readers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predicting human behavior ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66714]]></link><description><![CDATA[While physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predicting human behavior because there are far too many equations to solve. I'm no better than anyone else at understanding what makes people tick, particularly women.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mother of light! how fairly dost thou go Over those hoary crests, divinely led!  Art thou that huntress of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43080]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mother of light! how fairly dost thou go Over those hoary crests, divinely led!  Art thou that huntress of the silver bow   Fabled of old? Or rather dost thou tread    Those cloudy summits thence to gaze below,     Like the wild chamois from her Alpine snow,      Where hunters never climbed--secure from dread?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness -- someone else always suffers for them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16396]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness -- someone else always suffers for them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32668]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16793]]></link><description><![CDATA[I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21318]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't be so humble--you are not that great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20026]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't be so humble--you are not that great.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rough Johnson, the great moralist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rough Johnson, the great moralist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark When neither is attended; and I think  The nightingale, if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10774]]></link><description><![CDATA[The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark When neither is attended; and I think  The nightingale, if she should sing by day   When every goose is cackling, would be thought    No better a musician than the wren.     How many thing by season seasoned are      To their right praise and true perfection!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Finite to fail, but infinite to venture. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One thing is forever good; That one thing is Success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58140]]></link><description><![CDATA[One thing is forever good; That one thing is Success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have not the time to take our time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64203]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have not the time to take our time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Madam, I swear I use no art at all. That he is mad, 'tis true: 'tis true 'tis pity,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21027]]></link><description><![CDATA[Madam, I swear I use no art at all. That he is mad, 'tis true: 'tis true 'tis pity,  And pity 'tis 'tis true--a foolish figure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The big thing for her was that she rebounded well. She scored and hit the big shots. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39718]]></link><description><![CDATA[The big thing for her was that she rebounded well. She scored and hit the big shots.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet all how beautiful! Pillars of pearl Propping the cliffs above, stalactites bright  From the ice roof depending; and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet all how beautiful! Pillars of pearl Propping the cliffs above, stalactites bright  From the ice roof depending; and beneath,   Grottoes and temples with their crystal spires    And gleaming columns radiant in the sun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They talk of the dignity of work. Bosh. The dignity is in leisure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24622]]></link><description><![CDATA[They talk of the dignity of work. Bosh. The dignity is in leisure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think someone should have had the decency to tell me the luncheon was free. To make someone run out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11743]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think someone should have had the decency to tell me the luncheon was free. To make someone run out with potato salad in his hand, pretending he's throwing up, is not what I call hospitality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rarest things in the world, next to a spirit of discernment, are diamonds and pearls. [Fr., Apres l'esprit de ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23262]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rarest things in the world, next to a spirit of discernment, are diamonds and pearls. [Fr., Apres l'esprit de discernement, ce qu'il y a au monde de plus rare, ce sont les diamants et les perles.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you must flie, flie well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49523]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you must flie, flie well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a paradox, you're damned if you do and damned if you don't ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a paradox, you're damned if you do and damned if you don't]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4076]]></link><description><![CDATA[Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4076</guid></item></channel></rss>