<?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[There are 3 elements essential in the matters of the State, Food, Military equipment, and Confidence of the people in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9690]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are 3 elements essential in the matters of the State, Food, Military equipment, and Confidence of the people in the ruler.Of these 3, Military Equipment is the least important, Food being the 2nd important, and Confidence of the people being the MOST important.All men rather die of starvation than in war, but nevertheless all men do die of old age.Lacking in Confidence from the people, a state cannot survive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are a devil at everything, and there is no kind of thing in the 'versal world but what you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are a devil at everything, and there is no kind of thing in the 'versal world but what you can turn your hand into.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43234]]></link><description><![CDATA[People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a wicked thing to make a dearth ones garner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49572]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a wicked thing to make a dearth ones garner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To heal divisions, to relieve the oppress'd, In virtue rich; in blessing others, bless'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4318]]></link><description><![CDATA[To heal divisions, to relieve the oppress'd, In virtue rich; in blessing others, bless'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27199]]></link><description><![CDATA[A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your girdle when your hips stick.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the nature of mortals to kick a fallen man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42796]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the nature of mortals to kick a fallen man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The four seniors really organized things. I've seen it occasionally, but usually not everybody. For all seven of them to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39961]]></link><description><![CDATA[The four seniors really organized things. I've seen it occasionally, but usually not everybody. For all seven of them to show up in great shape, that's a really big plus for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in. and the best of me is diligence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12305]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in. and the best of me is diligence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Passion, it lies in all of us, sleeping... waiting... and though unwanted... unbidden... it will stir... open its jaws and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11948]]></link><description><![CDATA[Passion, it lies in all of us, sleeping... waiting... and though unwanted... unbidden... it will stir... open its jaws and howl. It speaks to us... guides us... passion rules us all, and we obey. What other choice do we have? Passion is the source of our finest moments. The joy of love... the clarity of hatred... and the ecstasy of grief. It hurts sometimes more than we can bear. If we could live without passion maybe we'd know some kind of peace... but we would be hollow... Empty rooms shuttered and dank. Without passion we'd be truly dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John and Charles Wesley, Priests, Poets, Teachers, 1791 & 1788 I know Thee, Saviour, Who Thou art: Jesus, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6636]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John and Charles Wesley, Priests, Poets, Teachers, 1791 & 1788 I know Thee, Saviour, Who Thou art: Jesus, the feeble sinner's friend! Nor wilt Thou with the night depart, But stay and love me to the end. Thy mercies never shall remove; Thy nature and Thy name is Love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The state, for a long period of time, has been undergoing a wrenching economic transformation. The reality is much grimmer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36494]]></link><description><![CDATA[The state, for a long period of time, has been undergoing a wrenching economic transformation. The reality is much grimmer than in other states.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wallet of the timid man neither increases nor decreases. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59372]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wallet of the timid man neither increases nor decreases.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We only think when we are confronted with a problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59175]]></link><description><![CDATA[We only think when we are confronted with a problem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No nation has friends only interests ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43726]]></link><description><![CDATA[No nation has friends only interests]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47543]]></link><description><![CDATA[The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime, and the punishment of his guilt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confusion is an often too subtle sign of paranoia. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9750]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confusion is an often too subtle sign of paranoia.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54232]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We know for sure we'll have it - snow, rain and probably everything else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31219]]></link><description><![CDATA[We know for sure we'll have it - snow, rain and probably everything else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28297]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When someone is mean to me, I just make them a victim in my next book. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65785]]></link><description><![CDATA[When someone is mean to me, I just make them a victim in my next book.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57937]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength is to sit still.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hand that rules the press, the radio, the screen and the far-spread magazine, rules the country. - Memorial service ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27911]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hand that rules the press, the radio, the screen and the far-spread magazine, rules the country. - Memorial service for Justice Brandeis, December 21, 1942.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58389]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10301]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our main goal is to accelerate their educations, ... But we hope that after they go to college, they'll return ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34176]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our main goal is to accelerate their educations, ... But we hope that after they go to college, they'll return to make their homes and careers in Texas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't exist unless we are deeply and sensually in touch with that which can be touched but not known. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14487]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't exist unless we are deeply and sensually in touch with that which can be touched but not known.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5533]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's basically the same, just darker.(on racing Saturday nights as opposed to Sunday afternoons, 1991) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57626]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's basically the same, just darker.(on racing Saturday nights as opposed to Sunday afternoons, 1991)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[H' had got a hurt O' th' inside of a deadlier sort. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62361]]></link><description><![CDATA[H' had got a hurt O' th' inside of a deadlier sort.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a wonderful job for baseball. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34360]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a wonderful job for baseball.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They allow schools to fit to kids instead of kids fitting to schools. Mandatory school assignment proves to have detrimental ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37529]]></link><description><![CDATA[They allow schools to fit to kids instead of kids fitting to schools. Mandatory school assignment proves to have detrimental consequences to students.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's more paine to doe nothing then something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49579]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's more paine to doe nothing then something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action.If there's no action, you haven't truly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21407]]></link><description><![CDATA[A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action.If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And took for truth the test of ridicule. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54224]]></link><description><![CDATA[And took for truth the test of ridicule.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Divine Wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7760]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Divine Wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them; not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43293]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anybody with any maturity knows that an experienced Christian is more eager to have God use him than he is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6633]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anybody with any maturity knows that an experienced Christian is more eager to have God use him than he is to use God for his own ends; but this does not mean that God is absent from the processes of business and livelihood, nor unconcerned about them, nor unable to reveal Himself through them. When we begin to look upon work, business, money, as potential sacraments through which God can work, we shall make better use of them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48629]]></link><description><![CDATA[To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;  A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;   A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;    A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;     A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;      A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;       A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We already know the number of permits drawn by builders has decreased and is going to continue to decline because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34730]]></link><description><![CDATA[We already know the number of permits drawn by builders has decreased and is going to continue to decline because of the cool-down in the housing market. We won't need as many construction workers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We start from the Mother's Arms and we run to the Dustshovel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48940]]></link><description><![CDATA[We start from the Mother's Arms and we run to the Dustshovel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real problem is structural: retail consolidation, difficulties in the classified auto space and competition from other media. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34222]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real problem is structural: retail consolidation, difficulties in the classified auto space and competition from other media.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Rose of Lima, Contemplative, 1617 Four things a man must learn to do If he would make his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Rose of Lima, Contemplative, 1617 Four things a man must learn to do If he would make his record true: To think without confusion clearly, To love his fellow men sincerely, To act from honest motives purely, To trust in God and heaven securely.   ... Henry van Dyke August 24, 2000 Feast of Bartholomew the Apostle Beginning a short series on the Bible:  The Bible is a supernatural book and can be understood only by supernatural aid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52845]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3127]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why is it that fools always have the instinct to hunt out the unpleasant secrets of life, and the hardiness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55010]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why is it that fools always have the instinct to hunt out the unpleasant secrets of life, and the hardiness to mention them?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking till you do succeed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10376]]></link><description><![CDATA[If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking till you do succeed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are four kinds of people, three of which are to be avoided and the fourth cultivated: those who don't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48597]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are four kinds of people, three of which are to be avoided and the fourth cultivated: those who don't know that they don't know; those who know that they don't know; those who don't know that they know; and those who know that they know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Write without pay until somebody offers to pay ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62413]]></link><description><![CDATA[Write without pay until somebody offers to pay]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much virtue in Herbs, little in men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57883]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much virtue in Herbs, little in men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57883</guid></item></channel></rss>