<?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 care of human life and happiness and not their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5273]]></link><description><![CDATA[The care of human life and happiness and not their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of good government.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Traveler and His DogA Traveler about to set out on a journey saw his Dog stand at the door ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1520]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Traveler and His DogA Traveler about to set out on a journey saw his Dog stand at the door stretching himself. He asked him sharply: Why do you stand there gaping? Everything is ready but you, so come with me instantly. The Dog, wagging his tail, replied: O, master! I am quite ready; it is you for whom I am waiting. The loiterer often blames delay on his more active friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart is half a prophet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13742]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart is half a prophet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45944]]></link><description><![CDATA[It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But what is worship? What ought to result from it? What is the point and peak and heart and centre ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7409]]></link><description><![CDATA[But what is worship? What ought to result from it? What is the point and peak and heart and centre of it? Is it the offering we bring to God of praise and adoration, of thanksgiving and sacrifice, our praise, our sacrifice to Him? That has its place, not legitimate only, but imperative. And yet to put that in the foreground is to make the service fundamentally man-centered and subjective, which, face to face with God, is surely almost unthinkably unseemly. Or is the ideal we should hold before us that other extreme, so ardently pressed on us these days, that, face to face with the Lord God Almighty, High and Holy, it is for us to forget ourselves and -- leaving behind our petty little human joys and needs and sins and risings above thanksgiving and petition and confession -- to lose ourselves in an awed adoration of God's naked and essential being, blessing and praising Him, not even for what he has done for us, and been for us, but for what, in Himself, He is. To me, that seems not an advance, but a pathetic throw-back to the primitive of Brahmanism. We shall not learn to know God better, nor how to worship Him more worthily, by careful rubbing out from memory every wonder of Christ's revelation of Him. [Excerpt continued tomorrow.].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even a thief takes ten years to learn his trade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even a thief takes ten years to learn his trade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54684]]></link><description><![CDATA[What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're going to need to see follow-through from Intel. Good news from Intel could set a tone and start to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32037]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're going to need to see follow-through from Intel. Good news from Intel could set a tone and start to give those that were most fearful about the outlook for chip stocks less reason to be concerned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[However human, envy is certainly not one of the sources of discontent that a free society can eliminate. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52012]]></link><description><![CDATA[However human, envy is certainly not one of the sources of discontent that a free society can eliminate. It is probably one of the essential conditions for the preservation of such a society that we do not countenance envy, not sanction its demands by camouflaging it as social justice, but treat it, in the words of John Stuart Mill, as "the most anti-social and evil of all passions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A chief petty officer taught me shorthand, which got me promoted to yeoman first class. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36859]]></link><description><![CDATA[A chief petty officer taught me shorthand, which got me promoted to yeoman first class.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12948]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5976]]></link><description><![CDATA[It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Triumphs without difficulties are empty. Indeed, it is difficulties that make the triumph. It is no feat to travel the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12231]]></link><description><![CDATA[Triumphs without difficulties are empty. Indeed, it is difficulties that make the triumph. It is no feat to travel the smooth road.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17261]]></link><description><![CDATA[All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just side of a question is the generous and merciful side.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All art requires courage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3149]]></link><description><![CDATA[All art requires courage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dead scandals form good subjects for dissection. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dead scandals form good subjects for dissection.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth exists; only lies are invented. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth exists; only lies are invented.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How he in peace is wounded, not in war. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62370]]></link><description><![CDATA[How he in peace is wounded, not in war.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn to limit yourself; to content yourself with some definite work; dare to be what you are and learn to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18072]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn to limit yourself; to content yourself with some definite work; dare to be what you are and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not; and to believe in your own individuality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That which sufficeth is not little. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49788]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which sufficeth is not little.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have left it, we can never return. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have left it, we can never return.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wode has erys, felde has sigt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wode has erys, felde has sigt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And he sang every night as he went to bed. 'Let us be happy down here below: the living should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35620]]></link><description><![CDATA[And he sang every night as he went to bed. 'Let us be happy down here below: the living should live, though the dead be dead.' Said the jolly old pedagogue long ago.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He always seemed to try to impress you by show. He didn't seem to have a lot of depth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42542]]></link><description><![CDATA[He always seemed to try to impress you by show. He didn't seem to have a lot of depth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Treat your friend as if he will one day be your enemy, and your enemy as if he will one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13811]]></link><description><![CDATA[Treat your friend as if he will one day be your enemy, and your enemy as if he will one day be your friend]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that we may have to be content with a little less, ... But if that happens, it does ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31254]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that we may have to be content with a little less, ... But if that happens, it does not mean lowering the ambition of the round.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're kind of groping their way forward to understand how they can make the pope as available as possible to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38497]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're kind of groping their way forward to understand how they can make the pope as available as possible to his followers while at the same time protecting his health.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Over the past decade, Afghanistan has been the principal source of international terrorism, religious extremism, international drug trafficking and organized ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29695]]></link><description><![CDATA[Over the past decade, Afghanistan has been the principal source of international terrorism, religious extremism, international drug trafficking and organized crime in this region,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's the rock around which we normally build our innings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42696]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's the rock around which we normally build our innings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger blows out the lamp of the mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's obviously a ton of money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36027]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's obviously a ton of money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I consider how my light is spent  Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8154]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I consider how my light is spent  Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide,  And that one talent which is death to hide Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present  My true account, lest He returning chide,  "Doth God exact day-labor, light denied?" I fondly ask. But Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies: "God doth not need  Either man's work, or His own gifts. Who best  Bear His mild yoke, they serve Him best. His state Is kingly. Thousands at his bidding speed,  And post o'er land and ocean without rest;  They also serve who only stand and wait.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mortal race is far too weak not to grow dizzy on unwonted brights. [Ger., Das sterbliche Geschlecht ist viel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61334]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mortal race is far too weak not to grow dizzy on unwonted brights. [Ger., Das sterbliche Geschlecht ist viel zu schwach  In ungewohnter Hohe nicht zu schwindeln.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Chad, Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop of Lichfield, Missionary, 672 Continuing a short series on the Bible: Come, Holy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Chad, Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop of Lichfield, Missionary, 672 Continuing a short series on the Bible: Come, Holy Ghost, for moved by thee The prophets wrote and spoke; Unlock the truth, thyself the key, Unseal the sacred book.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you doubt, abstain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12788]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you doubt, abstain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As it has for America's other indigenous peoples, I believe the United States must fulfill its responsibility to Native Hawaiians. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32567]]></link><description><![CDATA[As it has for America's other indigenous peoples, I believe the United States must fulfill its responsibility to Native Hawaiians.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26694]]></link><description><![CDATA[Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her pretty action did outsell her gift, And yet enriched it too. She gave it me and said  She ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51241]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her pretty action did outsell her gift, And yet enriched it too. She gave it me and said  She prized it once.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To-morrow never yet On any human being rose or set. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59458]]></link><description><![CDATA[To-morrow never yet On any human being rose or set.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On dit que dans ses amours Il fut caresse des belles,  Qui le suivirent toujours,   Tant qu'il ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/612]]></link><description><![CDATA[On dit que dans ses amours Il fut caresse des belles,  Qui le suivirent toujours,   Tant qu'il marcha devant elles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The friendships which last are those wherein each friend respects the other's dignity to the point of not really wanting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12266]]></link><description><![CDATA[The friendships which last are those wherein each friend respects the other's dignity to the point of not really wanting anything from him]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66087]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The immortal could we cease to contemplate, The mortal part suggests its every trait.  God laid His fingers on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43176]]></link><description><![CDATA[The immortal could we cease to contemplate, The mortal part suggests its every trait.  God laid His fingers on the ivories   Of her pure members as on smoothed keys,    And there out-breathed her spirit's harmonies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61035]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gilbert of Sempringham, Founder of the Gilbertine Order, 1189   It is well to have specifically holy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8573]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gilbert of Sempringham, Founder of the Gilbertine Order, 1189   It is well to have specifically holy places, and things, and days, for, without these focal points or reminders, the belief that all is holy and "big with God" will soon dwindle into a mere sentiment. But if these holy places, things, and days cease to remind us, if they obliterate our awareness that all ground is holy and every bush (could we but perceive it) a Burning Bush, then the hallows begin to do harm. Hence both the necessity, and the perennial danger, of "religion".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The soul of man is larger than the sky, Deeper than ocean, or the abysmal dark  Of the unfathomed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57283]]></link><description><![CDATA[The soul of man is larger than the sky, Deeper than ocean, or the abysmal dark  Of the unfathomed centre.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of soon living beneath them; or as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13340]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of soon living beneath them; or as the Italian proverb says, "The man that lives by hope, will die by despair.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9819]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mystery is the wisdom of blockheads. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43574]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mystery is the wisdom of blockheads.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43574</guid></item></channel></rss>