<?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[We must not encourage in ourselves or others any tendency to work up a subjective state which, if we succeeded, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8549]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must not encourage in ourselves or others any tendency to work up a subjective state which, if we succeeded, we should describe as "faith", with the idea that this will somehow ensure the granting of our prayer. We have probably all done this as children. But the state of mind which desperate desire working on a strong imagination can manufacture is not faith in the Christian sense. It is a feat of psychological gymnastics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have called a meeting for the coming days of the most important anti-terrorist services from the European Union who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29319]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have called a meeting for the coming days of the most important anti-terrorist services from the European Union who will meet here in Madrid,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature; they being both the servants of his providence. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3170]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature; they being both the servants of his providence. Art is the perfection of nature. Were the world now as it was the sixth day, there were yet a chaos. Nature hath made one world, and art another. In brief, all things are artificial; for nature is the art of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that's the area that's most disappointing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38453]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that's the area that's most disappointing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22466]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At any age it does us no harm to look over our past shortcomings and plan to improve our characters ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27602]]></link><description><![CDATA[At any age it does us no harm to look over our past shortcomings and plan to improve our characters and actions in the coming year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word; And in its hollow tones are heard  The thanks of millions yet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word; And in its hollow tones are heard  The thanks of millions yet to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13041]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Governments always tend to want not really a free press but a managed or well-conducted one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Governments always tend to want not really a free press but a managed or well-conducted one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who knows nothing, doubts nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12783]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who knows nothing, doubts nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rebellion in this land shall lose his sway, Meeting the check of such another day;  And since this business ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rebellion in this land shall lose his sway, Meeting the check of such another day;  And since this business so fair is done,   Let us not leave till all our own be won.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Aelred of Hexham, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167 Commemoration of Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearmouth, Scholar, 689  We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Aelred of Hexham, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167 Commemoration of Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearmouth, Scholar, 689  We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and pray another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4960]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord Jesus Christ! A whole life long didst thou suffer that I too might be saved; and yet thy suffering ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord Jesus Christ! A whole life long didst thou suffer that I too might be saved; and yet thy suffering is not yet at an end; but this too wilt thou endure, saving and redeeming me, this patient suffering of having to do with me, I who so often go astray from the right path, or even when I remained on the straight path stumbled along it or crept so slowly along the right path. Infinite patience, suffering of infinite patience. How many times have I not been impatient, wished to give up and forsake everything; wished to take the terribly easy way out, despair: but thou didst not lose patience. Oh, I cannot say what thy chosen servant says: that he filled up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in his flesh; no, I can only say that I increased thy sufferings, added new ones to those which thou didst once suffer in order to save me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opinions that are well rooted should grow and change like a healthy tree. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46350]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opinions that are well rooted should grow and change like a healthy tree.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lindsay has invited quite a few of her friends to the house to meet Pang. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30494]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lindsay has invited quite a few of her friends to the house to meet Pang.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life, like a mirror, never gives back more than we put into it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25018]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life, like a mirror, never gives back more than we put into it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had rather be a dog and bay the moon Than such a Roman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54412]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had rather be a dog and bay the moon Than such a Roman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Calamity is virtue's opportunity. [Lat., Calamitas virtutis occasio est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Calamity is virtue's opportunity. [Lat., Calamitas virtutis occasio est.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He cannot be vertuous that is not rigorous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49311]]></link><description><![CDATA[He cannot be vertuous that is not rigorous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are now challenging the best in the segment with a very special car. The S80 radiates what we call ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35184]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are now challenging the best in the segment with a very special car. The S80 radiates what we call 'Scandinavian Luxury,' clean and elegant lines and intelligent functionality where every single detail has been designed with the user's well being in mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Midnight, yet not a nose From Tower Hill to Piccadilly snored! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27458]]></link><description><![CDATA[Midnight, yet not a nose From Tower Hill to Piccadilly snored!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48302]]></link><description><![CDATA[Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9343]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not looking to exclude people, I'm looking to include them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64786]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not looking to exclude people, I'm looking to include them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man would listen to you talk if he did not know that it was his turn next. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25199]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man would listen to you talk if he did not know that it was his turn next.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45867]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It will have blood, they say: blood will have blood. Stones have been known to move and trees to speak; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61989]]></link><description><![CDATA[It will have blood, they say: blood will have blood. Stones have been known to move and trees to speak;  Augures and understood relations have   By maggot-pies and choughs and rooks brought forth    The secret'st man of blood. What is the night?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15524]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a trend toward making jobs more mobile and permitting employees to have remote access to work from home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37203]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a trend toward making jobs more mobile and permitting employees to have remote access to work from home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I felt good, a little loose. I [threw] a lot of pitches. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34786]]></link><description><![CDATA[I felt good, a little loose. I [threw] a lot of pitches.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Mr. absent, and the house dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49898]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Mr. absent, and the house dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51657]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And there my little doves did sit With feathers softly brown  And glittering eyes that showed their right  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12801]]></link><description><![CDATA[And there my little doves did sit With feathers softly brown  And glittering eyes that showed their right   To general Nature's deep delight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fire, water and government know nothing of mercy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fire, water and government know nothing of mercy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
 ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62776]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Change of weather is the discourse of fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Change of weather is the discourse of fools.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only way to spend New Year’s Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel. Otherwise when the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62722]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only way to spend New Year’s Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel. Otherwise when the evening ends and people pair off, someone is bound to be left in tears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9270]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/380]]></link><description><![CDATA[Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just broke up with someone and the last thing she said to me was "You'll never find anyone like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13666]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just broke up with someone and the last thing she said to me was "You'll never find anyone like me again!" I'm thinking, "I should hope not! If I don't want you, why would I want someone like you."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22079]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tiny Salmoneus of the air His mimic bolts the firefly threw. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16031]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tiny Salmoneus of the air His mimic bolts the firefly threw.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The itch of scribbling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50500]]></link><description><![CDATA[The itch of scribbling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A market is the combined behavior of thousands of people responding to information, misinformation and whim. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15904]]></link><description><![CDATA[A market is the combined behavior of thousands of people responding to information, misinformation and whim.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Wild Ass and the LionA wild ass and a Lion entered into an alliance so that they might capture ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1609]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Wild Ass and the LionA wild ass and a Lion entered into an alliance so that they might capture the beasts of the forest with greater ease. The Lion agreed to assist the Wild Ass with his strength, while the Wild Ass gave the Lion the benefit of his greater speed. When they had taken as many beasts as their necessities required, the Lion undertook to distribute the prey, and for this purpose divided it into three shares. I will take the first share, he said, because I am King: and the second share, as a partner with you in the chase: and the third share (believe me) will be a source of great evil to you, unless you willingly resign it to me, and set off as fast as you can. Might makes right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, let her brother live: Thieves for the robbery have authority  When judges steal themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23516]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, let her brother live: Thieves for the robbery have authority  When judges steal themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How sweet the words of Truth, breath'd from the lips of Love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59797]]></link><description><![CDATA[How sweet the words of Truth, breath'd from the lips of Love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9185]]></link><description><![CDATA[How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why, sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why, sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, Sir, is not in Nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58073</guid></item></channel></rss>