<?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[Commemoration of Bridget of Sweden, Abbess of Vadstena, 1373  The witness has never failed. Repeatedly, the light has shone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6899]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bridget of Sweden, Abbess of Vadstena, 1373  The witness has never failed. Repeatedly, the light has shone forth in the darkness, held aloft by hands that perished in the destruction of the institution that failed. Christians tend to defend the institution of their own creation with tenacity. It is institutional Christianity that has often shackled the Church... Many of the missionary institutions of the Church are expendable. They should always be treated as expendable.  ... Leonard M. Outerbridge, The Lost Churches of China July 24, 1996 Commemoration of Thomas à Kempis, priest, spiritual writer, 1471  Men stand much upon the title of 'orthodox', by which is usually understood, not believing the doctrine of Christ or His apostles, but such opinions as are in vogue among such a party, such systems of divinity as have been compiled in haste by those whom we have in admiration; and whatever is not consonant to these little bodies of divinity, tho' possibly it agree well enough with the Word of God, is error and heresy; and whoever maintains it can hardly pass for a Christian among some angry and perverse people. I do not intend to plead for any error, but I would not have Christianity chiefly measured by matters of opinion. I know no such error and heresy as a wicked life... Of the two, I have more hopes of him that denies the divinity of Christ and lives otherwise soberly and righteously and godly in the world, than of the man who owns Christ to be the Son of God and lives like a child of the devil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The past is where you learned the lesson... the future is where u apply the lesson. Don't give up in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62855]]></link><description><![CDATA[The past is where you learned the lesson... the future is where u apply the lesson. Don't give up in the middle!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make two grins grow where there was only a grouch before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19164]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make two grins grow where there was only a grouch before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14700]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums, who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27529]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums, who can't, and those in cemeteries.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The voice of the people has about it something divine: for how otherwise can so many heads agree together as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52451]]></link><description><![CDATA[The voice of the people has about it something divine: for how otherwise can so many heads agree together as one? [Lat., Vox populi habet aliquid divinum: nam quomo do aliter tot capita in unum conspirare possint?]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63611]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People need trouble -- a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don't mean you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17028]]></link><description><![CDATA[People need trouble -- a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don't mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To include freedom in the very definition of democracy is to define a process not by its actual characteristics as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47203]]></link><description><![CDATA[To include freedom in the very definition of democracy is to define a process not by its actual characteristics as a process but by its hoped for results. This is not only intellectually invalid, it is, in practical terms, blinding oneself in advance to some of the unwanted consequences of the process.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thanksgiving (U.S.) Lord, I am glad for the great gift of living, Glad for Thy days of sun and of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thanksgiving (U.S.) Lord, I am glad for the great gift of living, Glad for Thy days of sun and of rain; Grateful for joy, with an endless thanksgiving, Grateful for laughter -- and grateful for pain. Lord, I am glad for the young April's wonder, Glad for the fulness of long summer days; And now when the spring and my heart are asunder, Lord, I give thanks for the dark autumn ways. Sun, bloom, and blossom, O Lord, I remember, The dream of the spring and its joy I recall; But now in the silence and pain of November, Lord, I give thanks to Thee, Giver of all!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After supper walk a mile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48622]]></link><description><![CDATA[After supper walk a mile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I support a national notification requirement. But we also need to give companies protection so that if it's obvious they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39202]]></link><description><![CDATA[I support a national notification requirement. But we also need to give companies protection so that if it's obvious they are trying to keep data safe and something happens anyway, they shouldn't be subject to lawsuits.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aristophanes turns Socrates into ridicule . . . as making the worse appear the better reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Aristophanes turns Socrates into ridicule . . . as making the worse appear the better reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54111]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the lessons and tasks are all ended, And the school for the day is dismissed,  The little one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5905]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the lessons and tasks are all ended, And the school for the day is dismissed,  The little one gather around me,   To bid me good-night and be kissed;    On, the little white arms that encircle     My neck in their tender embrace      Oh, the smiles that are halos of heaven,       Shedding sunshine of love on my face.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5086]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We didn't hit as well, but then again the weather changed a lot from our 3 p.m. game to our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40959]]></link><description><![CDATA[We didn't hit as well, but then again the weather changed a lot from our 3 p.m. game to our 7:30 p.m. game. We still executed well by putting the bunt down and moving runners over. So that's getting better. And our defense played well behind Erica. So hopefully those will carry over.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today's uncertainties call for vigilance by the authorities in both mature and emerging market economies in pursuing sound economic policies. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today's uncertainties call for vigilance by the authorities in both mature and emerging market economies in pursuing sound economic policies. Investors need to recognize the costly consequences of sudden reversals in global conditions that could impact the markets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901 Be not afraid to pray... to pray is right. Pray ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901 Be not afraid to pray... to pray is right. Pray if thou canst with hope; but ever pray Though hope be weak, or sick with long delay. Whatever is good to wish, ask that of heaven; But if for any wish thou darest not pray, Then pray to God to cast that wish away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You do whatever you can either to maintain an edge or to get an edge and for men now, it's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42564]]></link><description><![CDATA[You do whatever you can either to maintain an edge or to get an edge and for men now, it's not like you can just rest on your laurels.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hatred is a boomerang which is sure to hit you harder than the one at whom you throw it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18878]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hatred is a boomerang which is sure to hit you harder than the one at whom you throw it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may envy every one, but no one envies you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50638]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may envy every one, but no one envies you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some suffer from real misfortunes. Sadly, others only imagine that they do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some suffer from real misfortunes. Sadly, others only imagine that they do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Irenæus, Bishop of Lyons, Teacher, Martyr, c.200  We need not despair of any man, so long as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8463]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Irenæus, Bishop of Lyons, Teacher, Martyr, c.200  We need not despair of any man, so long as he lives. For God deemed it better to bring good out of evil than not to permit evil at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes a good deal of character to judge a person by his future instead of his past ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23474]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes a good deal of character to judge a person by his future instead of his past]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every few years I'll party way too much to remind myself what an idiot I am. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37645]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every few years I'll party way too much to remind myself what an idiot I am.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8848]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45672]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing impossible to him who will try. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63300]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing impossible to him who will try.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All this I see; and I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man. But art not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15348]]></link><description><![CDATA[All this I see; and I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man. But art not thou thyself giddy with the fashion too, that thou hast shifted out of thy tale into telling me of the fashion?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speak of the gods as they are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17738]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speak of the gods as they are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pretty is something you're born with. But beautiful, that's an equal opportunity adjective. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3808]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pretty is something you're born with. But beautiful, that's an equal opportunity adjective.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10690]]></link><description><![CDATA[Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As is the mother, so is her daughter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48567]]></link><description><![CDATA[As is the mother, so is her daughter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65987]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Josephine Butler, Social Reformer, 1906 Commemoration of Apolo Kivebulaya, Priest, Evangelist, 1933  Groups that require little of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7168]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Josephine Butler, Social Reformer, 1906 Commemoration of Apolo Kivebulaya, Priest, Evangelist, 1933  Groups that require little of their membership count for little outside of their membership. Real spiritual capacity requires at least as much concentration and training as learning to play a musical instrument. Nobody has ever drifted into a genuine Christian experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The Stones] thought nothing of ... music, golf, football and girls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29290]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The Stones] thought nothing of ... music, golf, football and girls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11882]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cholerick man never wants woe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49816]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cholerick man never wants woe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the first time I rode on an elephant and I thoroughly enjoyed the safari. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39001]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the first time I rode on an elephant and I thoroughly enjoyed the safari.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I fight fairly, and in good faith. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34280]]></link><description><![CDATA[I fight fairly, and in good faith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around her neck 'Lay on Top of Me Or I'll Die.' I didn't know what I was gonna do....".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suddenly it looks like the policy is not tough diplomacy, but the path to war. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38951]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suddenly it looks like the policy is not tough diplomacy, but the path to war.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not stand on a high pedestal and take 5 cents in your hand and say, "here, my poor man", ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17496]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not stand on a high pedestal and take 5 cents in your hand and say, "here, my poor man", but be grateful that the poor man is there, so by making a gift to him you are able to help yourself.It is not the reciever that is blessed, but it is the giver.Be thankful that you are allowed to exercise your power of benevolence and mercy in the world, and thus become pure and perfect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But every thyng which schyneth as the gold, Nis nat gold, as that I have herd it told. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2812]]></link><description><![CDATA[But every thyng which schyneth as the gold, Nis nat gold, as that I have herd it told.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there's only one nation in the sky, shouldn't all passports be valid for it?” ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65651]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there's only one nation in the sky, shouldn't all passports be valid for it?”]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He stands the shadow of a mighty name. [Lat., Stat magni nominis umbra.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50589]]></link><description><![CDATA[He stands the shadow of a mighty name. [Lat., Stat magni nominis umbra.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Actually, this seems to be the basic need of the human heart in nearly every great crisis - a good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8978]]></link><description><![CDATA[Actually, this seems to be the basic need of the human heart in nearly every great crisis - a good hot cup of coffee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's also something of an illusion in that, you can perhaps record a TV thing one month and complete a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37228]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's also something of an illusion in that, you can perhaps record a TV thing one month and complete a book the next and then be in a play. Then, if they all come out at once, it looks as if you're actually juggling a million things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37228</guid></item></channel></rss>