<?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[Life is a sexually transmitted disease. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21764]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a sexually transmitted disease.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Joseph of Nazareth   Men today do not, perhaps, burn the Bible, nor does the Roman Catholic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6357]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Joseph of Nazareth   Men today do not, perhaps, burn the Bible, nor does the Roman Catholic Church any longer put it on the Index, as it once did. But men destroy it in the form of exegesis: they destroy it in the way they deal with it. They destroy it by not reading it as written in normal, literary form, by ignoring its historical-grammatical exegesis, by changing the Bible's own perspective of itself as propositional revelation in space and time, in history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19329]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2309]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46510]]></link><description><![CDATA[No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cowards die many times before their deaths;The valiant never taste of death but once.Of all the wonders that I yet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11424]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cowards die many times before their deaths;The valiant never taste of death but once.Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,It seems to me most strange that men should fear,Seeing that death, a necessary end,Will come when it will come.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunity follows struggle. It follows effort. It follows hard work. It doesn't come before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57996]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunity follows struggle. It follows effort. It follows hard work. It doesn't come before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Investors should remember that if we do see companies start hitting estimates and not beating them, that wouldn't be such ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39120]]></link><description><![CDATA[Investors should remember that if we do see companies start hitting estimates and not beating them, that wouldn't be such a bad thing. It would mean there's less earnings management going on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All seems infected that the infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58411]]></link><description><![CDATA[All seems infected that the infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14957]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of his law. The people assembled; Mahomet called the hill to come to him, again and again, and when the hill stood still, he was never a whit abashed, but said, "If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The swifter hand doth the swift words outrun: Before the tongue hath spoke the hand hath done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46021]]></link><description><![CDATA[The swifter hand doth the swift words outrun: Before the tongue hath spoke the hand hath done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only words that ever satisfied me as describing Nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43568]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only words that ever satisfied me as describing Nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment. They express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In His will is our peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53764]]></link><description><![CDATA[In His will is our peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who, to patch up his fame--or fill his purse-- Still pilfers wretched plans, and makes them worse;  Like gypsies, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46634]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who, to patch up his fame--or fill his purse-- Still pilfers wretched plans, and makes them worse;  Like gypsies, lest the stolen brat be known,   Defacing first, then claiming for his own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thank God, I--I also--am an American! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45826]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thank God, I--I also--am an American!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4831]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of All Saints O Lord! how happy should we be, If we could leave our cares to Thee,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6728]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of All Saints O Lord! how happy should we be, If we could leave our cares to Thee,   If we from self could rest; And feel at heart that One above, In perfect wisdom, perfect love,   Is working for the best. For when we kneel and cast our care Upon our God in humble prayer,   With strengthened souls we rise, Sure that our Father Who is nigh, To hear the ravens when they cry,   Will hear His children's cries. O may these anxious hearts of ours The lesson learn from birds and flowers,   And learn from self to cease, Leave all things to our Father's will, And in His mercy trusting still,   Find in each trial peace!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to serve for three reasons. I'm tough on crime, I apply civil law in a fair and predictable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32429]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to serve for three reasons. I'm tough on crime, I apply civil law in a fair and predictable manner and I will protect your constitutional rights.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3824]]></link><description><![CDATA[By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It may be well to wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53018]]></link><description><![CDATA[It may be well to wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hilda, Abbess of Whitby, 680 Commemoration of Elizabeth, Princess of Hungary, Philanthropist, 1231 Commemoration of Mechtild, Bèguine of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7549]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hilda, Abbess of Whitby, 680 Commemoration of Elizabeth, Princess of Hungary, Philanthropist, 1231 Commemoration of Mechtild, Bèguine of Magdeburg, Mystic, Prophet, 1280   The Kingdom of Heaven is not for the well-meaning: it is for the desperate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All have disappointments, all have times when it isn't worthwhile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12373]]></link><description><![CDATA[All have disappointments, all have times when it isn't worthwhile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the dark end of the street -- To the bright side of the road -- We'll be lovers once ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25974]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the dark end of the street -- To the bright side of the road -- We'll be lovers once again on the -- Bright side of the road]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A rising tide lifts all boats ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4413]]></link><description><![CDATA[A rising tide lifts all boats]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4413</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[Silence is the ultimate weapon of power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Holy Innocents  Though Christ a thousand times In Bethlehem be born, If he's not born in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6854]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Holy Innocents  Though Christ a thousand times In Bethlehem be born, If he's not born in thee Thy soul is still forlorn. The cross on Golgotha Will never save thy soul; The cross in thy own heart Alone can make thee whole.   ... anonymous, 3rd century  December 29, 2002 Feast of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1170   The nature of Christ's salvation is woefully misrepresented by the present-day evangelist. He announces a Savior from hell rather than a Savior from sin. And that is why so many are fatally deceived, for there are multitudes who wish to escape the Lake of fire who have no desire to be delivered from their carnality and worldliness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22643]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their poison is like the poison of a serpent; they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear; Which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20852]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their poison is like the poison of a serpent; they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear; Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are all alike--except the one you've met who's different. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26992]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are all alike--except the one you've met who's different.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[FOUR FLOWERSThe Sun Arosein Morning Glorywith His GoldenrodWanding Violetto Rose(to C and R Davisof Maryland). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4896]]></link><description><![CDATA[FOUR FLOWERSThe Sun Arosein Morning Glorywith His GoldenrodWanding Violetto Rose(to C and R Davisof Maryland).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If any man ascribes anything of salvation, even the very least thing, to the free will of man, he knows ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56574]]></link><description><![CDATA[If any man ascribes anything of salvation, even the very least thing, to the free will of man, he knows nothing of grace, and he has not learned Jesus Christ rightly]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1810]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what they want. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5327]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what they want.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man has good manners and is not afraid of other people he will get by, even if he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46291]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man has good manners and is not afraid of other people he will get by, even if he is stupid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis a bird I love, with its brooding note, And the trembling throb in its mottled throat;  There's a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46603]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis a bird I love, with its brooding note, And the trembling throb in its mottled throat;  There's a human look in its swelling breast,   And the gentle curve of its lowly crest;    And I often stop with the fear I feel--     He runs so close to the rapid wheel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of us do not consciously look at movies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of us do not consciously look at movies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who in quarrels interpose, Must often wipe a bloody nose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52686]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who in quarrels interpose, Must often wipe a bloody nose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To take an unequivocal stand, it seems to me, is of greater heuristic value and far more likely to stimulate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52211]]></link><description><![CDATA[To take an unequivocal stand, it seems to me, is of greater heuristic value and far more likely to stimulate constructive criticism than to evade the issue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Holy Saturday   If I ask to be delivered from trial rather than for deliverance out of it, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7930]]></link><description><![CDATA[Holy Saturday   If I ask to be delivered from trial rather than for deliverance out of it, to the praise of His glory; if I forget that the way of the Cross leads to the Cross and not to a bank of flowers; if I regulate my life on these lines, or even unconsciously my thinking, so that I am surprised when the way is rough and think it strange, "Think it not strange, Count it all joy," then I know nothing of Calvary love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one should be left behind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34205]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one should be left behind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[London is the epitome of our times, and the Rome of to-day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25455]]></link><description><![CDATA[London is the epitome of our times, and the Rome of to-day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But, oh! what mighty magician can assuage A woman's envy? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14010]]></link><description><![CDATA[But, oh! what mighty magician can assuage A woman's envy?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weather impacts business across every segment, and this is the most innovative way to hedge that risk. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28505]]></link><description><![CDATA[Weather impacts business across every segment, and this is the most innovative way to hedge that risk.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Perpetua, Felicity & their Companions, Martyrs at Carthage, 203 Concluding a short series on the Bible:   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Perpetua, Felicity & their Companions, Martyrs at Carthage, 203 Concluding a short series on the Bible:   The popular craving [for an English Bible] could not be stifled, and the sixteenth century saw the pioneering works of Tyndale and Coverdale; then, two years after Coverdale, the real "authorized version" appeared in 1537, when a mysterious translator called "Thomas Matthew" had his works not only dedicated to but licensed by Henry VIII. In the long run, what put the Bible into the hands of the common people was the influence exerted on public opinion and authority by the reformation of the church.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Again to the battle, Achaians! Our hearts bid the tyrants defiance!  Our land, the first garden of liberty's tree-- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Again to the battle, Achaians! Our hearts bid the tyrants defiance!  Our land, the first garden of liberty's tree--   It has been, and shall yet be, the land of the free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't let my mouth say nothin' my head can't stand ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41062]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't let my mouth say nothin' my head can't stand]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not dying for faith that's so hard, it's living up to it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15042]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not dying for faith that's so hard, it's living up to it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59873]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59873</guid></item></channel></rss>