<?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 process builds faith. You have to trust God and pray a lot - for yourself, for Habitat, for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30025]]></link><description><![CDATA[The process builds faith. You have to trust God and pray a lot - for yourself, for Habitat, for the other families.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Bosco, Priest, Founder of the Salesian Teaching Order, 1888   The Abrahamic Covenant is not only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Bosco, Priest, Founder of the Salesian Teaching Order, 1888   The Abrahamic Covenant is not only totally different from the Mosaic Covenant, but there is no "throw-back" of any feature of the Mosaic period in Genesis. Abraham and Moses not only lived in two uniquely different worlds, but no Old Testament editor tried in any way to soften the glaring contrasts between the two spiritual giants. Abraham had no Tabernacle, with its minute ritual and special clergy. Abraham was given nothing like the detailed code of life demanded by the Sinai Covenant. Abraham was not even furnished with the basic Ten Commandments. And yet, when we turn to the New Testament, it is Abraham who holds the place of honor, and not Moses! Abraham is mentioned over seventy times in the New Testament, and half of these are in the Gospels.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For she is such a smart little craft, Such a neat little, sweet little craft--  Such a bright little, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56171]]></link><description><![CDATA[For she is such a smart little craft, Such a neat little, sweet little craft--  Such a bright little,   Tight little,    Slight little,     Light little,      Trim little, slim little craft!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But when I breath with the birds, The spirit of wrath becomes the spirit of blessings, And the dead begin ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62375]]></link><description><![CDATA[But when I breath with the birds, The spirit of wrath becomes the spirit of blessings, And the dead begin from their dark to sing in my sleep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This isn't only a boon for the county, it also now offers protection for those people who partake in gambling, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32390]]></link><description><![CDATA[This isn't only a boon for the county, it also now offers protection for those people who partake in gambling, whether it's regulated or not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Occasions are rare; and those who know how to seize upon them are rarer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45115]]></link><description><![CDATA[Occasions are rare; and those who know how to seize upon them are rarer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have seen gross intolerance shown in support of tolerance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59435]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have seen gross intolerance shown in support of tolerance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obedience alone gives the right to command. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obedience alone gives the right to command.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good sleep better, but the bad seem ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17867]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My wife is a sex object - every time I ask for sex, she objects. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55269]]></link><description><![CDATA[My wife is a sex object - every time I ask for sex, she objects.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to set boundaries and say no. The biggest challenge with part-time work is that the work creeps to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37764]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to set boundaries and say no. The biggest challenge with part-time work is that the work creeps to full time. Nobody else is going to manage that for you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't even know about it until I saw it in the paper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42369]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't even know about it until I saw it in the paper.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft has said the decision could hurt the overall economy; it's something that's been followed like no other case; and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39995]]></link><description><![CDATA[Microsoft has said the decision could hurt the overall economy; it's something that's been followed like no other case; and its happening in an industry that's changing very rapidly where justice delayed is justice denied, ... All the elements are in place for them to take it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65625]]></link><description><![CDATA[A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If your capacity to acquire has outstripped your capacity to enjoy, you are on the way to the scrap-heap. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13948]]></link><description><![CDATA[If your capacity to acquire has outstripped your capacity to enjoy, you are on the way to the scrap-heap.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15611]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12572]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people can't think, most of the remainder won't think, the small fraction who do think mostly can't do it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52246]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people can't think, most of the remainder won't think, the small fraction who do think mostly can't do it very well. The extremely tiny fraction who think regularly, accurately, creatively, and without self-delusion- in the long run, these are the only people who count.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How long should you try? Until. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46153]]></link><description><![CDATA[How long should you try? Until.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silence is argument carried on by other means. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silence is argument carried on by other means.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A watched clock never tells the time ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8884]]></link><description><![CDATA[A watched clock never tells the time]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The governor really doesn't control that. If they choose to operate under a different financial situation, that's up to them. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31899]]></link><description><![CDATA[The governor really doesn't control that. If they choose to operate under a different financial situation, that's up to them. They know best what they need.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At age nine I began serving long stints in juvenile detention quarters. At age twelve I was sent to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36825]]></link><description><![CDATA[At age nine I began serving long stints in juvenile detention quarters. At age twelve I was sent to the Utah State Industrial School For Boys... at age eighteen I was released as an adult.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That Was Zen; This Is Tao ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62652]]></link><description><![CDATA[That Was Zen; This Is Tao]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44240]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think meals have any business being deductible. I'm for separation of calories and corporations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5081]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think meals have any business being deductible. I'm for separation of calories and corporations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gladio had been necessary during the days of the Cold War but, in view of the collapse of the East ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gladio had been necessary during the days of the Cold War but, in view of the collapse of the East Block, Italy would suggest to Nato that the organisation was no longer necessary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Somehow, not only for Christmas but all the long year through, The joy that you give to others Is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62702]]></link><description><![CDATA[Somehow, not only for Christmas but all the long year through, The joy that you give to others Is the joy that comes back to you. And the more you spend in blessing The poor and lonely and sad, The more of your heart's possessing Returns to you glad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My apple trees will never get across And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.  He only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47763]]></link><description><![CDATA[My apple trees will never get across And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.  He only says, "Good fences make good neighbors."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody dies nowadays of fatal truths: there are too many antidotes to them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59883]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody dies nowadays of fatal truths: there are too many antidotes to them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would say it's four to one we've had more bad days than good days. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32282]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would say it's four to one we've had more bad days than good days.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think a tax cut would be a good thing if he has those larger ambitions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41735]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think a tax cut would be a good thing if he has those larger ambitions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3583]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every believer is God's miracle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27553]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every believer is God's miracle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16349]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions, inspirations, flashes of genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10282]]></link><description><![CDATA[The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions, inspirations, flashes of genius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Johannes] Brahms chose his own texts [for his German Requiem] from Luther's Bible to illustrate the Protestant conviction that man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6861]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Johannes] Brahms chose his own texts [for his German Requiem] from Luther's Bible to illustrate the Protestant conviction that man must hear and respond to God's word in man's own language, and that every believer must be free to deal with the Biblical text apart from priestly veto... For the word "German" he would gladly have substituted the word "human" because he was concerned to comment on "the primary text of human existence," finding there, as in the Bible, the universal themes of suffering and joy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that serves, must serve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49394]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that serves, must serve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A jury is a group of twelve people of average ignorance ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23583]]></link><description><![CDATA[A jury is a group of twelve people of average ignorance]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10405]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our country is the world--our countrymen are mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10231]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our country is the world--our countrymen are mankind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'll try to recoup whatever it costs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38937]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'll try to recoup whatever it costs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18715]]></link><description><![CDATA[One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist. Victor Hugo -Diogenes Laertius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was really important for us to come out of the locker room with a lot of intensity. And those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31298]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was really important for us to come out of the locker room with a lot of intensity. And those quick shots we made right out of the locker room were really big for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without a rich heart wealth is an ugly beggar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61457]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without a rich heart wealth is an ugly beggar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901  It may well be that the unknowable name stands ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7521]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901  It may well be that the unknowable name stands for the ultimate mystery of Jesus Christ. His love we can experience; His salvation we can appropriate; His help we can claim; but their remains in Him the divine mystery of the Incarnation, which is beyond our understanding, and before which we can only worship and adore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the pleasure taken in them naturally has a somewhat melancholy character. So, melancholy is morbid only when it occupies too much place in life; but it is equally morbid for it to be wholly excluded from life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is a state of openness or trust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63475]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is a state of openness or trust.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59860]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59860</guid></item></channel></rss>