<?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[Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18259]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all the thirty-six alternatives, running away is best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5383]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all the thirty-six alternatives, running away is best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I could have stopped it after they paid me the $50,000. I wouldn't even have had to go on to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28758]]></link><description><![CDATA[I could have stopped it after they paid me the $50,000. I wouldn't even have had to go on to do more than I already had: just the double agents' names that I gave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She was a perfect lady--just sat in her seat and stared. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23970]]></link><description><![CDATA[She was a perfect lady--just sat in her seat and stared.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why, who cries out on pride That can therein tax any private party?  Doth it not flow as hugely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48203]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why, who cries out on pride That can therein tax any private party?  Doth it not flow as hugely as the sea   Till that the weary very means do ebb?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration,--nay, it is a very easy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45244]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration,--nay, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in its place is a work extremely troublesome.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My education was interrupted only by my schooling ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13362]]></link><description><![CDATA[My education was interrupted only by my schooling]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63323]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1016]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1201]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow,  The devotion to something afar ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11964]]></link><description><![CDATA[The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow,  The devotion to something afar   From the sphere of our sorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hanlon's Razor:"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14470]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hanlon's Razor:"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, Teacher, 373  The Hebrew word, nabi, translated "prophet" in English Bibles, has the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8281]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, Teacher, 373  The Hebrew word, nabi, translated "prophet" in English Bibles, has the connotation of "message bearer". The prophets were men called by God to serve as His messengers to a stubborn and unheeding people. They were always careful to point out that they were not voicing their own wisdom. Their warnings, entreaties, and promises were always prefaced by the awesome proclamation: "Thus says the Lord..." When the prophets did engage in prognostication, they usually were concerned with events which were fairly close at hand, such as the Assyrian conquest of Israel and the Babylonian conquest of Judah (both of which they foretold with deadly accuracy). But occasionally a prophet's vision ranged farther into the future, to the day when God would enter into a new covenant with his rebellious children. The hope of reconciliation was often linked with the coming of a very particular person, a Messiah or Savior.  What made the prophets so sure that they had a right--nay, a duty, to speak in the name of God? It is clear from their writings that they were not megalomaniacs who confused their own thoughts with the voice of God. On the contrary, they were humble men, awe-stricken by the responsibilities thrust upon them... The prophets minced no words in their indictments of the sins of Israel and Judah, and they trod especially hard on the toes of the rich, the powerful, and the pious. The Establishment responded then as some church members are wont to respond now when a preacher speaks out on controversial public issues: "One should not preach of such things!" (Micah 2:6).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know that the president will listen to what Senator Frist has to say. I'm not saying he's going to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17012]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know that the president will listen to what Senator Frist has to say. I'm not saying he's going to agree with it. But what Senator Frist has had to say is weighty, and I think may bring us all together on this issue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is fine, and I would have praised you more had you praised me less. [Fr., Cela est beau, et ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48014]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is fine, and I would have praised you more had you praised me less. [Fr., Cela est beau, et je vous louerais davantage si vous m'aviez loue moins.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am gradually approaching the period in my life when work comes first. . . . No longer diverted by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62126]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am gradually approaching the period in my life when work comes first. . . . No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Wolves and the SheepWhy should there always be this fear and slaughter between us? said the Wolves to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1568]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Wolves and the SheepWhy should there always be this fear and slaughter between us? said the Wolves to the Sheep. Those evil-disposed Dogs have much to answer for. They always bark whenever we approach you and attack us before we have done any harm. If you would only dismiss them from your heels, there might soon be treaties of peace and reconciliation between us. The Sheep, poor silly creatures, were easily beguiled and dismissed the Dogs, whereupon the Wolves destroyed the unguarded flock at their own pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant with the weak ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62538]]></link><description><![CDATA[Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant with the weak and the wrong. Sometime in your life you will have been all of these.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have the experience and the drive to win it all. We have been dreaming since we were five years ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33046]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have the experience and the drive to win it all. We have been dreaming since we were five years old of carrying home a state championship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1170  A Christian and an unbelieving poet may both be equally ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8529]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1170  A Christian and an unbelieving poet may both be equally original and draw on resources peculiar to themselves, but with this difference. The unbeliever may take his own temperament and experience, just as they happen to stand, and consider them worth communicating simply because they are his. To the Christian his own temperament and experience, as mere fact, and as merely his, are of no value or importance whatsoever: he will deal with them, if at all, only because they are the medium through which, or the position from which, something universally profitable appeared to him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was a kid, if a guy got killed in a western movie I always wondered who got his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47800]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was a kid, if a guy got killed in a western movie I always wondered who got his horse]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr  O little town of Bethlehem,   How still we see thee lie! ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7557]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr  O little town of Bethlehem,   How still we see thee lie! Above thy deep and dreamless sleep   The silent stars go by: Yet in thy dark streets shineth   The everlasting Light; The hopes and fears of all the years   Are met in thee tonight. For Christ is born of Mary;   And gathered all above, While mortals sleep, the angels keep   Their watch of wondering love. O morning stars together   Proclaim the holy birth; And praises sing to God the King,   And peace to men on earth. How silently, how silently,   The wondrous gift is giv'n! So God imparts to human hearts   The blessings of His Heav'n. No ear may hear His coming,   But in this world of sin, Where meek souls will receive Him still,   The dear Christ enters in. O holy Child of Bethlehem,   Descend to us, we pray, Cast out our sins, and enter in,   Be born in us today. We hear the Christmas angels   The great glad tidings tell; O come to us, abide with us,   Our Lord Emmanuel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A frequent intercession with God, earnestly beseeching Him to forgive the sins of all mankind, to bless them with His ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7442]]></link><description><![CDATA[A frequent intercession with God, earnestly beseeching Him to forgive the sins of all mankind, to bless them with His providence, enlighten them with His Spirit, and bring them to everlasting happiness, is the divinest exercise that the heart of man can be engaged in. Be daily, therefore, on your knees, in a solemn deliberate performance of this devotion, praying for others in such forms, with such length, importunity, and earnestness, as you use for yourself; and you will find all little, ill-natured passions die away, your heart grow great and generous, delighting in the common happiness of others, as you used only to delight in your own... It was this holy intercession that raised Christians to such a state of mutual love, as far exceeded all that had been praised and admired in human friendship. And when the same spirit of intercession is again in the world, when Christianity has the same power over the hearts of people that it then had, this holy friendship will be again in fashion, and Christians will be again the wonder of the world, for that exceeding love which they bear to one another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51442]]></link><description><![CDATA[How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't think that, as proposed, this is a workable approach. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39579]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't think that, as proposed, this is a workable approach.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For a man learns more quickly and remembers more easily that which he laughs at, than that which he approves ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24180]]></link><description><![CDATA[For a man learns more quickly and remembers more easily that which he laughs at, than that which he approves and reveres. [Lat., Discit enim citius, meminitque libentius ilud  Quod quis deridet, quam quod probat et veneratur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who so regardeth dreams is like him that catcheth at a shadow, and followeth after the wind. [Ecclesiasti!4:2]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52427]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who so regardeth dreams is like him that catcheth at a shadow, and followeth after the wind. [Ecclesiasti!4:2].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes little talent to see clearly what lies under one's nose, a good deal of it to know in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58581]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes little talent to see clearly what lies under one's nose, a good deal of it to know in which direction to point that organ.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gather the flowers, but spare the buds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16277]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gather the flowers, but spare the buds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One might speak to great length of the three corners of reality what was seen, what was thought to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14543]]></link><description><![CDATA[One might speak to great length of the three corners of reality what was seen, what was thought to be seen, and what was thought ought to be seen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The shortest distance between two jokes makes a perfect speech. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23310]]></link><description><![CDATA[The shortest distance between two jokes makes a perfect speech.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I smile at the strong perfumes of the silly Rufillus must I be regarded as envious and ill-natured? [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14015]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I smile at the strong perfumes of the silly Rufillus must I be regarded as envious and ill-natured? [Lat., Ego si risi quod ineptus  Pastillos Rufillus olet, Gargonius hircum, lividus et mordax videar?]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One cannot subdue a man by holding back his hands. Lasting peace comes not from force. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45973]]></link><description><![CDATA[One cannot subdue a man by holding back his hands. Lasting peace comes not from force.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since 1994, any herbal remedy sold as a dietary supplement -- no matter what their real purpose -- the FDA ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since 1994, any herbal remedy sold as a dietary supplement -- no matter what their real purpose -- the FDA has no authority over them,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We recommend that the government articulates our very strong concerns that have been expressed about NMD in the UK. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33841]]></link><description><![CDATA[We recommend that the government articulates our very strong concerns that have been expressed about NMD in the UK.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Equal rights for all, special privileges for none. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54270]]></link><description><![CDATA[Equal rights for all, special privileges for none.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't see a catalyst to move prices much higher in the short term. Iran's not likely to cut exports ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39166]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't see a catalyst to move prices much higher in the short term. Iran's not likely to cut exports anytime soon. We've had very warm weather this winter and have built gasoline supplies despite refiners operating at reduced rates.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us; it creates in us a capacity for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/820]]></link><description><![CDATA[What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us; it creates in us a capacity for the closest possible intimacy with God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Rose of Lima, Contemplative, 1617 Four things a man must learn to do If he would make his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Rose of Lima, Contemplative, 1617 Four things a man must learn to do If he would make his record true: To think without confusion clearly, To love his fellow men sincerely, To act from honest motives purely, To trust in God and heaven securely.   ... Henry van Dyke August 24, 2000 Feast of Bartholomew the Apostle Beginning a short series on the Bible:  The Bible is a supernatural book and can be understood only by supernatural aid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15001]]></link><description><![CDATA[As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And then I stole all courtesy from heaven, And dressed myself in such humility  That I did pluck allegiance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59652]]></link><description><![CDATA[And then I stole all courtesy from heaven, And dressed myself in such humility  That I did pluck allegiance from men's hearts,   Loud shouts and salutations from their mouths    Even in the presence of the crowned king.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65601]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to be worthy of being known.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5946]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18193]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18193</guid></item></channel></rss>