<?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[During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1100]]></link><description><![CDATA[During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20062]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beare with evill, and expect good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beare with evill, and expect good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very rare that you get to go up and meet fans and especially at their house and surprise them. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31987]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very rare that you get to go up and meet fans and especially at their house and surprise them. To come and knock on somebody's door is kind of a neat experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power is when you have every justification to kill someone, and then you don't ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47907]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power is when you have every justification to kill someone, and then you don't]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Justin, Martyr at Rome, c.165 Commemoration of Angela de'Merici, Founder of the Institute of St. Ursula, 1540  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Justin, Martyr at Rome, c.165 Commemoration of Angela de'Merici, Founder of the Institute of St. Ursula, 1540  To make the improving of our own character our central aim is hardly the highest kind of goodness. True goodness forgets itself and goes out to do the right thing for no other reason than that it is right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People underestimate their capacity for change. There is never a right time to do a difficult thing. A leader's job ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5501]]></link><description><![CDATA[People underestimate their capacity for change. There is never a right time to do a difficult thing. A leader's job is to help people have vision of their potential.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true poem rests between the words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46732]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true poem rests between the words.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joe has gotten the most out of his senior season and his selection to the all-star game reflects that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38274]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joe has gotten the most out of his senior season and his selection to the all-star game reflects that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All politicians are control freaks; they think they own you. Crazy mayors want to tax the Internet. If government finds ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36668]]></link><description><![CDATA[All politicians are control freaks; they think they own you. Crazy mayors want to tax the Internet. If government finds they can't tax the shopkeepers, they'll tax the shoppers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you count all your assets, you always show a profit ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48340]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you count all your assets, you always show a profit]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We understood Her by her sight; her pure and eloquent blood  Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2817]]></link><description><![CDATA[We understood Her by her sight; her pure and eloquent blood  Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought   That one might almost say her body thought.   - Dr. John Donne,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no such thing as an innocent purchaser of stocks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15698]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no such thing as an innocent purchaser of stocks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Monica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387  Augustine shows clearly the religious character of sin. Sin for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7651]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Monica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387  Augustine shows clearly the religious character of sin. Sin for him is not a moral failure; it is not even disobedience. Disobedience is a consequence but not the cause. The cause is: turning away from God, and from God as the highest good, as the love with which God loves Himself, through us. For this reason, since sin has this character -- if you say "sins", it is easily dissolved into moral sins; but sin is first of all basically the power of turning away from God. For this very reason, no moral remedy is possible. Only one remedy is possible: return to God. But this of course is possible only in the power of God, and this power is lost. This is the state of man under the conditions of existence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, Only a signal shown and a distant voice ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness:  So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another,   Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.   - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody reads a mystery to get to the middle. They read it to get to the end. If it's a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43584]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody reads a mystery to get to the middle. They read it to get to the end. If it's a letdown, they won't buy anymore. The first page sells that book. The last page sells your next book.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep close to Nature\'s heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66618]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep close to Nature\'s heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry.  But were we burd'ned ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/702]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry.  But were we burd'ned with like weight of pain,   As much or more we should ourselves complain:    So thou, that hast no unkind mate to grieve thee,     With urging helpless patience wouldst relieve me;      But if thou live to see like right bereft,       This fool-begged patience in thee will be left.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blows are sarcasms turned stupid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54693]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blows are sarcasms turned stupid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Technology stocks were bought as some news, like that about Toshiba today, surprised investors who weren't expecting much from the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36522]]></link><description><![CDATA[Technology stocks were bought as some news, like that about Toshiba today, surprised investors who weren't expecting much from the industry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is one mind in two bodies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16895]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is one mind in two bodies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For whereso'er I turn my ravished eyes, Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise;  Poetic fields encompass me around, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23094]]></link><description><![CDATA[For whereso'er I turn my ravished eyes, Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise;  Poetic fields encompass me around,   And still I seem to tread on classic ground.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But whether on the scaffold high, Or in the battle's van,  The fittest place where man can die  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11177]]></link><description><![CDATA[But whether on the scaffold high, Or in the battle's van,  The fittest place where man can die   Is where he dies for man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Praising what is lost Makes the remembrance dear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25591]]></link><description><![CDATA[Praising what is lost Makes the remembrance dear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her mouth is a honey-blossom,  No doubt, as the poet sings; But within her lips, the petals,  Lurks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her mouth is a honey-blossom,  No doubt, as the poet sings; But within her lips, the petals,  Lurks a cruel bee that stings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63758]]></link><description><![CDATA[Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55036]]></link><description><![CDATA[If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48643]]></link><description><![CDATA[The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Failure is the tuition you pay for success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22632]]></link><description><![CDATA[Failure is the tuition you pay for success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For example, the tiny ant, a creature of great industry, drags with its mouth whatever it can, and adds it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2673]]></link><description><![CDATA[For example, the tiny ant, a creature of great industry, drags with its mouth whatever it can, and adds it to the heap which she is piling up, not unaware nor careless of the future. [Lat., Parvula (nam exemplo est) magni formica laboris  Ore trahit, quodcunque potest, atque addit acervo   Quem struit; hand ignara ac non incauta futuri.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a broken nest there are few whole eggs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15159]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wage hike is very hard to take away, but bonuses and profit-sharing can disappear very quickly in hard times...More ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22582]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wage hike is very hard to take away, but bonuses and profit-sharing can disappear very quickly in hard times...More people are realizing that bonuses look like raises, but really aren't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One joy shatters a hundred griefs ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18319]]></link><description><![CDATA[One joy shatters a hundred griefs]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the best one yet - it's the fourth and it means a lot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30001]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the best one yet - it's the fourth and it means a lot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is onely bright that shines by himselfe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49318]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is onely bright that shines by himselfe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because of what you have done the heavens have become a part of man's world. And as you talk to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2275]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because of what you have done the heavens have become a part of man's world. And as you talk to us from the Sea of Tranquillity, it inspires us to redouble our efforts to bring peace and Tranquillity to Earth. For one priceless moment, in the whole history of man, all the people on this Earth are truly one. One in their pride in what you have done. One in our prayers that you will return safely to Earth. - To Neil Armstrong after he landed successfully on the Moon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bardot, Byron, Hitler, Hemingway, Monroe, Sade: we do not require our heroes to be subtle, just to be big. Then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19260]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bardot, Byron, Hitler, Hemingway, Monroe, Sade: we do not require our heroes to be subtle, just to be big. Then we can depend on someone to make them subtle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now men say, "I am in no wise prepared for this work, and therefore it cannot be wrought in me," ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8046]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now men say, "I am in no wise prepared for this work, and therefore it cannot be wrought in me," and thus they have an excuse, so that they neither are ready nor in the way to be so. And truly there is no one to blame for this but themselves. For if a man were looking and striving after nothing but to find a preparation in all things, and diligently gave his whole mind to see how he might become prepared; verily God would well prepare him, for God giveth as much care and earnestness and love to the preparing of a man, as to the pouring in of His Spirit when the man is prepared.  ... Theologia Germanica April 14, 1996  This was the fullness of time, when Christ Jesus did come, that the Messiah should come. It was so to the Jews, and it was so to the Gentiles too... Christ hath excommunicated no nation, no shire, no house, no man; He gives none of His ministers leave to say to any man, thou art not redeemed; He gives no wounded or afflicted conscience leave to say to itself, I am not redeemed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Cleaner air] has been a pretty clear directive from our elected leaders and our customers. We know that our car-crazed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37326]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Cleaner air] has been a pretty clear directive from our elected leaders and our customers. We know that our car-crazed culture contributes to [air pollution] in a big way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The present condition of fame is merely fashion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15128]]></link><description><![CDATA[The present condition of fame is merely fashion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a significant Latin proverb; to wit: Who will guard the guards? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60644]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a significant Latin proverb; to wit: Who will guard the guards?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Till then, good-night! You wish the time were now? And I.  You do not blush to wish it so? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Till then, good-night! You wish the time were now? And I.  You do not blush to wish it so?   You would have blush'd yourself to death    To own so much a year ago.     What! both these snowy hands? ah, then      I'll have to say, Good-night again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How empty is theory in the presence of fact ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59105]]></link><description><![CDATA[How empty is theory in the presence of fact]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The President of today is just the postage stamp of tomorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35938]]></link><description><![CDATA[The President of today is just the postage stamp of tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Investors' expectations of steelmakers' earnings are high. Steel producers may lead the market this week. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Investors' expectations of steelmakers' earnings are high. Steel producers may lead the market this week.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mine honor is my life; both grow in one; Take honor from me, and my life is done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19698]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mine honor is my life; both grow in one; Take honor from me, and my life is done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[American husbands are the best in the world; no other husbands are so generous to their wives, or can be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20201]]></link><description><![CDATA[American husbands are the best in the world; no other husbands are so generous to their wives, or can be so easily divorced.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never worry about action, but only about inaction ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20682]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never worry about action, but only about inaction]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12881</guid></item></channel></rss>