<?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 search for truth is in one way hard and in another way easy, for it is evident that no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43765]]></link><description><![CDATA[The search for truth is in one way hard and in another way easy, for it is evident that no one can master it fully or miss it wholly. But each adds a little to our knowledge of nature, and from all the facts assembled there arises a certain grandeur.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is made up of interruptions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24924]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is made up of interruptions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has proven to be a very effective [model]. It is a single point for education, enablement--what I call kicking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33852]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has proven to be a very effective [model]. It is a single point for education, enablement--what I call kicking the tires.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If all the world Should in a pet of temp'rance, feed on pulse,  Drink the clear stream, and nothing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58875]]></link><description><![CDATA[If all the world Should in a pet of temp'rance, feed on pulse,  Drink the clear stream, and nothing wear but frieze,   Th' All-giver would be unthank'd, would be unprais'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ambitious will always be first in the crowd; he presseth forward, he looketh not behind him. More anguish is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28579]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ambitious will always be first in the crowd; he presseth forward, he looketh not behind him. More anguish is it to his mind to see one before him, than joy to leave thousands at a distance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreck'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42810]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreck'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I picked up those little girls that drowned, all I could think about was my grandbabies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37121]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I picked up those little girls that drowned, all I could think about was my grandbabies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23949]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer... He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46801]]></link><description><![CDATA[A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer... He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65492]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Leo the Great, Bishop of Rome, 461 Lord, forgive -- That I have dwelt too long on Golgotha, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Leo the Great, Bishop of Rome, 461 Lord, forgive -- That I have dwelt too long on Golgotha, My wracked eyes fixed On Thy poor, tortured human form upon the cross, And have not seen The lilies in Thy dawn-sweet garden bend To anoint Thy risen feet; nor known the ways Thy radiant spirit walks abroad with men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instead of breaking that bridge, we should, if possible, provide another, that he may retire the sooner out of Europe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61127]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instead of breaking that bridge, we should, if possible, provide another, that he may retire the sooner out of Europe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that asks me what heaven is, means not to hear me, but to silence me; He knows I cannot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8205]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that asks me what heaven is, means not to hear me, but to silence me; He knows I cannot tell him. When I meet him there, I shall be able to tell him, and then he will be as able to tell me; yet then we shall be but able to tell one another. This, this that we enjoy is heaven, but the tongues of Angels, the tongues of glorified Saints, shall not be able to express what that heaven is; for, even in heaven our faculties shall be finite.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Habit is, as it were, a second nature. [Lat., Consuetudo quasi altera natura effici.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Habit is, as it were, a second nature. [Lat., Consuetudo quasi altera natura effici.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The object of most prayers is to wangle an advance on good intentions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22942]]></link><description><![CDATA[The object of most prayers is to wangle an advance on good intentions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Les Miserables. I never read the book before, but when I read this script it was so outstanding, so brilliant, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Les Miserables. I never read the book before, but when I read this script it was so outstanding, so brilliant, I wanted to make it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tobacco and alcohol, delicious fathers of abiding friendships and fertile reveries. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1290]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tobacco and alcohol, delicious fathers of abiding friendships and fertile reveries.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God never had a church but there, men say, The devil a chapel hath raised by some wiles,  I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8674]]></link><description><![CDATA[God never had a church but there, men say, The devil a chapel hath raised by some wiles,  I doubted of this saw, till on a day   I westward spied great Edinburgh's Saint Giles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poets alone are sure of immortality; they are the truest diviners of nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poets alone are sure of immortality; they are the truest diviners of nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truest wisdom is a resolute determination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64967]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was established originally as a living monument to the World War One veterans. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30193]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was established originally as a living monument to the World War One veterans.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He saw a cottage with a double coach-house, A cottage of gentility!  And the Devil did grin, for his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20019]]></link><description><![CDATA[He saw a cottage with a double coach-house, A cottage of gentility!  And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin   Is pride that apes humility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66416]]></link><description><![CDATA[The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Half of being smart is knowing what you are dumb about. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22377]]></link><description><![CDATA[Half of being smart is knowing what you are dumb about.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5297]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Darryl Gibson has been quite magnificent coming inside Andrew Mehrtens, and I'm looking forward to seeing more of the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57660]]></link><description><![CDATA[Darryl Gibson has been quite magnificent coming inside Andrew Mehrtens, and I'm looking forward to seeing more of the same today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Curiosity . . . endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in cheerful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17259]]></link><description><![CDATA[Curiosity . . . endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of places call for money, but I wanted to do more, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31212]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of places call for money, but I wanted to do more,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The game's tomorrow at high noon. We know they'll be tough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32722]]></link><description><![CDATA[The game's tomorrow at high noon. We know they'll be tough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've always tried to do my best on the ball field. I can't do any more than that. I always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21822]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've always tried to do my best on the ball field. I can't do any more than that. I always try to give one hundred percent; and if my team loses, I come back and give one hundred percent the next day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56494]]></link><description><![CDATA[The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Investors are disappointed because they were expecting around 5 billion riyals of profit in the fourth quarter. They then decided ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36515]]></link><description><![CDATA[Investors are disappointed because they were expecting around 5 billion riyals of profit in the fourth quarter. They then decided that the drop was too steep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the very moment when the pulpit has fallen strangely silent about sin, fiction can talk of little except evil, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7527]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the very moment when the pulpit has fallen strangely silent about sin, fiction can talk of little except evil, not indeed viewed as sin, but apparently as the invariable ways of a peculiarly repulsive insect, which it can't help, poor thing; and there is no manner of use expecting anything from it, except the nastiness natural to it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Under the sooty flag of Acheron, Harpies and Hydras. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16141]]></link><description><![CDATA[Under the sooty flag of Acheron, Harpies and Hydras.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two other tender drops, which ready stood, Each in their crystal sluice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50660]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two other tender drops, which ready stood, Each in their crystal sluice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every change in conditions will make necessary some change in the use of resources, in the direction and kind of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57028]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every change in conditions will make necessary some change in the use of resources, in the direction and kind of human activities, in habits and practices. And each change in the actions of those affected in the first instance will require further adjustments that will gradually extend through the whole of society. Every change thus in a sense creates a "problem" for society, even though no single individual perceives it as such; it is gradually "solved" by the establishment of a new overall adjustment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11652]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That's dedication.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't hold a man down without staying down with him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45162]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yes, I had two strings to my bow; both golden ones, egad! and both cracked. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51969]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yes, I had two strings to my bow; both golden ones, egad! and both cracked.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vision looks inward and becomes duty.Vision looks outward and becomes aspiration.Vision looks upward and becomes faith. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60828]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vision looks inward and becomes duty.Vision looks outward and becomes aspiration.Vision looks upward and becomes faith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart was made to be broken ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58188]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart was made to be broken]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O give me new figures! I can't go on dancing The same that were taught me ten seasons ago;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11021]]></link><description><![CDATA[O give me new figures! I can't go on dancing The same that were taught me ten seasons ago;  The schoolmaster over the land is advancing,   Then why is the master of dancing so slow?    It is such a bore to be always caught tripping     In dull uniformity year after year;      Invent something new, and you'll set me a skipping:       I want a new figure to dance with my Dear!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instead of working for the survival of the fittest, we should be working for the survival of the wittiest -- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61828]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instead of working for the survival of the fittest, we should be working for the survival of the wittiest -- then we can all die laughing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in fine gay colours, that are but skin-deep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58899]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in fine gay colours, that are but skin-deep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People see a half-mile of clean road and think they can drive 75, and that's just not the case. They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31267]]></link><description><![CDATA[People see a half-mile of clean road and think they can drive 75, and that's just not the case. They need to slow down and be careful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He challenged the church to rethink its own mission in the radically secular world of the twentieth century... The nonbelieving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6516]]></link><description><![CDATA[He challenged the church to rethink its own mission in the radically secular world of the twentieth century... The nonbelieving brave men he met in the anti-Nazi underground, the stark realities of prison life, and his disappointment in the professional churchmen of Germany, all may have influenced Bonhoeffer to see real Christianity as "non-religious" and "worldly"... The opposition between sacred and secular, supernatural and natural, seemed unreal to him -- the apparent opposites are united in Jesus Christ.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . it is the very nature of sin to prevent man from meditating on spiritual things. . . ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56397]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . it is the very nature of sin to prevent man from meditating on spiritual things. . .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The innocent and the beautiful Have no enemy but time ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20943]]></link><description><![CDATA[The innocent and the beautiful Have no enemy but time]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/637]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet will she blush, here be it said, To bear her secrets so bewrayed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet will she blush, here be it said, To bear her secrets so bewrayed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4391</guid></item></channel></rss>