<?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[Feast of Edward the Confessor, 1066  [He said:] That all possible kinds of mortification, if they were void of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7837]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Edward the Confessor, 1066  [He said:] That all possible kinds of mortification, if they were void of the love of God, could not efface a single sin.. That we ought, without anxiety, to expect the pardon of our sins from the blood of Jesus Christ, only endeavoring to love Him with all our hearts. That God seemed to have granted the greatest favors to the greatest sinners, as more signal monuments of His mercy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alone I walked on the ocean strand, A pearly shell was in my hand;  I stooped, and wrote upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44889]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alone I walked on the ocean strand, A pearly shell was in my hand;  I stooped, and wrote upon the sand   My name, the year, the day.    As onward from the sport I passed,     One lingering look behind I cast,      A wave came rolling high and fast,       And washed my lines away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every theory of love, from Plato down teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27185]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every theory of love, from Plato down teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9729]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are like a fine wine. They all start out like grapes, and it's our job to stomp on them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26994]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are like a fine wine. They all start out like grapes, and it's our job to stomp on them and keep them in the dark until they mature into something you'd like to have dinner with.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a major victory in the war against caviar criminals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37864]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a major victory in the war against caviar criminals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just hope it wasn't a one-off and that we're going to tail off again after this. Everything seemed to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40200]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just hope it wasn't a one-off and that we're going to tail off again after this. Everything seemed to work well. I hope it lasts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here we will sit and let the sounds of music Creep in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55614]]></link><description><![CDATA[How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here we will sit and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears: soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit, Jessica. Look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold: There 's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins. Such harmony is in immortal souls; But whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it. -The Merchant of Venice. Act. v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47089]]></link><description><![CDATA[Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was with a famous comedian when a young fan walked up and asked for an autograph. The comedian blew ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41018]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was with a famous comedian when a young fan walked up and asked for an autograph. The comedian blew him off. I'll never forget the look on the young boy's face. He was devastated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not only is life too short, it has acne and looks geeky in gym clothes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66351]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not only is life too short, it has acne and looks geeky in gym clothes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In some cases non-violence requires more militancy than violence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28124]]></link><description><![CDATA[In some cases non-violence requires more militancy than violence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5979]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen an angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100mph. They'd be a lot more careful about what they say if they had.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's a staggering amount, when you consider that the federal government purchases about $5 billion of electricity per year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34188]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's a staggering amount, when you consider that the federal government purchases about $5 billion of electricity per year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55551]]></link><description><![CDATA[Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Mill Valley game was big. She's solid in so many areas. She's just become more polished and become a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39716]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Mill Valley game was big. She's solid in so many areas. She's just become more polished and become a better shooter and ball handler.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boxing is a rather amorphous body, though recognizable because it is headless. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4791]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boxing is a rather amorphous body, though recognizable because it is headless.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fire that's closest kept, burns most of all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fire that's closest kept, burns most of all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our special teams tonight were the difference. Five-on-five, I think we were the better team. It's a tough loss. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32572]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our special teams tonight were the difference. Five-on-five, I think we were the better team. It's a tough loss.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus when a barber and collier fight, The barber beats the luckless collier--white;  The dusty collier heaves his ponderous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus when a barber and collier fight, The barber beats the luckless collier--white;  The dusty collier heaves his ponderous sack,   And, big with vengeance, beats the barber--black.    In comes the brick-dust man, with grime o'er spread,     And beats the collier and the barber--red;      Black, red, and white, in various clouds are toss'd,       And in the dust they raise the combatants are lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15016]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's amazing, ... They will always support you here and it's brilliant to win in front of your home crowd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39965]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's amazing, ... They will always support you here and it's brilliant to win in front of your home crowd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's been a long time since a visit to America stopped being an infallible formula for strengthening the reputation of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41119]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's been a long time since a visit to America stopped being an infallible formula for strengthening the reputation of European politicians. In the last decade, however, that contact with the American ally can result in at least as many headaches as it does advantages.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people lose their health getting wealth and then lose their wealth gaining health. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61448]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people lose their health getting wealth and then lose their wealth gaining health.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65180]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn\'t, then why would you say I am. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66721]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn\'t, then why would you say I am.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cat is above all things, a dramatist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12818]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cat is above all things, a dramatist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, Teacher, 1153 Commemoration of William & Catherine Booth, Founders of the Salvation Army, 1912 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7967]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, Teacher, 1153 Commemoration of William & Catherine Booth, Founders of the Salvation Army, 1912 & 1890 O Jesus, King most wonderful!   O Conqueror renowned! O Source of peace ineffable,   In whom all joys are found:  When once you visit darkened hearts   Then truth begins to shine, Then earthly vanity departs,   Then kindles love divine. O Jesus, light of all below,   The fount of life and fire,  Surpassing all the joys we know,   All that we can desire: May ev'ry heart confess your name,   Forever you adore, And, seeking you, itself inflame   To seek you more and more! Oh, may our tongues forever bless,   May we love you alone  And ever in our lives express   The image of your own!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My appointed work is to awaken the divine nature that is within. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21172]]></link><description><![CDATA[My appointed work is to awaken the divine nature that is within.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the ink of our sweat we will find it yet, The song that is fit for men! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57218]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the ink of our sweat we will find it yet, The song that is fit for men!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, his next to escape the censures ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19027]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, his next to escape the censures of the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no wisdom like frankness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5212]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no wisdom like frankness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5683]]></link><description><![CDATA[With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us finish the work we are in]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[England expects that every man will do his duty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13068]]></link><description><![CDATA[England expects that every man will do his duty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An old cat will not learn how to dance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11007]]></link><description><![CDATA[An old cat will not learn how to dance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have to get this resolved so they move on to the other issues. Until they know how many people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35593]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have to get this resolved so they move on to the other issues. Until they know how many people will be left after the retirements take place, they won't know how much money GM will have to pay to subsidize the wages and benefits for its former workers who are left at Delphi, once the new pay scales are implemented.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are certain events which to each man's life are as comets to the earth, seemingly strange and erratic portents; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12062]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are certain events which to each man's life are as comets to the earth, seemingly strange and erratic portents; distinct from the ordinary lights which guide our course and mark our seasons, yet true to their own laws, potent in their own influences.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I'm working on the foundation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41625]]></link><description><![CDATA[To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I'm working on the foundation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Cecilia, Martyr at Rome, c.230 Commemoration of Clive Staples Lewis, Spiritual Writer, 1963 Thanksgiving (U.S.)   One ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Cecilia, Martyr at Rome, c.230 Commemoration of Clive Staples Lewis, Spiritual Writer, 1963 Thanksgiving (U.S.)   One man may be so placed that his anger sheds the blood of thousands, and another so placed that, however angry he gets, he will only be laughed at. But the little mark on the soul may be much the same in both. Each has done something to himself which, unless he repents, will make it harder for him to keep out of the rage the next time he is tempted, and will make the rage worse when he does fall into it. Each of them, if he seriously turns to God, can have that twist in the central man straightened out again: each is, in the long run, doomed if he will not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feminism is sort of like God. Many people profess to believe in it, but no one seems to be able ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28179]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feminism is sort of like God. Many people profess to believe in it, but no one seems to be able to define it to everyone's satisfaction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common sense is very uncommon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9024]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common sense is very uncommon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46044]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We sometimes see a fool possessed of talent, but never of judgment. [Fr., On est quelquefois un sot avec de ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23538]]></link><description><![CDATA[We sometimes see a fool possessed of talent, but never of judgment. [Fr., On est quelquefois un sot avec de l'esprit; mais on ne l'est jamais avec du jugement.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A generation of Christians reared among push buttons and automatic machines is impatient of slower and less direct methods of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6950]]></link><description><![CDATA[A generation of Christians reared among push buttons and automatic machines is impatient of slower and less direct methods of reaching their goals. We have been trying to apply machine-age methods to our relations with God. We read our chapter, have our short devotions, and rush away, hoping to make up for our deep inward bankruptcy by attending another gospel meeting or listening to another thrilling story told by a religious adventurer lately returned from afar. The tragic results of this spirit are all about us. Shallow lives, hollow religious philosophies, the preponderance of the element of fun in gospel meetings, the glorification of men, trust in religious externalities, quasi-religious fellowships, salesmanship methods, the mistaking of dynamic personality for the power of the Spirit; these and such as these are the symptoms of an evil disease, a deep and serious malady of the soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46887]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is anotherstep forward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21198]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is anotherstep forward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And said to myself, as I lit my cigar, "Supposing a man had the wealth of the Czar  Of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2721]]></link><description><![CDATA[And said to myself, as I lit my cigar, "Supposing a man had the wealth of the Czar  Of the Russias to boot, for the rest of his days,   On the whole do you think he would have much to spare    If he married a woman with nothing to wear?"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2721</guid></item></channel></rss>