<?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 wolfe eats oft of the sheep that have been warn'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49936]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wolfe eats oft of the sheep that have been warn'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a child annoys you, quiet him by brushing his hair. If this doesn't work, use the other side of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5964]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a child annoys you, quiet him by brushing his hair. If this doesn't work, use the other side of the brush on the other end of the child.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23402]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inherits ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19503]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inherits his own past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're taking whatever they can find. Granted, there are a lot of memories associated with the place. But it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31499]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're taking whatever they can find. Granted, there are a lot of memories associated with the place. But it is unsafe and it is privately owned, no matter what they think. The fences are up for a reason. It's awful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobly he yokes A smiling with a sigh, as if the sigh  Was that it was for not being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56686]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobly he yokes A smiling with a sigh, as if the sigh  Was that it was for not being such a smile;   The smile mocking the sigh that it would fly    From so divine a temple to commix     With winds that sailors rail at.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It wasn't him; it must have been some forces behind ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29905]]></link><description><![CDATA[It wasn't him; it must have been some forces behind]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't say it's autobiographical, but I do tell a number of anecdotes that I think are amusing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29915]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't say it's autobiographical, but I do tell a number of anecdotes that I think are amusing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not treasured wealth, nor the consul's lictor, can dispel the mind's bitter conflicts and the cares that flit, like bats, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not treasured wealth, nor the consul's lictor, can dispel the mind's bitter conflicts and the cares that flit, like bats, about your fretted roofs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24699]]></link><description><![CDATA[The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a kind of military service. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25866]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a kind of military service.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doing a thing well is often a waste of time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61266]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There never were in the world two opinions alike, no more than two hairs or two grains; the most universal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12584]]></link><description><![CDATA[There never were in the world two opinions alike, no more than two hairs or two grains; the most universal quality is diversity]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Health that snuffs the morning air. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18919]]></link><description><![CDATA[Health that snuffs the morning air.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At times I might play some kind of folkloric flute, although I didn't play those with the frequency or the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33065]]></link><description><![CDATA[At times I might play some kind of folkloric flute, although I didn't play those with the frequency or the skill then as I do now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33065</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/7577]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Justin, Martyr at Rome, c.165 Commemoration of Angela de'Merici, Founder of the Institute of St. Ursula, 1540   The attitude of Jesus to the Jewish law was singularly free and unembarrassed. He made full use of it as an impressive statement of high ethical ideals; even its ritual practices He treated with perfect tolerance where they did not conflict with fundamental moral obligations. From Pharisaic formalism He appealed to the relative simplicity of the venerable written Law. But again from the written Law itself He appealed to the basic rights and duties of humanity: the Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath; the Law might permit the dissolution of marriage, but there was something more deeply rooted in the nature of things which forbade it; the [law of retaliation], the central principle of legal justice, must go overboard in the interest of the holy impulse to love your neighbor, not merely as yourself, but as God has loved you. Such freehanded dealing meant that the whole notion of morality as a code of rules, with sanctions of rewards and punishments, was abandoned. But the average Christian was slow to see this implication. For instance, Jesus had taken fasting out of the class of meritorious acts, and given it a place only as the fitting and spontaneous expression of certain spiritual states. This is what an early authoritative catechism of the Church made of His teaching: "Let not your fast be made with the hypocrites, for they fast on Monday and Thursday; ye therefore shall fast on Wednesday and Friday." It sounds ludicrous, but we may ask, Was it not on some very similar principle that the Church did actually carry through its reconstruction of "religious observance"? And a Church which so perverted Christ's treatment of the ritual law proved itself almost equally incapable of understanding His drastic revision of the moral law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a great mistake, and of very pernicious consequence to the souls of men, to imagine that the gospel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6962]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a great mistake, and of very pernicious consequence to the souls of men, to imagine that the gospel is all promises on God's part, and that our part is only to believe them and to rely upon God for the performance of them, and to be very confident that He will make them good, though we do nothing else but only believe that He will do so. That the Christian religion is only a declaration of God's goodwill to us, without any expectation of duty from us -- this is an error which one could hardly think could ever enter into any who have the liberty to read the Bible and attend to what they read and find there. The three great promises of the gospel are all very expressly contained in our Saviour's first sermon upon the mount. There we find the promise of blessedness often repeated but never absolutely made, but upon certain conditions, plainly required on our part, as repentance, righteousness, humility, mercy, peaceableness, meekness, patience. Forgiveness of sins is likewise promised, but only to those who make a penitent acknowledgement of them and ask forgiveness for them., and are ready to grant that forgiveness to others which they beg of God for themselves. The gift of God's Holy Spirit is likewise promised, but it is upon condition of our earnest and importunate prayer to God. The gospel is everywhere full of precepts enjoining duty and obedience upon our part, as well as of promises on God's part, assuring blessings to us -- nay, full of terrible threatenings also if we disobey the precepts of the gospel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22868]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8022]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Know, prudent cautious self-control Is wisdom's root. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Know, prudent cautious self-control Is wisdom's root.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64983]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Meux Benson, Founder of the Society of St John the Evangelist, 1915  Every man has in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6610]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Meux Benson, Founder of the Society of St John the Evangelist, 1915  Every man has in his own experience some knowledge of the perplexing uncertainty of this whirligig of time. Yet with his best thought, and largest opportunity, and the application of his highest ability, he cannot penetrate far. But the Christ of God unfolds both its meaning, and its order. He shows that the goal is freedom, and the guidance love. In this way Christ appears direct to the spirit of man, not by its special acquirements, or special ability, but through its common needs and common tasks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5990]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26751]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47628]]></link><description><![CDATA[A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Albrecht's Law: Social innovations tend to the level of minimum tolerable well being. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Albrecht's Law: Social innovations tend to the level of minimum tolerable well being.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If he's incompetent, which he is, then everything is put on hold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39134]]></link><description><![CDATA[If he's incompetent, which he is, then everything is put on hold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But jealous souls will not be answered so; They are not ever jealous for the cause,  But jealous for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23170]]></link><description><![CDATA[But jealous souls will not be answered so; They are not ever jealous for the cause,  But jealous for they're jealous.   'Tis a monster    Begot upon itself, born on itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever envies another confesses his superiority. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23196]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever envies another confesses his superiority.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24747]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lovely was the death Of Him whose life was Love! Holy with power,  He on the thought-benighted Skeptic beamed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6125]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lovely was the death Of Him whose life was Love! Holy with power,  He on the thought-benighted Skeptic beamed   Manifest Godhead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life's to short for chess. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28027]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life's to short for chess.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't want to pick a family that just created a fund they don't have a history in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35356]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't want to pick a family that just created a fund they don't have a history in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is clear that the revenue environment is stronger than anticipated and consensus upgrades are likely today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31740]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is clear that the revenue environment is stronger than anticipated and consensus upgrades are likely today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But to the hero, when his sword Has won the battle for the free,  Thy voice sounds like a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19230]]></link><description><![CDATA[But to the hero, when his sword Has won the battle for the free,  Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word,   And in its hollow tones are heard    The thanks of millions yet to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22643]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Understand that most problems are a good sign. Problems indicate that progress is being made, wheels are turning, you are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44168]]></link><description><![CDATA[Understand that most problems are a good sign. Problems indicate that progress is being made, wheels are turning, you are moving toward your goals. Beware when you have no problems. Then you've really got a problem... Problems are like landmarks of progress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bomb that fell on Hiroshima fell on America too. It fell on no city, no munition plants, no docks. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61223]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bomb that fell on Hiroshima fell on America too. It fell on no city, no munition plants, no docks. It erased no church, vaporized no public buildings, reduced no man to his atomic elements. But it fell, it fell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60930]]></link><description><![CDATA[The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12446]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love men, not for what unites them, but for what divides them, and I want to know most of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36190]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love men, not for what unites them, but for what divides them, and I want to know most of all what gnaws at their hearts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and wewho fail to prevent them must share ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21962]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and wewho fail to prevent them must share in the guilt for the dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No surpise in Istanbul ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37214]]></link><description><![CDATA[No surpise in Istanbul]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We anticipate that people will need immediate housing, a safe place. But we're under the impression the need will be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33243]]></link><description><![CDATA[We anticipate that people will need immediate housing, a safe place. But we're under the impression the need will be temporary -- days, weeks. It's the right thing to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man will understand how intimately, yea, how inseparably, self-control and happiness are associated, he has but to look ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37022]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man will understand how intimately, yea, how inseparably, self-control and happiness are associated, he has but to look into his own heart, and upon the world around,...Looking upon the lives of men and women, he will perceive how the hasty word, the bitter retort, the act of deception, the blind prejudice and foolish resentment bring wretchedness and even ruin in their train.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61738]]></link><description><![CDATA[By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third, by experience, which is the most bitter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65906]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44417]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One flower makes no garland. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49689]]></link><description><![CDATA[One flower makes no garland.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63333]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63333</guid></item></channel></rss>