<?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[It's a recession when your neighbour loses his job; it's a depression when you lose your own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44384]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a recession when your neighbour loses his job; it's a depression when you lose your own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you've got it made. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56432]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you've got it made.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a pretty significant day for us. It is a day of abstinence when we fast, pray and smear ourselves ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32459]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a pretty significant day for us. It is a day of abstinence when we fast, pray and smear ourselves with burnt ash to remind us of our sinfulness, forgiveness and mortality. It sets the tone for the penitential season leading up to Easter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man's rights are evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of self-preservation, commonly called the first law of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47642]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man's rights are evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of self-preservation, commonly called the first law of nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When April winds Grew soft, the maple burst into a flush  Of scarlet flowers. The tulip tree, high up, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2977]]></link><description><![CDATA[When April winds Grew soft, the maple burst into a flush  Of scarlet flowers. The tulip tree, high up,   Opened in airs of June her multiple    OF golden chalices to humming birds     And silken-wing'd insects of the sky.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of soon living beneath them; or as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13340]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of soon living beneath them; or as the Italian proverb says, "The man that lives by hope, will die by despair.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But one thing is needful: and Math hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6051]]></link><description><![CDATA[But one thing is needful: and Math hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66243]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good enough never is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22502]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good enough never is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1697]]></link><description><![CDATA[The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blood is a cleansing and sanctifying thing, and the nation that regards it as the final horror has lost its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blood is a cleansing and sanctifying thing, and the nation that regards it as the final horror has lost its manhood... there are many things more horrible than bloodshed, and slavery is one of them!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real death of America will come when everyone is alike. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12592]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real death of America will come when everyone is alike.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God's redemptive revelation in Scripture is necessary to saving faith and peace with God. Faith in a risen Savior is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7192]]></link><description><![CDATA[God's redemptive revelation in Scripture is necessary to saving faith and peace with God. Faith in a risen Savior is necessary if the vague stirrings toward immortality are to bring us to restful and satisfying communion with God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes at the best moments a single word or a look is enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42934]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes at the best moments a single word or a look is enough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Under all that we think, lives all we believe, like the ultimate veilof our spirits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21289]]></link><description><![CDATA[Under all that we think, lives all we believe, like the ultimate veilof our spirits.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shall I ask the brave soldier, who fights by my side In the cause of mankind, if our creeds agree? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12637]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shall I ask the brave soldier, who fights by my side In the cause of mankind, if our creeds agree?  Shall I give up the friend I have valued and tried,   If he kneel not before the same altar with me?    From the heretic girl of my soul should I fly,     To seek somewhere else a more orthodox kiss?      No! perish the hearts, and the laws that try       Truth, valour, or love, by a standard like this!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A king ruleth as he ought, a tyrant as he lists, a king to the profit of all, a tyrant ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59954]]></link><description><![CDATA[A king ruleth as he ought, a tyrant as he lists, a king to the profit of all, a tyrant only to please a few.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Procrastination is the grave in which opportunity is buried. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Procrastination is the grave in which opportunity is buried.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Charles Simeon, Pastor, Teacher, 1836   By constantly meditating on the goodness of God and on our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6848]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Charles Simeon, Pastor, Teacher, 1836   By constantly meditating on the goodness of God and on our great deliverance from that punishment which our sins have deserved, we are brought to feel our vileness and utter unworthiness; and while we continue in this spirit of self-degradation, everything else will go on easily. We shall find ourselves advancing in our course; we shall feel the presence of God; we shall experience His love; we shall live in the enjoyment of His favour and in the hope of His glory... You often feel that your prayers scarcely reach the ceiling; but, oh, get into this humble spirit by considering how good the Lord is, and how evil you all are, and then prayer will mount on wings of faith to heaven. The sigh, the groan of a broken heart, will soon go through the ceiling up to heaven, aye, into the very bosom of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men? [Lat., Quid est ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21025]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men? [Lat., Quid est dementius quam bilem in homines collectam in res effundere.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They can because they think they can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21643]]></link><description><![CDATA[They can because they think they can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63640]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Albrecht Dürer, artist, 1528, and Michelangelo Buonarrotti, artist, spiritual writer, 1564   Man cannot make a redemptive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6371]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Albrecht Dürer, artist, 1528, and Michelangelo Buonarrotti, artist, spiritual writer, 1564   Man cannot make a redemptive art, but he can make an art that communicates what he experiences of redemption as a man and what he knows of it as an artist. God in his infinite wisdom may use an art work as an instrument of redemption, but what serves or can serve that purpose is beyond the knowledge of man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16987]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we did everything tonight but win on the scoreboard. I think we dominated a large portion of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37601]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we did everything tonight but win on the scoreboard. I think we dominated a large portion of the game, so you know we gave up a bad goal in the beginning. We have to put ourselves in a better position where we have to defend a lead in the last ten minutes rather than try to come back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It gets to seem as if way back in the Garden of Eden after the Fall, Adam and Eve had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33603]]></link><description><![CDATA[It gets to seem as if way back in the Garden of Eden after the Fall, Adam and Eve had begged the Lord to forgive them and He, in his boundless exasperation, had said, ''All right, then. Stay. Stay in the Garden. Get civilized. Procreate. Muck it up.'' And they did.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She's got all my focus right now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39528]]></link><description><![CDATA[She's got all my focus right now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd like to see a nude opera, because when they hit those high notes, I bet you can really see ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44912]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd like to see a nude opera, because when they hit those high notes, I bet you can really see it in those genitals]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just because somebody doesn't love you the way you want them to doesn't mean they don't love you with everything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15183]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just because somebody doesn't love you the way you want them to doesn't mean they don't love you with everything they got]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To have a liberal temperament is a kind of psychological boon, To be able to understand that someone you disagree ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58865]]></link><description><![CDATA[To have a liberal temperament is a kind of psychological boon, To be able to understand that someone you disagree with is not just a terrible creature but somebody with whom you disagree]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ophelia is forecast to become a hurricane within the next 12 hours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40856]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ophelia is forecast to become a hurricane within the next 12 hours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come, And let my liver rather heat with wine  Than my heart ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27422]]></link><description><![CDATA[With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come, And let my liver rather heat with wine  Than my heart cool with mortifying groans.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23393]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Fannius from his foe did fly Himself with his own hands he slew;  Who e'er a greater madness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58243]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Fannius from his foe did fly Himself with his own hands he slew;  Who e'er a greater madness knew?   Life to destroy for fear to die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God may thunder His commands from Mount Sinai and men may fear, yet remain at heart exactly as they were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7703]]></link><description><![CDATA[God may thunder His commands from Mount Sinai and men may fear, yet remain at heart exactly as they were before. But let a man once see his God down in the arena as a Man, -- suffering, tempted, sweating, and agonized, finally dying a criminal's death - and he is a hard man indeed who is untouched.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36822]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated To closeness and the bettering of my mind. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56107]]></link><description><![CDATA[I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated To closeness and the bettering of my mind. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a time for all things, a time to preach and a time to pray, but those times have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61198]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a time for all things, a time to preach and a time to pray, but those times have passed away. There is a time to fight, and that time has now come.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When [he] kisses you he isn't doing anything else. You're his whole universe..and the moment is eternal because he doesn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23854]]></link><description><![CDATA[When [he] kisses you he isn't doing anything else. You're his whole universe..and the moment is eternal because he doesn't have any plans and isn't going anywhere. Just kissing you...it's overwhelming.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sticks and stones will break my bones, but names will never hurt me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43622]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sticks and stones will break my bones, but names will never hurt me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My Christmas present to myself each year is to see how much air travel can open up the world and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64412]]></link><description><![CDATA[My Christmas present to myself each year is to see how much air travel can open up the world and take me to places as far from sheltered California and Japan as possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48174]]></link><description><![CDATA[Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43130]]></link><description><![CDATA[So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One woe doth tread upon another's heel, So fast they follow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51273]]></link><description><![CDATA[One woe doth tread upon another's heel, So fast they follow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brands make a powerful impact on people, especially in today's world of ever-increasing consumer choice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28977]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brands make a powerful impact on people, especially in today's world of ever-increasing consumer choice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mine was the role of the oilcan in making the machinery clunk around. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3346]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mine was the role of the oilcan in making the machinery clunk around.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wrestling is ballet with violence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wrestling is ballet with violence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue lies half way between two opposite vices. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50377]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue lies half way between two opposite vices.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If... you are ever tempted to think that we modern Western Europeans cannot really be so very bad because we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8513]]></link><description><![CDATA[If... you are ever tempted to think that we modern Western Europeans cannot really be so very bad because we are, comparatively speaking, humane -- if, in other words, you think God might be content with us on that ground -- ask yourself whether you think God ought to have been content with the cruelty of past ages because they excelled in courage or chastity. You will see at once that this is an impossibility. From considering how the cruelty of our ancestors looks to us, you may get some inkling of how our softness, worldliness, and timidity would have looked to them, and hence how both must look to God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[FORTRAN --'the infantile disorder'--, by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9523]]></link><description><![CDATA[FORTRAN --'the infantile disorder'--, by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have in mind today: it is now too clumsy, too risky, and too expensive to use.PL/I --'the fatal disease'-- belongs more to the problem set than to the solution set.It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence.APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation of coding bums.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9523</guid></item></channel></rss>