<?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[Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him. [Lat., Nemini fidas, nisi cum quo prius multos modios ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13184]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him. [Lat., Nemini fidas, nisi cum quo prius multos modios salis absumpseris.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Calvin, renewer of the Church, 1564  Therefore Adam could have stood if he wished, seeing that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7720]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Calvin, renewer of the Church, 1564  Therefore Adam could have stood if he wished, seeing that he fell solely by his own will. But it was because his will was capable of being bent to one side or the other, and was not given the constancy to persevere, that he fell so easily. Yet his choice of good and evil was free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leave no question in anyone's mind as to where you stand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48240]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leave no question in anyone's mind as to where you stand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46773]]></link><description><![CDATA[A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29528]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fool and his money are soon parted. - Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15960]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fool and his money are soon parted. - Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're getting a collection of Irish and Scottish music going, which is fun and it really gets people stomping their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37835]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're getting a collection of Irish and Scottish music going, which is fun and it really gets people stomping their feet. They're not so much singing along, unless they know the words and then they get started.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That knuckle-end of England--that land of Calvin, oat-cakes, and sulphur. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54895]]></link><description><![CDATA[That knuckle-end of England--that land of Calvin, oat-cakes, and sulphur.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise man is out of the reach of fortune. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61753]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise man is out of the reach of fortune.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no original truth, only original error. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53390]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no original truth, only original error.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He created a record of achievement. But he also gives off an aura that the city is getting better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35630]]></link><description><![CDATA[He created a record of achievement. But he also gives off an aura that the city is getting better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A stirring dwarf we do allowance give Before a sleeping giant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9866]]></link><description><![CDATA[A stirring dwarf we do allowance give Before a sleeping giant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great actions are not always true sons Of great and mighty resolutions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48711]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great actions are not always true sons Of great and mighty resolutions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer 'yes' without having asked any clear question. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5760]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer 'yes' without having asked any clear question.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God keeps a niche In Heaven, to hold our idols; and albeit  He brake them to our faces, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19081]]></link><description><![CDATA[God keeps a niche In Heaven, to hold our idols; and albeit  He brake them to our faces, and denied   That our close kisses should impair their white,--    I know we shall behold them raised, complete,     The dust swept from their beauty, glorified,      New Memnons singing in the great God-light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He makes no friends who never made a foe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63527]]></link><description><![CDATA[He makes no friends who never made a foe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twere better to be born a stone Of ruder shape, and feeling none,  Than with a tenderness like mine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45352]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twere better to be born a stone Of ruder shape, and feeling none,  Than with a tenderness like mine   And sensibilities so fine!    Ah, hapless wretch! condemn'd to dwell     Forever in my native shell,      Ordained to move when others please,       Not for my own content or ease;        But toss'd and buffeted about,         Now in the water and now out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alec Issignois said a camel was a horse made by a committee.. but a camel is an animal created by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/223]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alec Issignois said a camel was a horse made by a committee.. but a camel is an animal created by God to adapt to deserts made by treekilling human beings The animal made by human commitee had pickled pigs' feet .. the pigs now had no feet .. frog's legs ...the frogs now had no legs chicken's thighs... the chickens now had no thighs lamb's ribs .. the lamb now had no ribs turkey's breasts.. the turkey's chest was carved sheep's eyes which watched the devourers calf brains which contained Mad Cow and God sent angels to wipe all violence from the earth from this day forth © S N Shriver.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This picture, plac'd the busts between Gives Satire all its strength;  Wisdom and Wit are little seen   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14058]]></link><description><![CDATA[This picture, plac'd the busts between Gives Satire all its strength;  Wisdom and Wit are little seen   While Folly glares at length.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A line is a dot that went for a walk. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17063]]></link><description><![CDATA[A line is a dot that went for a walk.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He passed it onto his sister who is my wife and now it's in my house. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39952]]></link><description><![CDATA[He passed it onto his sister who is my wife and now it's in my house.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4394]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abstinence is the surety of temperance ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/186]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abstinence is the surety of temperance]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All sorrows are good (or are less) with bread. [Sp., Todos los duelos con pan son buenos (or son menos).] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13181]]></link><description><![CDATA[All sorrows are good (or are less) with bread. [Sp., Todos los duelos con pan son buenos (or son menos).]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56804]]></link><description><![CDATA[The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57786]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45974]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labours of peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, & his sister Macrina, Teachers, c.394 & c.379  As long as I live, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7640]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, & his sister Macrina, Teachers, c.394 & c.379  As long as I live, I will never appeal for money for the mission of God in this world. This is a degradation of God and of ourselves, which has pauperized us in every way over the centuries. God has no need, and if the mission is God's, then we do not ask for help to give God a boost; therefore we do not appeal for funds. We allow people to take a share in God's work, and this is a very different thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; but if we begin withdoubts, and are patient in them, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21255]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; but if we begin withdoubts, and are patient in them, we shall end in certainties.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2390]]></link><description><![CDATA[We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Prosperity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Crescit eundo [It grows as it goes] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43283]]></link><description><![CDATA[Crescit eundo [It grows as it goes]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66534]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People in their 20s have a lot of time to grow their investments and don't need to be too conservative, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39468]]></link><description><![CDATA[People in their 20s have a lot of time to grow their investments and don't need to be too conservative,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the consequences of such notions as "entitlements" is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56740]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the consequences of such notions as "entitlements" is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their presence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25755]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It probably occurred a while ago. I don't think it has had a big impact. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42198]]></link><description><![CDATA[It probably occurred a while ago. I don't think it has had a big impact.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53703]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little do you know what a gloriously uncertain thing law is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50885]]></link><description><![CDATA[Little do you know what a gloriously uncertain thing law is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3660]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58426]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15365]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63431]]></link><description><![CDATA[As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The majors can't be bothered with that [kind of material]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35915]]></link><description><![CDATA[The majors can't be bothered with that [kind of material].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman - not the attitude of the prospect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54656]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman - not the attitude of the prospect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, isstronger than any physical force in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21501]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, isstronger than any physical force in the universe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64869]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Division has done more to hide Christ from the view of all men than all the infidelity that has ever ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Division has done more to hide Christ from the view of all men than all the infidelity that has ever been spoken.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is the daring of the soul to go farther than it can see ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is the daring of the soul to go farther than it can see]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who can complain about somebody that gets elected, when nobody went and voted for him? If you don't like the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37908]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who can complain about somebody that gets elected, when nobody went and voted for him? If you don't like the Democrats, pick you a Republican. Pick somebody. Get off the couch and go vote.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37908</guid></item></channel></rss>