<?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 spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10189]]></link><description><![CDATA[The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted. [Lat., Spiritalis enim virtus sacramenti ita est ut lux: etsi per immundos transeat, non inquinatur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Envy is blind, and is only clever in depreciating the virtues of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50562]]></link><description><![CDATA[Envy is blind, and is only clever in depreciating the virtues of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27625]]></link><description><![CDATA[To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are leaving port under sealed orders and in a troubled period. You cannot know whither you are going or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7594]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are leaving port under sealed orders and in a troubled period. You cannot know whither you are going or what you are to do. But why not take the Pilot on board who knows the nature of your sealed orders from the outset, and who will shape your entire voyage accordingly? He knows the shoals and the sandbanks, the rocks and the reefs, He will steer you safely into that celestial harbor where your anchor will be cast for eternity. Let His almighty nail-pierced hands hold the wheel, and you will be safe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My love for you
a yearling became
many eons ago. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25870]]></link><description><![CDATA[My love for you
a yearling became
many eons ago.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62247]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't like to write, but I love to have written ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62418]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't like to write, but I love to have written]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They who are not induced to believe and live as they ought by those discoveries which God hath made in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34997]]></link><description><![CDATA[They who are not induced to believe and live as they ought by those discoveries which God hath made in Scriptures would stand out against any evidence whatever, even that of a messenger sent express from the other world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He could afford to suffer With those whom he saw suffer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58211]]></link><description><![CDATA[He could afford to suffer With those whom he saw suffer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16231]]></link><description><![CDATA[In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I implore you in God's name, not to think of Him as hard to please, but rather as generous beyond ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6764]]></link><description><![CDATA[I implore you in God's name, not to think of Him as hard to please, but rather as generous beyond all that you can ask or think.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22029]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adversity is the first path to truth. - Don Juan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adversity is the first path to truth. - Don Juan.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of the pleasures costs nothing and conveys much. It pleases ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of the pleasures costs nothing and conveys much. It pleases him who gives and him who receives, and thus, like mercy, it is twice blessed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deep in my heart I'm concealing things that I'm longing to say. Scared to confess what I'm feeling - frightened ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9638]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deep in my heart I'm concealing things that I'm longing to say. Scared to confess what I'm feeling - frightened you'll slip away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For Freedom's battle once begun, Bequeath'd by bleeding sire to son,  Though baffled oft is ever won. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16668]]></link><description><![CDATA[For Freedom's battle once begun, Bequeath'd by bleeding sire to son,  Though baffled oft is ever won.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10486]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And you pretend it doesn't bother you, When you just want to explode... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28007]]></link><description><![CDATA[And you pretend it doesn't bother you, When you just want to explode...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is impossible that God should ever be the end, if He is not the beginning. We lift our eyes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7919]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is impossible that God should ever be the end, if He is not the beginning. We lift our eyes on high, but lean upon the sand; and the earth will dissolve, and we shall fall while looking at the heavens.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22987]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tongues I'll hang on every tree That shall civil sayings show. . . . ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tongues I'll hang on every tree That shall civil sayings show. . . .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough . ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who wer as lyke as one pease is to another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9158]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who wer as lyke as one pease is to another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is full of cactus, but we don't have to sit on it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47046]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is full of cactus, but we don't have to sit on it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mirth, admit me of thy crew, To live with her, and live with thee,  In unreprov'd pleasures free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mirth, admit me of thy crew, To live with her, and live with thee,  In unreprov'd pleasures free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible / it cannot be seen or measured, yet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29862]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible / it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gracie comes home from the hospital after visiting a sick friend. (George) 'Where did you get the flowers?' (Gracie) 'I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35943]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gracie comes home from the hospital after visiting a sick friend. (George) 'Where did you get the flowers?' (Gracie) 'I went to visit Mable.' (George) 'Yeah, so?' (Gracie) 'WELL, you told me to take her flowers!']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1943]]></link><description><![CDATA[With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Certain signs precede certain events. [Lat., Certis rebus certa signa praecurrunt.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17085]]></link><description><![CDATA[Certain signs precede certain events. [Lat., Certis rebus certa signa praecurrunt.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only too true that a lot of artists are mentally ill- it's a life which, to put it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26183]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only too true that a lot of artists are mentally ill- it's a life which, to put it mildly, makes one an outsider. I'm all right when I completely immerse myself in work, but I'll always remain half crazy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Epicureans, that ascribed the origin and frame of the world not to the power of God, but to the fortuitous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8700]]></link><description><![CDATA[Epicureans, that ascribed the origin and frame of the world not to the power of God, but to the fortuitous concourse of atoms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12859]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to hang my hat on my speed, ... I want to show I'm a legit 4.3 guy. And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33484]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to hang my hat on my speed, ... I want to show I'm a legit 4.3 guy. And off the field I want the teams to know I'm always prepared -- studying, breaking down game film, learning the system, execution -- I'm all business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...whenever it is necessary that one of several conflicting opinions should prevail and when one would have to be made ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47389]]></link><description><![CDATA[...whenever it is necessary that one of several conflicting opinions should prevail and when one would have to be made to prevail by force if need be, it is less wasteful to determine which has the stronger support by counting numbers than by fighting. Democracy is the only method of peaceful change that man has yet been discovered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They, therefore, who are hasty in their devotions and think a little will do, are strangers both to the nature ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7258]]></link><description><![CDATA[They, therefore, who are hasty in their devotions and think a little will do, are strangers both to the nature of devotion and the nature of man; they do not know that they are to learn to pray, and that prayer is to be learnt as they learn other things, by frequency, constancy, and perseverance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21508]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then they began to sing That extremely lovely thing,  "Scherzando! ma non troppo, ppp." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then they began to sing That extremely lovely thing,  "Scherzando! ma non troppo, ppp."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue, the strength and beauty of the soul, Is the best gift of Heaven: a happiness  That even above ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue, the strength and beauty of the soul, Is the best gift of Heaven: a happiness  That even above the smiles and frowns of fate   Exalts great Nature's favourites: a wealth    That ne'er encumbers, nor can be transferr'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22875]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only the stupidest calves choose their own butcher. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the stupidest calves choose their own butcher.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62512]]></link><description><![CDATA[We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We definitely expected more consolidation in the industry, although it is always hard to imagine a deal of this magnitude. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37301]]></link><description><![CDATA[We definitely expected more consolidation in the industry, although it is always hard to imagine a deal of this magnitude. Mirage's management has underperformed and the stock has languished recently, making it a great opportunity for MGM Grand. But this will have to be a friendly deal if it has a shot of working.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember, sir, my liege, The kings your ancestors, together with  The natural bravery of your isle, which stands  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember, sir, my liege, The kings your ancestors, together with  The natural bravery of your isle, which stands   As Neptune's park, ribbed and paled in    With rocks unscalable and roaring waters,     With sands that will not bear your enemies' boats      But suck them up to th' topmast.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So long as we stand "under the Law", we cannot perceive this hidden unity of all the commandments. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6535]]></link><description><![CDATA[So long as we stand "under the Law", we cannot perceive this hidden unity of all the commandments. It is part of legalism that the will of God must appear to it as a multiplicity of commandments. In actual fact, it is one and indivisible; God wants nothing else except love because He Himself is love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46280]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the officers, soldiers and security personnel are asked not to abide by these decisions and to consider them null ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41285]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the officers, soldiers and security personnel are asked not to abide by these decisions and to consider them null and void.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This world crisis came about without women having anything to do with it. If the women of the world had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65109]]></link><description><![CDATA[This world crisis came about without women having anything to do with it. If the women of the world had not been excluded from world affairs, things today might have been different.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10249]]></link><description><![CDATA[A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's had little flashes where he looks like a big-league pitcher again. But he knows his command is not where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30455]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's had little flashes where he looks like a big-league pitcher again. But he knows his command is not where he wants it to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30455</guid></item></channel></rss>