<?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[Commemoration of Thomas à Kempis, priest, spiritual writer, 1471   It is no great matter to associate with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas à Kempis, priest, spiritual writer, 1471   It is no great matter to associate with the good and gentle; for this is a naturally pleasing to all, and everyone willingly enjoyeth peace, and loveth those best that agree with him. But to be able to live peaceably with hard and perverse persons, or with the disorderly, or with such as go contrary to us, is a great grace, and a most commendable thing.  ... Thomas à Kempis July 25, 2000 Feast of James the Apostle  When Jesus calls his disciples "brothers" and "friends", he is contradicting general Jewish usage and breaking through into a new concept of brotherhood which is not tribal, but open to any person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics governs everything we do - the games we play, the way we play them, who we play. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38679]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics governs everything we do - the games we play, the way we play them, who we play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are used as they use others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26297]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are used as they use others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want more self-regulation. Technology is moving too fast and business practices are changing too fast for governments to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32870]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want more self-regulation. Technology is moving too fast and business practices are changing too fast for governments to be able to anticipate every little thing,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is wrong to suppose that for Paul faith is a meritorious act on man's part, which wins salvation, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7859]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is wrong to suppose that for Paul faith is a meritorious act on man's part, which wins salvation, or even, in a more modern way of speech, a creative moral principle in itself. Paul does not, in fact, speak (when he is using the language strictly) of "justification by faith", but of "justification by grace through faith," or "on the grounds of faith." This is not mere verbal subtlety. It means that the "righteousness of God" becomes ours, not by the assertion of the individual will as such, but by the willingness to let God work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49366]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never bee handsome, strong, rich, or wise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those, who do not write, compose, or paint can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those, who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, the melancholia, the panic fear, which is inherent in a human condition]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be rational is so glorious a thing, that two-legged creatures generally content themselves with the title. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53098]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be rational is so glorious a thing, that two-legged creatures generally content themselves with the title.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abused patience turns to fury. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66505]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abused patience turns to fury.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pain is no longer pain when it is past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45368]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pain is no longer pain when it is past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15702]]></link><description><![CDATA[Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've been doing a better job these last few games of keeping our defense up the whole game. That's the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31926]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've been doing a better job these last few games of keeping our defense up the whole game. That's the key for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor ; spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60984]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let each man have according to his deserts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let each man have according to his deserts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our customers have told us that they want access to high-speed data services. Through expanded deployment strategies and highly successful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our customers have told us that they want access to high-speed data services. Through expanded deployment strategies and highly successful self-installs, we believe that our 2001 projection is very achievable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No vacation goes unpunished. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59585]]></link><description><![CDATA[No vacation goes unpunished.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us first say what photography is not. A photograph is not a painting, a poem, a symphony, a dance. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us first say what photography is not. A photograph is not a painting, a poem, a symphony, a dance. It is not just a pretty picture, not an exercise in contortionist techniques and sheer print quality. It is or should be a significant document, a penetrating statement, which can be described in a very simple term - selectivity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21166]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58127]]></link><description><![CDATA[A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The green earth sends her incense up.  From many a mountain shrine; From folded leaf and dewey cup  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13129]]></link><description><![CDATA[The green earth sends her incense up.  From many a mountain shrine; From folded leaf and dewey cup  She pours her sacred wine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe. -Alan Watts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51816]]></link><description><![CDATA[Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Home improvement retailers like Lowe's have large bulky merchandise in our stores and we carry big quantities of these products, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31547]]></link><description><![CDATA[Home improvement retailers like Lowe's have large bulky merchandise in our stores and we carry big quantities of these products, as many as 40,000 products.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3574]]></link><description><![CDATA[Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42877]]></link><description><![CDATA[Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we look carefully within ourselves, we shall find that there are certain limits beyond which we refuse to go ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6433]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we look carefully within ourselves, we shall find that there are certain limits beyond which we refuse to go in offering ourselves to God. We hover around these reservations, making believe not to see them, for fear of self-reproach. The more we shrink from giving up any such reserved point, the more certain it is that it needs to be given up. If we were not fast bound by it, we should not make so many efforts to persuade ourselves that we are free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Away with the cant of "Measures not men!"--the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46945]]></link><description><![CDATA[Away with the cant of "Measures not men!"--the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along. No Sir, if the comparison must be made, if the distinction must be taken, men are everything, measures comparatively nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24739]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11347]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65193]]></link><description><![CDATA[This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I imagine one of the reasons people cling to thier hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58386]]></link><description><![CDATA[I imagine one of the reasons people cling to thier hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain. -James Baldwin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46297]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and information, such feebleness of thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5156]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9723]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Wycliffe, Reformer, 1384   The gist of what Wycliffe has to say on every point is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6320]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Wycliffe, Reformer, 1384   The gist of what Wycliffe has to say on every point is practically this, that where the Church and the Bible do not agree, we must prefer the Bible; that where authority and conscience appear to be rival guides, we shall be much safer in following conscience; and that where the letter and the spirit seem to be in conflict, the spirit is above the letter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The least strength suffices to break what is bruised. [Lat., Minimae vires frangere quassa valent.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57944]]></link><description><![CDATA[The least strength suffices to break what is bruised. [Lat., Minimae vires frangere quassa valent.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is important that man dreams, but it is perhaps equally important that he can laugh at his own dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52151]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is important that man dreams, but it is perhaps equally important that he can laugh at his own dreams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The last, lonely trailing indicator of the business cycle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34416]]></link><description><![CDATA[The last, lonely trailing indicator of the business cycle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a new artist you're just hoping people notice you any way possible just so you can get your music ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39710]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a new artist you're just hoping people notice you any way possible just so you can get your music to them, ... Then you just hope they dig the music.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53194]]></link><description><![CDATA[A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mother says to her daughter: Daughter bid thy daughter, to her daughter, that her daughter's daughter is crying. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43200]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mother says to her daughter: Daughter bid thy daughter, to her daughter, that her daughter's daughter is crying. [Lat., Mater ait natae die natae filia natum  Ut moneat natae plangere filiolam.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The girls played well. We did not shoot well, but the defense was brilliant. Rochester is a quality team, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39451]]></link><description><![CDATA[The girls played well. We did not shoot well, but the defense was brilliant. Rochester is a quality team, a strong team. They passed well, they played well, they played hard and they played fair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are people who exaggerate so much that they can't tell the truth without lying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26157]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are people who exaggerate so much that they can't tell the truth without lying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am concerned about their offense. I think their offense is real efficient, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30592]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am concerned about their offense. I think their offense is real efficient,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be thou the rainbow to the storms of life! The evening beam that smiles the clouds away,  And tints ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48447]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be thou the rainbow to the storms of life! The evening beam that smiles the clouds away,  And tints to-morrow with prophetic ray!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56825]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self-critical?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the many-winter'd crow that leads the clanging rookery home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10775]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the many-winter'd crow that leads the clanging rookery home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are looking for our own virtue, our own piety, our own goodness, and so live on and in our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7317]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are looking for our own virtue, our own piety, our own goodness, and so live on and in our own poverty and weakness -- today pleased and comforted with the seeming firmness and strength of our own pious tempers and fancying ourselves to be somewhat. Tomorrow, fallen into our own mire, we are dejected, but not humbled; we grieve, but it is only the grief of pride at the seeing our perfection not to be such as we had vainly imagined. And thus it will be, till the whole turn of our minds be so changed that we as fully see and know our inability to have any goodness of our own as to have a life of our own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7317</guid></item></channel></rss>