<?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[If you don't fail now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21111]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't fail now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mirror of all courtesy. -King Henry VIII. Act ii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56033]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mirror of all courtesy. -King Henry VIII. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...consequence you'll see will be stranger than a gang of drunken mimes... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27487]]></link><description><![CDATA[...consequence you'll see will be stranger than a gang of drunken mimes...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh that the desert were my dwelling-place! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh that the desert were my dwelling-place!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46968]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[cautiously optimistic about the plan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40419]]></link><description><![CDATA[cautiously optimistic about the plan.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I CAN is 100 times more important than IQ ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13625]]></link><description><![CDATA[I CAN is 100 times more important than IQ]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5221]]></link><description><![CDATA[The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good fathers make good sons ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15411]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good fathers make good sons]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have, thanks to my travels, added to my stock all the superstitions of other countries. I know them all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58360]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have, thanks to my travels, added to my stock all the superstitions of other countries. I know them all now, and in any critical moment of my life, they all rise up in armed legions for or against me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The coconut trees, lithe and graceful, crowd the beach like a minuet of slender elderly virgins adopting flippant poses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43873]]></link><description><![CDATA[The coconut trees, lithe and graceful, crowd the beach like a minuet of slender elderly virgins adopting flippant poses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We took her into the doctor, and at first they didn't know what was wrong. She went down so quick ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40948]]></link><description><![CDATA[We took her into the doctor, and at first they didn't know what was wrong. She went down so quick in a few days. I thank God for the doctor at the clinic in Joes. They drew her blood and said, 'You have 48 hours to get her to Children's (Hospital).' I was devastated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Commemoration of Helena, Protector of the Faith, 330  The cross is laid on every Christian. It begins ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8580]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Commemoration of Helena, Protector of the Faith, 330  The cross is laid on every Christian. It begins with the call to abandon the attachments of this world. It is that dying of the old man which is the result of his encounter with Christ. As we embark upon discipleship we surrender ourselves to Christ in union with His death -- we give over our lives to death. Since this happens at the beginning of the Christian life, the cross can never be merely a tragic ending to an otherwise happy religious life. When Christ calls a man, He bids him come and die. It may be a death like that of the first disciples who had to leave home and work to follow Him, or it may be a death like Luther's, who had to leave the monastery and go out into the world. But it is the same death every time -- death in Jesus Christ, the death of the old man at His call. That is why the rich young man was so loath to follow Jesus, for the cost of his following was the death of his will. In fact, every command of Jesus is a call to die, with all our affections and lusts. But we do not want to die, and therefore Jesus Christ and His call are necessarily our death and our life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65030]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As there is no worldly gain without some loss so there is no worldly loss without some gain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26501]]></link><description><![CDATA[As there is no worldly gain without some loss so there is no worldly loss without some gain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mercy among the virtues is like the moon among the stars ... It is the light that hovers above the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27372]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mercy among the virtues is like the moon among the stars ... It is the light that hovers above the judgment seat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53956]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them afterwards; they will be dissipated, lost and perish in the hurry and scurry of the world, or sunk in the slough of indolence]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My quest these days is to find my long lost inner Luke (child), but I'm afraid if I do, I'll ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46205]]></link><description><![CDATA[My quest these days is to find my long lost inner Luke (child), but I'm afraid if I do, I'll end up with food in my hair and way too in love with the cats.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 651 Commemoration of Cuthburga, Founding Abbess of Wimborne, c.725 Commemoration of John Bunyan, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6183]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 651 Commemoration of Cuthburga, Founding Abbess of Wimborne, c.725 Commemoration of John Bunyan, Spiritual Writer, 1688  [John Bunyan] had to live through that obscure night -- "wide, vast, and lonely" -- which fell upon St. John of the Cross before; like him, he knew that grace would enter "the dark caverns where the senses live". In the meantime, Bunyan tossed to and fro, as it were between heaven and hell. It has been said that he paints too dark a picture of his moral condition when a young man, that he exaggerates his wickedness at this period, and afterwards wrestles with phantoms of his vivid imagination. But spiritual sins, though not so obvious as those that are sensual, may be just as real; and Bunyan's intensity of feeling and expression arose from the intensity of his spiritual nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66500]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27807]]></link><description><![CDATA[The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UPS now flies to more points in China than any other US airline, freight or passenger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32891]]></link><description><![CDATA[UPS now flies to more points in China than any other US airline, freight or passenger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My background is somewhat unusual, as I trained to be a ballet dancer. I worked in the theatre for eight ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3709]]></link><description><![CDATA[My background is somewhat unusual, as I trained to be a ballet dancer. I worked in the theatre for eight or nine years as a contemporary dancer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes when I feel like killing someone, I do a little trick to calm myself down. I'll go over to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11737]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes when I feel like killing someone, I do a little trick to calm myself down. I'll go over to the persons house and ring the doorbell. When the person comes to the door, I'm gone, but you know what I've left on the porch? A jack-o-lantern with a knife stuck in the side of it's head with a note that says "You." After that I usually feel a lot better, and no harm done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Applaud friends, the comedy is over. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24127]]></link><description><![CDATA[Applaud friends, the comedy is over.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Day treads upon the heels of day, and the new moons hasten to their waning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50204]]></link><description><![CDATA[Day treads upon the heels of day, and the new moons hasten to their waning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fatt man knoweth not, what the leane thinketh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49843]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fatt man knoweth not, what the leane thinketh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15879]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone was encouraging to each other, ... It was more of a 'team' kind of thing; it wasn't like a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone was encouraging to each other, ... It was more of a 'team' kind of thing; it wasn't like a tryout or anything. I'd played against a lot of the guys at the Combine, so we all kind of had a mutual respect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60156]]></link><description><![CDATA[By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60775]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can I get a raise if I balance the ball on my head on the Letterman Show? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37608]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can I get a raise if I balance the ball on my head on the Letterman Show?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is Love without his wings! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is Love without his wings!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It’s time we framed every question - every issue -- not in terms of what’s in it for ‘me,’ but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12352]]></link><description><![CDATA[It’s time we framed every question - every issue -- not in terms of what’s in it for ‘me,’ but what’s in it for all of us? And when you ask that simple question - what’s in it for all of us? - the direction not taken in America could not be more clear or compelling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ripest fruit first falls. -King Richard II. Act ii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55816]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ripest fruit first falls. -King Richard II. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else's body. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else's body.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57700]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At first he was very discouraging, to my astonishment then, but now I fancy he did it as a forlorn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34409]]></link><description><![CDATA[At first he was very discouraging, to my astonishment then, but now I fancy he did it as a forlorn hope to check me; he said the whole idea was so disgusting that he could not entertain it for a moment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pain is no evil unless it conquers us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pain is no evil unless it conquers us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Papua New Guinea, 1942   Love... makes the whole difference between an execution and a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7883]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Papua New Guinea, 1942   Love... makes the whole difference between an execution and a martyrdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's heavy, but also it's sort of the philosophy of Hospice that it's not about death. It's about life. When ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40383]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's heavy, but also it's sort of the philosophy of Hospice that it's not about death. It's about life. When you're able to confront the realities of death, you're able to live life as long as you can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10164]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wilson Carlile, Priest, Founder of the Church Army, 1942  Few have defined what free will is, although ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8137]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wilson Carlile, Priest, Founder of the Church Army, 1942  Few have defined what free will is, although it repeatedly occurs in the writings of all. Origen seems to have put forward a definition generally agreed upon among ecclesiastical writers when he said that it is a faculty of the reason to distinguish between good and evil, a faculty of the will to choose one or the other. Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the will to choose good with the assistance of grace; evil, when grace is absent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61857]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Custom said, 'Get up.' Society said, 'Get up.' Politics said, 'Get up.' The bus driver said, 'Get up.' But you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Custom said, 'Get up.' Society said, 'Get up.' Politics said, 'Get up.' The bus driver said, 'Get up.' But you gave her the power to stay seated. She heard your voice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[May every young scientist remember... and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54882]]></link><description><![CDATA[May every young scientist remember... and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure of his apparatus to give consistent results may once or twice in a lifetime conceal an important discovery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He told me that bin Laden is saying to President Clinton that the battle has not started yet and they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28231]]></link><description><![CDATA[He told me that bin Laden is saying to President Clinton that the battle has not started yet and they will answer these raids with actions, not words.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not going to be above normal for much of the next week, and it's going to remain wet most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30156]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not going to be above normal for much of the next week, and it's going to remain wet most of the time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30156</guid></item></channel></rss>