<?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 is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44200]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8831]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Cecilia, Martyr at Rome, c.230 Commemoration of Clive Staples Lewis, Spiritual Writer, 1963  I too had noticed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8536]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Cecilia, Martyr at Rome, c.230 Commemoration of Clive Staples Lewis, Spiritual Writer, 1963  I too had noticed that our prayers for others flow more easily than those we offer on our own behalf. And it would be nice to accept your view that this just shows we are made to live by charity. I'm afraid, however, I detect two much less attractive reasons for the ease of my own intercessory prayers. One is that I am often, I believe, praying for others when I should be doing things for them. It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see him. And the other is like unto it. Suppose I pray that you may be given grace to withstand your besetting sin (short list of candidates for this post will be forwarded on demand). Well, all the work has to be done by God and you. If I pray against my own besetting sin there will be work for me. One sometimes fights shy of admitting an act to be a sin for this very reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities . . . because it is the quality which guarantees all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10277]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities . . . because it is the quality which guarantees all others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you close your eyes, you could just as well imagine me to be vintage Ali MacGraw, circa 1968. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14590]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you close your eyes, you could just as well imagine me to be vintage Ali MacGraw, circa 1968.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58576]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Given the cultural barriers to intersex conversation, the amazing thing is that we would even expect women and men to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27182]]></link><description><![CDATA[Given the cultural barriers to intersex conversation, the amazing thing is that we would even expect women and men to have anything to say to each other for more than ten minutes at a stretch. The barriers are ancient -- perhaps rooted, as some paleontologist may soon discover, in the contrast between the occasional guttural utterances exchanged in male hunting bands and the extended discussions characteristic of female food-gathering groups.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[cslab9a /u/jcn/src/perl -> man sex No manual entry for sex. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57111]]></link><description><![CDATA[cslab9a /u/jcn/src/perl -> man sex No manual entry for sex.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to know you can first. How comes later. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66858]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to know you can first. How comes later.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Actors become actors because they loved entertaining their family by putting on the lampshade and dancing around as a kid, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/556]]></link><description><![CDATA[Actors become actors because they loved entertaining their family by putting on the lampshade and dancing around as a kid, ... That's not my personality. For me, the fun part of making movies is seeing it as a director sees it. I like the architecture of movies. I like knowing what's coming and working to set that up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one but a fool would measure their satisfaction by what the world thinks of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/891]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one but a fool would measure their satisfaction by what the world thinks of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Years ago, Fidelity told you not to buy because of a manager, but because Fidelity as a whole always turned ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40727]]></link><description><![CDATA[Years ago, Fidelity told you not to buy because of a manager, but because Fidelity as a whole always turned to gold. Now you have to look at a manager's performance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Under normal conditions the research scientist is not an innovator but a solver of puzzles, and the puzzles upon which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57030]]></link><description><![CDATA[Under normal conditions the research scientist is not an innovator but a solver of puzzles, and the puzzles upon which he concentrates are just those which he believes can be both stated and solved within the existing scientific tradition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56906]]></link><description><![CDATA[The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66046]]></link><description><![CDATA[We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee a beast doth die, that hath done no good to his country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee a beast doth die, that hath done no good to his country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Football linemen are motivated by a more complicated, self- determining series of factors than the simple fear of humiliation in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16405]]></link><description><![CDATA[Football linemen are motivated by a more complicated, self- determining series of factors than the simple fear of humiliation in the public gaze, which is the emotion that galvanizes the backs and receivers]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest act of faith is when man admits he is not god. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15004]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest act of faith is when man admits he is not god.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42794]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kind reader! take your choice to cry or laugh; Here Harod lies--but where's his Epitaph?  If such you seek, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14090]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kind reader! take your choice to cry or laugh; Here Harod lies--but where's his Epitaph?  If such you seek, try Westminister, and view   Ten thousand, just as fit for him as you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no faith which has never yet been broken except that of a truly faithful dog. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12700]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no faith which has never yet been broken except that of a truly faithful dog.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We wrestled a very solid match. We're pleased with our progress and we have two weeks of practice to sharpen ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38928]]></link><description><![CDATA[We wrestled a very solid match. We're pleased with our progress and we have two weeks of practice to sharpen up before the VOL Tournament.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time is the best teacher and judge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65845]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time is the best teacher and judge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to keep something concealed from your enemy, don't disclose it to your friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63934]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to keep something concealed from your enemy, don't disclose it to your friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. Thatkeeps me on my toes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21547]]></link><description><![CDATA[My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. Thatkeeps me on my toes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is God's joke on us. It's our mission to figure out the punch line. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is God's joke on us. It's our mission to figure out the punch line.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of that which is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16090]]></link><description><![CDATA[The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of that which is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2414]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strangers open up to you just as much as your friends, sometimes even more for whatever reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37138]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strangers open up to you just as much as your friends, sometimes even more for whatever reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can't learn to do it well, learn to enjoy doing it badly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can't learn to do it well, learn to enjoy doing it badly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Charles Williams, Spiritual Writer, 1945  Although we have different ways of worshipping and doing things, we have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6466]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Charles Williams, Spiritual Writer, 1945  Although we have different ways of worshipping and doing things, we have only one God. So how can we claim to have... "Good News" unless people can see in us that Jesus Christ is breaking down barriers and bringing us together?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is next to the gods whom reason, and not passion, impels; and who, after weighing the facts, can measure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52558]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is next to the gods whom reason, and not passion, impels; and who, after weighing the facts, can measure the punishment with discretion. [Lat., Diis proximus ille est  Quem ratio non ira movet: qui factor rependens   Consilio punire potest.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow's too lazy to form an opinion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow's too lazy to form an opinion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfection. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46124]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfection.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing burneth in hell but self-will. Therefore it hath been said, Put off thine own will, and there will be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6825]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing burneth in hell but self-will. Therefore it hath been said, Put off thine own will, and there will be no more hell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He'll probably pitch as much as he would if he was in Spring Training. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41377]]></link><description><![CDATA[He'll probably pitch as much as he would if he was in Spring Training.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We believe the success of the continued evolution of the Paul Lee's Chinese Kitchen brand will be best served under ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30184]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe the success of the continued evolution of the Paul Lee's Chinese Kitchen brand will be best served under Paul Fleming's stewardship. As a measure of our confidence in Paul and his team, we have retained the option to re-enter the joint venture in the future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, 988  We must confess our sins in order to obtain pardon; but we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, 988  We must confess our sins in order to obtain pardon; but we must see our sins in order to confess. How few of those who think that they have confessed and been pardoned have ever seen their sin!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5415]]></link><description><![CDATA[If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When an occasion of practicing some virtue offered, he addressed himself to God, saying, "Lord, I cannot do this unless ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6626]]></link><description><![CDATA[When an occasion of practicing some virtue offered, he addressed himself to God, saying, "Lord, I cannot do this unless Thou enablest me"; and... then he received strength more than sufficient. When he had failed in his duty, he simply confessed his fault, saying to God, "I shall never do otherwise if Thou leavest me to myself; it is Thou who must hinder my falling, and mend what is amiss." After this, he gave himself no further uneasiness about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails toalways reach my destination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21780]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails toalways reach my destination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only as powerful as it is relevant in a given scenario. I think we need to be clear ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31693]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only as powerful as it is relevant in a given scenario. I think we need to be clear it is not a magic bullet in post-conviction cases.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware of one who flatters unduly; he will also censure unjustly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5433]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware of one who flatters unduly; he will also censure unjustly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With stores being built all around you reducing your sales and reducing your profit, you've got very little chance of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33637]]></link><description><![CDATA[With stores being built all around you reducing your sales and reducing your profit, you've got very little chance of working for 15 or 20 years and walking away with anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shauna and I had no office yet. We had to find the equipment for the office, we had to find ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42012]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shauna and I had no office yet. We had to find the equipment for the office, we had to find furniture, start writing grants, contact the IRS about our public charitable status, and get with the state about our tax-exempt status. We ended up going around Methodist Hospital to offices that were vacant at the time to make phone calls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11601]]></link><description><![CDATA[A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Over the hills and far away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43301]]></link><description><![CDATA[Over the hills and far away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This dish of meat is too good for any but anglers, or very honest men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13284]]></link><description><![CDATA[This dish of meat is too good for any but anglers, or very honest men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13284</guid></item></channel></rss>