<?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[Try and fail, but don't fail to try. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14906]]></link><description><![CDATA[Try and fail, but don't fail to try.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The beauty of success lies not solely in your happiness. But also in ensuring that you stop to help those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62913]]></link><description><![CDATA[The beauty of success lies not solely in your happiness. But also in ensuring that you stop to help those along your life's path become champions in their lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some hypocrites and seeming mortified men, that held down their heads, were like the little images that they place in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some hypocrites and seeming mortified men, that held down their heads, were like the little images that they place in the very bowing of the vaults of churches, that look as if they held up the church, but are but puppets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The balance of nature is reached when heating the house costs as much as going south for the winter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3672]]></link><description><![CDATA[The balance of nature is reached when heating the house costs as much as going south for the winter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64449]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We confess to little faults only to persuade others that we have no great ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15427]]></link><description><![CDATA[We confess to little faults only to persuade others that we have no great ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things well fitted abide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49967]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things well fitted abide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6144]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Columba, Abbot of Iona, Missionary, 597 Commemoration of Ephrem of Syria, Deacon, Hymnographer, Teacher, 373  Logic may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7173]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Columba, Abbot of Iona, Missionary, 597 Commemoration of Ephrem of Syria, Deacon, Hymnographer, Teacher, 373  Logic may be viewed, perhaps, as a machine which is designed, at best, to be such that when we feed into it certain data and turn the logic crank, we inevitably get certain conclusions out the other end. Logic is designed to give inevitably true results starting from known true -- or assumed-to-be-true -- premises. Logic is a wonderful tool when we want only logical conclusions. We should not reject such a machine merely because it is not equipped to handle all of reality. The scientist who commits himself to use a logic machine is doing wisely, qua scientist, for use on data of science. But if he feeds into that machine convictions that there is not God, or ignores God because He is not in his corpus of data, and then draws from his logic the conclusion that God does not exist, his conclusion is irrelevant. Logic is a tool; it should not be made into a religion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1207]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life. Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have – life itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not only is that a money issue, it's a space issue. We may have to buy another (mobile classroom). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29337]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not only is that a money issue, it's a space issue. We may have to buy another (mobile classroom).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The twilight is sad and cloudy, The wind blows wild and free,  And like the wings of sea-birds  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59925]]></link><description><![CDATA[The twilight is sad and cloudy, The wind blows wild and free,  And like the wings of sea-birds   Flash the white caps of the sea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cry every chance I get. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27832]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cry every chance I get.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was tough on the way back this morning. I was so mad; it kept snowing and snowing. We should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39677]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was tough on the way back this morning. I was so mad; it kept snowing and snowing. We should have been here half an hour ago.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When their city was occupied by the Gauls, and the Romans, who were besieged in the Capitol, had made military ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64884]]></link><description><![CDATA[When their city was occupied by the Gauls, and the Romans, who were besieged in the Capitol, had made military engines from the hair of the women, they dedicated a temple to the Bald Venus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't put the key of your happiness in someone elses pocket. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't put the key of your happiness in someone elses pocket.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27254]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43458]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21177]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; When health is lost, something is lost;  When character is lost, all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25578]]></link><description><![CDATA[When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; When health is lost, something is lost;  When character is lost, all is lost!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The work of an advertising agency is warmly and immediately human. It deals with human needs, wants, dreams and hopes. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44114]]></link><description><![CDATA[The work of an advertising agency is warmly and immediately human. It deals with human needs, wants, dreams and hopes. Its 'product' cannot be turned out on an assembly line.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ability is of little account without opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ability is of little account without opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When religion is in the hands of the mere natural man, he is always the worse for it; it adds ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7338]]></link><description><![CDATA[When religion is in the hands of the mere natural man, he is always the worse for it; it adds a bad heat to his own dark fire and helps to inflame his four elements of selfishness, envy, pride, and wrath. And hence it is that worse passions, or a worse degree of them are to be found in persons of great religious zeal than in others that made no pretenses to it. History also furnishes us with instances of persons of great piety and devotion who have fallen into great delusions and deceived both themselves and others. The occasion of their fall was this: ... They considered their whole nature as the subject of religion and divine graces; and therefore their religion was according to the workings of their whole nature, and the old man was as busy and as much delighted in it as the new.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19730]]></link><description><![CDATA[A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wolfe eats oft of the sheep that have been warn'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49936]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wolfe eats oft of the sheep that have been warn'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6022]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let not a god interfere unless where a god's assistance is necessary. [Adopt extreme measures only in extreme cases.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50294]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let not a god interfere unless where a god's assistance is necessary. [Adopt extreme measures only in extreme cases.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yee have many strings to your bowe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51974]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yee have many strings to your bowe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember, the quality of your life is dependent upon the quality of thelife of your cells. If the bloodstream is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember, the quality of your life is dependent upon the quality of thelife of your cells. If the bloodstream is filled with waste products, theresulting environment does not promote a strong, vibrant, healthy celllife-nor a biochemistry capable of creating a balanced emotional life foran individual.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This should not have been reported as an in kind contribution and it's unfortunate that these members put the party ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30949]]></link><description><![CDATA[This should not have been reported as an in kind contribution and it's unfortunate that these members put the party in this situation,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hindsight is always twenty-twenty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19280]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Jeremy Taylor, Bishop of Down & Connor, Priest, Teacher, 1667 Commemoration of Florence Nightingale, Social Reformer, 1910 Commemoration ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Jeremy Taylor, Bishop of Down & Connor, Priest, Teacher, 1667 Commemoration of Florence Nightingale, Social Reformer, 1910 Commemoration of Octavia Hill, Worker for the Poor, 1912  Let us not inquire into the affairs of others that concern us not, but be busied within ourselves and our own spheres; ever remembering that to pry into the actions or interests of other men not under our charge may minister to pride, to tyranny, to uncharitableness, to trouble, but can never consist with modesty; unless where duty or the mere intentions of charity and relation do warrant it... Knock, therefore, at the door before you enter upon your neighbor's privacy: and remember, that there is no difference between entering his house and looking into it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the most argumentative. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44280]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the most argumentative.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tom Birch is as brisk as a bee in conversation; but no sooner does he take a pen in his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10097]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tom Birch is as brisk as a bee in conversation; but no sooner does he take a pen in his hand, than it becomes a torpedo to him, and benumbs all his faculties.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fit to give weight to smoke. [Lat., Dare pondus idonea fumo.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16018]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fit to give weight to smoke. [Lat., Dare pondus idonea fumo.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A rising tide lifts all boats ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4413]]></link><description><![CDATA[A rising tide lifts all boats]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Supposition all our lives shall be stuck full of eyes; For treason is but trusted like the fox,  Who, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59653]]></link><description><![CDATA[Supposition all our lives shall be stuck full of eyes; For treason is but trusted like the fox,  Who, ne'er so tame, so cherished and locked up,   Will have a wild trick of his ancestors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The time draws near the birth of Christ: The moon is hid; the night is still;  The Christmas bells ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8647]]></link><description><![CDATA[The time draws near the birth of Christ: The moon is hid; the night is still;  The Christmas bells from hill to hill   Answer each other in the mist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have this running quandary about Christmas. I get upset about it, because I feel that we American Christians make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7997]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have this running quandary about Christmas. I get upset about it, because I feel that we American Christians make too much of it, and too little. Too little of it, because we pile all sorts of other things onto it, including some that have only the feeblest connection with the Event it is supposed to commemorate. If God did become a man, in any real sense, it is the most important thing that ever happened. Surely we, who believe it, could well devote one day a year to uninterrupted contemplation of the fact, and let Saturnalia fall on the winter solstice, where it belongs.   On the other hand, we make so much of the actual birth, and forget the things that make it more than just the birth of a baby (though even that is, in Walt Whitman's phrase, "miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels") -- more, even, than the birth of the greatest man who ever lived. We forget the promise to Eve of a descendant who will solve the problem of Evil; the promise to Abraham of one by whom all mankind will be blessed; the promise to Moses of a greater prophet than he, to arise from his people; and the promise to David of a Son who would be his Master. We forget about the eternal Purpose behind it all: it's like telling a story and leaving out the point. Yes, it is true that God gave us His Son, and so maybe we ought also to give gifts -- but what, and to whom? It is also true that God gave us Himself, and the only sensible response to that is to give ourselves to Him. There is nothing else that He wants from us, or, if there is something, He can take it. Only I, my ego, my heart, is truly mine to give or to withhold -- and is therefore the appropriate gift to Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She brightens my day! Every day I'm smiling, I'm thinking about her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36373]]></link><description><![CDATA[She brightens my day! Every day I'm smiling, I'm thinking about her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13946]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For me that's one of the great indulgences in life - a hand-tailored suit, and a great pair of handmade ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65382]]></link><description><![CDATA[For me that's one of the great indulgences in life - a hand-tailored suit, and a great pair of handmade shoes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is bad to live for necessity; but there is no necessity to live in necessity. [Lat., Malum est necessitati ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44062]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is bad to live for necessity; but there is no necessity to live in necessity. [Lat., Malum est necessitati vivere; sed in necessitate vivere necessitas nulla est.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1669]]></link><description><![CDATA[As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20593]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wrongs are often forgiven; contempt never ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9928]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wrongs are often forgiven; contempt never]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The stronger always succeeds. [Lat., Plus potest qui plus valet.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57945]]></link><description><![CDATA[The stronger always succeeds. [Lat., Plus potest qui plus valet.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only the mediocre are always at their best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26760]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the mediocre are always at their best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26760</guid></item></channel></rss>