<?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[Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ash Wednesday  The apologetic of the New Testament, and of the early centuries generally, was addressed to men who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8153]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ash Wednesday  The apologetic of the New Testament, and of the early centuries generally, was addressed to men who had been brought up within one or other of the great pre-Christian religious systems and who had staunchly defended their own inherited traditions against the innovation of the Christian outlook; whereas any apologetic that is to be effective in this country today must be addressed to men who stand within the inheritance of the Christian tradition and know nothing, save by hearsay, of any other, but who have now in varying degrees disengaged themselves from this tradition and whose quarrel with Christianity is therefore undertaken from the point of view either of no religion at all or of some very vague and tenuous residuum of Christian religiosity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cosmetics is a boon to every woman, but a girl's best beauty aid is still a near-sighted man ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cosmetics is a boon to every woman, but a girl's best beauty aid is still a near-sighted man]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[World-wide apart, and yet akin, As showing that the human heart  Beats on forever as of old. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58526]]></link><description><![CDATA[World-wide apart, and yet akin, As showing that the human heart  Beats on forever as of old.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8721]]></link><description><![CDATA[The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A new British survey has revealed that 9 out of 10 people like Chocolate. The tenth lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65840]]></link><description><![CDATA[A new British survey has revealed that 9 out of 10 people like Chocolate. The tenth lies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to look at how shall we regulate the so-called political market. Should it be very free, or moderately ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35930]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to look at how shall we regulate the so-called political market. Should it be very free, or moderately free, or somehow restricted? It's my opinion it's too restricted nowadays.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had 10 dropped passes. Shane easily could have had 400 passing yards. And that's no surprise at all. He's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31889]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had 10 dropped passes. Shane easily could have had 400 passing yards. And that's no surprise at all. He's an unbelievable athlete.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But we think there are privacy and equal protection issues at stake here that we just have to have cleared ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30964]]></link><description><![CDATA[But we think there are privacy and equal protection issues at stake here that we just have to have cleared up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While Washington hath left His awful memory,  A light for after times. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61254]]></link><description><![CDATA[While Washington hath left His awful memory,  A light for after times.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like the crest of a peacock so is mathematics at the head of all knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26521]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like the crest of a peacock so is mathematics at the head of all knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An I thought he had been valiant and so cunning in fence, I 'ld have seen him damned ere I' ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55768]]></link><description><![CDATA[An I thought he had been valiant and so cunning in fence, I 'ld have seen him damned ere I' ld have challenged him. -Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Baxter, Priest, Hymnographer, Teacher, 1691  If bodies please thee, praise God on occasion of them, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8410]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Baxter, Priest, Hymnographer, Teacher, 1691  If bodies please thee, praise God on occasion of them, and turn back thy love upon their Maker; lest in these things which please thee, thou displease. If souls please thee, be they loved in God: for they too are mutable, but in Him they are firmly established.  ... The Confessions of St. Augustine June 15, 1996 Feast of Evelyn Underhill, Mystical Writer, 1941  Jesus remains unshaken as the practical man; and we stand exposed as the fools, the blunderers, the unpractical visionaries.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cut and come again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48536]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cut and come again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adventure is not outside a man; it is within. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adventure is not outside a man; it is within.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Conversion of Paul  The church is unique in that it is so able to cut across ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7603]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Conversion of Paul  The church is unique in that it is so able to cut across age boundaries and social-status boundaries. When one loves the Lord Jesus Christ and sincerely seeks to follow Him, then one quite by surprise comes upon a community that he did not know existed, a community that is experienced within the heart; and when this community is found, nothing is ever quite the same again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes people to run a city. And they are expensive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42114]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes people to run a city. And they are expensive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The shortest distance between two points is under construction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1181]]></link><description><![CDATA[The shortest distance between two points is under construction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are keen to get our photograph on the wall. It will be there forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37013]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are keen to get our photograph on the wall. It will be there forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When daisies pied and violets blue, And lady-smocks all silver-white, And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue Do paint the meadows with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55506]]></link><description><![CDATA[When daisies pied and violets blue, And lady-smocks all silver-white, And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue Do paint the meadows with delight, The cuckoo then, on every tree, Mocks married men. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act v. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26223]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18929]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love Salt Lake City, but I love you and the life of work before me still better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42242]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love Salt Lake City, but I love you and the life of work before me still better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaulteth not itself, is not puffed up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5693]]></link><description><![CDATA[Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaulteth not itself, is not puffed up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must have long term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short term failures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17628]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must have long term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short term failures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64917]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53604]]></link><description><![CDATA[No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign: that all the dunces are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1083]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in confederacy against him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only meaning of life worth caring about is one that can withstand our best efforts to examine it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56965]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only meaning of life worth caring about is one that can withstand our best efforts to examine it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John Chrysostom, Bishop of Constantinople, Teacher, 407   Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John Chrysostom, Bishop of Constantinople, Teacher, 407   Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's just like a grandpa to me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40971]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's just like a grandpa to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am no longer a curmudgeon.I am a curmudgeon emeritus. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20113]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am no longer a curmudgeon.I am a curmudgeon emeritus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old homes! old hearts! Upon my soul forever Their peace and gladness lie like tears and laughter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old homes! old hearts! Upon my soul forever Their peace and gladness lie like tears and laughter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're not roommates, but we room next to each other and we know we've got to do this together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32253]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're not roommates, but we room next to each other and we know we've got to do this together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I figure I basically am a ghost. I think we all are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38792]]></link><description><![CDATA[I figure I basically am a ghost. I think we all are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27240]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19728]]></link><description><![CDATA[When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53223]]></link><description><![CDATA[If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the fawn just died. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41802]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the fawn just died.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discontent is likely to be highest when misery is bearable; when conditions have so improved that an ideal state seems ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47602]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discontent is likely to be highest when misery is bearable; when conditions have so improved that an ideal state seems almost within reach. A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed. De Tocqueville in his researches into the state of society in France before the revolution was struck by the discovery that "in no one of the periods which have followed the Revolution of 1789 has the national prosperity of France augmented more rapidly than it did in the twenty years preceding that event." He is forced to conclude that "the French found their position the more intolerable the better it became.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26500]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it will content your spirit for the moment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60963]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve. Those among you who will be truly happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[March comes in with an adder's head, and goes out with a peacock's tail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26365]]></link><description><![CDATA[March comes in with an adder's head, and goes out with a peacock's tail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who are we? Where do we come from? Why are we this way and not some other? What does it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who are we? Where do we come from? Why are we this way and not some other? What does it mean to be human? Are we capable, if need be, of fundamental change, or do the dead hands of forgotten ancestors impel us in some direction, indiscriminately for good or ill, and beyond our control? Can we alter our character? Can we improve our societies? Can we leave our children a world better than the one that was left to us? Can we free them from the demons that torment us and haunt our civilization? In the long run, are we wise enough to know what changes to make? Can we be trusted with our own future?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All art requires courage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3149]]></link><description><![CDATA[All art requires courage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are proud to play even a small part in helping our industries provide emergency shelter for the victims of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40602]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are proud to play even a small part in helping our industries provide emergency shelter for the victims of this tragedy. It appears that most of the shelters ordered by FEMA have now been produced, but we do expect to see some carryover into 2006. In addition, industry sales in 2006 may increase due both to the need to replenish dealer lots that were depleted while manufacturers diverted their production capabilities to filling FEMA orders, and the permanent rebuilding of the hurricane-stricken areas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a significant improvement in survival for women with this disease, which is most often diagnosed at an advanced ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33369]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a significant improvement in survival for women with this disease, which is most often diagnosed at an advanced stage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With those who don't give a damn about baseball, I can only sympathize. I do not resent them. I am ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57460]]></link><description><![CDATA[With those who don't give a damn about baseball, I can only sympathize. I do not resent them. I am even willing to concede that many of them are physically clean, good to their mothers and in favor of world peace. But while the game is on, I can't think of anything to say to them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57460</guid></item></channel></rss>