<?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[Mercy to living beings, self restraint, truth, honesty, chastity and contentment, right faith and knowledge, and austerity are but the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43160]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mercy to living beings, self restraint, truth, honesty, chastity and contentment, right faith and knowledge, and austerity are but the entourage of morality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In love, everything is true, everything is false; it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15069]]></link><description><![CDATA[In love, everything is true, everything is false; it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2635]]></link><description><![CDATA[Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and VERY important. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25810]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and VERY important.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not enough to be compassionate. You must act also. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21162]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not enough to be compassionate. You must act also.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25625]]></link><description><![CDATA[And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him. - Up from Slavery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such as take lodgings in a head That's to be let unfurnished. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such as take lodgings in a head That's to be let unfurnished.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Love-star of the unbeloved March, When cold and shrill,  Forth flows beneath a low, dim-lighted arch   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10976]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Love-star of the unbeloved March, When cold and shrill,  Forth flows beneath a low, dim-lighted arch   The wind that beats sharp crag and barren hill,    And keeps unfilmed the lately torpid rill!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that there are probably people not ready for retirement living but not ready to take care of a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31232]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that there are probably people not ready for retirement living but not ready to take care of a household.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How many things served us yesterday for articles of faith, which to-day are fables to us! [Fr., Combien de choses ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14981]]></link><description><![CDATA[How many things served us yesterday for articles of faith, which to-day are fables to us! [Fr., Combien de choses nous servoient heir d'articles de foy, qui nous sont fables aujourd'hui!]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her parthenogenetic birth from Adam's body makes Eve his daughter so that the Judeo-Christian tradition rests on a primal father-daughter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23462]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her parthenogenetic birth from Adam's body makes Eve his daughter so that the Judeo-Christian tradition rests on a primal father-daughter incest motif]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is full of choices. They could have called for help. They could have stopped and walked away. They made ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33278]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is full of choices. They could have called for help. They could have stopped and walked away. They made their choice that day, now they must pay the consequences.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64525]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a bit shocking no movie had done it. Still, the weekends have been pretty strong. I think we're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31685]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a bit shocking no movie had done it. Still, the weekends have been pretty strong. I think we're getting a better idea of delivering what audiences want.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The basic difference between being assertive and being aggressive is how our words and behavior affect the rights and well ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1065]]></link><description><![CDATA[The basic difference between being assertive and being aggressive is how our words and behavior affect the rights and well being of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song;  But the man worth while is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56692]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song;  But the man worth while is the one who will smile   When everything does dead wrong;    For the test of the heart is trouble,     And it always comes with the years,      But the smile that is worth the praise of earth       Is the smile that comes through tears.        . . . .         But the virtue that conquers passion,          And the sorrow that hides in a smile--           It is these that are worth the homage of earth,            For we find them but once in a while.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poor and content is rich, and rich enough; But riches fineless is as poor as winter  To him that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51452]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poor and content is rich, and rich enough; But riches fineless is as poor as winter  To him that ever fears he shall be poor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes when I get home at night in Washington I feel as though I had been in a great traffic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35934]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes when I get home at night in Washington I feel as though I had been in a great traffic jam.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I began taking liberties a long time ago; now it is standard practice for most directors to ignore the rules. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42624]]></link><description><![CDATA[I began taking liberties a long time ago; now it is standard practice for most directors to ignore the rules.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace begins with a smile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace begins with a smile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There shall be no more snow No weary noontide heat,  So we lift our trusting eyes   From ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17089]]></link><description><![CDATA[There shall be no more snow No weary noontide heat,  So we lift our trusting eyes   From the hills our Fathers trod:    To the quiet of the skies:     To the Sabbath of our God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[List--'twas the cuckoo--O, with what delight Heard I that voice! and catch it now, though faint,  Far off and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10817]]></link><description><![CDATA[List--'twas the cuckoo--O, with what delight Heard I that voice! and catch it now, though faint,  Far off and faint, and melting into air,   Yet not to be mistaken. Hark again!    Those louder cries give notice that the bird,     Although invisible as Echo's self,      Is wheeling hitherward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That which leads us to the performance of duty by offering pleasure as its reward, is not virtue, but a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60769]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which leads us to the performance of duty by offering pleasure as its reward, is not virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue. [Lat., Nam quae voluptate, quasi mercede aliqua, ad officium impellitur, ea non est virtus sed fallax imitatio simulatioque virtutis.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only people who never fail are those who never try. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22182]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only people who never fail are those who never try.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Empty Chambers make foolish maides. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Empty Chambers make foolish maides.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christmas Eve The soft light from a stable door  Lies on the midnight lands; The wise men's star burns ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6852]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christmas Eve The soft light from a stable door  Lies on the midnight lands; The wise men's star burns evermore,  Over all the desert sands. Unto all peoples of the earth  A little Child brought light;  And never in the darkest place  Can it be utter night. No flickering torch, no wavering fire,  But Light the Life of men; Whatever clouds may veil the sky,  Never is night again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why should Ireland be treated as a geographical fragment of England . . . Ireland is not a geographical fragment, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23051]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why should Ireland be treated as a geographical fragment of England . . . Ireland is not a geographical fragment, but a nation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first and continuing argument for the curtailment of working hours and the raising of the minimum age was that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35935]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first and continuing argument for the curtailment of working hours and the raising of the minimum age was that education was necessary in a democracy and working children could not attend school.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea,  The ploughman homeward ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14252]]></link><description><![CDATA[The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea,  The ploughman homeward plods his weary way,   And leaves the world to darkness and to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who riseth from a feast With that keen appetite that he sits down? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2905]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who riseth from a feast With that keen appetite that he sits down?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Scholastica, Abbess of Plombariola, c.543   But in rejecting the [Bible's illustrations of eternal punishment] as grotesque ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6337]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Scholastica, Abbess of Plombariola, c.543   But in rejecting the [Bible's illustrations of eternal punishment] as grotesque and even immoral, many people make the mistake of rejecting the truth it illustrated (which is rather like rejecting a book as untrue because the pictures in it are bad). It is illogical to tell men that they must do the will of God and accept his gospel of grace, if you also tell them that the obligation has no eternal significance, and that nothing ultimately depends on it. The curious modern heresy that everything is bound to come right in the end is so frivolous that I will not insult you by refuting it. "I remember," said Dr. [Samuel] Johnson on one occasion, "that my Maker has said that he will place the sheep on his right hand and the goats on his left." That is a solemn truth which only the empty-headed and empty-hearted will neglect. It strikes at the very roots of life and destiny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47351]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23222]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The homegrown tomato is best(in reference to choosing a marriage partner). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26422]]></link><description><![CDATA[The homegrown tomato is best(in reference to choosing a marriage partner).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21502]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old goths never die, they just need less makeup ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old goths never die, they just need less makeup]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4726]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1219]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think people really want to be happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38797]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think people really want to be happy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Believe me, the gods spare the afflicted, and do not always oppress those who are unfortunate. [Lat., Crede mihi, miseris ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1660]]></link><description><![CDATA[Believe me, the gods spare the afflicted, and do not always oppress those who are unfortunate. [Lat., Crede mihi, miseris coelestia numina parcunt;  Nec semper laesos, et sine fine, premunt.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers. -John Plomp. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45510]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers. -John Plomp.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61668]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He thinks posterity is a pack-horse, always ready to be loaded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47838]]></link><description><![CDATA[He thinks posterity is a pack-horse, always ready to be loaded.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shun an inquisitive man, he is invariably a tell-tale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50323]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shun an inquisitive man, he is invariably a tell-tale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The longest journey a man must take is the eighteen inches from his head to his heart ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59568]]></link><description><![CDATA[The longest journey a man must take is the eighteen inches from his head to his heart]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The state] doesn't have any evidence of harassment. It would be a travesty if the court allowed the charges to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39664]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The state] doesn't have any evidence of harassment. It would be a travesty if the court allowed the charges to go forward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the communities of the faithful, men had to impress upon themselves and upon others what Jesus said and did, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6195]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the communities of the faithful, men had to impress upon themselves and upon others what Jesus said and did, for the more convinced they were that he was neither a Jewish pretender nor an unsubstantial deity like one of the deities of the cults, the more urgent it was for them to recall that his words were the rule of their life, and that his actions in history had created their position in the world; they had to think out their faith, to state it against outside criticism, and to teach it within their own circle, instead of being content with it as a mere emotion; they had also to refresh their courage by anticipating the future, which they believed was in the hands of their Lord. The common basis of their life was the conviction that they enjoyed a new relationship with God, for which they were indebted to Jesus. The technical term for this relationship was "covenant", and "covenant" became eventually in their vocabulary "testament". Hence the later name for these writings of the church, when gathered into a sacred collection, was "The New Testament" -- New because the older relationship of God to his people, which had obtained under Judaism, with its Old Testament was superseded by the faith and fellowship which Jesus Christ his Son had inaugurated. It was the consciousness of this that inspired the early Christians to live, and to write about the origin and applications of this new life. They wrote for their own age, without a thought of posterity, and they did not write in unison but in harmony.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I was at fault, I could see paying. But I wasn't . I told the guys at work, if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32337]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I was at fault, I could see paying. But I wasn't . I told the guys at work, if you're even close to an accident, get out of there because you're going to get a bill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32337</guid></item></channel></rss>