<?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[Whatever, therefore, is foolish, ridiculous, vain, or earthly, or sensual, in the life of a Christian is something that ought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever, therefore, is foolish, ridiculous, vain, or earthly, or sensual, in the life of a Christian is something that ought not to be there; it is a spot and a defilement that must be washed away with tears of repentance. But if anything of this kind runs all through the course of our life, if we allow ourselves in things that are either vain, foolish, or sensual, we renounce our profession. For as sure as Jesus Christ was wisdom and holiness, as sure as He came to make us like Himself and to be baptized into His Spirit, so sure is it that none can be said to keep to their Christian profession but they who, to the utmost of their power, live a wise and holy and heavenly life. This, and this alone, is Christianity, a universal holiness in every part of life, a heavenly wisdom in all our actions, not conforming to the spirit and temper of the world but turning all worldly enjoyments into means of piety and devotion to God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The throne of another is not stable for thee. [Lat., Alieno in loco  Haud stabile regnum est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54501]]></link><description><![CDATA[The throne of another is not stable for thee. [Lat., Alieno in loco  Haud stabile regnum est.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A college education shows a man how little other people know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13498]]></link><description><![CDATA[A college education shows a man how little other people know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important benefit of population size and growth is the increase it brings to the stock of useful knowledge. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15737]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important benefit of population size and growth is the increase it brings to the stock of useful knowledge. Minds matter economically as much as, or more than, hands or mouths.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In one word, this ideal is that you are divine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66643]]></link><description><![CDATA[In one word, this ideal is that you are divine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58594]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who has not marveled at the might of kings  When voyaging down the river of dead years?  What ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who has not marveled at the might of kings  When voyaging down the river of dead years?  What deeds of death to still an hour of fears, What waste of wealth to gild a moth's frail wings!  A Caesar to the breeze his banner flings,  An Alexander with his bloody spears,  A Herod heedless of his people's tears!  And Rome in ruin while Nero laughs and sings:  Ye actors of a drama, cruel and cold,  Your names are by-words in Love's temple now,  Your pomp and glory but a winding-sheet;  Then Christ came scorning regal power and gold  To wear warm blood-drops on a willing brow,  And we, in love, forever kiss His feet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The moment giving and loving becomes more of an option than an obligation, you always tend to miss out on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63003]]></link><description><![CDATA[The moment giving and loving becomes more of an option than an obligation, you always tend to miss out on the beautiful moments of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9606]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Birth of John the Baptist Continuing a short series on authenticity:   There, right in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8507]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Birth of John the Baptist Continuing a short series on authenticity:   There, right in the middle of our lives, is that which satisfies the craving for inequality, and acts as a permanent reminder that medicine is not food. Hence a man's reaction to Monarchy is a kind of test. Monarchy can easily be "debunked"; but watch the faces, mark well the accents, of the debunkers. These are the men whose tap-root in Eden has been cut: whom no rumour of the polyphony, the dance, can reach -- men to whom pebbles laid in a row are more beautiful than an arch. Yet even if they desire mere equality, they cannot reach it. Where men are forbidden to honour a king, they honour millionaires, athletes, or film-stars instead: even famous prostitutes or gangsters. For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Written about Washington after his death by another of the founding fathers, Thomas Jefferson: His mind was great and powerful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60283]]></link><description><![CDATA[Written about Washington after his death by another of the founding fathers, Thomas Jefferson: His mind was great and powerful ... as far as he saw, no judgment was ever sounder. It was slow in operation, being little aided by invention or imagination, but sure in conclusion.... Perhaps the strongest feature in his character was prudence, never acting until every circumstance, every consideration, was maturely weighed; refraining if he saw doubt, but, when once decided, going through his purpose, whatever obstacles opposed. His integrity was the most pure, his justice the most inflexible I have ever known.... He was, indeed, in every sense of the words, a wise, a good and a great man ... On the whole, his character was, in its mass, perfect ... it may truly be said, that never did nature and fortune combine more perfectly to make a man great....]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Had Cain been Scot, God would have changed his doom Nor forced him wander, but confine him home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54891]]></link><description><![CDATA[Had Cain been Scot, God would have changed his doom Nor forced him wander, but confine him home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19191]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success with money, family, relationships, health, and careers is theability to reach your personal objectives in the shortest time, with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22417]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success with money, family, relationships, health, and careers is theability to reach your personal objectives in the shortest time, with theleast effort and with the fewest mistakes. The goals you set for yourselfand the strategies you choose become your blueprint or plan. Strategiesare like recipes: choose the right ingredients, mix them in the correctproportions, and you will always produce the same predictable results: inthis case financial success. The success strategies for managing money andbuilding wealth are called Money Strategies. By learning to use moneystrategies as a part of your day-to-day life, financial frustration andfailure will become a thing of the past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll always be Number 1 to myself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57572]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll always be Number 1 to myself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26565]]></link><description><![CDATA[My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Oh! what a vile and abject thing is man unless he can erect himself above humanity." Here is a bon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18392]]></link><description><![CDATA["Oh! what a vile and abject thing is man unless he can erect himself above humanity." Here is a bon mot and a useful desire, but equally absurd. For to make the handful bigger than the hand, the armful bigger then the arm, and to hope to stride further than the stretch of our legs, is impossible and monstrous. . . . He may lift himself if God lend him His hand of special grace; he may lift himself . . . by means wholly celestial. It is for our Christian religion, and not for his Stoic virtue, to pretend to this divine and miraculous metamorphosis.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You'd hear the horn blow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29625]]></link><description><![CDATA[You'd hear the horn blow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Christian marriage is [not] one with no problems or even a marriage with fewer problems. (It may well mean ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6538]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Christian marriage is [not] one with no problems or even a marriage with fewer problems. (It may well mean more problems.) But it does mean a life in which two people are able to accept each other and love each other in the midst of problems and fears. It means a marriage in which selfish people can accept selfish people without constantly trying to change them -- and even accept themselves, because they realize personally that they have been accepted by Christ.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have to ask, you can't afford it! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5034]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have to ask, you can't afford it!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45214]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A scholar's ink lasts longer than a martyr's blood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4347]]></link><description><![CDATA[A scholar's ink lasts longer than a martyr's blood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ageism is the most pervasive form of prejudice experienced in the UK population and that seems to be true pretty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33707]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ageism is the most pervasive form of prejudice experienced in the UK population and that seems to be true pretty much across gender, ethnicity and religion -- people of all types experience it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures. [Lat., Omnibus in rebus voluptatibus maximis fastidium finitimum est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46696]]></link><description><![CDATA[In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures. [Lat., Omnibus in rebus voluptatibus maximis fastidium finitimum est.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ninety percent of success is showing up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22751]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ninety percent of success is showing up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What most impresses us about great jurists is not their tenacious grasps of fine points, honed almost to invisibility; it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19511]]></link><description><![CDATA[What most impresses us about great jurists is not their tenacious grasps of fine points, honed almost to invisibility; it is the moment when we are suddently aware of the sweep and direction of the law, and its place in the lives of men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the immediate postwar years, the whole of Europe was in a recession. So first of all, it helped us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35802]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the immediate postwar years, the whole of Europe was in a recession. So first of all, it helped us step out of a recession; it gave a certain amount of speed to the economy. But that was the first step.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22841]]></link><description><![CDATA[Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think our numbers wore them down. We subbed liberally and kept fresh feet out there. I think that helped. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39938]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think our numbers wore them down. We subbed liberally and kept fresh feet out there. I think that helped.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always try to balance the light with the heavy -- a few tears of human spirit in with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3683]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always try to balance the light with the heavy -- a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God's manifestation of Himself has not been for our personal experience only, but all creation, and all time, all mankind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6591]]></link><description><![CDATA[God's manifestation of Himself has not been for our personal experience only, but all creation, and all time, all mankind and all man's life upon the earth, are manifestations of God; and the man turns to barrenness and folly who limits himself to his own narrow thought and futile endeavours. All human experience is revelation if the great purpose of life is the discipline of souls, and the one unchanging guidance for all men is duty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To die will be an awfully big adventure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/663]]></link><description><![CDATA[To die will be an awfully big adventure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself. It seems unfair. You can't assume the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6029]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself. It seems unfair. You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do --or don't do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58187]]></link><description><![CDATA[People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fop sometimes gives important advice. [Fr., Un fat quelquefois ouvre un avis important.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/772]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fop sometimes gives important advice. [Fr., Un fat quelquefois ouvre un avis important.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truest characters of ignorance Are vanity, and pride, and annoyance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20401]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truest characters of ignorance Are vanity, and pride, and annoyance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ill that comes out of our mouth falles into our bosome. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49878]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ill that comes out of our mouth falles into our bosome.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She just wore enough for modesty; no more! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27754]]></link><description><![CDATA[She just wore enough for modesty; no more!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In brief, I don't stick to declare, Father Dick, So they call him for short, is a regular brick;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5625]]></link><description><![CDATA[In brief, I don't stick to declare, Father Dick, So they call him for short, is a regular brick;  A metaphor taken--I have not the page aright--   From an ethical work by the Stagyrite.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that al our fathers were under the cloud, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8900]]></link><description><![CDATA[Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that al our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15011]]></link><description><![CDATA[Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That?s what we?re trying to build. Two more groups to go. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33320]]></link><description><![CDATA[That?s what we?re trying to build. Two more groups to go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No, Freedom has a thousand charms to show That slaves, howe'er contented, never know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16675]]></link><description><![CDATA[No, Freedom has a thousand charms to show That slaves, howe'er contented, never know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The path you had chosen, may not be the right time for you. There may be something else which is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62931]]></link><description><![CDATA[The path you had chosen, may not be the right time for you. There may be something else which is undone and God wants you to focus on it before travelling on your desired path. Everything has its own time. Follow your conscience and don't forget your priorities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The grass stoops not, she treads on it so light; . . . ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16415]]></link><description><![CDATA[The grass stoops not, she treads on it so light; . . .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To weepe for joy is a kinde of Manna. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50017]]></link><description><![CDATA[To weepe for joy is a kinde of Manna.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Convey a libel in a frown. And wink a reputation down! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Convey a libel in a frown. And wink a reputation down!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep a cow, and the milk won't have to be watered but once. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16647]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep a cow, and the milk won't have to be watered but once.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65501]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65501</guid></item></channel></rss>