<?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[Feast of Catherine of Siena, Mystic, Teacher, 1380  It seems to me to be the best proof of an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7711]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Catherine of Siena, Mystic, Teacher, 1380  It seems to me to be the best proof of an evangelical disposition, that persons are not angry when reproached, and have a Christian charity for those that ill deserve it.  ... The Colloquies of Erasmus    April 30, 1998  Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922  What keeps most men in "Christian" countries from being heretics in this sense is that they do not publicly avow their disbelief: it is in better taste to be casual about lost beliefs, and a note of wistfulness generally ensures forgiveness. Obstinacy is rare. Millions do not even know that they deny essential Christian doctrines: they have never bothered to find out what the essential doctrines are. In extenuation they may plead that the evasiveness and the multiplicity of churches create a difficulty; but to be deterred by this when one's eternal destiny is said to be at stake bespeaks a glaring lack of seriousness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64635]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The moral system of the universe is like a document written in alternate ciphers, which change from line to line. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43100]]></link><description><![CDATA[The moral system of the universe is like a document written in alternate ciphers, which change from line to line.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58219]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A politician thinks of the next election -- a statesman, of the next generation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17235]]></link><description><![CDATA[A politician thinks of the next election -- a statesman, of the next generation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Under the greenwood tree Who loves to lie with me. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 5. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55644]]></link><description><![CDATA[Under the greenwood tree Who loves to lie with me. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 5.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level. -Dr. Joyce Brothers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22998]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level. -Dr. Joyce Brothers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who this really hurts is entry-level workers because it makes it harder for them to find work. Instead of hiring ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who this really hurts is entry-level workers because it makes it harder for them to find work. Instead of hiring five people (business owners) hire three people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9195]]></link><description><![CDATA[A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet Spring, full of sweet dayes and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie,  My musick shows ye have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57795]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet Spring, full of sweet dayes and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie,  My musick shows ye have your closes,   And all must die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm just another old ski racer to them. If they weren't so tunnel vision right now, they might be interested ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33352]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm just another old ski racer to them. If they weren't so tunnel vision right now, they might be interested or have the time to ask questions. But I understand where they are at this moment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately, and it gives you a lift. The hangover comes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately, and it gives you a lift. The hangover comes the day after.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are trying to go in a similar direction here with it. For Saturday night, the lights are coming from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32728]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are trying to go in a similar direction here with it. For Saturday night, the lights are coming from Kennebec Rental in Fairfield where Bob works.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing more hostile to a city that a tyrant, under whom in the first and chiefest place, there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59964]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing more hostile to a city that a tyrant, under whom in the first and chiefest place, there are not laws in common, but one man, keeping the law himself to himself, has the sway, and this is no longer equal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a first approximation, I define "belief" not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53740]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a first approximation, I define "belief" not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as the subject's investment in a proposition, the act of saying it and considering it as true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the stock to stabilize, investors have to get their hands on the seriousness of the regulatory issues. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33124]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the stock to stabilize, investors have to get their hands on the seriousness of the regulatory issues.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Peter & Paul, Apostles   The desire for unity has haunted me all my life through; I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7337]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Peter & Paul, Apostles   The desire for unity has haunted me all my life through; I have never been able to substitute any desire for that, or to accept any of the different schemes for satisfaction of that men have desired.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's difficult to appreciate the value of others when your own self assessment is over valued. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63220]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's difficult to appreciate the value of others when your own self assessment is over valued.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The test of life are to make, not break us. Trouble may demolish a man's business but build up his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7411]]></link><description><![CDATA[The test of life are to make, not break us. Trouble may demolish a man's business but build up his character. The blow at the outward man may be the greatest blessing to the inner man. If God, then, puts or permits anything hard in our lives, be sure that the real peril, the real trouble, is that we shall lose if we flinch or rebel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To rankling poison hast thou turned in me the milk of human kindness. [Ger., In gahrend Drachengift hast du  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46870]]></link><description><![CDATA[To rankling poison hast thou turned in me the milk of human kindness. [Ger., In gahrend Drachengift hast du  Die Milch der frommen Denkart mir verwandelt.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We . . . are no petty people. We are one of the great stocks of Burke; we are the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23059]]></link><description><![CDATA[We . . . are no petty people. We are one of the great stocks of Burke; we are the people of Swift, the people of Emmet, the people of Parnell. We have created most of the modern literature of this country. We have created the best of its political intelligence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/321]]></link><description><![CDATA[To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never, believe me, Appear the Immortals,  Never alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never, believe me, Appear the Immortals,  Never alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be so; and insolence, if unpunished, increases! [Lat., Qui se laisse ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22842]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be so; and insolence, if unpunished, increases! [Lat., Qui se laisse outrager, merite qu'on l'outrage  Et l'audace impunie enfle trop un courage.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A blackout is similar to any side effect of drinking too much such as vomiting or abnormal behavior. The implications ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31723]]></link><description><![CDATA[A blackout is similar to any side effect of drinking too much such as vomiting or abnormal behavior. The implications beyond that are people don't know what they did.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957 There are three lessons I would write,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957 There are three lessons I would write,  Three words, as with a burning pen, In tracings of eternal light,  Upon the hearts of men. Have Hope. Though clouds environ round,  And gladness hides her face in scorn,  Put off the shadow from thy brow:  No night but hath its morn. Have Faith. Where'er thy bark is driven -  The calm's disport, the tempest's mirth - Know this: God rules the hosts of heaven,  The inhabitants of earth. Have Love. Not love alone for one,  But man, as man, thy brother call;  And scatter, like a circling sun,  Thy charities on all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have worked with Joey at Test level - it would be terrific to work with him again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31629]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have worked with Joey at Test level - it would be terrific to work with him again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My brother Mark still lives in the house we grew up in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37977]]></link><description><![CDATA[My brother Mark still lives in the house we grew up in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and those of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26767]]></link><description><![CDATA[The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and those of the public.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25513]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like St. George, always in his saddle, never on his way.   - Clement Walker, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51848]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like St. George, always in his saddle, never on his way.   - Clement Walker,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want your dreams to come true, don't over sleep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65590]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want your dreams to come true, don't over sleep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We tried this because in the past, nobody knew who they'd be skating with. There just wasn't any chemistry. So ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36097]]></link><description><![CDATA[We tried this because in the past, nobody knew who they'd be skating with. There just wasn't any chemistry. So if we run this the rest of the season, it will help develop chemistry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As much as I'm not a huge fan of the band Kiss, I totally appreciate what they did in creating ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32470]]></link><description><![CDATA[As much as I'm not a huge fan of the band Kiss, I totally appreciate what they did in creating a show. They wrote these simple, pretty crappy rock songs, but they created this huge image and this huge show. It was like this iconic thing, and I think that's really cool. I think that's something that we've always really appreciated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And now we’re apart and you’re just some stranger who knows all my secrets and all my family members and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65764]]></link><description><![CDATA[And now we’re apart and you’re just some stranger who knows all my secrets and all my family members and all my quirks and flaws and it doesn’t make sense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Bartholomew the Apostle  If you make a habit of sincere prayer, your life will be very noticeably ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8065]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Bartholomew the Apostle  If you make a habit of sincere prayer, your life will be very noticeably and profoundly altered. Prayer stamps with its indelible mark our actions and demeanor. A tranquillity of bearing, a facial and bodily repose, are observed in those whose inner lives are thus enriched. Within the depths of consciousness a flame kindles. And man sees himself. He discovers his selfishness, his silly pride, his fears, his greeds, his blunders. He develops a sense of moral obligation, intellectual humility. Thus begins a journey of the soul toward the realm of grace... [Continued tomorrow].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is much that is bad and meaningless in the universe, and the universe contains men who know that much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8340]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is much that is bad and meaningless in the universe, and the universe contains men who know that much is bad and meaningless. The Christian answer is that this is a good world gone wrong, but with a memory of what it should have been.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Order gave each thing view. -King Henry VIII. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56028]]></link><description><![CDATA[Order gave each thing view. -King Henry VIII. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This has been a Benny Goodman-type market, ... lots of swing, and it's very, very difficult to get a handle ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28647]]></link><description><![CDATA[This has been a Benny Goodman-type market, ... lots of swing, and it's very, very difficult to get a handle on long-term positioning when the market is moving up and down so rapidly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22820]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't anticipate any workforce impact. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37584]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't anticipate any workforce impact.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was such an ugly kid - When I played in the sandbox, the cat kept covering me up ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5933]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was such an ugly kid - When I played in the sandbox, the cat kept covering me up]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't waste your youth growing up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't waste your youth growing up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Although prepared for martyrdom, I prefer that it be postponed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Although prepared for martyrdom, I prefer that it be postponed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you're alive, it isn't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58971]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you're alive, it isn't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A strong sense of injury often gives point to the expression of our feelings. [Lat., Plerumque dolor etiam venustos facit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20915]]></link><description><![CDATA[A strong sense of injury often gives point to the expression of our feelings. [Lat., Plerumque dolor etiam venustos facit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have had dreams, and I have had nightmares. I overcame thenightmares because of my dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21681]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have had dreams, and I have had nightmares. I overcame thenightmares because of my dreams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21681</guid></item></channel></rss>