<?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 Bartholomew the Apostle  It is often said with a sneer that the God of Israel was only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8135]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Bartholomew the Apostle  It is often said with a sneer that the God of Israel was only a God of Battles, "a mere barbaric Lord of Hosts" pitted in rivalry against other gods only as their envious foe. Well it is for the world that He was indeed a God of Battles. Well it is for us that He was to all the rest only a rival and a foe. In the ordinary way, it would have been only too easy for them to have achieved the desolate disaster of conceiving Him as a friend. It would have been only too easy for them to have seen Him stretching out His hands in love and reconciliation, embracing Baal and kissing the painted face of Astarte... It would have been easy enough for His worshipers to follow the enlightened course of Syncretism and the pooling of all the pagan traditions. It is obvious indeed that His followers were always sliding down this easy slope; and it required the almost demoniac energy of certain inspired demagogues, who testified to the divine unity in words that are still like winds of inspiration and ruin, [to stop them]. The more we really understand of the ancient conditions that contributed to the final culture of the Faith, the more we shall have a real and even a realistic reverence for the greatness of the Prophets of Israel. As it was, while the whole world melted into this mass of confused mythology, this Deity who is called tribal and narrow, precisely because He was what is called tribal and narrow, preserved the primary religion of all mankind. He was tribal enough to be universal. He was as narrow as the universe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4986]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more. Modesty died when clothes were born.  Modesty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42916]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more. Modesty died when clothes were born.  Modesty died when false modesty was born.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether man is disposed to yield to nature or to oppose her, he cannot do without a correct understanding of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43891]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether man is disposed to yield to nature or to oppose her, he cannot do without a correct understanding of her language.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But sometimes you have to do what you have to do, ... You can?t depend on other people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28249]]></link><description><![CDATA[But sometimes you have to do what you have to do, ... You can?t depend on other people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bee not a Baker, if your head be of butter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49150]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bee not a Baker, if your head be of butter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17999]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teaching is the single most important thing we do here at the University. To cultivate knowledge and watch it grow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42562]]></link><description><![CDATA[Teaching is the single most important thing we do here at the University. To cultivate knowledge and watch it grow is immensely rewarding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where are they now that we, the men whom they sent off to war, have returned? These are commanders who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where are they now that we, the men whom they sent off to war, have returned? These are commanders who have deserted their troops, and there is no more serious crime in the law of war. The Army says they never leave their wounded. The Marines say they never leave even their dead. These men have left all the casualties and retreated behind a pious shield of public rectitude. They have left the real stuff of their reputation bleaching behind them in the sun in this country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whilst that the childe is young, let him be instructed in vertue and lytterature.   - John Lyly (Lylie ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whilst that the childe is young, let him be instructed in vertue and lytterature.   - John Lyly (Lylie or Lyllie),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great trees are good for nothing but shade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49303]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great trees are good for nothing but shade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But men are men; the best sometimes forget. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51438]]></link><description><![CDATA[But men are men; the best sometimes forget.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel so bad about that. That's not enough, but I couldn't convince the publisher to print a 500-page children's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31946]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel so bad about that. That's not enough, but I couldn't convince the publisher to print a 500-page children's book.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64746]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is an illogical record. It hinges on nothing. It is a story that changes, and has accidents, and recovers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19371]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is an illogical record. It hinges on nothing. It is a story that changes, and has accidents, and recovers with scars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He liked those literary cooks Who skim the cream of others' books;  And ruin half an author's graces  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46649]]></link><description><![CDATA[He liked those literary cooks Who skim the cream of others' books;  And ruin half an author's graces   By plucking bon-mots from their places.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This kind of meeting has tremendous value and importance because it brings the community together to talk about the issues. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42289]]></link><description><![CDATA[This kind of meeting has tremendous value and importance because it brings the community together to talk about the issues. We're not here to point fingers ... (but) to look at data and see what's happening.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42289</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 true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24459]]></link><description><![CDATA[A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64629]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And many strokes, though with a little axe, Hew down and fell the hardest-timbered oak. -King Henry VI. Part III. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55991]]></link><description><![CDATA[And many strokes, though with a little axe, Hew down and fell the hardest-timbered oak. -King Henry VI. Part III. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally among Mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19222]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally among Mankind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sorrow is better than laughter, for by the sadness of the face the heart is made better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44334]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sorrow is better than laughter, for by the sadness of the face the heart is made better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most men hate to shop. That's why the men's department is usually on the first floor of a department store, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43338]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most men hate to shop. That's why the men's department is usually on the first floor of a department store, two inches from the door.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The path to success is to take massive, determined action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/478]]></link><description><![CDATA[The path to success is to take massive, determined action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11322]]></link><description><![CDATA[A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42620]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got: everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60353]]></link><description><![CDATA[People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got: everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hole and the patch should be commensurate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53215]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hole and the patch should be commensurate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66497]]></link><description><![CDATA[The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like they've taken on the role, but they're not bosses. It's easy to be a boss, but not a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34153]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like they've taken on the role, but they're not bosses. It's easy to be a boss, but not a leader.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We shot the ball very poorly. We had our chances, but we couldn't take advantage of them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34445]]></link><description><![CDATA[We shot the ball very poorly. We had our chances, but we couldn't take advantage of them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So Bhutan would stand out as a model, and Haiti is at the other end, ... And everybody else sort ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35607]]></link><description><![CDATA[So Bhutan would stand out as a model, and Haiti is at the other end, ... And everybody else sort of falls in the middle somewhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The word unto the prophet spoken Was writ on tablets yet unbroken:  The word by seers or sibyls told, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54910]]></link><description><![CDATA[The word unto the prophet spoken Was writ on tablets yet unbroken:  The word by seers or sibyls told,   In groves of oak or fanes of gold,    Still floats upon the morning wind,     Still whispers to the willing mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are seeing a more pronounced dichotomy between full-featured boxes that are used by pay-TV providers to offer other services ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42649]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are seeing a more pronounced dichotomy between full-featured boxes that are used by pay-TV providers to offer other services in addition to satellite TV reception and basic boxes for TV reception only. Advanced features include hard drives for DVR services, multiple tuners, more connectivity options, and high-definition decoding for receiving HD signals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63280]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise, We love the play-place of our early days;  The scene is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62572]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise, We love the play-place of our early days;  The scene is touching, and the heart is stone,   That feels not at that sight, and feels at none.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It shows a weak mind not to bear prosperity as well as adversity with moderation. [Lat., Ut adversas res, secundas ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48484]]></link><description><![CDATA[It shows a weak mind not to bear prosperity as well as adversity with moderation. [Lat., Ut adversas res, secundas immoderate ferre, levitatis est.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must love, as looking one day to hate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50046]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must love, as looking one day to hate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who disdains the fall in infant mortality and the gradual disappearance of famines and plagues may cast the first ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15192]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who disdains the fall in infant mortality and the gradual disappearance of famines and plagues may cast the first stone upon the materialism of the economists.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our concern is that that black-box warning might discourage parents from getting treatment for their children. We don't believe that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33041]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our concern is that that black-box warning might discourage parents from getting treatment for their children. We don't believe that antidepressants cause suicides; all the evidence points to the fact that antidepressants do just the opposite.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A rolling stone gathers no moss. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51650]]></link><description><![CDATA[A rolling stone gathers no moss.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2908]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40292]]></link><description><![CDATA[here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63901]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity - but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go byyourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21309]]></link><description><![CDATA[A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go byyourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A gentleman is often seen, but very seldom heard to laugh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24171]]></link><description><![CDATA[A gentleman is often seen, but very seldom heard to laugh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have no regrets because I know I did my best -- all I could do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26839]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have no regrets because I know I did my best -- all I could do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The essay is about connection to his homeland. It's about honoring his parents, and the importance of ritual. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37452]]></link><description><![CDATA[The essay is about connection to his homeland. It's about honoring his parents, and the importance of ritual.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are hoping this is real wake-up call so people can start getting ready for the colder weather. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37324]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are hoping this is real wake-up call so people can start getting ready for the colder weather.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37324</guid></item></channel></rss>