<?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 Dominic, Priest, Founder of the Order of Preachers, 1221 Continuing a short series of verse on Christ: If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Dominic, Priest, Founder of the Order of Preachers, 1221 Continuing a short series of verse on Christ: If it be all for naught, for nothingness At last, why does God make the world so fair? Why spill this golden splendor out across The western hills, and light the silver lamp Of eve? Why give me eyes to see, and soul To love so strong and deep? Then, with a pang This brightness stabs me through, and wakes within Rebellious voice to cry against all death? Why set this hunger for eternity To gnaw my heartstrings through, if death ends all? If death ends all, then evil must be good, Wrong must be right, and beauty ugliness.  God is a Judas who betrays His Son, And with a kiss, damns all the world to hell, -- If Christ rose not again.   ... Unknown soldier, killed in World War I  August 9, 2002 Feast of Mary Sumner, Founder of the Mothers' Union, 1921 Concluding a short series of verse on Christ: With this ambiguous earth his dealings have been told us. These abide:    The signal to a maid, the human birth,    The lesson, and the young Man crucified. But not a star of all the innumerable host of stars has heard    How he administered this terrestrial ball.    Our race has kept their Lord's entrusted Word. Of his earth-visiting feet none knows the secret, cherished, perilous,    The terrible, shamefast, frightened, whispered, sweet,    Heart-shattering secret of his way with us. No planet knows that this, our wayside planet, carrying land and wave,    Love and life multiplied, and pain and bliss,    Bears, as its chief treasure, one forsaken grave. Nor, in our little day, may his devices with the heavens be guessed,    His pilgrimage to thread the Milky Way    Or his bestowal there be manifest. But in the eternities, doubtless we shall compare    Together, hear a million alien Gospels, in what guise    He trod the Pleiades, the Lyre, and the Bear. O, be prepared, my soul! To read the inconceivable, to scan    The million forms of God those stars unroll    When, in our turn, we show to them a Man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61145]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35163]]></link><description><![CDATA[The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to predict the future is to invent it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48456]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to predict the future is to invent it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think there is significant confusion at the Fed itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36351]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think there is significant confusion at the Fed itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Individuality is either the mark of genius or the reverse. Mediocrity finds safety in standardization. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20774]]></link><description><![CDATA[Individuality is either the mark of genius or the reverse. Mediocrity finds safety in standardization.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chivalry is the most delicate form of contempt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6044]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chivalry is the most delicate form of contempt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer's day, listening to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of us are crazy in one way or another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21039]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of us are crazy in one way or another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue:  So court a mistress, she denies ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue:  So court a mistress, she denies you;   Let her alone, she will court you.    Say are not women truly, then,     Styled but the shadows of us men?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who asks with timidity invites a refusal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51153]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who asks with timidity invites a refusal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is rich who owes nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18695]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is rich who owes nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sweetest guy you ever met. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31867]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sweetest guy you ever met.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cheek . . . Flushing white and mellow'd red;  Gradual tints, as when there glows   In snowy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14869]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cheek . . . Flushing white and mellow'd red;  Gradual tints, as when there glows   In snowy milk the bashful rose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is appropriate here to recall that the so-called Dark Ages began with the flight of the individuals into the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56958]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is appropriate here to recall that the so-called Dark Ages began with the flight of the individuals into the protection of lords or chapters and came to an end when the individual again found it to his advantage to set forth on his own. We live at a time when everything conspires to push the individual into the fold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And they gave him a piece of a broiled fish, and of an honeycomb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16056]]></link><description><![CDATA[And they gave him a piece of a broiled fish, and of an honeycomb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4071]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we all are seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happiness…]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I keep my fingers crossed because still nothing is accepted, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28839]]></link><description><![CDATA[I keep my fingers crossed because still nothing is accepted,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61520]]></link><description><![CDATA[The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since ancient Time began, Ever on some great soul God laid an infinite burden--  The weight of all this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since ancient Time began, Ever on some great soul God laid an infinite burden--  The weight of all this world, the hopes of man,   Conflict and pain, and fame immortal are his guerdon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may as well say, that 's a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55958]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may as well say, that 's a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion. -King Henry V. Act iii. Sc. 7.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58220]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55256]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A right without an attendant responsibility is as unreal as a sheet of paper which has only one side. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47248]]></link><description><![CDATA[A right without an attendant responsibility is as unreal as a sheet of paper which has only one side.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the bullpen did a great job and my teammates helped me out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30848]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the bullpen did a great job and my teammates helped me out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45917]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[the callof a loonacrossa quiet lake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3860]]></link><description><![CDATA[the callof a loonacrossa quiet lake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who knows much about others may be learned, but he who understandshimself is more intelligent. He who controls others ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21086]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who knows much about others may be learned, but he who understandshimself is more intelligent. He who controls others may be powerful, buthe who has mastered himself is mightier still.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we have what we like 'tis hard to miss it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48783]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we have what we like 'tis hard to miss it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63513]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We didn't bring this church to the United States to be another Nigerian church. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28561]]></link><description><![CDATA[We didn't bring this church to the United States to be another Nigerian church.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our ability to pick up better than 10 percent market share in these new product segments in less than two ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40601]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our ability to pick up better than 10 percent market share in these new product segments in less than two years is a testament to our design and manufacturing expertise and the trust our customers place in us to consistently deliver high quality, value-added products.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's an adorable dog. He obviously belonged to someone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35245]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's an adorable dog. He obviously belonged to someone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally long life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27735]]></link><description><![CDATA[A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally long life of decent living and good works followed by one outburst of taking the name of the Lord in vain—then have a heart attack at that moment and be damned for eternity. Is that the system?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the yeere is, your pot must seeth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49136]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the yeere is, your pot must seeth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Out of the solar walk and Heaven's highway. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58286]]></link><description><![CDATA[Out of the solar walk and Heaven's highway.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6039]]></link><description><![CDATA[By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I shall always consider the best guesser the best prophet. [Lat., Bene qui conjiciet, vatem hunc perhibebo optimum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48450]]></link><description><![CDATA[I shall always consider the best guesser the best prophet. [Lat., Bene qui conjiciet, vatem hunc perhibebo optimum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hereby resign this office of president of the United States. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47314]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hereby resign this office of president of the United States.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We ran out of gas yesterday afternoon sometime, ... I have no idea when we're getting more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42397]]></link><description><![CDATA[We ran out of gas yesterday afternoon sometime, ... I have no idea when we're getting more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To seek in a Sheep five feet when there is but four. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50012]]></link><description><![CDATA[To seek in a Sheep five feet when there is but four.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(The earnings) represent real progress, ... The key is growth margins went in the right direction, unit volume increased quarter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35755]]></link><description><![CDATA[(The earnings) represent real progress, ... The key is growth margins went in the right direction, unit volume increased quarter on quarter, and expenses came down. We threw off over $300 million in cash. All of those were in the right direction. So I think we're on our way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hope to continue property acquisition in this area so we can keep building a small number of homes in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37467]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hope to continue property acquisition in this area so we can keep building a small number of homes in between the larger projects.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no exemption for Germany, and we will consider the case, as well as the French case, later, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38000]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no exemption for Germany, and we will consider the case, as well as the French case, later,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all the benefits which virtue confers on us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60795]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all the benefits which virtue confers on us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just go on . . . and faith will soon return. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14967]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just go on . . . and faith will soon return.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Cecilia, Martyr at Rome, c.230 Commemoration of Clive Staples Lewis, Spiritual Writer, 1963   The sort of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8501]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Cecilia, Martyr at Rome, c.230 Commemoration of Clive Staples Lewis, Spiritual Writer, 1963   The sort of love I have been describing... can also be felt for bodies that claim more than a natural affection: for a Church or (alas) a party in a Church, or for a religious order. This terrible subject would require a book to itself. Here it will be enough to say that the Heavenly Society is also an earthly society. Our (merely natural) patriotism towards the latter can very easily borrow the transcendent claims of the former and use them to justify the most abominable actions. If ever the book which I am not going to write is written, it must be the full confession by Christendom of Christendom's specific contribution to the sum of human cruelty and treachery. Large areas of "the World" will not hear us till we have publicly disowned much of our past. Why should they? We have shouted the name of Christ and enacted the service of Moloch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old age doth in sharp pains abound; We are belabored by the gout,  Our blindness is a dark profound, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1714]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old age doth in sharp pains abound; We are belabored by the gout,  Our blindness is a dark profound,   Our deafness each one laughs about.    Then reason's light with falling ray     Doth but a trembling flicker cast.      Honor to age, ye children pay!       Alas! my fifty years are past!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1714</guid></item></channel></rss>