<?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   Can we believe that God ever modifies His action in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8547]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Catherine of Siena, Mystic, Teacher, 1380   Can we believe that God ever modifies His action in response to the suggestions of man? For infinite wisdom does not need telling what is best, and infinite goodness needs no urging to do it. But neither does God need any of those things that are done by finite agents, whether living or inanimate. He could, if He chose, repair our bodies miraculously without food; or give us food without the aid of farmers, bakers, and butchers; or knowledge without the aid of learned men; or convert the heathen without missionaries. Instead, He allows soils and weather and animals and the muscles, minds, and wills of men to cooperate in the execution of His will. "God", says Pascal, "instituted prayer in order to lend to His creatures the dignity of causality." But it is not only prayer; whenever we act at all, He lends us that dignity. It is not really stranger, nor less strange, that my prayers should affect the course of events than that my other actions should do so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the duty of righteous men to make war on all undeserved privilege, but one must not forget that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47176]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the duty of righteous men to make war on all undeserved privilege, but one must not forget that this is a war without end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Swithun, Bishop of Winchester, c.862 Commemoration of Bonaventure, Franciscan Friar, Bishop, Peacemaker, 1274  We must frankly face ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8127]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Swithun, Bishop of Winchester, c.862 Commemoration of Bonaventure, Franciscan Friar, Bishop, Peacemaker, 1274  We must frankly face the fact that there is in this teaching a revolutionary element which could be dangerously subversive of our existing ways of thought. Let us admit that it is part of the fallen human nature of ecclesiastics, no less than of others in responsible positions, to desire always criteria of judgement which can be used without making too heavy demands upon the delicate faculty of spiritual discernment, clear-cut rules by which we may hope to be saved from making mistakes -- or rather, from being obviously and personally responsible for the mistakes. We are uncomfortable without definite principles by which we may guide our steps. We fear uncharted country, and the fanatics of all kinds who, upon the alleged authority of the Holy Spirit, summon us with strident cries in all directions simultaneously. Only those who have never borne the heavy burden of pastoral responsibility will mock at the cautious spirit of the ecclesiastic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Baxter, Priest, Hymnographer, Teacher, 1691  It is sometimes said that even if no rules were laid ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Baxter, Priest, Hymnographer, Teacher, 1691  It is sometimes said that even if no rules were laid down for the conduct of its affairs, the Church, being created by Jesus to "further the work of the Kingdom of God", can be judged by the extent to which it is successful in continuing his work. This supposition rests upon a misunderstanding of what is meant by "the Kingdom of God"... The Kingdom itself is not something to be "furthered" or "built" by men's efforts. It is something which we are invited to recognize as already present, after a manner, in the life and work of Jesus. It is something to be inherited or entered into by those who believe. The task of the Church, in other words, is not to set the stage for a better world than this one but to draw the curtain from it, to reveal something that is already there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think he attributes it to his teaching as a youth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41758]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think he attributes it to his teaching as a youth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21543]]></link><description><![CDATA[Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ridicule is the language of the devil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ridicule is the language of the devil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're not making mistakes, you're not taking risks, and that means you're not going anywhere. The key is to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9210]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're not making mistakes, you're not taking risks, and that means you're not going anywhere. The key is to make mistakes faster than the competition, so you have more changes to learn and win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're back on schedule. We're looking to put out the proposal at about the same time as before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34894]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're back on schedule. We're looking to put out the proposal at about the same time as before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16737]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vision: the art of seeing things invisible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60866]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vision: the art of seeing things invisible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we are going to have a functioning and healthy democratic society, we need to be open to civil discourse. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35840]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we are going to have a functioning and healthy democratic society, we need to be open to civil discourse. In other words, we have to be able to disagree without being disagreeable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a very delicate situation, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35817]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a very delicate situation,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are actually hoping that the special session will work to educators' benefit in that something positive needs to happen ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34564]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are actually hoping that the special session will work to educators' benefit in that something positive needs to happen in order for (Perry's) re-election to occur.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28137]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Competition is what keeps me playing the psychological warfare of matching skill against skill and wit against wit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61834]]></link><description><![CDATA[Competition is what keeps me playing the psychological warfare of matching skill against skill and wit against wit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pride is the mask we make of our faults ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15443]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pride is the mask we make of our faults]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you are is what you have been. What you’ll be is what you do now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62856]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you are is what you have been. What you’ll be is what you do now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are many who find a good alibi far more attractive than an achievement. For an achievement does not settle ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52257]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are many who find a good alibi far more attractive than an achievement. For an achievement does not settle anything permanently. We still have to prove our worth anew each day: we have to prove that we are as good today as we were yesterday. But when we have a valid alibi for not achieving anything we are fixed, so to speak, for life. Moreover, when we have an alibi for not writing a book, painting a picture, and so on, we have an alibi for not writing the greatest book and not painting the greatest picture. Small wonder that the effort expended and the punishment endured in obtaining a good alibi often exceed the effort and grief requisite for the attainment of a most marked achievement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My prophecy is but half his journey yet, For yonder walls, that pertly front your town,  Yon towers, whose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8920]]></link><description><![CDATA[My prophecy is but half his journey yet, For yonder walls, that pertly front your town,  Yon towers, whose wanton tops do buss the clouds,   Must kiss their own feet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For years [my wedding ring] has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26548]]></link><description><![CDATA[For years [my wedding ring] has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've come here with several things on our mind and goals to achieve, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41974]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've come here with several things on our mind and goals to achieve,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44700]]></link><description><![CDATA[I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is. -Donald Trump.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28021]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Christina Rossetti, Poet, 1894 Heaven overarches earth and sea,   Earth-sadness and sea-bitterness. Heaven overarches you and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Christina Rossetti, Poet, 1894 Heaven overarches earth and sea,   Earth-sadness and sea-bitterness. Heaven overarches you and me: A little while and we shall be - Please God -- where there is no more sea    Nor barren wilderness. Heaven overarches you and me,   And all earth's gardens and her braves.  Look up with me, until we see  The day break and the shadows flee.  What though to-night wrecks you and me,     If so to-morrow saves?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We wanted to show how over his head he is, ... We were always terrified of that scene. The audience ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39260]]></link><description><![CDATA[We wanted to show how over his head he is, ... We were always terrified of that scene. The audience is so uncomfortable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65427]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fund-raising environment is consistently more competitive. The situation of any new museum today is a challenge, regardless of what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34145]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fund-raising environment is consistently more competitive. The situation of any new museum today is a challenge, regardless of what kind of museum it is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes two men to make one brother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66119]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes two men to make one brother.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a once in a lifetime thing to ride across the country, and he's doing it for a good reason ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30838]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a once in a lifetime thing to ride across the country, and he's doing it for a good reason -- for Habitat. We're happy for him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberty is the condition of duty, the guardian of conscience. It grows as conscience grows. The domains of both grow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38402]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty is the condition of duty, the guardian of conscience. It grows as conscience grows. The domains of both grow together. Liberty is safety from all hindrances, even sin. So that Liberty ends by being Free Will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64880]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48348]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are pleased to have completed the regulatory approval process in just 10 months from the date the transaction was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35989]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are pleased to have completed the regulatory approval process in just 10 months from the date the transaction was announced May 24, 2005. We appreciate the thorough and efficient review of the transaction by regulatory officials and parties to the proceedings in each state.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20842]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57691]]></link><description><![CDATA[My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smell a rat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Smell a rat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This kind of technique will enable medical centers like ours to to bring advances in medical techniques to others more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35506]]></link><description><![CDATA[This kind of technique will enable medical centers like ours to to bring advances in medical techniques to others more quickly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63538]]></link><description><![CDATA[The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am as one who is left alone at a banquet, the lights dead and the flowers faded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57161]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am as one who is left alone at a banquet, the lights dead and the flowers faded.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64193]]></link><description><![CDATA[People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When rats leave a sinking ship, where exactly do they think they're going? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56170]]></link><description><![CDATA[When rats leave a sinking ship, where exactly do they think they're going?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47913]]></link><description><![CDATA[All I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I saw that a humble man, with the blessing of the Lord, might live on a little; and that where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6311]]></link><description><![CDATA[I saw that a humble man, with the blessing of the Lord, might live on a little; and that where the heart is set on greatness, success in business did not satisfy the craving, but that commonly with an increase of wealth, the desire of wealth increased.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fire, water and government know nothing of mercy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fire, water and government know nothing of mercy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take the first advice of a woman and not the second. [Lat., Primo dede mulieris consilio, secundo noli.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/786]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take the first advice of a woman and not the second. [Lat., Primo dede mulieris consilio, secundo noli.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41]]></link><description><![CDATA[One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy. [Lat., Illud tamen in primis testandum est, nihil praecepta atque artes valere nisi adjuvante natura.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, And from your judgment must expect my fate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23524]]></link><description><![CDATA[On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, And from your judgment must expect my fate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exercise: you don't have time not to ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14473]]></link><description><![CDATA[Exercise: you don't have time not to]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith isn't faith until it's all you're holding on to ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith isn't faith until it's all you're holding on to]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14954</guid></item></channel></rss>