<?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[The best plan is, as the common proverb has it, to profit by the folly of others ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48344]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best plan is, as the common proverb has it, to profit by the folly of others]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You do not reform a world by ignoring it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14608]]></link><description><![CDATA[You do not reform a world by ignoring it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62865]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had the sky up there, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28143]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had the sky up there, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss whether they were made or just happened.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/103]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't care. I've been saying that the whole time. We're blessed to be playing in this tournament regardless. I'd ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41878]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't care. I've been saying that the whole time. We're blessed to be playing in this tournament regardless. I'd love to [get a chance to] play [Villanova], because I think we can show our toughness. I look forward to the challenge. We worked hard to get here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modest and shy as a nun is she; One weak chirp is her only note;  Braggarts and prince of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4416]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modest and shy as a nun is she; One weak chirp is her only note;  Braggarts and prince of braggarts is he,   Pouring boasts from his little throat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Justin, Martyr at Rome, c.165 Commemoration of Angela de'Merici, Founder of the Institute of St. Ursula, 1540  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7577]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Justin, Martyr at Rome, c.165 Commemoration of Angela de'Merici, Founder of the Institute of St. Ursula, 1540   The attitude of Jesus to the Jewish law was singularly free and unembarrassed. He made full use of it as an impressive statement of high ethical ideals; even its ritual practices He treated with perfect tolerance where they did not conflict with fundamental moral obligations. From Pharisaic formalism He appealed to the relative simplicity of the venerable written Law. But again from the written Law itself He appealed to the basic rights and duties of humanity: the Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath; the Law might permit the dissolution of marriage, but there was something more deeply rooted in the nature of things which forbade it; the [law of retaliation], the central principle of legal justice, must go overboard in the interest of the holy impulse to love your neighbor, not merely as yourself, but as God has loved you. Such freehanded dealing meant that the whole notion of morality as a code of rules, with sanctions of rewards and punishments, was abandoned. But the average Christian was slow to see this implication. For instance, Jesus had taken fasting out of the class of meritorious acts, and given it a place only as the fitting and spontaneous expression of certain spiritual states. This is what an early authoritative catechism of the Church made of His teaching: "Let not your fast be made with the hypocrites, for they fast on Monday and Thursday; ye therefore shall fast on Wednesday and Friday." It sounds ludicrous, but we may ask, Was it not on some very similar principle that the Church did actually carry through its reconstruction of "religious observance"? And a Church which so perverted Christ's treatment of the ritual law proved itself almost equally incapable of understanding His drastic revision of the moral law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For I light my candle from their torches. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25049]]></link><description><![CDATA[For I light my candle from their torches.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43524]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Avoid destructive thinking. Improper negative thoughts sink people. A ship can sail around the world many, many times, but just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44131]]></link><description><![CDATA[Avoid destructive thinking. Improper negative thoughts sink people. A ship can sail around the world many, many times, but just let enough water get into the ship and it will sink. Just so with the human mind. Let enough negative thoughts or improper thoughts get into the human mind and the person sinks just like a ship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One paire of eares drawes dry an hundred tongues. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49696]]></link><description><![CDATA[One paire of eares drawes dry an hundred tongues.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The finest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59884]]></link><description><![CDATA[The finest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on which nothing is assumed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64529]]></link><description><![CDATA[My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The power of imagination makes us infinite. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62806]]></link><description><![CDATA[The power of imagination makes us infinite.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's pretty lonely onstage, I have to admit, ... But I felt I needed to do more than just entertain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39929]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's pretty lonely onstage, I have to admit, ... But I felt I needed to do more than just entertain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24331]]></link><description><![CDATA[The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm here now in Chicago doing my own show, and I think Golden Girls is shown three hours a day ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29920]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm here now in Chicago doing my own show, and I think Golden Girls is shown three hours a day here, and everybody loves it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13506]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China is expected to eliminate some key restrictions by January of 2005. Earlier, companies with a market cap of under ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34657]]></link><description><![CDATA[China is expected to eliminate some key restrictions by January of 2005. Earlier, companies with a market cap of under $2 billion could operate in China only with a local joint-venture partner. This will no longer be valid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life with Mary was like being in a telephone booth with an open umbrella no matter which way you turned, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60009]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life with Mary was like being in a telephone booth with an open umbrella no matter which way you turned, you got it in the eye.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not know a warning that I judge more necessary to be given to those who are called this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7412]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not know a warning that I judge more necessary to be given to those who are called this day, than to charge them not to trade too much with their natural gifts, and abilities, and learning. These are talents in their kind; but it is the Spirit that must manage all that learning they have, or it will prejudice them, and you also. I have known some good men who have been so addicted to their study, that they have thought the last day of the week sufficient to prepare for their ministry, though they employ all the rest of the week in other studies. But you business is to trade with your spiritual abilities... A man may preach a very good sermon, who is otherwise himself; but he will never make a good minister of Jesus Christ, whose mind and heart [are] not always in the work. Spiritual gifts will require continual ruminating on the things of the Gospel in our minds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modesty in woman is a virtue most deserving, since we do all we can to cure her of it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modesty in woman is a virtue most deserving, since we do all we can to cure her of it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bottom line is they knocked them down in the fourth quarter when they needed to. We've executed our offense ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33763]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bottom line is they knocked them down in the fourth quarter when they needed to. We've executed our offense pretty well the last couple ballgames. We executed well on both ends of the floor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["For your own good" is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3077]]></link><description><![CDATA["For your own good" is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest happiness of the greatest number. [Lat., La massima felicita divisa nel maggior numero.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18632]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest happiness of the greatest number. [Lat., La massima felicita divisa nel maggior numero.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a man sows, that shall he and his relations reap. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27150]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a man sows, that shall he and his relations reap.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When God's green grows it's rarely in rowsAwry the rye rises .. unruly the rose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20770]]></link><description><![CDATA[When God's green grows it's rarely in rowsAwry the rye rises .. unruly the rose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60546]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's only a holy grail as long as you don't find it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66395]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's only a holy grail as long as you don't find it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that we may have to be content with a little less, ... But if that happens, it does ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31254]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that we may have to be content with a little less, ... But if that happens, it does not mean lowering the ambition of the round.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2155]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, naturally, I'm Sean Michael Thomas or whatever his name is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30512]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, naturally, I'm Sean Michael Thomas or whatever his name is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46491]]></link><description><![CDATA[This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We knew they were going to come and had made elaborate arrangements for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41365]]></link><description><![CDATA[We knew they were going to come and had made elaborate arrangements for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lie thou there; for here comes the trout that must be caught with tickling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lie thou there; for here comes the trout that must be caught with tickling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man had packed his suitcase and was ready to travel abroad to his holiday residence. Family members long thought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34897]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man had packed his suitcase and was ready to travel abroad to his holiday residence. Family members long thought he was abroad. That was the reason the man could lie here so long before being found.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetitionand emotion will one day become a reality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21747]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetitionand emotion will one day become a reality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The amount of power freed by telling yourself you no longer choose toput energy into something can be remarkable. Be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21450]]></link><description><![CDATA[The amount of power freed by telling yourself you no longer choose toput energy into something can be remarkable. Be prepared for extra energy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wagner's music has some wonderful moments but awful half hours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43505]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wagner's music has some wonderful moments but awful half hours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can tell you for an eternal truth that troubled souls are always safe. It is the untroubled that are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7095]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can tell you for an eternal truth that troubled souls are always safe. It is the untroubled that are in danger. Trouble in itself is always a claim on love, and God is love. He must deny Himself if He does not come to help the helpless. It is the prisoners, and the blind, and the leper, and the possessed, and the hungry, and the tempest-tossed, who are His special care. Therefore if you are lost and sick and bound, you are just in the place where He can meet you. Blessed are the mourners. They shall be comforted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ceres, most bounteous lady, thy rich leas Of wheat, rye, barley, fetches, oats, and pease;  Thy turfy mountains, where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ceres, most bounteous lady, thy rich leas Of wheat, rye, barley, fetches, oats, and pease;  Thy turfy mountains, where live nibbling sheep,   And flat meads thatched with stover, them to keep;    Thy banks with pioned and twilled brims,     Which spongy April at thy hest betrims      To make cold nymphs chaste crowns; and thy broom groves,       Whose shadow the dismissed bachelor loves,        Being lasslorn; thy pole-clipt vineyard;         And thy sea-marge, sterile and rocky-hard,          Where thou thyself dost air--the queen o' th' sky,           Whose wat-ry arch and messenger am I,            Bids thee leave these, and with her sovereign grace,             Here on this grass-plot, in this very place,              To come and sport: her peacocks fly amain.               Approach, rich Ceres, her to entertain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4722]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[E'en drunken Andrew felt the blow That innocence can give,  When its resistless accents flow   To bid ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20951]]></link><description><![CDATA[E'en drunken Andrew felt the blow That innocence can give,  When its resistless accents flow   To bid affection live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's what we put up with here. We don't need that type of stuff here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37245]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's what we put up with here. We don't need that type of stuff here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10345]]></link><description><![CDATA[Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10345</guid></item></channel></rss>