<?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   The mystery revealed, in a unique degree ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8477]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Dominic, Priest, Founder of the Order of Preachers, 1221   The mystery revealed, in a unique degree and form, in Christ's life, is really a universal spiritual human law: the law of suffering and sacrifice, as the one way to joy and possession, which has existed, though veiled till now, since the foundation of the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63681]]></link><description><![CDATA[A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what we make out of what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19200]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what we make out of what they do to us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gluttony kills more then the sword. [Gluttony kills more than the sword.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13200]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gluttony kills more then the sword. [Gluttony kills more than the sword.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good taste is the first refuge of the non creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58643]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good taste is the first refuge of the non creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many things--such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly--are done worst when we try hardest to do them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56602]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many things--such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly--are done worst when we try hardest to do them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is one of the incidents of the profession. [Lat., E un incidente del mestiere.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43405]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is one of the incidents of the profession. [Lat., E un incidente del mestiere.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's starting to settle in by getting in a groove. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38568]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's starting to settle in by getting in a groove.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once you choose hope, anything's possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once you choose hope, anything's possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I loved every minute of it. But to say I had a little stress would be an understatement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38340]]></link><description><![CDATA[I loved every minute of it. But to say I had a little stress would be an understatement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All profoundly original art looks ugly at first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10583]]></link><description><![CDATA[All profoundly original art looks ugly at first.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Josephine Butler, Social Reformer, 1906 Commemoration of Apolo Kivebulaya, Priest, Evangelist, 1933   [In nineteenth-century America] religion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6388]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Josephine Butler, Social Reformer, 1906 Commemoration of Apolo Kivebulaya, Priest, Evangelist, 1933   [In nineteenth-century America] religion became a matter of conduct, of good deeds, of works, with only a vague background of faith. It became highly functional, highly pragmatic; it became a guarantee of success, moral and material. "The proper study of mankind is man," was the evasion by which many American divines escaped the necessity for thought about God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The history of those who shed those other tears, the history of those anonymous millions, is what Terkel wants readers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61138]]></link><description><![CDATA[The history of those who shed those other tears, the history of those anonymous millions, is what Terkel wants readers and listeners to come away with. What's it like to be that goofy little soldier, scared stiff, with his bayonet aimed at Christ? What's it like to have been a woman in a defense-plant job during World War II? What's it like to be a kid at the front lines? It's all funny and tragic at the same time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They call me mad, while they are all mad themselves. [Lat., Hei mihi, insanire me ajunt, ultro cum ipsi insaniunt.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21024]]></link><description><![CDATA[They call me mad, while they are all mad themselves. [Lat., Hei mihi, insanire me ajunt, ultro cum ipsi insaniunt.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My arms have mutinied against me — brutes!My fingers fidget like ten idle brats,My back's been stiff for hours, damned ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62241]]></link><description><![CDATA[My arms have mutinied against me — brutes!My fingers fidget like ten idle brats,My back's been stiff for hours, damned hours.Death never gives his squad a Stand-at-ease.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never knew any many in my life, who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42813]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never knew any many in my life, who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27108]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27092]]></link><description><![CDATA[How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kings are like stars--they rise and set, they have The worship of the world, but no repose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kings are like stars--they rise and set, they have The worship of the world, but no repose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life would be tolerable but for its amusements. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2463]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody dies from lack of sex. It's lack of love we die from. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55260]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody dies from lack of sex. It's lack of love we die from.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[here is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63633]]></link><description><![CDATA[here is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your thoughts close, and your countenance loose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50139]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your thoughts close, and your countenance loose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Martha has been a terrific partner. I've gotten to know her well of late, ... I can only see her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Martha has been a terrific partner. I've gotten to know her well of late, ... I can only see her strengthening her relationship with us...I counsel with Martha. She's constantly helping me search out ideas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Among Christians so much prominence has been given to the disciplinary effects of sorrow, affliction, bereavement, that they have been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6629]]></link><description><![CDATA[Among Christians so much prominence has been given to the disciplinary effects of sorrow, affliction, bereavement, that they have been in danger of overlooking the other and more obvious side: that by every joy, by every favor, by every sign of prosperity -- yea, and by these chiefly -- God designs to educate and discipline His children. This one-sided view of the truth has made many morbid, gloomy Christians, who look for God's hand only in the lightning and never think of seeing it in the sunlight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask God's blessing on your work, but don't ask him to do it for you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22664]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ask God's blessing on your work, but don't ask him to do it for you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16646]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bachelor is one who enjoys the chase but does not eat the game. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3650]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bachelor is one who enjoys the chase but does not eat the game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them tofly in formation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21763]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them tofly in formation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast in the stream where you least expect there will be a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast in the stream where you least expect there will be a fish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30715]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The seven works of bodily mercy be these: feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, clothe the naked and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7884]]></link><description><![CDATA[The seven works of bodily mercy be these: feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, clothe the naked and the needy, harbour the houseless, comfort the sick, visit prisoners, bury the dead. The seven works of spiritual mercy be these: teach men the truth, counsel men to hold with Christ's law, chastise sinners by moderate reproving in charity, comfort sorrowful men by Christ's passion, forgive wrongs, suffer meekly reproofs for the right of God's law, pray heartily for friend and for foe.   ... Middle English Sermons  September 6, 2001 Commemoration of Allen Gardiner, founder of the South American Missionary Society, 1851 Commemoration of Albert Schweitzer, Teacher, Physician, Missionary, 1965   Of the access for us, at any rate, to the spirit of life -- us who were born in Christendom, and are in touch, conscious or unconscious, with Christianity -- this is the true account. Questions over which the churches spend so much labour and time -- questions about the Trinity, about the godhead of Christ, about the procession of the Holy Ghost -- are not vital; what is vital is the doctrine of access to the spirit of life through Christ.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it can't be expressed in figures, it is not science; it is opinion ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54844]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it can't be expressed in figures, it is not science; it is opinion]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A liar is always lavish of oaths. [Fr., Un menteur est toujours prodigue de serments.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26119]]></link><description><![CDATA[A liar is always lavish of oaths. [Fr., Un menteur est toujours prodigue de serments.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A system in which the two great commandments were, to hate your neighbour and to love your neighbour's wife. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56776]]></link><description><![CDATA[A system in which the two great commandments were, to hate your neighbour and to love your neighbour's wife.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's better to try, no matter how awkward you feel, than not to try it at all. Would you rather ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38493]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's better to try, no matter how awkward you feel, than not to try it at all. Would you rather deal with the consequences or the prevention?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Parsifal - the kind of opera that starts at six o'clock and after it has been going three hours, you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44917]]></link><description><![CDATA[Parsifal - the kind of opera that starts at six o'clock and after it has been going three hours, you look at your watch and it says 6:20]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[raspberry drupelets cluster around a cavern of emptiness(paraphrased from her talk on C Span's Book TV). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43944]]></link><description><![CDATA[raspberry drupelets cluster around a cavern of emptiness(paraphrased from her talk on C Span's Book TV).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most precious things in speech are the pauses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57349]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most precious things in speech are the pauses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16878]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Richard was a bright guy. He had a lot of good travel skills, obviously. Many (escapees) just stay right around ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33725]]></link><description><![CDATA[Richard was a bright guy. He had a lot of good travel skills, obviously. Many (escapees) just stay right around Salem, so we've been able to bring them back into the hospital. We haven't been that lucky with Richard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bartolomè de las Casas, Apostle to the Indies, 1566  If God said, "I forgive you," to a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8162]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bartolomè de las Casas, Apostle to the Indies, 1566  If God said, "I forgive you," to a man who hated his brother, and if (as is impossible) that voice of forgiveness should reach the man, what would it mean to him? How would the man interpret it? Would it not mean to him, "You may go on hating. I do not mind it. You have had great provocation, and are justified in your hate?" No doubt God takes what wrong there is, and what provocation there is, into the account; but the more provocation, the more excuse that can be urged for the hate, the more reason, if possible, that the hater should be delivered from the hell of his hate, that God's child should be made the loving child that He meant him to be. The man would think, not that God loved the sinner, but that He forgave the sin, which God never does. Every sin meets its due fate -- inexorable expulsion from the paradise of God's Humanity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have to believe, given the level of discussion I've heard about it, that bankers are certainly out there identifying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35055]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have to believe, given the level of discussion I've heard about it, that bankers are certainly out there identifying companies that are repatriating large sums and doing what they can to get their business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65942]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9914]]></link><description><![CDATA[The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27865]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63359]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Say not always what you know, but always know what you say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Say not always what you know, but always know what you say.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambition has no rest! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambition has no rest!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2314</guid></item></channel></rss>