<?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[I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head. [On her beauty pageant days]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2089]]></link><description><![CDATA[I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head. [On her beauty pageant days].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics makes estranged bedfellows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35885]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics makes estranged bedfellows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Online campaigning is becoming more commonplace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Online campaigning is becoming more commonplace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leaders of the political blocs reached an agreement on the constitution draft that guarantees the rights of all Iraqi people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leaders of the political blocs reached an agreement on the constitution draft that guarantees the rights of all Iraqi people in the referendum.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12103]]></link><description><![CDATA[One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truth is cruel, but it can be loved and it makes free those who have loved it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59841]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truth is cruel, but it can be loved and it makes free those who have loved it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever may be our differences of colour, culture, and class, the unity that is ours in Christ is given visible ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever may be our differences of colour, culture, and class, the unity that is ours in Christ is given visible expression at every Synod. Here we all gather around the one Altar, here we all share in shaping the policy of the Church in this diocese; here we all take part in making provision for carrying on the work of the Church during the coming year. At this time, year by year, we are specially conscious of our unity in Christ, and are made aware afresh that we are members of this new race of human beings which is made up of all those of every ethnic group who have been added to Christ. We are members of that Kingdom in which all human antagonisms are transcended. Yet we shall not interpret aright this unity which is ours in Christ Jesus unless we continually remind ourselves that it has its origin in His death and resurrection. The Church springs out of the deeds of Jesus done in the flesh, and we can only fulfill our destiny in the Church as we learn that we are utterly dependent upon the whole Body of Christ. . . . Whatever gifts we possess belong to the Body, and are useful only as they are used in the common life of the Church. All this is made very plain in the New Testament Epistles, for in them we are taught that each local Christian community is a fellowship in which every member is to live in humility and in love to the brethren. Yet no local church is to live to it self. Again and again, local churches are reminded of their close relationship to one another, in life, work, worship, pain, and death. Not that such a relationship is to be regarded either as a matter of convenience or as a question of organization. On the contrary, this intimate relationship is seen as the direct outcome of the saving work of Christ. This unity with one another, and of local churches with each other, is the unity which belongs to the Body of Christ, arising from the unity of God Himself, uttered in the dying and rising again of Jesus, and now expressed in the order and structure of the Church.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44855]]></link><description><![CDATA[Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17665]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't bother discussing sex with small children. They rarely have anything to add. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64047]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't bother discussing sex with small children. They rarely have anything to add.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've not got a first in philosophy without being able to muddy things pretty satisfactory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53346]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've not got a first in philosophy without being able to muddy things pretty satisfactory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65217]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don't have to do anything to earn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66325]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don't have to do anything to earn it. Your shortcomings, your lack of self-esteem, physical perfection, or social and economic success - none of that matters. No one can take this love away from you, and it will always be here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Willibrord of York, Archbishop of Utrecht, Apostle of Frisia, 739   In that age they will neither ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6293]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Willibrord of York, Archbishop of Utrecht, Apostle of Frisia, 739   In that age they will neither marry nor be given in marriage, but will be as the angels. We are destined to a better state -- destined to rise to a spiritual consortship. So we, who shall be with God, shall be together: since we shall all be with the one God, though there be many mansions in the house of the same Father; and, in eternal life, God will still less separate them whom He has joined together, than, in this lesser life, He allows them to be separated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13624]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's just who he is. That's what he does. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41349]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's just who he is. That's what he does.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brigid, Abbess of Kildare, c.525   After Calvary, God has the right to be trusted; to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brigid, Abbess of Kildare, c.525   After Calvary, God has the right to be trusted; to be believed that He means what He says; and that His love is dependable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None of this was true. There were no flights. There were no children being rescued. There were no medical supplies ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28786]]></link><description><![CDATA[None of this was true. There were no flights. There were no children being rescued. There were no medical supplies being flown. There was no 7-month-old baby who needed a transplant. In fact, he didn't even have a pilot's license,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're all equipped with multi-purpose rooms and gymnasiums, ... If we had to utilize all the schools, we could hold ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28170]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're all equipped with multi-purpose rooms and gymnasiums, ... If we had to utilize all the schools, we could hold 25,000 to 30,000 temporarily. That's the worst-case scenario.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though the Fox run, the chicken hath wings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49976]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though the Fox run, the chicken hath wings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19804]]></link><description><![CDATA[A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That most delicious of all privileges - spending other people's money ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48284]]></link><description><![CDATA[That most delicious of all privileges - spending other people's money]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acquaintance many, and conquaintance few, But for inquaintance I know only two - The friend I've wept and the maid ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acquaintance many, and conquaintance few, But for inquaintance I know only two - The friend I've wept and the maid I woo]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9002]]></link><description><![CDATA[Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They, the holy ones and weakly, Who the cross of suffering bore,  Folded their pale hands so meekly,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58203]]></link><description><![CDATA[They, the holy ones and weakly, Who the cross of suffering bore,  Folded their pale hands so meekly,   Spake with us on earth no more!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4594]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are bombs the only way of setting fire to the spirit of a people? Is the human will as inert ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61472]]></link><description><![CDATA[Are bombs the only way of setting fire to the spirit of a people? Is the human will as inert as the past two world-wide wars would indicate?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no vice so simple, but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51414]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no vice so simple, but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He did the best he could. I actually have to thank him for that, because he did compete hurt. He ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39831]]></link><description><![CDATA[He did the best he could. I actually have to thank him for that, because he did compete hurt. He was never 100 percent for about three-quarters of the season. He had high expectations for himself and he does everything at 100 percent. He really wanted to be a state wrestling champion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great families of yesterday we show, And lords whose parents were the Lord knows who. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2489]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great families of yesterday we show, And lords whose parents were the Lord knows who.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17048]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You get him. I don't care what you have to do - just get him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29446]]></link><description><![CDATA[You get him. I don't care what you have to do - just get him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18715]]></link><description><![CDATA[One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist. Victor Hugo -Diogenes Laertius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45493]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be and not seem. A man is related to all nature. The less government we have the better. Every man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27696]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be and not seem. A man is related to all nature. The less government we have the better. Every man has his own vocation, talent is the call. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. To be great is to be misunderstood. Every man is in some way my superior. A man is a god in ruins. Life is a festival only to the wise. Knowledge is the only elegance. We boil at different degrees. Infancy conforms to nobody; all conform to it. We learn geology the morning after the earthquake. What is the hardest thing in the world? To think. Accept your genius and say what you think. Make yourself necessary to somebody. The only way to have a friend is to be one. Insist on yourself; never imitate. Music causes us to think eloquently. To live without duties is obscene. It is not length of life, but depth of life. The greatest homage to truth is to use it. The only reward of virtue is virtue. Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path. We become what we think about all day long. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. There is no knowledge that is not power. Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies. Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul. Who so would be a man must be a nonconformist. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before. Heroism feels and never reasons and is therefore always right. A good indignation brings out all one's powers. A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect. Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you. Beauty rests on necessities. The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy. People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. My chief want in life is someone who shall make me do what I can. Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind. We walk alone in the world. Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables. This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. The only sin we never forgive each other is difference of opinion. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before. Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams. What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right. The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. The only sin we never forgive each other is difference of opinion. Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others. A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist. Let us treat men and women well; treat them as if they were real. Perhaps they are. The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. Our faith comes in moments, yet there is a depth in those brief moments which constrains us to ascribe more reality to them than to all other experiences. We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is merely through a transfer of idolatry. What lies beyond us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. When I was praised I lost my time, for instantly I turned around to look at the work I had thought slightly of, and that day I made nothing new. To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. We cannot see things that stare us in the face until the hour comes that the mind is ripened. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles. Be true to your own act and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant to break the monotony of a decorous age. Why should we be cowed by the name of Action?. The rich mind lies in the sun and sleeps, and is Nature. To think is to act. We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it. Every great and commanding moment in the annals of the world is the triumph of somebody's enthusiasm. It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances. If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him. He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind he has descended into the secrets of all minds. There is no beautifier of complexion or form of behavior like the wish to scatter joy, and not pain, around us. This gives force to the strong - that the multitude have no habit of self-reliance or original action. -U.S. Poet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's three inches thick, so it's going to keep all the heat inside your water heater that otherwise would be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31355]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's three inches thick, so it's going to keep all the heat inside your water heater that otherwise would be radiating out into your room.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're using the Internet today, you're using open source software; you're using Linux. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40465]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're using the Internet today, you're using open source software; you're using Linux.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin - real life. But there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25014]]></link><description><![CDATA[For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin - real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way. Something to be got through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life. -Fr. Alfred D'Souza.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show me a good and gracious loser, and I'll show you a failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3789]]></link><description><![CDATA[Show me a good and gracious loser, and I'll show you a failure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You get enthusiasm from one core group of people, they go out and drum up support and enthusiasm in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35039]]></link><description><![CDATA[You get enthusiasm from one core group of people, they go out and drum up support and enthusiasm in the community and you get the ball rolling and it's infectious, that's how people make things happen,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is commonly said that men are forward to believe whatever is connected with their own interest. This in common ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29565]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is commonly said that men are forward to believe whatever is connected with their own interest. This in common cases is true; but it is also true, that when some very great and unexpected good news is brought to us, we find it very difficult to credit it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was so lucky. I was very broke and I was taking classes at Lee Strasberg's Institute and I saw ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39461]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was so lucky. I was very broke and I was taking classes at Lee Strasberg's Institute and I saw a 3 X 5 index card on the bulletin board advertising for college-aged girls for a film. That was Animal House]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Got no check books, got no banks. Still I'd like to express my thanks - I got the sun in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Got no check books, got no banks. Still I'd like to express my thanks - I got the sun in the mornin' and the moon at night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47115]]></link><description><![CDATA[A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. - "Amendment II".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're trying to prioritize the community's well-being. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34725]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're trying to prioritize the community's well-being.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man can deny that Chief the Honourable M.A. Nanga, M.P. was the most approachable politician in the country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4620]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man can deny that Chief the Honourable M.A. Nanga, M.P. was the most approachable politician in the country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is very foolish who aims at satisfying all the world and his father. [Fr., Est bien fou du cerveau ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54729]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is very foolish who aims at satisfying all the world and his father. [Fr., Est bien fou du cerveau  Qui pretend contenter tout le monde et son pere.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66599]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66599</guid></item></channel></rss>